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The much-vaunted femme fatale is a staple of film noir, and probably what first comes to mind when we consider women in the genre. This year’s Kit Noir Film Festival, “Beyond the Femme Fatale: the Women Who Made Noir,” dedicated itself to exploring women behind the camera.
Sarah Congress, Executive Assistant to the Deans and Manager of Academic Administration at the School of the Arts, has had her play, A Thanksgiving to Remember, published in Borderless Thalia: A Multilingual, Pandemic Comic Collection.
Pulling the Chariot of the Sun, a new memoir from Associate Professor Shane McCrae, is coming this summer from Simon & Schuster.
Acting alumnus Isaiah Dòdó-Williams ’22 will star in ABC’s single camera comedy pilot, Public Defenders. The pilot was written by Eddie Quintana and will be directed by Randall Einhorn.
In Times to Come, a third novel from alumnus Kristopher Jansma ’06, has been acquired by Ecco for publication next year.
Angela Tucker ’08 is one of six filmmakers chosen by Film Independent to partake in their second annual Amplifier Fellowship, sponsored by Netflix’s Fund for Creative Equity.
Until April 23, 2023, the Davis Gallery of Colby College’s Museum of Art is presenting Associate Professor of Visual Arts Naeem Mohaiemen’s interdisciplinary show, Grace, which consists of a collaborative curation and screenings of two films: Grace (2022) and Jole Dobe Na (2020).
Adjunct Assistant Professor Vinson Cunningham was awarded the 2021-2022 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism.
Associate Professor Racquel Gates is featured in the latest issue from Film Quarterly.
International film distribution company Kino Lorber will theatrically release The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future (2022), a debut feature film from alumna Francisca Alegría ’16.
Professor Margo Jefferson (JRN ’71) has been awarded the 2023 Rathbones Folio Prize for Constructing a Nervous System: a Memoir (Pantheon, 2022).
Carol Becker, Dean of Faculty at Columbia University School of the Arts, has announced that preeminent humor writer David Sedaris, will speak at the School’s in-person convocation, hosted on Wednesday, May 17, 2023 at 7pm.
Ninth Building, a book by the highly regarded Chinese writer Zou Jingzhi and translated by Adjunct Associate Professor Jeremy Tiang, will be released next week from Open Letter. The work has been longlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize.
From February 23, 2023 until July 30, 2023, the MassArt Art Museum in Boston, Massachusetts is hosting They Are Part, an interactive exhibition by Interim Director and Assistant Professor of Sound Art Jace Clayton.
Until April 8, 2023, Visual Arts Alumni Kevin Claiborne ’21 is exhibiting 14 works on wood panels at Sean Horton (Presents) gallery in New York City. Service? (18 x 14 in., 2023), the first acrylic and ink on wood panel piece one encounters in Family Business, is relatively small and difficult to decipher.