January 2019 Newsletter
Read our Spring Newsletter here! Includes alumna Zae Soe‘s Onion Tears featured in The Brown Orient, poem by faculty member Soheila Ghaussy, book recommendations from faculty and upcoming department events.
4U on the 4th
Join Liberal Arts and MICA Wellness, Counseling and Health Center on the 4th floor on February 4th from 11:45 am to 1:00 pm. Stay for a little bit or stay for the...
An Unexplained Death
An Unexplained Death: The True Story of a Body at the Belvedere, by Humanistic Studies faculty Mikita Brottman, published November 2018. Illustrations by Caroline Harwood (MICA 2017 Illustration). Haunting and colorful retro cover art by Oliver Munday (08 Graphic Design & current MICA Graphic Design faculty). Check out Oliver’s amazing covers for books by Elif...
Courses for Spring 2019
Registration is happening now for Spring 2019. Still making up your mind? Check out some of these HMST courses! Literature of Empire Intercultural Communication Classes with Chezia Thompson Multicultural Theatre: Asian | Asian American Performance Voices: Women in the Americas HMST full course list for Spring 2019 can be found here: Schedule
Devon Deimler (Interdisciplinary Sculptural Studies ’07) is awarded PhD
Congratulations to Devon Deimler (MICA Interdisciplinary Sculptural Studies ’07), whose PhD dissertation was recently accepted by the Department of Mythological Studies at Pacifica Graduate Institute, in Carpenteria, California. Devon’s dissertation is entitled, “Ultraviolet Concrete: Dionysos and the Ecstatic Play of Aesthetic Experience.” Her committee comprised Dr. Dennis Slattery, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Dr. Erik Davis, Rice...
Dereck Mangus wins Frieze Magazine Writer’s Prize 2018
Congratulations to Dereck Stafford Mangus, graduate of the M.A. Program in Critical Studies, winner of the 2018 frieze writing prize for his review of Jack Whitten’s exhibition ‘Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1963–2017’, at the Baltimore Museum of Art. This year’s prize was judged by frieze’s senior editor, Andrew Durbin, writer Billy Kahora and artist Amy...
Taking on the Doctrine of Discovery
After participating in “Taking on the Doctrine of Discovery” conference at Skä•noñh – Great Law of Peace Center on Onondaga Nation Territory #MICA professor Eglute Trinkauskaite is sharing these powerful ideas in the classroom w/ 1st yr students. #Indigenous / #religious studies
2018 Ginsberg Poetry Prize Winners
Congratulations to David Abalos Aliaga, one of the two 2018 Ginsberg Poetry Prize winners. David joined the MICA community this past school year and studied ceramics at MICA. He is completing his final year at Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. He wrote about his love of writing since he was a teenager, “My poetry is influenced...
2018 Ginsberg Poetry Prize Winners
Congratulations to Catherine Khamnouane, one of our two winners of the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Prize 2018. Catherine’s practice focuses on the personal relationships we create with and within the varied political power structures that surround us. She graduated from the Interdisciplinary Sculpture program in May of 2018 and plans to continue living, working and making in...
Senior Colloquium
Please join Humanistic Studies at MICA as our graduating seniors present their thesis work. April 27, 2018 at 4 pm in the Bunting Center, fourth floor.