Nina Pelaez

World-renowned Irish poets showcase new works

On the evening of April 20, dozens of students and faculty from Swarthmore flocked to nearby Villanova University to attend a reading by renowned Irish poets Peter Fallon and Seamus Heaney. The event …

Alum explores the influence of books on women

On Monday, the department of English literature and the Swarthmore College library came together to host an intimate reading by Swarthmore alumna, author and editor Barbara Sicherman ’55.

The readi…

Performing multiple selves: peering inside Lorca’s box

This coming weekend, the theater department will be putting on a production of “Bodas de Sangre,” a tragedy written by Spanish poet and dramatist Federico García Lorca. The play is the culminating ho…

In Kitao, a celebration of timeless social activism

This weekend, the Kitao Gallery hosted an exhibition curated by Swarthmore student Elizabeth Matlock ’12. Featuring the work of political activist and artist Dorothy Marder, the exhibition included ph…

"Hayavadana" balances real with the fantastic

This past weekend, the theater department put on a production of “Divided Together: Hayavadana,” a play written by Indian playwright Girish Karnad. The performance successfully integrated elements of …

Musicians showcase Arab classical music

This past Monday evening, a symphony of rich and beautiful sounds emerged from a small, crowded classroom in Kohlberg. The modern languages and literature department, in partnership with the music dep…

Revisiting Picasso, not ignoring his contemporaries

Pablo Picasso has long stood as an emblem of modernity, the poster child of the avant-garde. As one of the most celebrated and well-known painters of the 20th century, his art has been shown and celeb…

African sounds merge in Lüdemann concert

This Sunday evening, the Lang Concert hall filled with the sounds of African music, both traditional and experimental. Pianist and composer Hans Lüdemann, who is a visiting professor at Swarthmore, pe…

Benefit concert aims to return music to Haiti

This past Sunday, a benefit concert was held at Lang Concert Hall to aid in the relief and reconstruction of Haiti in response to the recent earthquake that devastated the island nation. The student c…

Tolkien scholar unearths important legacies

Students and faculty alike filled the auditoriums where the lectures given by Professor Tom Shippey, a medievalist scholar and the leading specialist on J.R.R. Tolkien, took place. Shippey gave two ta…

In Philagrafika, printmaking is not out of print

Philadelphia is known for being a center of artistic innovation and undertaking. Rich with galleries, museums and studios, Philadelphia certainly fosters a culture of creation. Philagrafika 2010, one …

The art of bookmaking: mixing print with poetry

Combining the creative elements of printing, illustration and bookbinding, Mary Phelan builds an intricate craft. Phelan, a professor of book arts here at Swarthmore as well as an associate professor …