The Chicago Humanities Festival’s Marilynn Thoma Artistic Director Jonathan Elmer has stepped down from his position as artistic director of the Chicago Humanities Festival and returned to Indiana University (IU) full-time.
Elmer was appointed to the artistic director position in February 2015. In late April 2017, Elmer was invited to return to IU full time and serve for a second term as the director of the College Arts and Humanities Institute. This fall, he’ll be teaching a doctoral seminar on the theories of adaptation and remediation, using the work of Edgar Allan Poe as a focus.
A national search for a new artistic director, led by Clark Hulse and the Chicago Humanities Festival’s board of directors, is underway.