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Coraline Special Event 
Dean Karin Wurst and the entire College of Arts and Letters staff would like to thank all of the guests who attended our preview of the new film Coraline. If you would like to somehow show your appreciation for the event, please do so by clicking the "Make a Gift" link to the right and give what you can to support scholarships for Arts and Letters students in need during this difficult economic time.
Our special thanks to the film's executive producer Bill Mechanic (English, '73) as well as Laika, Focus Features, Celebration! Cinema, the East Lansing Film Festival, and our MSU partners, including Provost Kim Wilcox, Mark Hollis and the Athletics Department, Coach Tom Izzo and Coach Mark Dantonio and their families, for helping create a wonderful one-of-a-kind event.
NEWS
BREAKING NEWS! (02-09-10)
Jillian Granz, Art and Art History Apparel & Textile Design Senior Wins First Annual Red Carpet Green Dress
Competition
Professor Contreras Receives
MLA Prize Honorable Mention
Sheila Marie Contreras, Associate Profesor of WRAC and Director of Chicano/Latino Studies, has received honorable mention in the Modern Language Association of America's seventh annual MLA Prize for United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies. Contreras' book, Blood Lines: Myth, Indigenism, and Chicana/o Literature, was published by the University of Texas Press.
Announcing:
The 2010 Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers’ Workshop
June 27 through August 7, 2010
University of California, San Diego
Call for Applications
The College of Arts & Letters' Knight-Wilhelm scholarship supports tuition, lodging, and travel expenses for students selected by the Clarion to attend the workshop.
For additional information and applications, go to http://clarion.ucsd.edu
or email clarion@ucsd.edu
Applications accepted 12/1/09 - 3/1/10
College of Arts and Letters Signature Lecture Series:
MSU Prof Debunks Concentration Camp Love Story
Love blooming across the fence of a Nazi concentration camp seemed too good to be true to skeptics including MSU professor Kenneth Waltzer. But it wasn’t true, as author Herman Rosenblat’s publisher acknowledged Dec. 27, and Waltzer is being credited for taking the lead in debunking the much-touted story. Read more...
MSU to Make Sacred Israelite Samaritan Documents Available Online
A team of faculty and students in the College of Arts and Letters has begun a pilot project that will provide online access to some of the world’s rarest religious documents, including three Israelite Samaritan Pentateuch scrolls dating from the 15th century. Read more...
World-Renowned Architect Zaha Hadid’s Design Selected for MSU’s Broad Art Museum
Zaha Hadid of London has been selected as the winner in the design competition for the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. Read more...
Arts and Letters Celebrates Successful Conclusion of The Campaign for MSU
During the five-year Campaign for MSU, which officially ended on September 30, 2007, the College of Arts and
Letters raised more than $54 million, far surpassing its goal of $11 million. The college surpassed its endowment
goal of $800,000 with gifts of more than $15 million. Read more...
Language Learning Moves into the Digital Age
Say the word "hybrid" and what may come to mind first is an environmentally friendly, fuel-efficient car. But for students at MSU, it means an innovative blend of traditional classroom instruction and online learning that is changing the way they acquire proficiency in reading, writing and speaking a foreign language. Read more...
Global Studies in the Arts and Humanities
The new major in Global Studies in the Arts and Humanities at MSU represents an innovative approach to the study of ethics, justice, language, and culture, emphasizing their inter-connections and situating these studies in relation to the larger world dynamics that have shaped and reconfigured the lived conditions of specific peoples in particular locations, throughout history and in the present. Go to Global Studies web site
Arts and Humanities Update
Click here to read the current issue (November 2009).
Muses Magazine
The full Spring 2009 issue, "New Directions," can be viewed in pdf format here. This annual publication features research and outreach activities of arts and humanities faculty, students, and alumni.
