University of Chicago

PROMPT (2020):Joan of Arkansas. Queen Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Babe Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Mash up a historical figure with a new time period, environment, location, or occupation, and tell us their story. “And the 2012 Grammy for Best Producer goes to … Nikola Tesla Tchaikovsky, for his work on m.A.A.d city!” LL Cool J announces. It’s not Tchaikovsky’s first Grammy; he won one in 2011 for the production of Adele’s Rolling in the Deep. Nor will it be his last. He’ll go on to win another in 2015 for Justin Bieber’s What do you mean? Nikola’s success can be linked to his invention of, and later…