Outlander: Blood of My Blood Archives
STARZ is all in on this ancestral love story. The network has given an early renewal to Outlander: Blood of My Blood for Season 2. Read on for what we know so far.
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- Associated Press
Marquis Who's Who Honors Michele Levy, PhD, for Expertise in Comparative Literature
UNIONDALE, NY / ACCESS Newswire / August 21, 2025 / Marquis Who's Who honors Dr. Michele Levy for her expertise in comparative literature. With nearly 50 years of professional experience, Dr. Levy is a celebrated scholar, researcher and author of comparative literature, having shared her expertise at various universities, including North Carolina A&T State University, Xavier University of Louisiana, St. Mary's Dominican College, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Having discovered her love for books at an early age, Dr. Levy was reading voraciously in the adult section of her local library when she was just seven years old. Her love of literature followed her through all her later years. Her last course for her Bachelor of Arts was Medieval Latin, taught by a professor who had first studied classical languages at Harvard. Their one-on-one translations from traveling nuns and poets rekindled her passion for Latin and a desire to become a classicist. But Classics now required Greek, too. She was accepted, instead, into the Curriculum of Comparative Literature at UNC, a discipline about which she knew nothing. Yet, it combined her great passions-- literature, languages, and history-and allowed her to shape an immensely rewarding career. Dr. Levy: The Student Instrumental to Dr. Levy's professional successes have been her own academic achievements as a student. She began her studies at Bryn Mawr College, but left for work and study in Washington, D.C., where she received a bachelor's degree in history, with honors, from the George Washington University in 1970. Dr. Levy then pursued both a master's degree and a doctorate, both in comparative literature, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in 1973 and 1980, respectively. Throughout her studies, Dr. Levy developed her expertise in English, French and Russian literatures from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, later adding postcolonial and Balkan studies. Dr. Levy: The Professor Dr. Levy's professional journey has included various roles as an educator, first as a teaching assistant at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In the fall of 1980, she taught a course on 'From Tolstoy to Tolkien,' at Dominican College in New Orleans. She served as professor and later chair of the English Department at Xavier University of Louisiana from 1981 to 2002, where her leadership and dedication to excellence were evident. During this time, she guided the department and helped the university through numerous academic advancements and mentored both undergraduate and graduate students, many of whom have gone on to attain significant success in their fields and communities. In 2002, Dr. Levy left Xavier University to become chair of English at North Carolina A&T State University, where she taught until retiring in 2015. Here, too, she helped shape both the department and the institution, while continuing to work closely with students. Professional and Personal Success Dr. Levy takes great pride in having taught at two historically Black universities, as well as having participated in a number of specially funded grant programs, such as The Bard College National Summer Seminars in Writing for High School Students, and workshops in mentoring and course design sponsored by the NAACP and the United Negro College Fund. She also led several Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities summer programs for high school language arts teachers. Likewise, she deepened her expertise in Dostoevsky with a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar at Harvard. She credits her success to her passion for her field and a lot of good fortune. Since retiring from North Carolina A&T State University, Dr. Levy has held the title of professor emerita while continuing to write and teach. In 2020, she published 'Anna's Dance: A Balkan Odyssey,' a novel that reflects her deep engagement with Balkan history and literature. She is currently working on a second novel, reviewing mostly Balkan literature for 'World Literature Today,' and moderating self-designed literature courses for retired adults. In her free time, she enjoys walking, Balkan dance, and being in nature, as well as interacting with her children and seven grandchildren, all of whom live nearby. Looking to the future, she intends to keep writing, reading, and teaching about complex issues in order to better understand the human condition. About Marquis Who's Who®: Since 1899, when A. N. Marquis printed the First Edition of Who's Who in America®, Marquis Who's Who® has chronicled the lives of the most accomplished individuals and innovators from every significant field, including politics, business, medicine, law, education, art, religion and entertainment. Who's Who in America® remains an essential biographical source for thousands of researchers, journalists, librarians and executive search firms worldwide. The suite of Marquis® publications can be viewed at the official Marquis Who's Who® website, Contact: Marquis Who's Who Uniondale, NY (844) 394 - 6946 [email protected] SOURCE: Marquis Who's Who press release
