Lipstick
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Forget your mother’s tube of Revlon. Lipstick today is as messy—and fascinating—as changing attitudes towards femininity. Mining the experience of women across culture, class, and generation, this book tosses out expired ideas about beauty and power like so […]
Taco
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Taco is a deep dive into the most iconic Mexican food from the perspective of a Mexico City native. In a narrative that moves from Mexico to the United States and back, Sánchez Prado discusses the definition of the […]
Acting the Part
Audience Participation in Performance
A framework for understanding audience participation in twenty-first century immersive theater Acting the Part offers a paradigm for understanding how audiences participate in immersive theater, from physical spaces like the Globe in London to digital spaces like social virtual reality. Reading across twenty-first century productions of ancient Greek tragedies and William Shakespeare’s plays, Elizabeth Hunter […]
Enveloping Worlds
Toward a Discourse of Immersive Performance
A collection analyzing immersive, participatory performances as it has developed in the U.S. Enveloping Worlds is a collection of essays that analyzes the phenomenon of immersive, participatory performance as it has developed in the U.S. As this collection demonstrates, immersive performance offers three-dimensional multisensory experiences, inviting audience members to be participants in the unfolding of […]
Saving ‘Graces’
Sculptor Ted Aub found his muse at WashU; five decades later, he’s still inspired and revisiting his senior sculpture project.
A community champion
Alumnus Aaron Williams balances his civic nonprofit with a successful career in construction management.
How to build a creative career
WashU alumni with booming performing arts careers, from Broadway to TV, share their stories on a WashU-centered podcast.
A new ‘Paradiso’
Celebrated poet Mary Jo Bang completes the third book in a modern translation of The Divine Comedy, an effort that took two decades.
‘We have the view of gods’
In his new book “Look Out: The Delight and Danger of Taking the Long View,” WashU’s Edward McPherson explores the human desire for “big picture” perspectives — and how such perspectives cultivate both awe and arrogance.
Bringing Dickens to life: Libraries host reading of ‘A Christmas Carol’
From the phrase “Merry Christmas” to the spirit of giving, “A Christmas Carol” shaped our notions of Christmas. WashU Libraries celebrates the beloved tale’s enduring impact with “Charles Dickens Reads ‘A Christmas Carol,’“ a free public reading of his famed novella. Visitors also will have the opportunity to view the Libraries’ expansive collection of Dickens first editions.
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