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Black and white portrait of Norwegian author and 2023 Nobel Prize for Literature recipient Jon Fosse staring directly at the camera.

How Nobel Prize–winning author Jon Fosse was found in translation

October 6, 2023

Open Letter’s Chad Post on discovering the Norwegian author for English audiences—and the importance of foreign translation presses today.

Promotional artwork shows the colors of the trans flag with the words "Based on Virginia Woolf's gender-bending masterpiece Orlando by Sarah Ruhl" with an Elizabethan color and a ring.

The ‘first English language trans novel,’ adapted for stage

September 30, 2023

The International Theatre program’s production of Orlando promises “a wild ride” and a serious reflection on the fluidity of identity.

Five members of Digital Media Studies and MAG partnership to promote arts integration and digital equity standing in row, smiling.

Digital Media Studies and the Memorial Art Gallery team up in digital equity project

With a Museum Initiative grant, a joint project of Verizon and NYC Media Lab, the Memorial Art Gallery and recent digital media studies graduates team up to expand the museum's digital reach.

Two actors performing a scene on stage that benefited from the help of an intimacy director, also known as an intimacy coordinator when used on film or tv sets.

Intimacy directing is making a difference on stage and beyond

In Rochester’s International Theatre Program, intimacy directing is playing a growing role.

Crop of book cover art for Dangerous Children by Kenneth Gross.

When fictional children become stranger things

Teaching an undergraduate class on ‘dangerous’ children in literature inspired English professor Kenneth Gross’s latest book.

Close-up photo of Steven Schottenfeld, author of This Room Is Made of Noise.

Questions of character and motives drive professor’s new novel

In Stephen Schottenfeld’s This Room Is Made of Noise, a down-on-his-luck handyman befriends an elderly widow of means. What’s a reader to think?

Mellon grant supports a close-up on close-ups

A Rochester research team is part of an inter-institutional project to document the history of the close-up, one of film and television’s most powerful techniques.

Black and white archival photo of Russell Peck holding a book and teaching in front of a classroom full of students.

Russell Peck: The ‘ideal of what a humanities professor ought to be’

English professor Russell Peck is being remembered as much for his eminent medieval scholarship as his excellence in teaching.

Actor playing Susanna in "The Crucible" fixes her costume in a mirror backstage.

Changing the narrative about Blackness on the stage

February 14, 2023

By partnering with Black actors and artists, the International Theatre Program’s recent productions help give new dimension to marginalized characters.

Black and white photo of the four members of Freedom Singers, four gospel musicians from Georgia, singing and clapping.

Is gospel music losing its Black roots?

November 15, 2022

Musicologist Cory Hunter identifies a notable contemporary shift in the century-old musical form.

two student actors seated on a stage, both looking away from each other.

Sam Chanse play premieres at Sloan Performing Arts Center

September 27, 2022

Fellowship is the latest production commissioned as part of the International Theatre Program’s New Voice Initiative supporting early-career playwrights

Jericho Brown seated in a red chair in a field of flowers.

Plutzik Reading Series opens 60th anniversary season with Jericho Brown

August 31, 2022

The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet will give a reading as part of the University of Rochester’s 202–23 Hyam Plutzik Memorial Reading Series—one of the nation’s oldest literary reading series.