Louisa Shepard | Penn Today

Louisa Shepard covers English, history of art, music, theater, classical studies, and cinema and media studies, among other subject areas, in the School of Arts and Sciences. She also supports coverage for the Kelly Writers House, the Graduate School of Education, the Penn Libraries, the Penn Museum, the Arthur Ross Gallery, and the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships, as well as fine arts in the Stuart Weitzman School of Design.

Articles from Louisa Shepard

Confronting Challenging Conversations about Race

Teaching others to manage in-the-moment, face-to-face encounters involving race has been Howard Stevenson’s mission for decades. Now his expertise is sought after more than ever.

From databases to digital maps, students lend expertise

Penn’s Price Lab for Digital Humanities and Penn Libraries are piloting a program this summer that employs student interns to help with new “incubation” grant projects.

Penn Doctoral Candidate Uncovers Critical Role of Cinema in the Work of Artist Marcel Duchamp

For seven years, Alexander Kauffman, a doctoral candidate in the history of art at the University of Pennsylvania, has been researching the influential 20th-century French artist Marcel Duchamp, making new discoveries about the impact of cinema on his work.

Philly awards Penn for sustainable commuting efforts

New incentives that support the use of bicycles helped Penn win two local awards for the University’s efforts to encourage sustainable commuting.

Rising Above Adversity, Penn Graduate Finds Calling as a Philadelphia Teacher

The journey for Dominiqué Bynoe-Sullivan to become a teacher has been challenging, from her home in Brooklyn to a high school in Harlem to the University of Pennsylvania.

Penn Art History Professor Wins Anglo-Hellenic League Book Award

University of Pennsylvania Associate Professor Ivan Drpić has received the 2017 Runciman Book Award from the Anglo-Hellenic League in London.

Penn Professors and Projects Receive 2017 Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Fellowships and Grants

Three University of Pennsylvania professors were chosen as 2017 Pew Fellows, awarded two of the 12 fellowships funded by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage in Philadelphia. In addition, three Penn projects were selected to receive Pew project and advancement grants.

For the first time, international Ezra Pound conference to be held at Penn

In 1972, a young David McKnight bought his first book, “Selected Poems by Ezra Pound,” the seminal New Directions Publishing edition. Pound, who attended Penn, died that same year.

ICA’s ‘Extra Credit’ classes introduce public to contemporary art

Penn’s Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) is offering a free educational series in June and July in an effort to demystify modern art and attract repeat visitors to the museum.

Penn Undergraduate Combines Anthropology and French for Award-winning Research

A combination of anthropology and French created the path for student Samantha Sharon Ashok at the University of Pennsylvania to discoveries detailed in her award-winning senior honors thesis. Ashok researched the mid-1800s work of Paul Broca, a French physician and anthropologist, one of the most influential scientists of his time.