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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.
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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.
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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.
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20 Questions with Bonnie Baggesen

Bonnie Baggesen, general manager of the Office of the Arts, has worked at Emerson for 20 years.
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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.
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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.
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In (Banned) Books We Trust

How Emersonians are taking action to protect free speech. One book at a time.
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Recently Published Works by Emersonians

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.” ― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
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Now Showing

How film festivals are critical not just to films and filmmakers, but also to our society.
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Recently Published Works by Emersonians

Fantasy, science fiction, pop fiction, non-fiction, short stories, biographies, poetry. You name it, Emersonians are writing it.
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Editor’s Note

Throughout this pandemic, Emersonians have kept on being their brilliant, creative, bold, entrepreneurial selves.
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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.
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Behind The Scenes (Literally)

Behind the scenes at the Scene Shop
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Recently Published Works by Emersonians

A collection of books by Emerson authors from Spring 2022.