Student-Faculty Collaborations

A radio show with Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies Brent Plate and his Religion and the Media class.

Senior Fellow John Rufo ’16 reviewed The Cantos of Ezra Pound by Ezra Pound arising from work done with Professor of English Steve Yao.

Cat Boyd '12 and Naomi Guttman, professor of English and creative writing, each produced an edition of a handmade book and documented the process with assistance from the Digital Humanities initiative.

Collin Spinney ’16, a creative writing major, is examining this through an Emerson project, “Beautiful Deviancy: A Work of Fiction and Poetry Born Out of Activist Art.” Spinney is working under the supervision of Professor of English Naomi Guttman, examining the illegal urban art culture that has been evolving since the emergence of counterculture graffiti in the late sixties.

As neighborhood demographics change, the need for specific religious spaces tends to shift as well. This summer, three students are working on a Levitt Group Research Project, “Sacred Spaces in Transition,” under the guidance of Assistant Professor of Art Robert Knight and Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies Brent Plate.

Jack Lyons ’16 worked with Associate Professor of Japanese Kyoko Omori on the DHi-CLASS Project “The Silent Serpent: Understanding the Role of Benshi in Japanese Cinema” during the summer 2014.

Six students in Introduction to Japanese Film taught by Associate Professor of Japanese Kyoko Omori (Taoyu Chen, Hoang Do, Daniel Finger, Sabrina Hua, Micah Stimson, and Dyllon Young) worked on their original “benshi” scripts for Omori’s silent documentary film, Crossroads in Context (2014) and performed live at an F.I.L.M. event on September 28, 2014 with original live music played by an ensemble of international musicians.

Research by Grace Berg '16 on the figure of Penelope in Homer’s Odyssey and Margaret Atwood’s Penelopiad  was undertaken in the Summer and Fall of 2015 under the supervision of Barbara Gold in the Classics Department.

Tori Fukumitsu ’15 worked with Associate Professor of Japanese Kyoko Omori on an Emerson Project titled “Performing With the Picture, Moving With the Times: the Role of Benshi in Preserving a Japanese Cultural Practice and Adapting to a Global Audience,” during summer 2014.

Nicole LaBarge ’15 worked with Associate Professor of German and Russian Languages and Literatures Franklin Sciacca on a Levitt Center project titled “Climate Change in New York:  Impacts on Local Farms and Food Production,” during summer 2014.