Category: Fine Arts & Humanities
UNC playwright shines spotlight on underrepresented communities
UNC playwright Jacqueline Lawton strives to change the confines of American theater and to drive the conversations about civil rights through her storytelling.
T.J. Turner ’20 combines passion for science, culture and space
T.J. Turner made the most of his time at UNC, double majoring in chemistry and Asian studies with a concentration in Japanese.
Bookmark This
Bookmark This is a feature that highlights new books by College of Arts & Sciences faculty and alumni. This month’s book: “Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife” by … Read more
The story of North Carolina’s Rocky Mount Mills
UNC’s Community Histories Workshop has developed Digital Rocky Mount Mills, a website with resources and information for those interested in the mill’s history, the North Carolina textile industry, K-12 pedagogy, … Read more
Crescendos of Creativity
As the director of UNC Opera, Marc Callahan teaches his students and audiences that this age-old art form offers so much more than singing on a stage: It’s a craft … Read more
Improvisation leads to successful Summer Jazz Workshop
As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, faculty members in Carolina’s music department had to do a new kind of musical improvisation: move the annual, in-person Summer Jazz Workshop for students and … Read more
For the Love of Language
Since 1984, over 100,000 Karen refugees have fled their homeland of Myanmar to escape civil war. Linguistics PhD students Amy Reynolds and Jen Boehm strive to understand this shift and … Read more
Storytelling and service
First-year MFA students in Gwendolyn Schwinke’s spring voice and speech class used their acting skills for good to produce an online album of international folk tales for UNC Children’s Hospital.
Meaning behind the monsters
Brendan Thornton lures students into his class with zombies, vampires and demons, then hits them with the serious stuff.
New Southern Futures podcast to explore the diverse and changing region of the South
The College of Arts & Sciences and the Southern Futures initiative announce the launch of Southern Futures, a podcast to reimagine the American South. The first episode, “The Push and Pull … Read more
College of Arts & Sciences recognizes 12 new distinguished professors
Congratulations to the 12 faculty who were recently appointed distinguished professors or distinguished term professors in the College of Arts & Sciences. Their new appointments take effect July 1.
Jenna Gartland awarded 2020 Thomas Wolfe Scholarship
Incoming first-year student Jenna Gartland has been awarded the 2020 Thomas Wolfe Scholarship, a full, four-year merit scholarship in creative writing in the College of Arts & Sciences at UNC-Chapel … Read more
Bookmark This
Bookmark This is a feature that highlights new books by College of Arts & Sciences faculty and alumni. This month’s book: “Meander Belt: Family, Loss and Coming of Age in … Read more
A Message from Dean Rhodes
This has been a deeply painful and disturbing week for our nation, with the video that has emerged of George Floyd and his horrible death in police custody in Minneapolis.
What we’re listening to in quarantine
Eyes tired from Zoom meetings? Ready to chill with something other than Netflix? Try these faculty album recommendations. With folks stuck at home and summer concert tours canceled, The Well … Read more
Helping hungry kids
The Homebound Project, an online theater initiative co-founded by Carolina alumna and playwright Catya McMullen, is raising money to help feed children affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
One strange semester, part 2
More impressions, insights and lessons learned by faculty during spring’s historic shift to remote teaching.
Take a film adventure
With movie theaters closed, premieres postponed and shelter-in-place orders still in effect, now is the perfect time to take a chance on an obscure classic or contemporary film — the … Read more
One strange semester
Impressions, insights and lessons learned by faculty during spring’s historic shift to remote teaching.
Something magical happened
Longtime music professor Jim Ketch will retire July 1. Because of Ketch’s career of significant influence on and service to North Carolina, Gov. Roy Cooper recently conferred Ketch as a … Read more