Alumni Award of Merit and Creative Spirit Awards honor seven alumni Top row, left to right: Judith Bollinger, Al Filreis, Stephen Goff, and Ghislain Gouraige. Bottom row, left to right: Mike Kowalski, Clemson Smith Muniz, Ashley Zampini Ritter, and John Vosmek. Alumni Award of Merit and Creative Spirit Awards honor seven alumni Stephen Goff is awarded Creative Spirit Award and Al Filreis is to receive the Faculty Award of Merit.
Al Filreis dwells in possibility Al Filreis, an English professor at Penn since 1995, founded the Kelly Writers House on Locust Walk in 1995 and has since served as the faculty director.nocred Al Filreis dwells in possibility Celebrating poetry and literature at Penn since 1985, Al Filreis continues to create community at the home for writers he founded in a Locust Walk house a quarter-century ago.
Understanding civic engagement Civic House. (Image: Eric Sucar) Understanding civic engagement In the latest episode of Penn Today’s ‘Understand This …’ podcast series, Herman Beavers of the School of Arts & Sciences and Glenn Bryan of the Office of Government and Community Affairs discuss civic engagement—and jazz.
A generation shaped by a pandemic Homepage image: Strickberger and Jinich asked each person they interviewed to write in their notebook the answer to the question: “After the pandemic I want to…” A generation shaped by a pandemic Two Penn seniors travel the country to interview young adults about their experiences during the past year to create an oral history archive with stories, images, and video.
Philadelphian Alain LeRoy Locke, the Father of the Harlem Renaissance, gets new historical marker in Philly WHYY (Philadelphia) Philadelphian Alain LeRoy Locke, the Father of the Harlem Renaissance, gets new historical marker in Philly Dagmawi Woubshet of the School of Arts & Sciences spoke about the impact of “The New Negro,” an anthology edited by Alain LeRoy Locke at the onset of the Harlem Renaissance. Honoring William Still on his 200th birthday Honoring William Still on his 200th birthday A conference, a website, and more are planned on campus and around the city to celebrate the abolitionist who helped nearly 1,000 enslaved people to freedom. A new name and a new director for the Alice Paul Center Melissa Sanchez stands in front of Fisher Bennett Hall, which houses the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies. A new name and a new director for the Alice Paul Center Melissa E. Sanchez speaks about her research and her new position as director of the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies, formerly the Alice Paul Center. Ilyse Reisman summer in the writers’ room Senior Ilyse Reisman, an English and cinema studies major in the College of Arts and Sciences, was a summer intern at the film studio Indigenous Media in Los Angeles. Ilyse Reisman summer in the writers’ room An aspiring comedy writer, senior Ilyse Reisman got a chance to be on set and in meetings to pitch production ideas during her RealArts@Penn summer internship at the film studio Indigenous Media in Los Angeles. Zachary Lesser’s Shakespearean forensics Zachary Lesser’s Shakespearean forensics The Edward W. Kane Professor of English uses ghosts, holes, and scrapes to learn more about how Shakespeare’s work was seen in his own time. Rising sophomore Paola Camacho’s Hollywood summer Paola Camacho, in the Class of 2024 in the College of Arts and Sciences, was in Los Angeles this summer working with Hollywood writers and Penn alums David Stern and Stuart Gibbs through a RealArts@Penn internship. (Image: Courtesy of Paola Camacho) Rising sophomore Paola Camacho’s Hollywood summer Rising sophomore Paola Camacho is conducting research for Hollywood writers and Penn alums David Stern and Stuart Gibbs through a Real Arts@Penn internship in Los Angeles.
Honoring William Still on his 200th birthday Honoring William Still on his 200th birthday A conference, a website, and more are planned on campus and around the city to celebrate the abolitionist who helped nearly 1,000 enslaved people to freedom.
A new name and a new director for the Alice Paul Center Melissa Sanchez stands in front of Fisher Bennett Hall, which houses the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies. A new name and a new director for the Alice Paul Center Melissa E. Sanchez speaks about her research and her new position as director of the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies, formerly the Alice Paul Center.
Ilyse Reisman summer in the writers’ room Senior Ilyse Reisman, an English and cinema studies major in the College of Arts and Sciences, was a summer intern at the film studio Indigenous Media in Los Angeles. Ilyse Reisman summer in the writers’ room An aspiring comedy writer, senior Ilyse Reisman got a chance to be on set and in meetings to pitch production ideas during her RealArts@Penn summer internship at the film studio Indigenous Media in Los Angeles.
Zachary Lesser’s Shakespearean forensics Zachary Lesser’s Shakespearean forensics The Edward W. Kane Professor of English uses ghosts, holes, and scrapes to learn more about how Shakespeare’s work was seen in his own time.
Rising sophomore Paola Camacho’s Hollywood summer Paola Camacho, in the Class of 2024 in the College of Arts and Sciences, was in Los Angeles this summer working with Hollywood writers and Penn alums David Stern and Stuart Gibbs through a RealArts@Penn internship. (Image: Courtesy of Paola Camacho) Rising sophomore Paola Camacho’s Hollywood summer Rising sophomore Paola Camacho is conducting research for Hollywood writers and Penn alums David Stern and Stuart Gibbs through a Real Arts@Penn internship in Los Angeles.