The University of Massachusetts Amherst's Joy Ladin (MFA ‘95) is having a good winter. In January 2022, the Jewish Book Council announced the 2021 National Book Award winners and Ladin’s The Book of Anna (EOAGH Books) won the Berru Poet­ry Award. Inau­gu­rat­ed in 1950, the Nation­al Jew­ish Book Awards is the longest-run­ning and most pres­ti­gious North Amer­i­can awards pro­gram of its kind. The Awards are intend­ed to rec­og­nize authors, and encour­age read­ing, of out­stand­ing Eng­lish-lan­guage books of Jew­ish interest.

Costume design visionary Ruth E. Carter will be giving the keynote lecture for the Commonwealth Honors College Annual Black Heritage Month Celebration on Thursday, Feb. 17 at 5 p.m. in Bowker...

Tickets are currently available for the Department of Theater's spring season opener. Witch, written by Jen Silverman and directed by MFA candidate Rudy Ramirez, runs in the Rand Theater from Friday, February 25 through Saturday March 5. 

Church Space and the Capital in Prewar Japan, a new book by Garrett Washington, associate professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has been published.

Performance in Tillis Hall to feature faculty, student ensembles, and numerous guest artists...

College of Humanities and Fine Arts Dean Barbara Krauthamer shares the origins of Black History Month in Massachusetts and the United States.