
Elizabeth Poliner receives 2017 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize
The annual prize was created in 1976 to recognize American women on the precipice of promising writing careers.

Hidden passions, creative lives
URMC’s Kishan Pandya kicks off this season’s “Hidden Passions: Inspiring Conversations about Hyphenated Lives,” a series sponsored by Memorial Art Gallery to showcase Rochesterians whose lives feature intriguing and unusual creative outlets.

From Homer in the classroom to Meat Loaf on stage
The former Midnight Rambler is finding success on the London stage. Bat Out of Hell: The Musical makes its North American premiere in Toronto in October.

Humanities Center announces public lecture series speakers
The Humanities Center has announced its slate of public lecture series speakers for this year’s theme of “memory and forgetting.”

Composer Mark Watters says new media is changing the score
The Emmy winner has composed musical scores for movies, television, video games, even the Olympics. At the inaugural Light and Sound Interactive, he shares his thoughts on this rapidly changing field.

University builds bridges to community through Fringe Fest
Students, faculty, and alumni take their unique perspectives on difficult and controversial conversations into the community as part of the annual arts fest.

Douglas Crimp to discuss memory and writing
The theme of this year’s Humanities Center lecture series is “Memory and Forgetting,” and in this first lecture, art and cultural critic Douglas Crimp will discuss “Relying on Memory: From AIDS to Merce Cunningham.”

Mysteries shape Joanna Scott’s newest novel
Careers for Women, a new novel by English professor Joanna Scott, had its beginnings in her attic where she rediscovered a paper bag full of newspaper clippings that she’d collected in the wake of September 11, 2001.

Remembering John Ashbery
John Ashbery was memorialized as one of America’s premiere poets upon his passing earlier this month. English professor James Longenbach reflects on a long friendship with Ashbery and his impact on poetry and literature.

Carillon bells restored after 40 years of service
The familiar sound of the bells in tower of Rush Rhees Library will be silenced for the next few weeks, while parts of the Hopeman Memorial Carillon are under restoration.