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2020 - 2021 Undergraduate Scholarships Announced
The Gerald R. Black Scholarship Fund for Recognition of Excellence in Theatre was established in 1974 in memory of Gerald R. Black, a 1924 graduate of The Ohio State University. The scholarship is…

Doctoral Candidate Aviva Neff Tapped for Council of Graduate Students Position
Doctoral Candidate Aviva Neff has been elected to serve as chair of the Council of Graduate Students' academic affairs committee for 2020-21. In this role, she has also been appointed to serve on…

Truett at American Society Theatre Research Conference
Joshua Truett attended the American Society Theatre Research conference “Theatre’s Many Publics”. At the conference, he gave the presentation “Muxe Velas and Fiesta Queens: Indigenous…

Graduate Student's Film Headed to Phoenix Film Festival
MFA student Rina Hajra's film My Sekret War is headed to the 2020 Phoenix Film Festival this March.
The film depicts a young woman's struggle to overcome the cruelty she experienced…

Brunner-Sung Receives Ohio Excellence Award
Assistant Professor Vera Brunner-Sung has received an Ohio Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council.
Individual Excellence Awards are peer recognition of a creative artist's body of work…

Fracesca Spedalieri (MA '11, PH '17) Translates Dante
Swan Isle Press recently released a collection of Emma Dante's plays, mPalermu, Dancers, and Other Plays, translated by Francesca Spedalieri's (MA '11, PH '17).
Spedalieri is a visiting…

Alum Yi-Ping Wu (PH '19) Accepts Offer at Ming Chuan University
Alum Yi-Ping Wu (PH '19) accepted a full-time position as assistant professor in the Department of Radio and Television at Ming Chuan University in Taipei, Taiwan. This private university with 18,…

Flagler Published in Youth Theatre Journal
Postdoctoral Reasearcher Moriah Flagler's article "Beyond the 'Basic Stuff': Authentic Caring and Digital Storytelling with Youth" was published in Youth Theatre Journal.
Concepts…

Brunner-Sung Published in Documenting the Visual Arts
Assistant Professor Vera Brunner-Sung contributed a chapter, "Gained in Translation: Site-Specificity in Recent Documentaries", to Documenting the Visual Arts, edited by Roger Hallas,…