School of the Arts News

The Health Benefits of a Media Diet

Twenty years ago, Cooper began experimenting with media fasts and media diets as a way to counter society’s media obsessions and addictions.

Filmmaker Valerius Goes to White House

Valerius, MA ’06, was among the group of 25 influential black women invited by First Lady Michelle Obama to the White House for a special screening of Tyler Perry’s For Colored Women.

Emerson Faculty Featured at Irish Journalism Conference

Journalism Associate Professor Jerry Lanson, and Writing, Literature and Publishing Associate Professor Jeffrey Seglin were two of just three academics invited to a workshop at the Irish Institute at Boston College.

Tobin's New Book of Poetry Lauded

Daniel Tobin's book, Belated Heavens, features poetry on topics spanning from prehistory to modern Manhattan, and delves into themes of violence, destruction, endurance, and what it means to survive.

A Chat with Megamind Screenwriters

Peeking out of one office window on the the DreamWorks studio lot is a cardboard cutout of the villain everyone’s talking about—the distinct blue head of Megamind.

A Chat with the Creators of BFA Film Gem of The West

Rechtman and Gamache were eating lunch in Emerson’s Little Building dining hall their freshman year when they began to hatch the idea for a western that became their BFA film project.

Animation Showcase Stops at Emerson

Students were recently treated to a presentation by Ron Diamond, an experienced producer in the animation film industry. Diamond presented a curated selection of his favorite 11 animated shorts of the past year in his 12th annual “Animation Show of Shows.”

Kamada Discusses His Book

Assistant Professor Roy Kamada recently published the critical work Post-Colonial Romanticisms: Landscape and the Possibility of Inheritance.