Arts & Sciences

Ethnomusicologist Patrick Burke, assistant professor of music in Arts & Sciences at Washington University, will present a lecture titled “Onyx Club Revue: Jazz and White Masculinity in the Early Swing Era” at 4 p.m. Friday, Dec. 10.

“Celebrating Our Books, Recognizing Our Authors” will honor the work of scholars from across the arts and sciences disciplines.

British tenor Paul Elliott will join Washington University’s Kingsbury Ensemble for a concert titled “Love and War: Music of the Early Italian Baroque” at 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 20.

David Kilper/WUSTL Photo Servies“Taunting the Monster”Washington University Dance Theatre (WUDT), the annual showcase of professionally choreographed works performed by student dancers, will present Dancescape, its 2004 concert, Dec. 3-5 in Edison Theatre. The concert will feature 30 dancers, selected by audition, performing seven works by faculty and guest choreographers.

She joined the University in 1991 in the Office of Computing and Communications and has worked her way up.

Courtesy photoMary Jo BangPoet Mary Jo Bang, associate professor of English in Arts & Sciences, will read from her latest collection, The Eye is Like a Strange Balloon (2004), at 8 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 2, for The Writing Program Reading Series.

Here is the thing about envisioning someone who specializes in Chaucer. You automatically imagine that he wears a tweed jacket with leather elbow patches, smokes a pipe and speaks slowly, deliberately and in a monotone. What a relief then, to find out that David A. Lawton, Ph.D., professor and chair of the English department and […]

Photo by Mary ButkusReadings of four student plays culminated the two-week 2004 A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Workshop.

Scientists at Washington University have received a five-year, $4.7 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to explore new ways to produce, distribute and use radionuclides to detect cancers.

GibsonRenowned literary theorist Stanley Fish will deliver the keynote address for Celebrating Our Books, Recognizing Our Authors, Washington University’s third annual faculty book colloquium, at 4 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 2, in the Ann W. Olin Women’s Building Formal Lounge. The event also will include readings by Judith Evans Grubbs, professor of classics in Arts & Sciences, and James L. Gibson, the Sidney W. Souers Professor of Government in the Department of Political Science in Arts & Sciences.