By Esther Shin MFA Graduate Student On Tuesday, May 15, 2018, I wrote the following to myself: I sat in on the MFA poetry reading this evening and I enjoyed it so much. The students did such a great job—their voice, style and subject matter was so diverse. I was slightly envious of them getting
By Elena Goodenberger MFA Graduate Student Ten years ago, Barack Obama was finishing up his first year in the White House, the must-have new technology was the iPhone 3GS, and Tabula Poetica: The Center For Poetry at Chapman University was founded. Over the past ten years, Dr. Anna Leahy and her Tabula Poetica team have
Each summer, a team of undergraduate researchers are assembled to work on The Chapman University Survey of American Fears (an in-depth examination into the fears of average Americans) and are supervised by Wilkinson Professors Chris Bader, Ed Day and Ann Gordon, meeting once a week out of The Babbie Center and Henley lab. The students
On behalf of the Office of the Dean of Wilkinson College and All Wilkinson College Staff … We would like to invite you to celebrate Barbara Piscitelli and her 20 years of outstanding service to Wilkinson College! The Party will commence Tuesday, May 21st 2019 at 4 p.m. in Beckman Hall 404. Formal remarks to
How to MFA and Work Full-Time by Geneva Trelease Working full-time and being an MFA in Creative Writing student is challenging, but it can be done! I’m the proof. I’m a full-time high school teacher and a part-time MFA student at Chapman University. Here, I’ve assembled some tips on how to keep your sanity
Fueling the MFA by Sarah Valadez For many MFA in Creative Writing students, caffeine is our best friend. Coffee, tea, energy drinks, etc. Sometimes, I need a boost, and caffeinated beverages come to my temporary rescue. Maybe you don’t like caffeine, of course. We all need energy, and the MFA student needs to sustain attention
The Creative and Cultural Industries Program at Chapman University (CCI) has partnered with the Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) to offer our students the chance to design and deliver a series of public engagement workshops at the museum. OCMA is currently housed in a temporary location as it moves from its site in Newport
The Guggenheim Gallery presents, I Just Want to be a White Girl, January 28 – March 10, 2019 in the Guggenheim Gallery at Chapman University by Politically Private, the interplay of personal identity and public performance – Monday – Friday, 12 p.m. – 5 p.m. and Saturday, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. (closed on Sundays).
Shoshana Feld-Sobol Strategic and Corporate Communication (’17) So much has changed since entering my first year of college, it’s hard to remember what was going through my mind freshman year. When we enter college most of us are coming from our sheltered adolescent lives. We went to school, went to after school activities and came
By: Shoshana Feld-Sobol Strategic and Corporate Communication (’17) Thursday, April 6 at 7 p.m., Wilkinson College is presenting “Surviving the End of the World Interstices 2017.” This has brought in a collection of events, panels, and lectures which have all been on the topic of zombies and the end of the world. There is something