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The history of the School of Arts can be traced back to the first courses in drawing offered at Columbia in 1881. In 1900, drama critic Brander Matthews was appointed professor of Dramatic Literature, first chair of drama at any university in the country. [3] Courses in creative writing, film, and painting followed.
James Brander Matthews (February 21, 1852 – March 31, 1929) was an American academic, writer and literary critic. He was the first full-time professor of dramatic literature at Columbia University in New York and played a significant role in establishing theater as a subject worthy of formal study by academics.
Michael Kahn CBE (born September 9, 1937) is an American theater director and drama educator. He was the artistic director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. from 1986 until his retirement in 2019. [1] He held the position of Richard Rodgers Director of the Drama Division of the Juilliard School from 1992 to 2006. [2] [3]
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television; UMKC Theatre; School of Music, Theatre, and Dance; University of North Carolina School of the Arts; University of Washington School of Drama; USC School of Dramatic Arts
This episode in Kollmar's career was recalled in a 2016 essay about Waller by John McWhorter, an American academic and linguist who is associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. [5] Even as late as 1943, the idea of a black composer writing the score for a standard-issue white show was unheard of.
He subsequently attended Yale University (B. Litt. in 1939 and PhD in 1941), where he received the John Addison Porter Prize. [5] Bentley taught History and Drama during the 1942 summer session at Black Mountain College, as well as from 1943 to 1944. [6] Beginning in 1953, he taught at Columbia University and was a theatre critic for The New ...
A Columbia School of Engineering graduate student said the university’s differing approaches to students’ post-election stress revealed a lot about the university’s priorities.
Education: University of Michigan (B.A.) Yale School of Drama (Ph.D.): Occupation(s) Professor and Director of the Arts and Culture concentration of Journalism at the Columbia University School of Journalism