Faculty News 2004-2005, Vol. 1

 

PUBLISHED

Asale Angel-Ajani’s article, "Managing Dangerous Subjects," recently appeared in Social Justice.

Jessica Brent's article, "Beyond the Gaze: Visual Fascination and the Feminine Image in Silent Hitchcock," appears in the spring 2004 issue of Camera Obscura.

Bill Caspary had two articles published in Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society (Summer, 2003, Vol. XXXIX, No. 3.): "One and the Same Method: John Dewey's Thesis of Unity of Method in Ethics and Science" and "Ethical Theory and Social Change: The Evolution of John Dewey's Ethics, 1908-1932."

Angela Dillard’s article, "How the New Black Elite Peddles Conservatism," appeared in the spring 2004 volume of New Labor Forum. It can also be accessed online at http://qcpages.qc.edu/newlaborforum/.

Stephen Duncombe’s article, "The Poverty of Theory: Anti-intellectualism and the Value of Action," appeared in Radical Society (Vol. 30), and his "Carnivals Against Capitalism: Culture and Politics in Contemporary Activism" was published in Pugwash Mexico Magazine (Vol. 1, #1) in both English and Spanish. View it online at www.pugwashmexico.org.

Little Savage, Emily Fragos’ first collection of poems, was published by Grove Press in March of 2004.

Nathaniel Frank recently published two op-eds in The New York Times: “Joining the Debate but Missing the Point” (February 29, 2004) and “Why We Need Gays in the Military” (November 28, 2003). He also continued his frequent contributions to The Philadelphia Inquirer, most recently publishing a political commentary on President Bush entitled, “A Leader Who is Allergic to Evidence" (March 9, 2004).

Alvin Ailey Dance Moves!, a book by Lise Friedman, was published by Steward Tabori & Chang in 2003.

Lisa Goldfarb’s article, "'The Figure Concealed': Valéryan Echoes in Stevens' Ideas of Music," appears in the spring 2004 issue of The Wallace Stevens Journal (Volume 28, No. 1).

Amanda Hickman’s case study, "Linux on the Desktop," appeared in Choosing and Using Open Source: A Primer for Nonprofits (Nonprofit Open Source Initiative, 2004).

Antonio Lauria-Perricelli’s “‘Freedom’, ‘Public Culture’, and History in Jamaica: the Right Issue, the Wrong Analysis” was published in IDENTITIES: Global Studies in Culture and Power (11 (1): 93-97, 2004).

Patricia Lennox’s theater reviews appear in the spring edition of the Shakespeare Bulletin, including a review of the New York Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park production of Henry V. Her book reviews also appear in the Renaissance Quarterly.

Faculty member and Associate Dean Ali Mirsepassi has had several articles published this academic year: “Ale Ahmad and Return to the Roots” (Aftab, October 2003), “The Predicament of Iranian Intellectuals” (Aftab, February 2004), and in Persian “Edward Said: A Cosmopolitan Intellectual” (Shargh, November 2003). In addition, a Persian translation of his book, Intellectual Discourse and the Politics of Modernization: Negotiating Modernity in Iran, was recently published in Tehran by Tarhe-No Press.

Sara Murphy’s "Mourning and Metonymy: Bearing Witness between Women and Generations" is published in the journal Hypatia. Also, her contributions to the Encyclopedia of Rape (Garland, 2004) include articles on rape memoirs, Freudian theory and rape, and Helene Deutsch.

George Shulman’s "Narrating Clinton's Impeachment: Race, the Right, and Allegories of the Sixties" was published by Duke University Press in Public Scandals, a collection of essays.

SEEN & HEARD

Asale Angel-Ajani spoke on "War, Empire and the Transnational Prison Industrial Complex” at the CUNY Graduate Center’s Department of Anthropology, and on "Diasporic Conditions: African Women, Globalization and Trafficking” at SUNY Purchase’s Department of Anthropology. She also presented a paper at the African Literature Association’s 30th Anniversary Conference in April of 2004.

In the fall of 2003, Ann Axtmann organized a panel titled "An Experiment in Contemporary Dance/La Danza Poblana: Taller Coreografico 1976-2003" for The International Colloquium for Vernacular, Hispanic, Historical, American and Folklore Studies, in conjunction with The North-South Colloquium, in Mexico. Her own paper, “A Transcultural Experience,” was based on her almost 20 years of work in Mexican universities, and much of the material presented on the panel will be included in a forthcoming book, Hacia Una Historia de la Danza Moderna en Puebla.

In March of 2004, Andrew Boyd spoke on "The Internet and Mobilization – is a Virtual Movement Possible?" at the Socialist Scholars Conference.

In Mexico City this past fall, Alejandro Cañeque spoke at a symposium on the representations of power in Spanish-speaking societies. Then, in January of 2004 Cañeque attended the annual meeting of the American Historical Association to deliver a paper titled "The Power of Ritual and the Inadequacy of Authority in Colonial Mexico."

