On Wednesday, September 23, 2026, join for sabbatical talks and a panel discussion with College of Fine Arts faculty members. This is the featured event for CFA Research Week and chaired by Associate Dean for Research Professor Rebecca Zarate and curated by Professor Lisa Chaufty. Free and open to the public.
Schedule:
12:30-1:30PM - Talks and Panel in the MacKay Music Library
1:30-2:00PM - Light refreshments in the Bastian Atrium
Presentations:
- School of Music's Associate Professor, Seth Keeton’s digital humanities project meets voice pedagogy heritage with the platform, "The Aspen Grove of Opera Singers. "
- Department of Theatre's Professor Tim Slover combined scholarship and creativity to write Fellowship, a feature screenplay which dramatizes the friendship between J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis that was essential to the writing of their masterpieces, The Lord of the Rings and The Chronicles of Narnia.”
- Department of Art & Art History's Associate Professor Jaclyn Wright's "Buffer Zone," uses photography, video and installation to explore militarized ecologies and how soft and hard power are used to shape public perception of them.
- School of Music's Associate Professor Elizabeth Craft’s scholarship is based on cultural historical contexts of Broadway musicals, and she'll be speaking about her upcoming book on the musical "In The Heights."
- School of Dance's Associate Professor Molly Heller shares international choreography work and tours from Japan and beyond!