This summer, second-year Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures Ph.D. student Kenlea Pebbles will attend the Humanities Without Walls Consortium in Chicago, which aims to create pathways for collaboration, research, teaching, and scholarship in the humanities. The consortium is open to graduate and doctoral students as well as faculty and encourages them to think of themselves as agents of the public…
Earlier this month, three College of Arts & Letters students practiced their stage management skills by helping out on a high-profile, high-budget New York City launch event hosted by Academy Award-winning actor Jamie Foxx. The students were Brianna Kubiak, a sophomore Stage Management major with a minor in Arts and Cultural Management; Emily Toppen, a sophomore Interdisciplinary Humanities major with…
All this week, a cross-college workshop, R Statistics Bootcamp, was offered at Michigan State University, giving graduate students and researchers the opportunity to learn more about the statistical methods using the programming language R. This five-day practical course provided participants with important transferable programming and statistical skills with a wide range of applications within and beyond academia. Participants learned how…
English major and Citizen Scholar Abbie Crick has always had poetry in her life. “I’ve been writing poetry since I could hold a pencil,” she said. “I grew up around really traditional poetry, and my writing education, until late high school, was very formal.” As she got older, Crick realized she could use the genre to speak about issues that matter. “I wanted…
Camille Thomas, a senior double majoring in Theatre and Arts & Humanities, found a way to combine her interest in social justice with her passion for the arts by working with the East Lansing High School Student Black Union to devise an original social justice theatre piece for the school’s multicultural festival. After working with East Lansing High School for…
Since graduating from Michigan State University last May, Amy Wagenaar has gone from being an MSU student to the Editorial, Social, and Video Coordinator for the Historical Society of Michigan (HSM) based in Lansing. Wagenaar earned a dual degree in Film Studies and Media and Information and a minor in Fiction Filmmaking. We recently caught up with her, finding out more about…
Juliette Givhan, a graduating senior majoring in English, has spent her time at Michigan State University exploring the written word and finding her voice. Now as she graduates, her work is being recognized. Givhan was awarded the Louis B. Sudler Prize, which honors graduating seniors who demonstrate outstanding achievement in the performing and creative arts and who show promise for…
MSU’s Slam Poetry Team, which includes four College of Arts & Letters students, competed at the 2018 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI) at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and finished in the top 10 overall out of 65 teams. The MSU team, coached by Detroit poet Natasha Miller, competed in two preliminaries, made it to the semi-finals, and placed ninth overall at…
This past semester, Experience Architecture (XA) students took advantage of resources available at MSU Libraries while exploring the world of prototyping in the Prototyping Experience Architecture course, AL 444, taught by Dawn Opel, Assistant Professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures. Opel created the course and its projects with the help of the MSU Libraries staff, technology, and spaces. Assistant Professor Dawn…
Students from the College of Arts & Letters Citizen Scholars Program recently proposed and installed a public art piece, titled Reweaving our Social Fabric: Fiber Installation to Promote Sexual Assault Awareness and Healing, in downtown East Lansing’s Valley Court Park. The installation incorporates fabric strips woven into a chain link fence in the park. Some of the strips of fabric include positive affirmations,…