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Elevated view of ROC City Concert performs playing music for incarcerated individuals.

Eastman brings music to underserved Rochesterians

ROC City Concerts brought performances to correctional facilities, recovery houses, and more this spring.

Man in cage reaches up toward piano player in scene from Paper Pianos.

Musical documentary with Rochester roots gets a Pulitzer Prize nod

Paper Pianos, a live-performance musical documentary written and co-created by the International Theatre Program’s Nigel Maister, tells the story of an Afghan musician and refugee Milad Yousufi.

Closeup of Morris Eaves smiling with William Blake illustrations in the background.

Morris Eaves, English professor who breathed new life into William Blake scholarship, remembered

February 27, 2024

The scholar made the British poet and “multimedia artist” accessible to a wide audience.

Crystal Sellers Battle with her arms crossed in the Eastman School of Music's Miller Center.

Music schools founded on the Western classical model face special challenges

February 26, 2024

Crystal Sellers Battle articulates a path toward long-term cultural change at the Eastman School of Music.

Still from Psycho horror film showing Norman Bates greeting Marion Crane and Sam Loomis at hotel desk.

The work of horror films

February 20, 2024

A collection of essays coedited by Jason Middleton explores the "monster" of late capitalism lurking in modern American horror films.

Detail of Caravaggio's "The Conversion of Saint Paul" shows Saul sprawled on the ground beneath a horse's legs, blinded and with his arms raised. A crop of the painting serves as the cover art for Jennifer Grotz's "Still Falling: Poems."

A poet’s meditation on loss, light, and legacy

February 20, 2024

Still Falling, English professor Jennifer Grotz’s fourth collection of poems, illuminates the connection between art and time.

Ezra Tawil in a yellow and black checkered shirt smiles at the camera in a room with wood-paneled walls.

Ezra Tawil, English professor of substance and style, remembered

February 5, 2024

The scholar of American literature had a special talent for connecting with colleagues and students alike.

illustration of a book with a red tail of Satan hanging out of the book like a bookmark to represent the light verse of Melissa Balmain's latest collection.

Provoking and coping through light verse

December 12, 2023

Rochester English instructor ‘explores the lighter side of dark times’ with her latest collection of poems.

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.