Writing, Literature and Publishing professor Jerald Walker was interviewed on NPR’s Fresh Air program, as his new book How to Make a Slave and Other Essays, published this month, is a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Nonfiction.
“Doing good with your own skills and passions, you can still build something really great,” said Chandler Kilgore-Parshall ’16. “It gave me the inspiration to start a production company that utilizes my skills and creativity with like-minded people.”
Performing Arts associate professor Magda Romanska writes a piece for The Conversation about how disabled American actors are historically underrepresented on screen, though there has been a “slight shift” in TV and movies in the past few years.
Jazz man Dexter Gordon can relieve stress during this election season.
Emerson’s Center for Comedic Arts presented BoJack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg with its first Ready Wit Award in Comedy Friday, October 30, in recognition of his “significant contributions to comedy while advancing social change.”
Maya Phillips ’12, the inaugural Times arts critic fellow, wrote a piece that published on the first page of the Sunday New York Times Arts section, as well as teased … Continue Reading Maya Phillips ’12 on Scary Masks: NYT
The Emerson community is invited to a talkback about the Netflix documentary, Disclosure, on November 2.
Launching While Female examines how to smash the system that has held female entrepreneurs back.
A trio of Emersonians are encouraging us to Save Ourselves before the alien invasion.
Charles Wesley Emerson Professor Megan Marshall wrote the introduction to her late partner’s work, The Blood of San Gennaro: Selected Poems of Scott Harney, and Literary Hub published an excerpt recently.