Recently Published Works by Emersonians
“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
– Aldous Huxley, ‘Brave New World’
arts
Superheroes Among Us
With capes, powers, and high-stakes
action, the superhero sci-fi genre is flying high, thanks in large part to Emerson alumni.
20 Questions with De-nin Lee
De-nin Lee is an art historian specializing in the history of art in China. She has taught at Emerson since 2012.
An Easier Way to Discover Books
John Rodzvilla’s Big Idea: “The Gut” (Grand Unified Theory), where every book ever published could be found and linked with every other book.
Communicating Climate Change Through Public Art
John Craig Freeman’s Big Idea: A public art installation with an augmented reality piece to make the public aware of the devastating effects of climate change on our local environment, and show how our actions today could help reverse the course we’re on.
20 Questions with Bonnie Baggesen
Bonnie Baggesen, general manager of the Office of the Arts, has worked at Emerson for 20 years.
Ode to Boston and to the Arts’ Transformative Power
The arts will forever be a force for good, a beacon of hope, and an instrument of change.
15 Lessons on Theatre from Maureen Shea
Maureen taught that heightened stories, lives, and circumstances are attainable through the tools of symbolism, naturalism, and poetry.
In (Banned) Books We Trust
How Emersonians are taking action
to protect free speech. One book at a time.
Recently Published Works by Emersonians
“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
Cancel Culture Crisis
Navigating a cultural shift and what it means for the future of marketing, communications, and PR.
Now Showing
How film festivals are critical not just to films and filmmakers, but also to our society.
Recently Published Works by Emersonians
Fantasy, science fiction, pop fiction, non-fiction, short stories, biographies, poetry. You name it, Emersonians are writing it.
Editor’s Note
Throughout this pandemic, Emersonians have kept on being their brilliant, creative, bold, entrepreneurial selves.
State of the Arts
Emersonians in the visual and performing arts weigh in on how the pandemic affected the industry, and what this means for the future.