May 23, 2021
Celebrating Our First Year of News!
Join in celebrating our first year of Wesleyan Arts and Humanities News by remembering a year of accomplishments! We are immensely proud of our community members’ achievements, despite obstacles presented by the pandemic. Here is our 2020–2021 wrapped!
9 Interviews
Artist Interview with Photographer Sasha Rudensky
Wesleyan Theater Department Presents: She Kills Monsters
Jane Alden is Interviewed for her vocal group’s new installation in San Sebastián, Spain
Luna Mac-Williams is Selected as a Semi-Finalist in Definition Theater’s “Amplify” Festival
Neely Bruce Composes a LOT of Music During the Pandemic
Artist Interview with Dachelle Washington
Tiny Shed: Pandemic Performances on Campus and Artist Interview with Toxic Holiday’s Tyler Jenkins
Theater in the Time of COVID: Wesleyan Production of SLABBER
Art and Artistry with Tula Telfair
10 Events, Projects and Performances
Building Tomorrow: Diversity in Germany
Discussions of “Dirt” as a Concept
Film and Production in Quarantine
Music and Shamanism in Post-Soviet Central Asia
Fall Faculty Dance Concert: “The Perseverance Project”
Professor Edwin Sánchez’s Plays Featured at Long Wharf and Theater Works Hartford
Transatlantic Conversation on Jewish Identity
Wesleyan’s Center for the Humanities Presents: “Ephemera”
Wesleyan Gamelan Ensembles in the Time of Pandemic
Exchange Concert between TU-Berlin and Wesleyan University
5 Publications
Special Issue of Italian Culture with Ellen Nerenberg as Writer and Editor
Andrew S. Curran Analyzes Race as a Concept in “Time Magazine” Article
Douglas A. Martin: New Releases and Author Interview
Holocaust Narratives: Trauma, Memory and Identity Across Generations
5 Special Acknowledgments/Awards
Katja Kolcio Receives Special UN Grant for Somatic Methods Project
Elizabeth Hepford Receives 2021 American Association for Applied Linguistics Research Article Award
Marina Bilbija Receives Schomburg Center Fellowship
Luna Mac-Williams Wins Definition Theater’s “Amplify” Festival for her play CORAZONES
