Professor Mustapha Khan Brings Heroine of Lemmon Slave Case to Life Through New Audio Drama “How Emeline Got Free” was produced for the Historical Society of the New York Courts and tells the story from the perspective of Emeline Thompson. Read More
Film Student and Alumna Earn New York Women in Film & Television Scholarships The pair were celebrated as part of the organization’s ongoing commitment to nurturing the next generation of women in media. Read More
Giving It the Business Touch Gasnel Jacques had an idea that would get people back to the movies after the social isolation of the pandemic. At Brooklyn College he decided to put it to the test. Read More
Two Brooklyn College Faculty Members Named 2023 Guggenheim Fellows Professor of English Tanya Pollard and Adjunct Film Professor Todd Chandler included with 171 scientists, writers, scholars, and artists honored across 48 fields and from 2,500 applicants. Read More
Robert Tutak’s Film Ellis Island: The Making of a Mastered Race Now Airing on CUNY TV Film Professor Robert Tutak’s historical documentary, Ellis Island: The Making of a Master Race in America will be broadcasted on CUNY TV from April 7 through April 9 at 2:30 p.m. Tutak wrote, directed, Read More
Author and Activist Barbara Smith to Lecture at Brooklyn College on March 16 One of her first public appearances since 2020 will serve as an extraordinary complement to Brooklyn College’s Women’s History Month celebration. Read More
New Mural Project Builds Connections While Beautifying Campus Students from experimental art course help enhance the walls of Film Department building. Read More
Author and Activist Barbara Smith Serving as Brooklyn College’s Hess Scholar-in-Residence for 2022-23 The independent scholar has opened up a national cultural and political dialogue about the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality. On November 29, Smith will be part of a conversation on campus with Jeanne Theoharis to discuss selected clips from the newly released documentary, “The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks,” which features Smith and is also based on Theoharis’ research and book of the same name. Read More
Professor of Screenwriting Debra Kirschner’s film ‘The Tollbooth’ is now streaming on Tubi Kirschner wrote and directed the film, which follows an art student in her first year out of college as she comes of age and questions the values of her traditional Read More
Professor Alexandra Juhasz Coauthors “We Are Having This Conversation Now: The Times of AIDS Cultural Production” We Are Having This Conversation Now (Duke University Press) offers a history, present, and future of AIDS through thirteen short conversations between Alexandra Juhasz and Theodore Kerr, scholars deeply embedded Read More
