Faculty News 2005-2006, Vol. 2
Maria-Luisa Achino-Loeb’s book, Silence: The Currency of Power , was published by Berghahn Books in December 2005. Achino-Loeb also currently serves as co-chair of the Anthropology Section's advisory council at the New York Academy of Sciences.
Stephen Duncombe has coauthored The Bobbed Haired Bandit: A True Story of Crime and Celebrity in 1920s New York (NYU Press, 2006) with Andrew Mattson. The book is an accounting of how a Brooklyn woman robbed a string of grocery stores and launched the largest manhunt in New York City's history. Duncombe and Mattson culled newspaper reports, court records, interviews, and even popular songs and jokes to capture what William Randolph Hearst's newspaper called "the strangest, weirdest, most dramatic, most tragic human interest story ever told."
Emily Fragos penned the Playbill notes and libretto for George Balanchine's ballet of Don Quixote, which was recently staged at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. by The Suzanne Farrell Ballet. In 2005 her poems appeared in The New Yorker and the American Poetry Review.
Sharon Friedman has published an article, "Feminist Revisions of Classic Texts on the American Stage," in Codifying the National Self: Spectators, Actors, and The American Dramatic Text, eds. Barbara Ozieblo and Lola Narbona, P.I.E., Peter Lang, Brussels, Fall 2005.
Focal Press recently published Cathrine Kellison’s textbook, Producing for TV and Video: A Real-World Approach , whichincludes a chapter devoted entirely to interviews with prominent television producers and professionals and also features interviews and quotes from NYU professors from Gallatin , the Tisch School of the Arts, and the Stern School of Business.
Ali Mirsepassi published an article, "Blind Faith on Modern State," in Shargh (Tehran) in November of 2006, and also recently penned the preface to Arab-Muslim Views of the West from the Ninth Century to the Twentieth: The Neglected Bridge Builders, by Christopher Nouryeh (Edwin Mellen Press, January 2006). His article, "Western Contribution to Iranian Anti-Western Discourse," will appear in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, 26.3, Spring 2006.
David Moore, with coauthors Thomas R. Bailey and Katherine L. Hughes, has published an article, “The Continuing Contribution of Work-Based Education,” in Vocational Education and School-to-Work: The Emerging Synthesis, William Stull, ed., Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005.
In the fall of 2005 Kim Phillips-Fein published a review essay on Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle's book, Ruling America: A History of Wealth and Power in a Democracy, in Reviews in American History.
An excerpt from Judith Sloan’s Crossing the BLVD: Strangers, Neighbors, Aliens in a New America, which she coauthored with Warren Lehrer, was included in W.W. Norton's Introduction to Sociology, Fifth Edition, in 2005.
Ella Turenne had an essay published in Letters from Young Activists: Today’s Rebels Speak Out (Nation Books, 2005). Turenne’s letter is included in a section entitled “Past: Letters to Previous Generations, Letters to our Parents.”
In the fall of 2005,Sinan Antoon presented a paper, “Debris and Diaspora: Iraqi Culture Now,” at a symposium on Contemporary Art and Culture in Iraq at the University of North Texas. He presented a second paper, “In the Vocative Case: The Poetry of Saadi Youssef,” at the Middle East Studies Association of North America’s annual conference in Washington, D.C. Antoon also appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered to discuss the poetics and politics of the Iraqi Constitution.
Martha Bowers directed and produced Angels and Accordions, a site-specific performance/walking tour of Brooklyn's historic Green-Wood Cemetery as part of the 2005 annual celebration of New York City architecture organized by openhouse newyork.
Lenora Champagne , whose translation of Bernard-Marie Koltes' play, In the Solitude of Cotton Fields, recently premiered in New York and toured in Eastern Europe , was on the "Koltes Unplugged" panel sponsored by the Translation Think Tank and Act French at the Martin E. Segal Theatre at the CUNY Graduate Center in November of 2005. Later that same month her new play, TRACES/fades, was shown at NYC’s HERE Arts Center , where Champagne is currently a resident artist.
In the fall of 2005,Gene Cittadino was a panelist in a post-performance forum for the New York debut of Einstein's Gift, a new play about the life, work, and ethical dilemmas of the German Nobel Prize-winning chemist Fritz Haber, produced by the Epic Theater Center. Students from Cittadino’s first-year Science and Society seminar attended the performance.
Four members of the Gallatin faculty attended the fall conference of the Consortium for Innovative Environments in Learning (CIEL), an association of progressive and alternative colleges and universities. The theme of the conference, held at Daemen College in Buffalo, was "Teaching for Social Justice and Responsibility." Angela Dillard delivered a speech, "Teaching Ideology in Non-traditional Schools," as part of a panel on classroom pedagogies. René Francisco Poitevin presented a course showcase on "Mapping for Social Change," his class in Gallatin’s Community Learning Initiative. David Moorespoke on "Experiential Learning for Social Critique" in a session on out-of-classroom learning practices, and Bradley Lewis offered some thoughts on "'Professionalism' in Educating for the Professions."
Emily Fragos delivered a lecture on ekphrastic poetry at Columbia University in the fall of 2005.
Sharon Friedman organized a post-performance panel at the Metropolitan Playhouse preview production of Susan Glaspell's 1921 play, Inheritors, in November of 2005.
