The Michigan State University Comics Forum is a multi-day, annual event for scholars, creators, and fans of the comics medium. Events include keynote addresses from an award-winning creators and scholars in the field, an artist alley, academic panel discussions, exhibition of comic art, comic book discussion groups, and more. MSU also is home of the Comic Art and Graphic Novel Minor,…
The Michigan State University Board of Trustees has approved the establishment of a Department of African American and African Studies, which will be part of the College of Arts & Letters. This new department will support the work of students, faculty, and staff associated with the existing African American and African Studies (AAAS) program and will help re-establish MSU’s position…
The College of Arts & Letters would like to welcome five new staff members to the College. The new staff members include: Carly Kabel, Secretary III, Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages Noushin Mahmood, Secretary II, Department of Art, Art History, and DesignMonica McCurdy, Office Assistant IIIJennifer Mora, Administrative Business Analyst, Center for Language Teaching Advancement (CeLTA)Katlyn Wright,…
This month, Michigan State University is proud to welcome Crystal Skillman as a 2019 Guest Playwright in Residence for a week-and-a-half-long workshop on her new play Pulp Vérité. This workshop will culminate in two readings free to the public on Thursday, February 21, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, February 24, at 3 p.m. Both readings will take place in Studio 60 at MSU…
The College of Arts & Letters is mourning the loss of retired Professor Joe Kuszai, who taught Graphic Design courses at Michigan State University for 50 years. Kuszai passed away on February 12, 2019, surrounded by family at his home in East Lansing. He was 86 years old. Recruited to develop a Graphic Design program at Michigan State University, Kuszai…
The third episode of season three of The Liberal Arts Endeavor, a podcast by Michigan State University's College of Arts & Letters, is out. In this episode, host Dean Christopher P. Long discusses generous thinking in higher education with Dr. Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Director of Digital Humanities and Professor of English. The idea of generous thinking emphasizes listening over speaking, community over individualism, and collaboration…
Michigan State University has, since the beginning, been at the forefront of Digital Humanities (DH) research and scholarship, and helping lead those efforts for the past year and a half is Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Director of Digital Humanities and Professor of English at MSU. “That MSU is central to the development of DH thus far is undeniable,” Fitzpatrick said. “Between H-Net (Humanities and…
As the first-ever intern for MSU’s Digital Scholarship Lab (DSL), Erin Campbell, a senior Experience Architecture major with minors in Spanish and Digital Humanities, had the opportunity to research a topic of her choice and use the technology provided by the lab to put together a public presentation on the topic. Throughout her semester-long internship, which Campbell completed in Fall 2018, she…
Michigan State University’s Department of Theatre presents Oklahoma! February 15-17 and 19-24 at the Fairchild Theater. An American classic and Rodgers & Hammerstein's first collaboration, Oklahoma! boasts a 25-person cast, the Orchesis dance company, and a 16-piece orchestra. In many ways, Oklahoma! is Rodgers & Hammerstein’s most innovative collaboration, having set the standards and established the rules of musical theatre still being followed today. Set in a Western Indian…
Twenty years after he first traveled to South Africa, Peter Glendinning, Professor in the Department of Art, Art History, and Design, has returned as a Fulbright Scholar to teach at Tshwane University of Technology in Pretoria and Nelson Mandela University in Port Elizabeth, and create a body of artwork inspired by the words of Nelson Mandela. This year marks 25 years…