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Inspiration Drawn from Detroit for ‘Into the Woods’ Production

January 28, 2020

MSU is giving the Tony Award-winning fairytale-themed musical Into the Woods a creative re-imagining designed to resonate with mid-Michigan audiences. Inspiration for the set and costumes came from images of Detroit in the 1930s. The Michigan State University Department of Theatre production of Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine runs for 10 performances February 14-23 in the MSU Auditorium building’s Fairchild Theatre.

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Two College of Arts & Letters Students Are Winners at Social Justice Art Festival

January 27, 2020

Two College of Arts & Letters students were winners at MSU’s 3rd Annual Social Justice Art Festival. Congratulations to Maddy Eischer, a sophomore who is double majoring in Apparel and Textile design and Genomics/Molecular Genetics, and Lillian Young, a first-year M.F.A. in Studio Art student. They were two of the four students to receive awards at this one-day festival that focuses…

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Camelia Suleiman Appointed Interim Director of Citizen Scholars Program

January 24, 2020

Camelia Suleiman, Associate Professor of Arabic Studies in the Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages, has been appointed Interim Director of the College of Arts & Letters Citizen Scholars program, effective January 20, 2020. Suleiman has taught several Citizen Scholars classes since the program first began in fall 2016. The program is designed to prepare the next generation…

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Three Faculty Members to Receive All-University Awards

January 23, 2020

Three College of Arts & Letters faculty members are being recognized for their outstanding work and will receive distinguished awards at this year's Michigan State University Awards Convocation. Rob Roznowski, Professor in the Department of Theatre, will receive two university-wide awards, the William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty Award and the President's Distinguished Teaching Award. The William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty Award, supported by the Office…

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English Professor Receives Prestigious Book Award

January 21, 2020

Associate Professor Joshua Yumibe is the recipient of the 2019-2020 Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award for his most recent book, Chromatic Modernity: Color, Cinema, and Media of the 1920s, which was published in April 2019 by Columbia University Press. Yumibe, who is a member of the Department of English faculty, will receive this award in April at the 2020 Society of Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference in Seattle, Washington, along with his co-author, Sarah Street, who is a Professor of Film at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom.

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LAE Podcast Season 4: Theatre Professor Deric McNish

January 16, 2020

The new episode of the Liberal Arts Endeavor Podcast is out! Our host, Dean Christopher P. Long, spoke with Deric McNish, Assistant Professor of acting, voice, and speech and Director for the BFA in Acting program here at MSU. The two discuss the origins of the Department of Theatre’s podcast, Syllable of Recorded Time, which was created by McNish with a goal to put Shakespeare in context…

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‘Who Is a Citizen’ Contest to Award Seven $500 Prizes

January 16, 2020

The Creative Writing and Film Studies programs within the Department of English are holding a literary and video contest with seven $500 prizes to be awarded. Contest participants must submit short prose, poetry, screenwriting, or video works that respond to the question, “Who Is a Citizen?”

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NEH Grant Supports Humanities Commons, a One-of-a-Kind Resource

January 16, 2020

Humanities Commons (HC), led by Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Director of Digital Humanities for MSU’s College of Arts & Letters, has received a $500,000 challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to further develop and support its scholarly infrastructure, which has become an essential tool for the humanities field. Founded by the Modern Language Association (MLA), thanks to support from the NEH…

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Alison Dobbins Named Faculty Excellence Advocate

January 15, 2020

Associate Professor Alison Dobbins has been appointed the Faculty Excellence Advocate for the College of Arts & Letters. Faculty Excellence Advocates are faculty members who are key drivers of faculty quality and diversity in each college across campus. They build close working relationships with their faculty colleagues, as well as department chairs and deans, to help their college meet MSU…

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Theatre Alum Named Artistic Director of NYC Fresh Fruit Festival

January 9, 2020

Dennis Corsi, BFA Acting and BA Media Arts & Technology 2013, recently was named the new Artistic Director of the Fresh Fruit Festival. Over the past 18 years, this festival has become one of New York City’s most visible and acclaimed LGBTQ arts organizations, elevating the quality, diversity, and inclusivity of queer theatre, poetry, comedy, music, dance, film, and other artistic expressions.…