Faculty News 2005-2006, Vol. 1
PUBLISHED
Lenora Champagne’s script of and commentary on “Mother's Little Helper,” a performance piece, was published in Performance Research (Volume 9, no. 3).
Stephen Duncombe’s essay, “Resistance,” was included in The New Dictionary of the History of Ideas (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2005) and his article, “Think Different: Lessons for the Left from Madison Avenue,” was published in Journal of Aesthetics and Protest (Volume 1, no. 4, 2005). Selections from his book, Notes from Underground, were recently reprinted in The Subcultures Reader (Second edition, Routledge, 2005) and Cultural Studies: From Theory to Action (Blackwell, 2004).
Emily Fragos selected and edited an anthology of poems from around the world, entitled The Great Cat: Poems About Cats (Random House, May 2005). In addition, her own poems appeared in the August 2005 issue of American Poetry Review, and an interview she had with Suzanne Farrell appeared in the June/July 2005 issue of Pointe Magazine.
Lisa Goldfarb’s essay, “Philosophical Parallels: Wallace Stevens and Paul Valéry” was published in the Spring 2005 issue of The Wallace Stevens Journal.
Emily Jenkins had two books published in March of 2005: That New Animal, a picture book illustrated by Pierre Pratt, and The Boyfriend List, a novel for teenagers that Jenkins published under the pseudonym E. Lockhart.
Bella Mirabella’s scholarly review of Paola Pugliatti's Beggary and Theatre in Early Modern England appears in Volume 14 of The New England Theatre Journal.
Ali Mirsepassi is guest editor of a special issue of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East (Volume 26, no.1), entitled “Beyond the Boundaries of the Old Geographies: Natives, Citizens, Exiles, and Cosmopolitans.” The journal is based at the University of Toronto and is published by Duke University Press. Mirsepassi’s book, Intellectual Discourses and Politics of Modernization ( Cambridge University, 2000) was published in Persian by Tarhe-No Press in the summer of 2005. He also recently published two articles: “New Geographies of Modernity,” in Iranian Journal of Social Sciences (Spring 2005); and “Social Contexts of Political Islam,” in the ASA Newsletter (Spring 2005).
Sara Murphy’s article, “Not a Story to Pass on: Sexual Violence and Ethical Act in Toni Morrison's Beloved,” appeared in a special issue of Studies in Law, Politics and Society (Toward a Critique of Guilt, 36), and her essay, “The Body of Lucretia: Rape, Representation and Sovereign Power” was published in Feminists Contest Politics and Philosophy (Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2005).
Meera Nair recently published an article in the “In Their Own Words” section of NYFA Current, the New York Foundation for the Arts’ online journal. In the piece, Nair reflects on a person who she is in the process of developing into a character for her upcoming novel.
Stacy Pies’s article, “A Threshold of Openness: Allen Grossman's ‘Eurydice, or the Third Reich of Dreams,’” appeared in both Poetry's Poet: Essays on the Poetry, Pedagogy, and Poetics of Allen Grossman (National Poetry Foundation, 2004) and Sagetrieb (Volume 19, no. 1 & 2).
Laura Slatkin recently published a paper on Homer's Odyssey in Blackwell's Companion to Ancient Epic.
Alycia Smith-Howard’s book, Critical Companion to Tennessee Williams: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work, which she co-authored with Greta Heintzelman, was published by Facts on File, Inc. in April 2005.
Susan Weisser published an article, “Believing in Yourself as Classroom Culture” in Academe ( Volume 91, no. 1). Weisser also recently moderated two online book clubs for Barnes and Noble, and edited and penned the Introduction and Notes for a new edition of D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Barnes and Noble, April 2005).
SEEN & HEARD
Lenora Champagne presented a paper on “Feminist Adaptations of Classic Texts” at the Classics Now: Motivations and Strategies for Adapting the Classics for the Contemporary Stage panel at NYU in the spring 2005 semester.
Nina Cornyetz organized and chaired a panel, “Perversion and Modern Japan: Experiments in Psychoanalysis,” for the Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting in Chicago in March of 2005, where she also presented a paper entitled “Inverting Oedipus: Incest, Suicide and Fratricide in Nakagami Kenji.”
At the Global Left Forum in New York in the spring of 2005, Stephen Duncombe was an invited participant on the “Anarchism” panel.
Gregory Erickson presented the paper “Essential Contradiction: Perceptions of the Spiritual and the Absolute in John Coltrane’s ‘Love Supreme’ and Iron Maiden’s ‘Number of the Beast’” at the National Popular Culture Association Conference in San Diego in March of 2005. Erickson was also a featured soloist and clinician with the Goliard Ensemble, a chamber music group, on their Southeastern Festival tour in February of 2005.
