Campus Stories - Creative Writing
Walters Art Museum manuscript collection makes a virtual move to Stanford
More than 100,000 high-resolution images of unique medieval manuscripts will have a second home, thanks to a new agreement between the Walters Art Museum and Stanford University Libraries. The Walters’ holdings of 850 medieval illuminated manuscripts and 150 single leaves, ranging in date from the ninth to the 19th century, are one of the most…
Stanford scholar Adam Johnson wins Pulitzer Prize in fiction
Adam Johnson, an associate professor of English at Stanford, has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for The Orphan Master’s Son, his novel set in North Korea. The Pulitzer committee called the book “an exquisitely crafted novel that carries the reader on an adventuresome journey into the depths of totalitarian North Korea and into the most intimate…
Art in the Metropolis
“Art in the Metropolis” is a sophomore seminar offered in conjunction with the annual “Arts Immersion” trip to New York that takes place over spring break and is organized by the Stanford Arts Institute. The trip, now in its fourth year, provides a group of students with the opportunity to immerse themselves in the cultural…
Written, read and spoken
The feast of campus literary events through the end of the academic year is enough for even the most ravenous word nerd appetites. Beginning with a pair of events on March 13, the René Girard Lecture by Timothy Snyder, author of Bloodlands, and readings by Stegner Fellows Jacques Rancourt and Austin Smith, and ending on…
Stanford’s Chocolate Heads dance around the theme ‘synesthesia’
The Bing Concert Hall box office ran out of tickets for the upcoming Chocolate Heads performance in just three hours. The Heads, along with their muse and mentor this year, William Parker, clearly have a following. The 842 lucky ticketholders will be among the first to see dance performed in the new hall and experience…
The Stanford Arts Timeline unearths a vital legacy of tradition and transformation
On Friday, January 11, 2013 – nearly 121 years after Stanford convened its first class – Bing Concert Hall opened its doors. A culminating event for years of curricular and extracurricular arts activity on campus, this exciting moment has deep roots in over a century of Stanford arts – from one department focused on applied…
‘This American Life’s’ Ira Glass shares storytelling insights
Most college-age students were just wee toddlers when This American Life was born on the radio in 1995. Thus, many grew up listening as their parents listened to host Ira Glass and his quirky contributors – David Sedaris, Sarah Vowell and David Rakoff, to name a few – delight in the ordinary and find poignancy in the everyday. For many, Glass is an…
NaNoWriMo’s Creator, Chris Baty, Talks Shop
Chris Baty’s ebullient voice and San Franciscan diction convey an excited, restless passion, whether he’s discussing writing or the weather. An author, speaker, blogger, and freelance journalist, he’s perhaps best known as the founder of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). He visited a Stanford course designed around NaNoWriMo, taking notes and listening attentively as students gave…
Stanford’s ‘Another Look’ to discuss the best books you’ve never read
Book clubs have proliferated across the United States, though most stick to middle-of-the-road bestsellers. Once in a while, however, you run across an off-the-beaten-track book you may not know about, praised by a leading literary figure. Where do you go to talk about this unfamiliar, top-notch fare? Look no further. Stanford is allowing readers to…
This is your brain on Jane Austen, and Stanford researchers are taking notes
The inside of an MRI machine might not seem like the best place to cozy up and concentrate on a good novel, but a team of researchers at Stanford are asking readers to do just that. In an innovative interdisciplinary study, neurobiological experts, radiologists and humanities scholars are working together to explore the relationship between…
A Stanford event: How the arts contribute to the Occupy movement
The word “occupy” was on several short lists for word of the year after the Occupy Wall Street protest launched in New York City’s Zuccotti Park last fall. The word was certainly on the minds of H. Samy Alim, Jeff Chang, Tania Mitchell, Ramón Saldívar and José Davíd Saldívar when they developed an entire course…
Renowned Stegner Fellowship program announces 2012-2014 fellows
Known as the “Dean of Western Writers,” acclaimed author Wallace Stegner dedicated his life not only to writing, but also to helping other writers develop their craft. In an effort to address a dearth of formal creative writing instruction, Stegner founded the Creative Writing Program and the Stegner Writing Fellowships during his tenure at Stanford. Established in…
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