Faculty News
A Marvelous Way to BeginIn The Jerusalem Post, on the occasion of Simhat Torah—the Jewish holiday that marks the conclusion of the annual cycle of public Torah readings, and the beginning of a new cycle—Rabbi Michael Cohen offers an examination of the first reading, calling it "the underpinning of the notion of creatio ex nihilo, God creating the world out of nothing."
"The Poetry of Death"The New Yorker online featured a piece by award-winning poet Donald Hall, MFA Writer-in-Residence, called "The Poetry of Death."
Astro PoetsSince creating the viral Twitter account "Astro Poets," which aims to change the way the Internet sees the zodiac, visiting literature faculty member Alex Dimitrov and Dorothea Lasky have amassed a collection of more than 194,000 Twitter followers, a monthly advice column for WMagazine and, as they recently announced, a new book deal.
The Rise of TrumpismAn online forum of scholarly essays co-edited by faculty member David Bond examines the stark social divides being exposed with Donald Trump’s contentious rise to power.
Randich Takes on WildeDrama faculty member Jean Randich will direct Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest to open the Connecticut Repertory Theatre’s 2017-18 season.