Emily Friedman never expected a media trend built around recorded role-playing games to shape her research career. But today, she is helping define the emerging world of Actual Play, a booming genre she describes as “the biggest thing people haven’t heard of.”
Jean Wickstrom Liles Associate Professor of English Emily Friedman discusses tabletop role-playing games performed for an audience for the Canadian Broadcasting Company.
Abigail Bowling, a recent Theatre Management and Creative Writing graduate, interned this spring with the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities to show generations of Auburn residents that their personal stories can be powerful performances.
When Julianna Acomb started searching for colleges, she knew exactly what she wanted: professors who would challenge her creativity and help sharpen her writing. Auburn University’s English department immediately stood out.
