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Emerson Communications Professor and Executive in Residence Owen Eagan was interviewed recently for a piece on the influence of movie review site Rotten Tomatoes, “Can Rotten Tomatoes Really DESTROY A … Continue Reading Professor Owen Eagan Featured in Rogue Rocket News Story on the Influence of Rotten Tomatoes on Movie Success
Shaka Dendy is collecting old basketballs that will be combined with milk crates to form his large-scale public sculpture to be displayed in Boston.
One hundred and thirty-nine years after its founding as a school of oratory, Emerson College is reasserting its voice.
The Advocate spoke to Christopher Henderson-West ’20, president of the student group EAGLE (Emerson’s Advancement Group for Love and Expression) about the College holding its first Vogue Kiki Ball this past spring, and the only one of its kind, featuring seasoned competitors and $3,000 in prize money.
Jessica Phillips graduated from Emerson College in 1994 with a BFA in Musical Theatre, and studied under the tutelage of the revered Leo Nickole. Phillips is starring in the national tour of the Tony and Grammy Award-winning musical Dear Evan Hansen as Heidi Hansen.
The U.S. Department of State continues to enlist the expertise of veteran journalist and Emerson Dean of the School of Communication, Raul Reis, to deliver journalism training around the world to reporters in need of media literacy – most recently in the Southern African nation of Angola.
Director of the Business of Creative Enterprises program and founder of the Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival Wes Jackson shared his thoughts with Andy Mai from public radio station WNYC regarding Islamic influences in hip-hop.
What lurks in the Emerson College Archives?
Finding Khaya, filmed in Cape Town over six weeks earlier this summer, was a collaboration between Emerson and AFDA students, led by Senior Distinguished Director-in-Residence Regge Life and Associate Professor Harlan Bosmajian, a cinematographer, who co-teach a similar class at Emerson.
President Lee Pelton submitted the following letter to the editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education affirming the need for global perspectives.