Intersectionality at the Heart of the 4th Annual Chicago Feminist Film Festival
Co-directors Michelle Yates and Susan Kerns reflect on some of the films that make this year’s festival “the best yet.”
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English and Creative Writing faculty member Jim DeRogatis discusses his tenacious work uncovering the story behind R. Kelly and advocating for the victims. More coverage at NPR, Washington Post, SPIN, WBBM, and Consequence of Sound.
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Columbia Trustee and alum Cayla Weisberg ’09 is interviewed for her partnership with InvestHER Ventures, an early stage investment firm that exclusively partners with women-led technology startups in traditionally underrepresented sectors. |
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MICHIGAN AVE
Second City Alum & SNL Star Aidy Bryant Talks Her Chicago Comedy Days and New Hulu Show Shrill
Alum Aidy Bryant ’09, star and co-creator of the new show Shrill, discusses Chicago theater, the adrenaline rush of performing live, and what makes Shrill must-see TV.
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CHICAGO MAGAZINE
Kelly Boner Curates Drag as Fine Art
Columbia’s Hokin Project Gallery is highlighted for Fulfilled Fantasies: Contemporary Chicago Drag Works, a free photography exhibit that captures Chicago’s drag scene.
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BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
The Palm and the Parkway: A Tale of Two Chicago Green Book Sites — One Lost, One Found
Music faculty member Fernando Jones discusses the legacy of the Palm Tavern as a historic Green Book site.
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PULITZER CENTER
A Look at Jackie Spinner's New Film, Don't Forget Me
Communication Associate Professor Jackie Spinner is highlighted for her new documentary film Don’t Forget Me.
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WFMT
A First-Time Nominee Takes Us Behind the Scenes at Grammy Week
Audio Arts and Acoustics faculty member and Grammy nominee Mary Mazurek writes on her behind-the-scenes experience during Grammy Week, highlighting the fact that her dress for her official Academy photograph was designed by Fashion Studies student Estefania Galvan.
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VOYAGE CHICAGO
Meet Jenny Boully
English and Creative Writing Associate Professor Jenny Boully is interviewed on her background, writing process, and recent book Betwixt-and-Between: Essays on the Writing Life.
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DOWNBEAT
Columbia Offers Multifaceted Program
Columbia’s Contemporary, Urban, and Popular Music program is featured as an inclusive, genre-blending approach to music study.
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Exhibition features four decades of Mexican comic art including ink-on-paper comic book drawings, microcuentos, and contemporary artists Alejandra Espino and Augusto Mora.
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American Sign Language Chair and Associate Professor Peter Cook's performance at Atlanta's Emory University blends poetry and ASL.
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King guest edited a volume of the “Journal of Hate Studies” that covers how hate inserted itself into the 2016 U.S. Presidential campaign.
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Katharine Hamerton's Two Papers on Fashion and the French Enlightenment
Humanities, History, and Social Sciences Associate Professor Katharine Hamerton presented two scholarly papers this winter at the 2019 MLA Conference and the Modern France Workshop at the University of Chicago.
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Sean Johnson Andrews Publishes New Book on Intellectual Property Rights
The Cultural Production of Intellectual Property Rights: Law, Labor, and the Persistence of Primitive Accumulation was published by Temple University Press this February.
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Fourth Annual Chicago Feminist Film Festival
The Chicago Feminist Film Festival, organized by Cinema and Television Arts Assistant Professor Susan Kerns and History, Humanities, and Social Sciences Assistant Professor Michelle Yates, will screen films that aim to address forms of inequality often missing from mainstream media.
Wednesday, February 27–Friday, March 1
Film Row Cinema
1104 S. Wabash Ave.
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