I think it’s very important for us as classicists to take a work like Nolan’s ‘Odyssey’ as a work of adaptation that is aiming to produce new relations with antiquity and not to think about it in overly deferential terms, or in terms of fidelity or accuracy,” said classics professor Emily Greenwood.
Singer Mavis Staples, actress Angela Bassett, and soccer star Didier Drogba were among the honorees presented with W.E.B. Du Bois Medals Thursday at Sanders Theatre. The annual ceremony, hosted by the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, recognizes outstanding contributions to Black history and culture.
When Hoon Lee ’94 received the script for the role of Lee in Zoe Kazan’s Netflix adaptation of “East of Eden,” he was prepared to be skeptical. Decades in the industry had left the Massachusetts-born actor wary of roles that perpetuate Asian stereotypes.
Luiselli, an incoming professor of English, was nominated for her novel “Beginning Middle End.” It tells the story of a mother and 12-year-old daughter starting over in Sicily after the elder’s divorce, as they figure out how to rebuild amid encounters with the island’s daily life and its winds, waters, and volcanoes.
“We have never before shown an entire exhibition from the French and Creole-speaking Caribbean,” said Cécile Fromont, M.A. ’04, Ph.D. ’08, faculty director of the Hutchins Center’s Alain Locke Gallery of African & African American Art.
The assistant professor in the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies has been named this year’s winner of a distinguished annual honor for artists with strong ties to New England.
This past summer, three Harvard students helped transport Manhattan audiences to Parisian rooftops, opera house dressing rooms, and a subterranean labyrinth in “Masquerade,” an immersive adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “The Phantom of the Opera.”
When Paul Giamatti was 7 years old, his mother told him the story of the Eugène Ionesco play “Rhinoceros.” Giamatti was a monster enthusiast at the time, and something about the idea of a man turning into a rhinoceros lodged in his brain.
The John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and associate professor of African and African American Studies is one of eight U.S. visual arts writers to receive the award this year.
Piano Technical Services and the Office for the Arts worked with Vijay Iyer, Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of the Arts and Professor of African and African American Studies, to select the “unusually strong” instrument.
Professor Sarah Lewis’s curated exhibition, “If Emmett Till Lived: Freedom on American Ground,” opened September 10 at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago.