PUBLISHED
Maria-Luisa Achino-Loeb was interviewed about her 2006 book, Silence: The Currency of Power, in an article published in a 2007 issue of La Rosa nel Cristallo: Rivista Trimestrale di Cultura, an Italian cultural magazine.
Sinan Antoon's novel, Diacritics, was published in an English translation as I'jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody in June (City Lights Books, San Francisco).
The paperback version of Nina Cornyetz's The Ethics of Aesthetics in Japanese Cinema and Literature: Polygraphic Desire was released by Routledge in July.
An interview with Michael Dinwiddie was published in Volume XXVI of the Hatch-Billops Collection's Artist and Influence journal in 2007.
In the spring and summer of 2007, Stephen Duncombe published an entry, "Cultural Resistance," in The Encyclopedia of Sociology, vol. 6 (Oxford: Blackwell) and a review of Timothy J. Gilfoyl's A Pickpocket's Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York in Journal of American History, as well as a book review in the International Journal of Communications. A book he cowrote with Andrew Mattson, The Bobbed Haired Bandit, was also recently re-released as a paperback by Random House.
Gregory Erickson's book, The Absence of God in Modernist Literature, was published in 2007 by Palgrave Macmillan.
Sharon Friedman published a review of Susan Glaspell: Her Life and Times (Oxford University Press, 2005) in the spring 2007 issue of Modern Drama.
In July Bert Katz published a series of illustrated booklets entitled: Out of Context, New Views of Old Venice, Abbreviations (The Formulaic Issues), and ...On the Dark Side (Mystery and Contradiction). The publications include color reproductions of Katz's recent work.
Patricia Lennox penned two chapters in the recently published North American Players of Shakespeare: A Book of Interviews, edited by Michael W. Shurgot (University of Delaware Press). She also published an article on Andre Serban's New York Public Theater production of Hamlet, "Serban and Critical Reception as Memory" in Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance (Lodz University Press) in May.
David Moore's article, "Analyzing Learning at Work: An Interdisciplinary Framework" was published in the 2007 summer-fall issue of Learning Inquiry.
Sara Murphy had an essay, "Social Bonds and Psychical Order: Testimonies," published in Traumatizing Theory: The Cultural Politics of Affect in and Beyond Psychoanalysis (Other Press, July 2007), edited by Karyn Ball.
Stacy Pies published an article, "Rhetorical and Social Geographies in Stéphane Mallarmé's Bucolique" in Nineteenth Century French Studies, vol. 35, Spring-Summer 2007 (University of Nebraska).
Ella Turenne edited and contributed to From the Sister's Mouth (André Maurice Press, August 2007).
PRESENTATIONS AND APPEARANCES
Elliott Barowitz presented a paper, "A Time and a Place for a Revitalized Arts Community: Art Schools and Universities Can Provide a Beacon," at the International Symposium on the Arts in Society in February. He was a guest lecturer in April at the Maine College of Art, where he discussed the history of Artworkers News (a.k.a. Art & Artists). Barowitz also recently illustrated a CD cover for the jazz group Spider Trio.
Stephen Duncombe gave a talk, "Activist Culture and the State of Radical Art" at The Center for the Humanities of the City University of New York Graduate Center in April. In the spring and summer he spoke on his most recent book, Dream: Re-imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy, at the Demos think-tank, the Yippie Museum Café, and the 92nd Street Y, as well as in interviews on national and local radio programs, BuzzFlash.com, and in PRINT magazine.
In April and May, Kathy Engel enjoyed signings and readings of her book, Ruth's Skirts (IKON, 2007), at the Bowery Poetry Club and Brecht Forum in NYC and Canio's Book Store in Sag Harbor, NY. She took part in readings for We Begin Here: Poems For Palestine and Lebanon (Interlink Books, 2007), which she coedited, with the Palestine Israel Education Project at Alwan Cultural Center in NYC, and with D.C. Poets Against the War at Grace Church in Washington, D.C. Engel also had a residency at the Blue Mountain Center in Blue Mountain Lake, NY in June and July.
Gregory Erickson presented a talk titled "Perceiving the Absolute and the Spiritual in John Coltrane's A Love Supreme" at the International Association for the Study of Popular Music conference in Boston, MA in April. From June through August he participated in a National Endowment for the Humanities seminar, "James Joyce's Ulysses: Texts and Contexts," in Dublin, Ireland.
Emily Fragos was a featured poet in the Center Broadsides Reading Series, sponsored by The Center for Book Arts of NYC in April.
In May, Scott Hightower was a featured reader at the sixth annual Poetry Festival at Round Top in Texas and at The Center for Book Arts in NYC.
Maria Hodermarska presented the opening symposium at the Eastern Region Conference of The National Association for Drama Therapy in March.
Karen Hornick presented a paper, "The End(s) of Television: A Cinematic Turn," at the annual conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies in Chicago, IL in March. She explored the incorporation of cinematic style and narrative techniques in television at a time when its status as an art medium is increasing while that of film is declining.
Patricia Lennox was the keynote speaker at the Shakespeare Fest 2007 symposia at the University of Maryland's Center for Baroque and Renaissance Studies in March, where she discussed film versions of Romeo and Juliet. She was also a seminar leader on "Shakespeare's Comedy on Screen" at the Shakespeare Association of America annual conference in San Diego, CA in April.
Julie Malnig presented a paper, "Teen Dance Realities: Televised Teen Dance Programs of the 1950s and Early 1960s," as part of the panel "So You Think You Can Analyze Dance: Versions of Reality in American 'Reality TV' Dance Shows," for the June joint Re-Thinking Practice and Theory conference of the Society of Dance History Scholars and The Congress on Research in Dance in Paris, France. Malnig was also interviewed for a story in The Oregonian on a recent high school social dance phenomenon.
Clair McPherson delivered a paper, "Paradigmatic Monasticism: Monks and Nuns in the Early Middle Ages," at the medieval convention at Plymouth University in New Hampshire in April. The paper will be included as a chapter in McPherson's forthcoming book, Brilliant Darkness: a Cultural History of the Early Middle Ages.
Bella Mirabella recently delivered a paper, "Stealing Center Stage: Female Mountebanks and the Negotiation of the Public," at the Vernacular Health and Healing in the Early Modern Period seminar at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. and at the Renaissance Society of America conference in Miami, FL.
David Moore was the keynote speaker on "The Pedagogy of Experience" at the Martha's Vineyard Summer Institute on Experiential Education in July. The conference, sponsored by the Center for Experiential Education at Northeastern University, brings together teams of educators from colleges around the country to learn how to enhance students' work- and service-based learning.
Ed Park appeared in a panel on feature writing about poetry at the Associated Writing Programs conference in February, and he spoke on the relationship between literary magazines and debut fiction panels at the Book Expo America conference in New York in June.
Stacy Pies moderated a panel titled "Postmodernism in America" for a multinational group of university professors at the NYU Steinhardt School's Fulbright Institute on the Civilization of the United States in July.
In the summer of 2007, Lee Robbins delivered a paper entitled "Archetypal Parenting" at The Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies in Boston, MA.
In August, Barnaby Ruhe ran a weeklong shamanism and art workshop at the Burning Man annual festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada.
In June, George Shulman gave a talk, "Prophecy and Politics in James Baldwin," at the Life, Work, Legacy conference in London, England commemorating the 20th anniversary of Baldwin's death.
Laura Slatkin gave a presentation on "Homer, Oral Tradition, and 'Primitive Poetry' in Britain and France" at the Columbia University Institute for Scholars in Paris, France in February. In April she delivered a paper on "Gender in The Iliad" at the War Music conference sponsored by the NYU Humanities Institute, and gave a talk on "The Classics in the 21st Century" at The Humanities in the 21st Century conference at La Pietra in Florence, Italy. In June she served as a respondent at a conference on Funeral Lament in Athenian Tragedy at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.
Ella Turenne was a panelist for the Popular Culture Association, Art and Architecture Area in April, at the Spelman Women of Color Leadership Conference in May, and for the Association of Black Sociologists in August.
Susan Weisser was a panelist discussing the novel Jane Eyre after a performance of the play Jane Eyre by The Acting Company in Manhattan in April.
At Brooklyn College's Imagining Brooklyn Conference in March, Hank Williams presented a paper on "Brooklyn Stand Up: Jay-Z, Notorious B.I.G., and Brooklyn Hip Hop." That same month he presented "An African Village in Bed Stuy: Randy Weston's 'Jazz'" at the New York Institute of Technology's New York City: Global Village conference, and he was a panelist on "Today's Black Agenda" at the Left Forum at Cooper Union, discussing the current state of black students in the City University of New York system.
PPERFORMANCES AND EXHIBITIONS
Lanny Harrison taught and performed at The Shambhala Institute for Authentic Leadership in Nova Scotia, Canada in June.
Judith Sloan gave the keynote performance at the New York Institute of Technology's New York City: Global Village conference in March, and in April performed her Crossing the BLVD at NYC's Tenement Museum as part of the Mayor's Immigrant History Week. In May, she produced a Festival of Youth and Emerging Artists at the LaGuardia Community College Performing Arts Center in NYC, and in June she delivered a performance and keynote address at New Haven's Creative Arts Workshop Exhibition.
Ella Turenne was a principal cast member in Safeguarding the Prime Minister of Greneda, a play from 365 Days/365 Plays by Suzan-Lori Parks, performed at the Hip Hop Theatre Festival in June. That same month she enjoyed the premiere of a short film she directed, Woodshed, at the Hollywood Black Film Festival. She also exhibited her sculpture at the "Working Artists" exhibit at The New School from June through July, and appeared in Art or Die at the Nuyorican Poet's Café in July.
In March, at the unitednationsplaza in Berlin, the performance art group "The Jackson Pollock Bar" presented a paper authored by Eve Meltzer. The paper, "What is this 'Expansion' in the Expanded Field?: The Myth and Manifest Destiny of One Art Historical Paradigm" looks at Rosalind Krauss's remarkably influential 1978 essay, "Sculpture in the Expanded Field."
KUDOS
Eric Brettschneider is currently serving as interim senior vice president of the United Way of New York City.
Full-time faculty member Stacy Pies and Gallatin adjunct Pat Rock are the first recipients of the Gallatin Newington-Cropsey Foundation Faculty Fellowship. This senior fellowship offers a unique opportunity for faculty to take advantage of the extraordinary resources and grounds of the Newington-Cropsey Foundation in Hastings-on-Hudson. Pies also participated in a poetry reading along with other Gallatin poets Emily Fragos and Scott Hightower as part of the Gallatin Newington-Cropsey Fellowship activities and the Amphitheatre Faculty Fellows readings in July.
Matthew Pitt was named the Tennessee Williams Scholar in Fiction at the Sewanee Writers' Conference at the University of the South in July.
Judith Sloan
was awarded a grant from the Starbucks Foundation for her literacy training work with immigrant teenagers and teachers for Cross-Cultural Dialogue through the Arts, a project of EarSay.