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Two faculty members were named winners of the 2012 Hubbie Awards by Boston arts and entertainment blogger Thomas Garvey of The Hub Review. Craig Mathers, Performing Arts assistant professor, won … Continue Reading Emerson faculty win 2012 Hubbie Awards
Laura van den Berg, MFA ’08, has great reason to be proud: her short story collection The Isle of Youth is being published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and will … Continue Reading Van den Berg’s short stories to be published
Eric Gordon, associate professor of Visual and Media Arts, has been named a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet Society at Harvard University. Eric Gordon, an associate professor in … Continue Reading Gordon named fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center
Peter Shippy, adjunct faculty member in the Writing, Literature and Publishing Department, was honored to hear that his poem “Our Posthumous Lives” was published in The Best American Poetry 2012, … Continue Reading Faculty work selected for Best American Poetry
There was a good sized crowd for the “What’s Next?” panel discussion on the 2012 presidential election at the Cutler Majestic Theatre on November 8. After hosting an election night … Continue Reading Journalists, former governor talk election
Emerson student Maxine Renning ’14 donated her bone marrow to a cancer patient in Chicago, and will meet the recipient on Saturday, November 10. When an Emerson College junior rolled … Continue Reading Emerson student saves cancer patient’s life
Marion Stoddart, the Massachusetts woman who led efforts in the 1960s to clean up the then-heavily polluted Nashua River, and who is the subject of the documentary The Work of … Continue Reading River cleanup pioneer to lead film discussion
Noam Chomsky with Olga Kovaleva, a visiting Fulbright fellow from Russia. Students in Emerson Historian-in-Residence Brad Verter’s class were treated to a distinguished guest speaker who has authored more than … Continue Reading Linguist, activist Chomsky visits campus
The relationship between nonprofit and commercial theater was discussed at an event to mark the release of In the Intersection: Partnerships in the New Play Sector, the first book from … Continue Reading Nonprofit, commercial theater examined in book
Instead of lecturing about a historical figure, Communication Studies Associate Professor and Interim Chair John Anderson embodies the figure by reenacting pivotal moments in American history. These reenactments are reminiscent … Continue Reading Becoming Robert Frost