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My name is Stella Wadiru, a third year Ph.D. candidate in music (ethnomusicology) in the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences at University of Pittsburgh. I am an ethnomusicologist interested in developing strategies for promoting music, dance, and drama of refugees and Internally Displaced Persons...
Hello! My name is Payne Banister, and I am a second-year Ph.D. student in Theatre and Performance Studies. My research focuses on the historical, cultural, and spatial contexts in which queer nightlife performances occur and how queer nig...
Hello! My name is Alison Mahoney and I am going into my fourth year of the PhD program in Theatre and Performance Studies at Pitt, where my doctoral research focuses on performance and disability. I decided to pause my career in non-pro...
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 y...
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...
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...
Elizabeth Kurtzman discusses her Curated Immersive Fellowship with the Film Pittsburgh in this podcast.  
Elizabeth Kurtzman 
Theatr...
Nadia Hussein discusses her Curated Immersive Fellowship with the Legacy Arts Project.  
Nadia Hussein
Communication
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Nadia Hussein discusses her Curated Immersive Fellowship with the Legacy Arts Project.  
Nadia Hussein
Communication
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Jonah Jeng (Film and Media Studies) discusses his Administrative Internship with SCREENSHOT: Asia in this podcast.
Jonah Jeng 
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Jonah Jeng (Film and Media Studies) discusses his Administrative Internship with SCREENSHOT: Asia.
Jonah Jeng 
Film and Media Stu...
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...
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...
Nozomi Saito (English) reflects on her Curated Immersive Fellowship with Bellingcat.  
Nozomi Saito 
English
August 2022
 
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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...