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Alum Anuj Vaidya (PhD., performance studies, ‘24) has devised a
one-of-a-kind people-powered cinema that re-stories
the South Asian epic Ramayana, as eco-tales at the
edge of the sixth extinction. On Thursday, June 4 at 6 p.m., “The
Smoldering Forest” is a live performance in which Vaidya and
audiences co-create the film through live sound,
tactile images, and collective imagination.
Blending mythology, ecology, and science-fiction, this
intimate experience invites audience members to become part
of the film itself
Professor Margaret Laurena Kemp, chair, theatre and dance, has
created a unique course which develops performance that uses
Black literature as its foundation. Offered by the Department of
African American and African Studies, The Page, the Lens, the
Stage: Making Performance (AAS 152) will be offered in spring
quarter 2025.
PFS faculty Marit MacArthur has received a NEH Mellon Digital
Publication Fellowship for her co-authored book project,
“Listening to Black Women Poets in Mainly White and Mainly Black
Rooms.”
PFS Alum Caro Novella is serving as the Wayne G. Basler Chair of
Excellence for the Integration of the Arts, Rhetoric and Science
at East Tennessee State University during the spring 2024
semester.