Lisa Goldfarb gave papers at two invitational conferences in 2005. She delivered "'Sur la corde de la voix': Music and the Vocal Poetics of Wallace Stevens and Paul Valéry" at 50 Years On: Wallace Stevens in Europe, which took place at the Rothermere Institute at the University of Oxford ( England). She then presented "'Un Feu Distinct': Philosophy and Music in the Poetics of Paul Valéry" at Poetry, Philosophy, and the Fascination of Form, which occurred at the University of Hartford. Publication of both essays is in progress.
Lanny Harrison presented the first half of a new one-woman show, ISBA, at The Shady Corners Festival in Milford, NY, in September of 2005. Pooh Kaye curated the festival, which included performing artists such as Kathy Rose, Yoshika Chuma, and Sally Silvers.
Scott Hightower was a featured reader in the Texas Book Festival in Austin in October of 2005. Hightower is the author of Part of the Bargain, which won the 2004 Copper Canyon Hayden Carruth Award.
Paul Jurmo copresented with Gallatin senior Nikki D'Errico (BA ’06) at the Student Coalition for Action in Literacy Education (SCALE) national conference in North Carolina in the fall of 2005. The pair spoke about the Gallatin Literacy in Action service-learning course, which Jurmo teaches and which served as a springboard for several adult literacy-related projects for D'Errico.
Patricia Lennox delivered a paper at SHINE 2005: Shakespeare in Europe: History and Memory, a conference in Cracow, Poland. She also attended the December 2005 Modern Language Association Conference as an elected delegate.
Patrick McCreery delivered a paper entitled "Children of the 'Gay Imaginary': The Politics of Childhood in Debates Over Gay Marriage" at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association, held in November of 2005 in Washington, D.C.
At the 2005 annual meetings of the National Society for Experiential Education in Philadelphia, David Moore led a workshop called "Connecting Academic and Practical Learning: The discourses of experience." Based on Moore's ongoing research about the way school-based educators help student interns think about and learn from their field-based experiences, the workshop explored pedagogical challenges and some strategies for overcoming them. A week earlier, Moore gave a talk to the faculty at Williams College on "The Pedagogy of Experience," describing ways of thinking about how learning happens in work and community settings.
Kim Phillips-Fein presented a paper entitled "Anti-Unionism and Free Market Ideology in the Postwar Era" at the November 2005 meeting of the Social Science History Association in Portland, OR.
In December of 2005 Audrey Raden delivered a paper entitled “‘As Long as She Cracks She Holds’: The Text of Thoreau's Death” as part of a panel on "Writing Thoreau's Life: Circulating Myth and Memory" at the Modern Language Association’s annual conference in Washington, D.C.
Barnaby Ruhe is the ritual coach for a new Harvey Keitel film, A Crime, currently in production. Ruhe, a six-time world boomerang champion, is working with Keitel on the film’s boomerang and ritual incantations. He is also currently coaching the United States Boomerang Team, which is going to the World Cup in Japan in July 2006.
Judith Sloan and her partner Warren Lehrer were the keynote presenters at the National Oral History Association Conference in November of 2005 in Providence, RI. Sloan also hosted a panel at the 2005 Oral History Association Conference that featured three of her former Gallatin students: Ekwa Msangi (MA ’04), Katie Miller (MA ’03) and King Fung (MA ’05), and had a documentary, Tongues Twisting, aired on NPR’s All Things Considered in the winter of 2005.
Ella Turenne was on an author’s panel at the Haitian Studies Association’s annual conference at the University of Massachusetts – Boston in October of 2005.
Susan Weisser delivered the keynote address, "Charlotte Brontë and the Meaning of Romance," to the Brontë Society, New York, at the annual meeting in the winter of 2005.
Sinan Antoon was recently elected to join the editorial committee of Middle East Report. His six-year term with the journal began in January of 2006.
Eric Brettschneider is the recipient of the Harvard Law School Wasserstein Fellowship for the 2005-2006 academic year. As a Wasserstein Fellow he encourages students at Harvard Law to enter the public service field.
In September of 2005, Paul Jurmo was appointed Dean of Economic Development and Continuing Education at Union County College in Elizabeth, NJ. He heads the non-credit division, which provides adult basic education, workplace training, and continuing education courses.
The Musee Picasso, Paris has acquired, on permanent loan, 14 images of Pablo Picasso and family taken by Bert Katz. The museum’s acquisition marked the first time these photographs were made available to the public.
Bradley Lewis was appointed as an NYU Faculty Fellow-in-Residence in the 2005-2006 academic year. The program is part of a continuing effort by the Office of the Provost, through the Division of Student Affairs, to foster a greater sense of community and to link the residential experience with the academic life of the University as well as the city. Lewis, who teaches cultural studies of medicine, science, and technology, is living at the Broome Street residence hall.
Laura Slatkin’s article (coauthored with Nancy Felson), "Gender and Homeric Epic" in The Cambridge Companion to Homer has been nominated for the American Philological Association's Women's Classical Caucus prize for best article of 2004.
Judith Sloan received the 2005 BAXten Artist award, which honors individuals in the arts who have “revealed and transformed our creative world.” Sloan’s nonprofit organization, EarSay, Inc., also recently received funding from the Center for Arts Education for her Cross-Cultural Dialogue Through the Arts project, which mentors and trains immigrant youth in theatre and book arts through a partnership with the Queens Museum of Art and MS217 in Briarwood, NY.