Geek Tyrant
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- Geek Tyrant
THE PITT Season 2 Trailer: Robby Clocks in for a New Shift of Heart-Pounding Trauma on the 4th of July — GeekTyrant
HBO Max has dropped the first trailer for The Pitt Season 2, and it looks like the chaos at Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center is only ramping up. The new season officially arrives in January, bringing Noah Wyle back as Dr. Michael 'Robby' Robinavitch and Patrick Ball as Dr. Frank Langdon. The footage opens with Robby clocking in for another day in the ER, greeted by a nurse's dry jab: 'The prodigal son returns.' Dana (Katherine LaNasa), who spent much of last season contemplating whether to leave the job behind, gives him a look that says more than words. Season 2 sets its drama against a Fourth of July backdrop. It's also the first day back for Dr. Langdon, who returns from an inpatient rehab program after Robby forced him to confront his addiction in Season 1. The cast this season also includes Fiona Dourif, Taylor Dearden, Isa Briones, Gerran Howell, Shabana Azeez, and Sepideh Moafi. Beyond starring, Wyle is also stepping behind the camera to direct an episode. Speaking at the Televerse TV festival, he explained, 'I feel prepped, which is what you want to feel. This has been such an amazing experience for me, all the way down the line.' Wyle previously directed episodes of Leverage: Redemption , The Librarians , and Falling Skies . One of the most compelling aspects of The Pitt has been its ability to stay tethered to real world healthcare challenges, and Season 2 is doubling down on that authenticity. Wyle explained the process: 'Before we even start to write, we're conducting interviews with all sorts of people from every sector and vector of healthcare, and they tell us what they're up against. 'They tell us what they would love to see on TV, and they tell us what would really be counterproductive to what they're trying to do if we put it on TV. We dictate our storylines from there; it starts with people that are in the field and asking them to see what they're seeing and how they're reacting to it.' The showrunners are also contending with the unpredictability of real-world healthcare changes. Wyle added, 'It's a little bit more difficult to see 10 months in the future than it was last year, because events are changing so quickly on the ground right now, you don't really know what the world's gonna look like in 12 months, but there are worst-case scenario models.' Between Robby's reluctant heroics, Langdon's battle with redemption, and the unpredictable grind of the trauma ward , The Pitt Season 2 looks ready to deliver another sharp, relentless run of episodes.
Fast Company
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- Fast Company
How ESPN finally made the leap from cable TV to the app era
CEOs rarely talk about plans that are a half-decade or more away from reaching reality. Yet way back in 2015, Disney CEO Robert Iger confirmed the company would eventually offer ESPN as a direct-to-consumer service. It would be an epoch-shifting moment for a channel that has been a cornerstone of pay TV in its traditional form for decades, and Iger said it wouldn't occur until at least 2020. Ultimately, this retooling took a full decade—a period during which Iger retired and unretired. But the moment he said would come has arrived. Starting today, you can get full-blown ESPN in stand-alone streaming form, available on connected TVs, phones, tablets, and computers. It's the biggest inflection point for Disney's direct-to-consumer video strategy since the company launched Disney+ in 2019. 'We believe that people should be able to subscribe to ESPN in whatever way best suits them,' says Adam Smith, named chief product and technology officer for Disney Entertainment and ESPN a year ago after over 20 years at YouTube and Google. 'If they want to do it direct to consumer through us, if they want to buy it through a bundle, or if they want to just continue purchasing it through [a cable or satellite provider], that's all great.' What Disney is offering isn't just the same familiar ESPN programming delivered over the internet. Instead, the company has taken its 47,000 live sporting events a year, spread out across 12 channels, and built a distinctly digital experience around them. That experience spans apps for connected TVs, phones, computers, and TVs, sometimes intermingling them. It also flows into Disney+, where ESPN's motherlode of content could provide a competitive advantage over Netflix, HBO Max, and other streamers that offer only a dollop of athletics by comparison.
