This year, many of the student directors — in both theater-focused Contracted Independent Organizations and drama department productions — are women. And these directors are using their roles to reshape the way that gender roles and norms are depicted in their plays.
The University of Virginia’s College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences has announced the inaugural recipients of its Seed and Planning Grants, a new award program supporting faculty research and innovation.
Elizabeth Wittner (Center for American English Language & Culture), Bonnie Gordon (Music), and Fern Hauck (Family Medicine) were chosen to receive an award for Collaborative Excellence in Public Service by the Public Service Award Selection Committee for their work with local refugee communities through Cville Tulips and the International Family Medicine Clinic.
Phoebe Crisman (Global Studies, Architecture) was chosen to receive an award for Excellence in Education Abroad by the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost and the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs.
As the Department of Drama's operations and production manager, Shawanna Hall spends a lot of time managing logistics for a variety of Drama event productions.
On Thursday, around 100 UVA students experienced a behind-the-scenes look at the world of “Sesame Street” with Vogel and Jason Weber, the creative supervisor at Jim Henson’s Creature Shop.
Third-year UVA student Simone Marijic prepares and performs “She Used To Be Mine,” by Sara Bareilles, during Monday’s episode of “The Voice.” (Photos courtesy of NBC; illustration by Tobias Wilbur, University Communications)
Student filmmakers from across the country will have the chance to walk the red carpet April 6 at the Paramount Theater on Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall.
Edgar Allan Poe was more than a tormented poetic and literary genius writing macabre stories of gloom; he also was a husband, a companion and a friend.
This April, the students of Link Studio at Center 1 will present their media showcase Creativus III. Students from the many specialized media and technology pathways at Link Studio will display their creative and innovative pursuits with family, friends and anyone else who would like to come and support their hard work and talent.
April is National Poetry Month and UVA Library is pleased to announce that poet MaKshya Tolbert, the inaugural Art in Library Spaces Artist-in-Residence, will deliver a talk on place-based poetics and creative process on April 18. Tolbert was one of five winners of the 2024 National Poetry Series competition; her first collection, “Shade is a place,” will be released by Penguin Books in October.
Describing my 2017 appointment as a faculty member, the University of Virginia dubbed me the school’s “first” hip-hop professor. Even if the job title and the historic nature of the appointment might have merited it, the word was misleading. Kyra Gaunt, a Black woman who is a foundational figure in the study of hip-hop, worked as a professor of ethnomusicology at the University of Virginia from 1996 to 2002. Her book “The Games Black Girls Play,” which focuses on Black music practices, was published in 2006. I cited her in my work and in the interview I gave before accepting the job.
