News

The Body Scout, a debut novel by alumnus and adjunct faculty member Lincoln Michel '09, will be released by Orbit Books on September 21, 2021. Read the first chapter of this near-future dystopian tale here. 

Visual Arts alumnus José Delgado Zuñiga ’17 will display his painting series Noises at Central Fine in Miami Beach, Florida from February 7, 2021 to March 10, 2021. 

Our Phase 2, industry aligned, COVID PCR testing protocols create a unique demand within Columbia Health's system.

Associate Professor Ramin Bahrani (CC '96) is set to write, direct and produce the feature film Amnesty based on the novel by Aravind Adiga (CC '97) for Netflix. 

The critically acclaimed JACK Quartet is the latest musical group to perform in Miller Theatre’s celebrated series of Pop-Up Concerts.

The Writing Program welcomed Mei-mei Berssenbrugge '73 and Campbell McGrath '88 to their Fifth Annual Alumni Poetry Reading Series. This marked the Poetry Concentration’s third reading of the 2020-21 academic year and was again hosted by Professor and Poetry Concentration Head Timothy Donnelly.

Something New Under the Sun, the second novel by alumna Alexandra Kleeman '12, will be published by Hogarth Press and released on August 3, 2021. 

Professor James Schamus is crafting a Spanish-Language series for Netflix Mexico with co-screenwriter Monika Reevlla (The House of Flowers and Someone Has to Die) and author Fernanda Melchor (Hurricane Season).

Important Message for FILM AF5720 Media Archaeology

Since this academic year has been extended through the summer, the department had planned that most of you would graduate in October. This would allow you to take classes in Summer A and B. If you opt to graduate at the end of June, you will not be able to take courses in Summer B.

The final season of, a series co-created, co-executive produced and written by alumnus Francisco Angones '11 and written by alumni Robert Snow '10, Christian Magalhaes '10 and Rachel Vine '06, will come to an end with a 90-minute series finale which will air on March 15, 2021.

Here, we talk with Associate Professor and Fiction Concentration Head Victor LaValle about his forthcoming novel Lone Women, how Zoom has changed the classroom dynamic, and how routine can be more important than talent. 

The Playwright’s Room is a series featuring the newest cohort of Columbia Playwriting students. These playwrights study under the tutelage of David Henry Hwang and Lynn Nottage. 

Stars Behind The Stars is a bi-weekly series featuring theatre makers behind the scenes. This week, we sat down with Alumna Annie Jin Wang ’20. 

Writing alumnus Lytton Smith ’07 has published two books: The Square, a chapbook of poems about protest movements (New Michigan Press) and On Time and Water, a translation of a groundbreaking Icelandic book about climate change (Open Letter).