News Archive

Image (L/R): (book cover detail) “Unstable Masks Whiteness and American Superhero Comics,” edited by Sean Guynes and Martin Lund, The Ohio State University Press, January 2020; Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins; Eric L. Berlatsky; (book cover detail) “Ms. Marvel’s America No Normal,” Edited by Jessica Baldanzi & Hussein Rashid, University of Mississippi Press, February 2020
Research Thursdays - Department of English faculty members have co-authored two articles on the intersection of superheroes and racial politics
June 11, 2020
The intersection of superheroes in comic books, racial politics, the politics of racial mixing and racial mixedness
Image: 2019 Summer Band Camp performance
Research Thursdays - ‘Keep the Music Playing!’ Initiative for Youth
June 04, 2020
The Department of Music received the Impact 100 Palm Beach County’s Arts, Culture and Historic Preservation Grant.
Images (l/r): Book cover of “The Chemical Philosophy of Robert Boyle: Mechanicism, Chymical Atoms, and Emergence,” Oxford University Press; Marina Banchetti, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy.
Research Thursdays - The Chemical Philosophy of Robert Boyle: Mechanicism, Chymical Atoms, and Emergence
May 28, 2020
The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce that each of its faculty members has a book to be released or under contract to be completed this year.
Impact 100 Palm Beach County’s Arts, Culture and Historic Preservation Grant
FAU Department of Music is Finalist for Impact 100 Palm Beach County $100,000 Grant
May 21, 2020
FAU's Department of Music is one of two finalists for Impact 100 Palm Beach County’s Arts, Culture and Historic Preservation Grant
Images (l/r): European Union Flag; La Pietra di Ca’Vendramin book cover; Ilaria Serra with Italian American writer Adriana Trigiani, whose novels are the topic of a forthcoming book chapter by Serra
Research Thursdays - Ilaria Serra (LLCL) Receives A Faculty Curriculum Development Grant For “European Movement: Films of Immigration”
May 21, 2020
Ilaria Serra, the 2020 FAU Associate Professor Scholar of the Year, recently received a faculty curriculum development grant from the EU-Jean Monnet Center of Excellence at Florida International University (FIU)
Tangled Roots: Florida’s Revolving Empires and the Opportunities of Changing Borders, 1760-1830
Research Thursdays - Jason Sharples, Associate Professor of History, received the Peckham Long-Term Fellowship on Revolutionary America
May 14, 2020
The grant will support archival research for his project “Tangled Roots: Florida’s Revolving Empires and the Opportunities of Changing Borders,1760-1830.”
Impact 100 Palm Beach CountyGrant
FAU Department of Music is Finalist for Impact 100 Palm Beach County $100,000 Grant
May 13, 2020
FAU's Department of Music is one of two finalists for Impact 100 Palm Beach County’s Arts, Culture and Historic Preservation Grant.
Arquin Slide Collection Digitization Project: Preserving the Heritage of Latin America
FACULTY RESEARCH - VISUAL ARTS AND ART HISTORY FACULTY EMILY FENICHEL AND CAMILA AFANADOR-LLACH RECEIVE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES GRANT
May 11, 2020
Emily Fenichel and Camila Afanador-Llach, faculty in FAU’s Department of Visual Arts and Art History, recently received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for $231,588.
Congratulations from Dean Michael J. Horswell
Congratulations to an Extraordinary Class of Graduates
May 06, 2020
A total 476 undergraduate and 63 graduate students received their diplomas for degrees in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters this Spring.
Michael J. Horswell and Marleen Forkas
Gift from Marleen Forkas to Name FAU’s Studio One Theatre
May 04, 2020
FAU’s Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters recently announced a $1.125 million gift from FAU benefactor Marleen Forkas to name the Marleen Forkas Studio One Theatre.