Faculty News 2004-2005, Vol. 2
PUBLISHED
Asale Angel-Ajani’s article, "Out of Chaos: Afro-Colombian Peace Communities and the Realities of War," was recently published in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society. In addition, the Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly published her piece, "Expert Witness: Revisiting the Politics of Listening."
Daily Afflictions, a philosophical humor book that Andrew Boyd published with W. W. Norton, was recently translated into German. Boyd also recently collaborated with Stephen Duncombe on an article entitled “Manufacturing Dissent: What the Left Can Learn from Las Vegas,” which was published in a recent issue of The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest.
Jessica Brent's article, "Haunting Pictures, Missing Letters: Visual Displacement and Narrative Ellision in Villette," was published in December of 2004 in Novel (37.1/2).
Alejandro Cañeque’s book, The King’s Living Image: The Culture and Politics of Viceregal Power in Colonial Mexico, was published by Routledge in October of 2004.
Laura Ciolkowski has written the introduction to the new Barnes and Noble Classics edition of Charles Dickens' American Notes for General Circulation. Since the last issue of Gallatin Today, her fiction and non-fiction reviews have appeared in The New York Times, TheWashington Post and TheNew Yorker.
Gene Cittadino’s paper, "Borderline Science: Expert Testimony and the Red River Boundary Dispute," was recently published in Isis, the journal of the History of Science Society.
Lisa Goldfarb’s article, "'Pure Rhetoric of a Language Without Words': Stevens' Musical Creation of Belief in 'Credences of Summer,'" appeared in the Journal of Modern Literature (Indiana University Press, Volume 27, Number 1/2), a special double issue devoted to Modern Poets.
Judith Greenberg wrote an essay, "Surviving Charlotte Delbo's Auschwitz and After: How to Arrive and Depart," which was published in the volume Teaching Representations of the Holocaust (Ed. Marianne Hirsch and Irene Kacandes, New York: MLA).
Paul Jurmo has co-written Helping Job-Seekers Who Have Limited Basic Skills, a guidebook for workforce development specialists on how to serve unemployed and under-employed people who lack literacy and English-language skills. Visit the web site of the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University for more information: www.heldrich.rutgers.edu. Jurmo also wrote an article entitled “Workplace Literacy Education," which appeared in the November 2004 issue of Focus on Basics, a journal produced by the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy at Harvard University.
Julie Malnig is currently the Editorial Board Chair of The Congress on Research in Dance (CORD). Her paper, "Let's Go to the Hop: 'Community Values' in Televised Teen Dance Programs of the 1950s and 1960s," was recently accepted for presentation at the March 2005 CORD conference. She also recently received a contract with The University of Illinois Press to edit a scholarly anthology, The Social and Popular Dance Reader, which will trace the history and development of North and South American social and popular dance forms from the 19th century to the present.
Bella Mirabella recently had an article published in the Minnesota Review. The article, entitled "Tough Times in Greenwich Village,” is about September 11 th and the experience of teaching in New York during the first semester after the terrorist attacks.
David Moore guest-edited an issue of The Journal of Workplace Learning titled "The Workplace as a Learning Environment," and wrote an article, "Curriculum at Work: An Educational Perspective on the Workplace as a Learning Environment," for that same issue.
Sara Murphy wrote a chapter entitled "Traumatizing Feminism: Prevention Discourse and The Subject of Sexual Violence," which appears in Theorizing Trauma, Traumatizing Theory, a collection of essays that explore the traumatic confluence of historical events and theoretical perspectives upon Western intellectual history and institutions, edited by Karyn Ball. Murphy also wrote a review of Susan Brison's Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of the Self, which recently appeared in Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society.
Stacy Pies wrote an article appearing in French Forum (Volume 29, Number 2, Spring 2004) entitled “Un fil visible: Poetry and Reportage in Stéphane Mallarmé's ‘Un Spectacle interrompu.’”
Laura Slatkin’s article on "Gender and Homeric Epic," which she penned with co-author Nancy Felson, was recently published in The Cambridge Companion to Homer.
SEEN & HEARD
Asale Angel-Ajani read from her creative non-fiction piece on the Colombian War in an interview on "International Change Makers" for Making Contact, a weekly international radio program, in November of 2004. A month later, Angel-Ajani delivered a lecture titled “The Anatomy of Deception: The Global Traffic in African Women” as part of the Conversations Series at Columbia University’s Institute for Research in African-American Studies.
Elliott Barowitz’s work has appeared in four recent exhibits: "Multiple Views: The Series in Contemporary Arts," in Scarsdale, NY; "Elder Arts Celebration," in Napa, CA; "YW: Why War? Why Dubya?" in New York City; and "Affordable Art," in New York City. He has also previewed a first cut of a documentary that he has been working on for more than 30 years, entitled Reminiscences, Then and Now: Conversations with 1954 Classmates of PassaicHigh School.
