Tuesday, Oct 29, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM, Jepson 118, Jepson Hall This event brings together two artists who have a long history of telling stories on the stage and screen that focus on issues of justice. What are effective ways to dramatize the story of a sexual assault or a murder? How do theater and film artists balance the need for their story to account for the complexities of specific crimes with the need for their stories to be entertaining for viewers?
Stephen Belber and Jennifer Cavenaugh will discuss the challenges of framing such stories for audiences. Stephen Belber is an accomplished playwright, screenwriter, and film director with national TV and stage awards. Jennifer Cavenaugh is the Dean of the School Arts & Sciences at the University of Richmond with an impressive body of scholarship. Her book, Medea’s Daughters: Forming and Performing Women Who Kill, examines representations of female criminals in plays and television. Dean Cavenaugh is also a long-established artist, having performed and directed in the theater for 30 years.
Mia Lazar (’24 graduate & alumni) with American Studies minor, traveled through the U.S. enhancing and expanding, Documerica, an environmental website. Supported by UR’s Summer Undergraduate Research Program and financial award by Virginia Humanities Rapid Grant, Lazar collaborated with Lauren Tilton, Associate Professor of Digital Humanities. Learn more.
Lauren Tilton was promoted to professor of digital humanities and was appointed the E. Claiborne Robins Professor of Liberal Arts. Tilton specializes in analyzing, developing, and applying digital and computational methods to the study of 20th and 21st century documentary expression and visual culture.
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Lauren Tilton, E. Claiborne Robins Professor of Liberal Arts and Digital Humanities, and undergraduate student Mia Lazar, '24, have received a grant from Virginia Humanities for their project, Digital Documerica: Picturing the Environment in 1970’s America. Digital Documerica is a joint project of The Digital Scholarship Lab and the Distant Viewing Lab.
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Photogrammar, a project led by Lauren Tilton, associate professor of digital humanities; and Taylor Arnold, associate professor of statistics; along with colleagues in the Digital Scholarship Lab at UR and American Studies at Yale University, was awarded the American Studies Association's 2022 Garfinkel Prize in Digital Humanities.
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Lauren Tilton, associate professor of digital humanities, and Taylor Arnold, associate professor of statistics, received a $485,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation for their Distant Viewing Toolkit project. Learn more.
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Laura Browder, Tyler and Alice Haynes professor in American Studies, coauthored this piece.
American studies professor Laura Browder is quoted.
Lauren Tilton, professor of liberal arts and digital humanities, is quoted.
The Digital Scholarship Lab’s “Mapping Inequality” project is highlighted.
Mailing address:
American Studies Program
Carole Weinstein International Center, Room 306
211 Richmond Way
University of Richmond, Virginia 23173
Phone: (804) 484-1471
Fax: (804) 484-1577
Program Coordinator: Stephen Brauer
Academic Administrative Coordinator: Lynn Hardwicke