NYU’s Association of Black Faculty, Administration and Staff (ABFAS) hosted a Black History Month panel discussion entitled “Beyond Black and White at NYU: Racial Strategies in the 21st Century,” in which Angela Dillard spoke on her work on African-American and Latino conservatives.

Stephen Duncombe discussed "Bohemia in the Suburbs" at Long Island Free Space, and he moderated "Another World is Possible! But How? A Socialist-Anarchist Conversation" at the Brecht Forum in New York.

Lisa Goldfarb presented a paper entitled “Philosophical Parallels: Paul Valéry and Wallace Stevens” and chaired the session on "Stevens and Philosophy" at a conference on the poet Wallace Stevens at the University of Connecticut.

Judith Greenberg recently spoke about Marguerite Duras in a panel entitled "Trauma, Memory and Healing in European Literature and Film" on the MLA radio program What's the Word?.

In the spring of 2004, Amanda Hickman: co-facilitated a workshop on "Using Technology to Increase your Organization's Capacity” at the New York Foundation; led a workshop at "Penguin Day" on how nonprofit technology assistance providers can build stronger relationships with open source software developers; delivered "Making Sense of Your Options: Appropriate Use of Technology in Empowerment and Engagement Work” at the Grassroots Use of Technology conference at M.I.T.; and led a workshop entitled "Using Your Computer for Garden Outreach" for New York City community gardeners at Greenthumb's annual Grow Together conference in March.

Antonio Lauria-Perricelli gave a lecture entitled "El uso y el abuso de Gramsci en la Antropología Estadounidense" ("The Use and Abuse of Gramsci in U.S. Anthropology") at the Juan Marinello Center for the Study and Development of Cuban Culture in Cuba in January of 2004.

At the Renaissance Society of America's annual meeting in April of 2004, Patricia Lennox chaired the "Perspectives on Elizabethan and Jacobean Theatre" panel and organized the "Women's Discourses: Science, Theology, Letters" panel.

Faculty member and Associate Dean Ali Mirsepassi delivered a keynote address entitled “Achieving our Universities” at a conference at SUNY Fredonia in September of 2003, gave the keynote address and presented on “Subverting Orientalism: Two Centuries after the Persian Letters” at NYU’s Kevorkian Center for Middle Eastern Studies in October of 2003, and also spoke on "Culture and Islamic Democracy" at SUNY Potsdam in April of 2004.

As an Osher Fellow, Rebecca Ross recently enjoyed a short residency at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, California. During her time there she gave a lecture about her work entitled "Locating the Local," and consulted with members of the Exploratorium staff.

George Shulman spoke at the Debating Moral Education conference held at Duke University in March of 2004.

Carol Zoreff was a featured panelist at The Bellevue Literary Review’s “Humanities, Arts, and Healing: A Panel Discussion” in February of 2004. The event was a conversation with writers and thinkers about how poetry and prose relate to health and healing.

KUDOS

Eric Brettschneider was recently named to the Board of the Viola W. Bernard Foundation.

The Billionaires for Bush website, http://billionairesforbush.com, which is a national campaign that Andrew Boyd directs, won "Click-of-the-Day" in December 2003. A month later Boyd’s “Leave No Billionaire Behind,” a political TV spot that he produced and co-wrote, won a coveted finalist spot in MoveOn.org's Bush-In-30-Seconds ad contest (http://billionairesforbush.com/tvads.php).

Neil Chambers is the executive director of the environmental design and advocacy group Green Ground Zero. Voices of Lower Manhattan recently profiled his work in an article entitled “Greening Ground Zero”: http://www.volumenyc.org/article_detail/index.asp?id=225&section=build.

In March of 2004 Nathaniel Frank appeared on a Wisconsin NPR station to discuss the issue of same-sex marriage.

Gallatin professors Sharon Friedman and Laura Slatkin, along with Tisch School of the Arts colleague Carol Martin, received a grant from NYU's Humanities Council for a series of faculty workshops on "An Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Examination of Twentieth Century Adaptations and Revisions of Classic Texts."

Scott Hightower’s third manuscript, Part of the Bargain, won the 2004 Hayden Carruth Award and will be published next year by Copper Canyon Press.

In April of 2004, Bella Mirabella presented at the Renaissance Society of America's annual conference. Her paper, entitled "Quacking Delilahs: Female Mountebanks in Early Modern England and Italy," was about mountebank performances in the Renaissance, concentrating on female performers.

Yale Strom’s newest directorial accomplishment, a film called Klezmer On Fish Street, opened in theatres across the country this spring. Distributed by Castle Hill Films, the movie deals with the recent revival of Jewish culture among gentiles in Poland.

Dean e. Frances White has recently launched her web site. To learn more about her and her work, visit www.deanwhite.org.