In October of 2004, Madeleine Beckman was a guest poet at the Newburyport Art Association in Newburyport, MA, where she read from her recent work. That same month, Beckman was a panelist at the International Conference on the Short Story in Madrid, Spain.
Site artist Martha Bowers directed a site-specific performance at Brooklyn's historic Green-Wood Cemetery in October of 2004 as part of openhouse newyork 's annual celebration of local architecture. Her organization, Dance Theatre Etcetera, recently received a major grant from the American Music Center to expand this project for next year’s openhouse event.
In the fall semester, Gallatin sponsored a teach-in on the 2004 presidential election that was organized and moderated by Angela Dillard. Professors George Shulman and Kim Philips-Fein both spoke at the event, along with colleagues from NYU’s College of Arts and Science. Dillard also chaired a panel on the African-American writer Ann Petry at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association in Atlanta , GA in November of 2004.
In November of 2004, Michael Dinwiddie taught a two-session workshop entitled “Dramatizing History" for the Black Theatre Program at Wayne State University.
Emily Fragos has been busy delivering readings from her new book of poetry, Little Savage; she has recently appeared at the New York Public Library, the Bowery Poetry Club, Columbia University and the Kouros Art Gallery.
Nathaniel Frank appeared on a panel discussing same-sex marriage at New School University in June of 2004.
In December of 2004 Bella Mirabella delivered a paper entitled "Quacking Delilahs: Women, Performance, and Medicine in Renaissance England and Italy” at the Medicine Across Cultures: 600-1600 conference at Barnard College.
David Moore recently spoke about the process of experiential learning in higher education at several colleges: for the Community-Based Learning Initiative at Princeton University, for a course on Workplace Learning taught at NYU’s Steinhardt School of Education by Professor Bridget O'Connor, and for the Queens College Internship Program.
Chris Packard contributed his paper, "Teaching the 'T' in LGBTQ Studies: Global and Interdisciplinary Perspectives," at the December 2004 Modern Language Association conference in Philadelphia. The paper grew out of his experiences teaching gender studies courses at Gallatin.
Robin Powell recently guided two seminars for NYU’s Human Resources Work-Life Services program. The seminars on “Stress and Your Back” were enthusiastically received by NYU staff members.
Audrey Raden delivered a paper, "'I Engage Myself to You Forever': This Rise and Fall of Merton Densher's Predatory Sexuality," for the Henry James panel at the Midwest Modern Language Association conference in November of 2004.
Barnaby Ruhe presented abstract art and “portrait action” in New York City in December of 2004. Ruhe painted life-sized portraits and abstract murals during the performance/exhibition at Crobar. Visit www.portraitmarathon.com to learn more.
A concert of Leslie Satin’s dances was presented by the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe, NM in August of 2004. Satin also taught a week-long choreography workshop, also sponsored by the Center for Contemporary Arts, for local and visiting dancers. Then in October, Satin performed in the second annual Talk Talk Walk Walk, an event at New York City’s Bowery Poetry Club that brings together dancers and poets.
In June of 2004 George Shulman spoke at the annual Cultural Studies conference at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Then in the fall semester Shulman, along with political science professor Lawrence Mead, spoke at a session discussing the 2004 presidential election with foreign students and students from ethnically diverse backgrounds. The session was sponsored by NYU’s Office for African American, Latino, and Asian American Student Services.
Steven Smith’s musical adaptation of the film The Independent, a play for which Smith wrote the book and lyrics and Steven Schoenberg wrote the music, had its first full musical reading at Collaborative Arts Project 21 in New York City in October of 2004. Alix Korey and Daisy Eagan led the cast.
In September of 2004 Ella Turenne delivered a paper at a panel entitled “Art, Revolution and Black Heroes: Haiti” at Wagner College. She then offered a lecture and workshop at Skidmore College for the Haiti at 200: Haiti in Words Writers Series in October. Turenne also gave several spoken-word performances throughout the fall: on The Black Family Channel’s Spoken, hosted by Jessica Care Moore; at New York City's Joe’s Pub, to benefit Haitian flood victims; and at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center for Planet Hip Hop 2.
KUDOS
Eric Brettschneider was recently appointed by Chief Administrative Judge the Honorable Jonathan Lippman to the Advisory Committee on Interpreters in the Courts. Brettschneider was also recently awarded the Outstanding Teaching Award from New York University’s College of Arts and Science.
Emily Fragos was included in the October 2004 edition of Who's Who in America.
In October of 2004, at the annual meeting of the National Society for Experiential Education in Miami David Moore was named Researcher of the Year based on his recent co-authored book, Working Knowledge: Work-Based Learning and Education Reform, and earlier contributions to the field. Moore also recently received grants from both the NYU Research Challenge Fund and Gallatin’s Stephen Golden Faculty Enrichment Fund to do a pilot version of a study on teaching methods in experiential learning programs. Moore is examining the ways in which university educators guide and enhance the learning that students do when they are involved in internships, cooperative education and service-learning projects.