Author: Liam Otten

Jon Cook, the visiting Fannie Hurst Professor of Creative Literature in Washington University’s Writing Program in Arts & Sciences, will speak on the craft of poetry at 8 p.m., Thursday, April 13. Cook is the author of Romanticism and Ideology (1981), William Hazlitt: Selected Writings (1991), Poetry in Theory (2004) and the forthcoming Hazlitt in Love.

Maki & Associates, TokyoSaligman Family Atrium, Mildred Lane Kemper Art MuseumDownload high-resolution press images of Washington University’s new Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki.

Most Americans don’t think about employment-at-will until they’re terminated from their jobs. During her work at the Employment Law Center (ELC), a nonprofit public interest group in San Francisco, Pauline Kim, J.D., professor of law, saw firsthand that people simply did not know about this legal rule. “Each week, the ELC held a drop-in and […]

Long considered a “choreographer’s choreographer,” Varone captures the nuances of human interaction in works of extraordinary physical daring and vivid musicality.

The performances will feature music and comedy as well as appearances by several guest groups from the University’s vibrant a cappella community.

The biennial competition is open to young architects from around the world; the $30,000 first-place award is the largest such prize in the United States.

Topics for intensive workshops will range from building technologies and sustainable building design to landscape design and urban and regional planning.

David Kilper/WUSTL Photo ServicesMartin KennedyMartin Kennedy, assistant professor of theory & composition in the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences, will present a concert of original chamber music at 8 p.m. Sunday, April 9, in Steinberg Auditorium. The program will include four works performed by members of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, students and faculty from the music department, and Kennedy himself.

The Edison Theatre performances update the biblical story of Susannah and the Elders to 1940s Appalachia; Jolly Stewart directs.

She’s a contributor to numerous volumes on the art and photography of the American West; her most recent book is Print the Legend: Photography and the American West.