Sharon Friedman presented a paper on “Honor or Virtue Unrewarded: Susan Glaspell’s Parodic Challenge to Ideologies of Sexual Conduct and the Discourse of Intimacy in the Early Decades of the Twentieth Century,” at the Writing, Teaching, Performing America Conference, sponsored by the University of Kansas and American Theatre and Drama Society, in March of 2005. She was also a panelist on the roundtable, “Susan Glaspell in Context,” at the Eugene O’Neill Society’s 6th International Conference in Provincetown in June of 2005. In addition, Professor Friedman co-organized two NYU events in the spring 2005 semester: “Classics Now!”, a conference sponsored by the Humanities Council at which she presented a paper on “Revisioning Myth, Classical Drama and the Nineteenth Century American Novel,” and a lecture by Professor Linda Ben-Zvi of Tel Aviv University entitled “Magic on MacDougal Street: Susan Glaspell and the Provincetown Players.”
In February of 2005, Lisa Goldfarb presented a paper entitled “Musical Analogies: Wallace Stevens and Paul Valéry” at the Conference on Twentieth Century Literature and Culture at the University of Louisville.
Bella Mirabella delivered a paper entitled “A Wording Poet: Othello among the Mountebanks” at the Shakespeare Association of America conference in March of 2005, and then delivered another entitled “Dance and Power in the Courty Realm in Early Modern England” at the Renaissance Association Meeting in Cambridge, England in April.
Ali Mirsepassi presented two papers in the spring of 2005: a paper on “Religious Intellectuals and Secularism,” which he presented at Harvard Academy in April; and one on “Secular Reforms and Secret Institutions,” which he delivered at Yale University in February.
David Moore presented a paper entitled “Workplace Learning and the Micropolitics of Knowledge” at the Second International Expert Meeting on the Learning Potential of the Workplace, held in March of 2005 at the University of Twente in Enschede, Holland. He then delivered “Teaching from Practice: Pedagogies in Experience-based Programs” at the Third International Conference on Practice-Oriented Education held at Northeastern University in June.
Stacy Pies moderated a panel on “Postmodernism in American Fiction and Film” in July of 2005 as part of the Fulbright Institute on American Civilization. The Institute is sponsored by NYU’s Multinational Institute of American Studies at the Steinhardt School of Education.
In May of 2005 Audrey Raden was a participant in the Thoreau Society Teaching Roundtable at the American Literature Association conference in Boston. The topic of this year’s roundtable was “Teaching the Natural History Essays.”
Leslie Satin and dancers performed “Under Cover” at the Construction Company in New York in April of 2005.
In the spring 2005 semester, Laura Slatkin: presented a paper entitled “Paradigm, Sequence, Ambiguity: the Case of Helen in Myth Collections” at the American Philological Association’s annual meeting; moderated a discussion, “On Translation,” between the poet Anne Carson and Alexander Nehamas (of Princeton University) at Columbia University; delivered a lecture on Homer’s Odyssey at Columbia University; and served as moderator at the “Classics Now!” conference co-organized by Sharon Friedman.
Judith Sloan was a presenter on “Arts and Social Justice” at the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities in January of 2005. Sloan also performed in Riverside, California as part of the “Voices in America” series at Riverside City College. Additionally, she and her partner Warren Lehrer—through their organization, EarSay, Inc.—brought their critically acclaimed Crossing the BLVD exhibition of photographs and sound stations documenting the lives of new immigrants and refugees to St. John’s University, LaGuardia Community College, the Queens Museum of Art, and Rochester, New York in the spring of 2005.
Alycia Smith-Howard directed a production of Jean Genet’s The Maids at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York in February of 2005. The production developed out of Smith-Howard’s interdisciplinary seminar, Maid for Convenience: Female Domestic Service in Fact, Fiction and Performance.
KUDOS
While on leave during the spring semester of 2005, Angela Dillard was a visiting professor of history at the University of Michigan as a Public Goods Fellow. Dillard spent the semester working on her book, Faith in the City: Preaching Social Change in Detroit, and teaching a course using the archival holdings at the University of Michigan.
Michael Dinwiddie’s play, Hannibal of the Alps, received its world premiere at the Detroit Repertory Theatre in June of 2005. The play is based on the life of Langston Hughes during the Roaring Twenties, when Hughes spent time living throughout Europe. Dinwiddie received a travel grant from Gallatin’s Stephen Golden Faculty Enrichment Fund to complete research for the play, which included visiting a number of European cities. An article on the production appeared in the May-June 2005 issue of American Theatre Magazine.
Stephen Duncombe has been named an associated faculty with the Department of Culture and Communications at NYU.
Judith Sloan won a Merit Award from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters for her piece, “Cargo Flight to Somewhere,” which aired on National Public Radio’s program, “Day to Day,” through Hearing Voices. She also received two individual artists’ grants for theatre and audio art from the New York State Council on the Arts. Her organization, EarSay, Inc., received grants for her “Cross-Cultural Dialogue Through the Arts” project, which will mentor and train immigrant teenagers and youth in theatre arts and book arts, and create paid internship positions for college students from the Sparkplug Foundation, the William T. Grant Foundation, the Center for Arts Education, and the Laura B. Vogler Foundation.