When shared with the wider world, writing moves beyond an act of individual consciousness and self-expression to become a communal exchange that creates knowledge, compassion, empathy, recognition of shared conditions...
When COVID hit, theaters around the country scrambled to find a way to continue operating. Like many other industries, some theaters began creating online performances that could be viewed from the safety of the home...
For all the information hidden in the mountains of data compiled by the computers of the Information Age, we sometimes forget that the answer can be found with a simple observation. It’s a philosophy that Stephen...
The series features a group of nationally renowned authors, alongside new and emerging writers, in conversation about how books and art might bridge the deep divisions in our nation.
Workshops, conducted via Zoom, pair seasoned writing instructors and adult writers with students, ages 13-18, in fiction, essay, poetry and scriptwriting.
The Young Writers Workshops, sponsored by Stony Brook Southampton’s Creative Writing MFA and the Young Artists and Writers Project (YAWP), will be held online this summer. The workshops are dedicated to mentoring...
Novelist Roger Rosenblatt, a Stony Brook University Distinguished Professor of English and Writing, has launched a new weekly literary series, Write America, which features renowned and emerging writers in weekly...
Located at the Manhattan Center for Creative Writing and Film, and partnered with Killer Films, the Television Writing MFA is among the most comprehensive in the world.
Emerson Quartet Violinist Philip Setzer Recounts Tense Trip to Taipei Stony Brook Violin Professor Philip Setzer is a founding member of the world-renowned Emerson String Quartet, Stony Brook University’s Quartet...
In a virtual Grand Rounds lecture titled “Picturing Pandemic Disease,” presented by the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics, Barry Coller, MD, Hon. ’03 and former Stony Brook faculty member...
The internationally renowned visual artist, whose work focuses on issues of identity and community, also has extensive experience teaching at a University level.
“The impact of the events of 2020 on filmmaking will be monumental,” said Karen Offitzer, director of the undergraduate minor in filmmaking at Stony Brook and one of three co-directors of the Social Impact Filmmaking...
As the coronavirus pandemic sent higher education into scramble mode, it was hard for Stony Brook University’s Department of Music to keep the beat. That’s because in music, as in comedy, timing is everything. “Music as...
“Everybody in New York has a story,” said Elyse Graham, associate professor in Stony Brook’s English Department, adding wryly that “every story has an element that contradicts someone else’s story.” Thus Graham’s new...
Energy humanities is a subdiscipline of the environmental humanities, with a tighter focus on the story of energy in human civilization. It arose in the early 2010s in response to renewed public awareness about energy...