Blog
March 22, 2023
Sebastian Leal-Arenas (Linguistics) reflects about his Curricular Development Opportunity for Ph.D. Students.
If you’re at all hesitant about incorporating new elements into your teaching, partnering up with a more experience instructor is the way to go. Not only will you learn, but they will also...
November 11, 2022
My creative work is balanced between composition and performance as a contemporary music pianist. My compositions are inspired by multi-disciplinary interests: Gerhard Richter paintings, Beckett’s radio play Embers, films of Rouben Mamoulian, James Brown brass riffs, a Bach chorale. The incorporatio...
September 15, 2022
I am Leonardo Solano, a doctoral student in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures. I am about to defend my dissertation. My interests are cinema of the 1960s and new Latin American cinematic and literary narratives. My dissertation is based on a documentary I made about the conditio...
September 1, 2022
Elizabeth Kurtzman discusses her Curated Immersive Fellowship with the Film Pittsburgh in this podcast.
Elizabeth Kurtzman
Theatr...
September 1, 2022
Nadia Hussein discusses her Curated Immersive Fellowship with the Legacy Arts Project.
Nadia Hussein
Communication
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September 1, 2022
Nadia Hussein discusses her Curated Immersive Fellowship with the Legacy Arts Project.
Nadia Hussein
Communication
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September 1, 2022
Jonah Jeng (Film and Media Studies) discusses his Administrative Internship with SCREENSHOT: Asia in this podcast.
Jonah Jeng
Fi...
Jonah Jeng
Fi...
September 1, 2022
Jonah Jeng (Film and Media Studies) discusses his Administrative Internship with SCREENSHOT: Asia.
Jonah Jeng
Film and Media Stu...
Jonah Jeng
Film and Media Stu...
August 30, 2022
I have a history as a theatre director and subsequently as a fiction writer. I had been writing a novel in which an actor was cast as Angelo in Measure for Measure when news of the Humanities Engage grant came through. So Measure for Measure was already on my mind. And had been for a long time, a...
August 29, 2022
My name is Vivian Feldblyum. I am a seventh year PhD student in the Department of Philosophy, and my main research interests lie in ethics and ancient philosophy. My current work is concerned with the nature of pleasure, and my dissertation develops an account of pleasure on which it is best underst...
August 25, 2022
Nozomi Saito (English) reflects on her Curated Immersive Fellowship with Bellingcat.
Nozomi Saito
English
August 2022
Learn about all the Pitch Your Own Sum...
August 25, 2022
I became aware of the challenges of being a musician in Ghana at an early stage of my music career. I found from initial research efforts that there is an incredibly high level of difficulty in sustaining a music career in Ghana, stemming from how the society relates to music generally and, theref...
July 25, 2022
Hello! My name is Vivian Feldblyum, and this Fall I’ll be starting my seventh (!) year as a PhD student in the Department of Philosophy. My main research interests lie at the intersection of moral psychology, metaethics, and Ancient philosophy (especially Aristotle). I am also interested in the hist...
July 14, 2022
Nozomi Saito (English) discusses her Curated Immersive Fellowship with Bellingcat.
Nozomi Saito
English
July 2022
Learn about all the Pitch Your Own Summer ...
July 11, 2022
Hello! My name is Elizabeth Kurtzman and I am entering my fourth year as a PhD student in Theatre and Performance Studies at Pitt. My main areas of research are horror, immersive experiences, and affect theory, with a particular focus on the ways in which the various elements of a production work to...