Porsha Olayiwola is a first-year MFA in Creative Writing student studying poetry. Her project, entitled, Black & Ugly As Ever, is a choreopoem that explores “what it means to truly make space for oneself.”
Professor Megan Marshall published a piece in The New Yorker, “The Second Man in the Front Row: A Forgotten Story of the First World War,” about her grandparents’ time in Paris during World War I.
Emerson Urban Arts: Media Art Gallery will take a look at the development of broadcast television as an artistic medium from the 1950s to the late 1970s in its latest exhibit, Vision of Television: Early Experimental Artists’ TV Broadcasts, opening Thursday, November 15.
Darrin Butters, who worked as an animator on Disney blockbusters Tangled, Frozen, and Zootopia, gave students an inside look at the soon-to-be-released Ralph Breaks the Internet Wednesday, November 7, in the Bill Bordy Theater.
Emerson Stage worked with faculty and students from the College’s Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) department to stage two sensory-friendly performances of Flora & Ulysses.
Jennifer Egan, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Visit from the Goon Squad, The Keep, and Look at Me, among several other novels and short stories, came to Emerson on Wednesday, October 24, to talk about her latest novel, Manhattan Beach, her writing process, and her fascination with absence.
Robbie Shinder ’22 is organizing a Gun Violence Prevention Panel at the Cutler Majestic Theatre with March for Our Lives, the national student anti-gun violence organization that formed in the wake of the Parkland shootings. The event will be Tuesday, October 30, 6:00-8:00 pm, and is free and open to the public.
Brother Nat, a new sung-through musical/opera co-written by Writing, Literature and Publishing Associate Professor Jabari Asim, will have a concert performance Thursday, October 25, 7:30 pm, at the Robert J. Orchard Stage.
On October 12, Emerson College students and librarians came together to improve entries for one underrepresented topic: screenwriters of color.
Emerson’s third annual Teach-in on Race kicked off at the Cutler Majestic Theatre last Friday with a discussion led by scholar, writer, and activist Rachel Kuo, as well as several of Emerson’s most prominent student social justice leaders.
