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Summer 2008

Michelle Greenberg was a participant in the 2008 "Art of Cabaret" workshop at Perry Mansfield, an artists' retreat and performance venue, located in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.

The week-long workshop is a series of master classes led by renowned professionals in the areas of song interpretation and performance, composition, and musical direction.  It culminated in a public performance at the Julie Harris Theatre, located on the rustic 76-acre Perry Mansfield campus.

Michelle was selected for the one-week intensive following auditions in Chicago, LA, and NYC. Since the founding of Perry Mansfield in 1913, among the artists who have been in residence are John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Agnes de Mille, Julie Harris, Dustin Hoffman, Lee Remick, and composer Stephen Schwartz.

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Following a visit by KAIST faculty --from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology-- to the Segal Design Institute, Penny Hirsch was invited to KAIST to talk about Engineering Design and Communication, Modes of Writing, and other "integrated approaches" to writing instruction at Northwestern. Located in South Korea's research park in Daejeon, KAIST is fast becoming a global presence in science and engineering, and all of their courses are now being taught in English. Hirsch gave two talks-one to faculty in the School of the Humanities and Social Sciences and the other to graduate students in the School of Culture Technology. Below are views of the campus on a cloudy day of Hirsch with Dean Noh in her office.  Click on thumbnail to view larger image of photos.

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Phyllis Lassner hosted the tenth annual conference of The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945 at Northwestern in June .  A truly global event, participants came from all over the world to present and discuss their work. The conference was sponsored by the Writing Program, Gender Studies, Jewish Studies, History, and the Humanities Institute.

Fall - Spring 2007-2008

Troubadour Poems from the South of France Reading and Discussion with translators William D. Paden & Frances Freeman Paden Refreshments and book signing to follow January 28, 2008 at 4:00 p.m. The Hagstrum Room University Hall 201

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Priya Agrawal and Sabrina Sawlani, from Professor Jeanne Herrick's freshman seminar, organized a field trip to a neighborhood they know well: the Devon Avenue neighborhood in Chicago. In the seminar--Insiders and Outsiders: Reading and Writing Cultural Stories--field trips to different Chicago neighborhoods allow students to experience different cultures firsthand.

 

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• Jeanine Casler will be presenting a paper on Irish author Maria Edgeworth at the annual meeting of the 18th and19th Century British Women Writers' Conference in Bloomington, Indiana (March 27-30). The paper is entitled, "'Let us dare to be ourselves!': The Female Education of Lord Glenthorn in Maria Edgeworth's /Ennui./"

 

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• Phyllis Lassner published an essay, "'Words That Can't Be Spoken': Lesbian Love in the Third Reich" in War-Torn Tales: Literature, Film and Gender in the Aftermath of World War II. Edited by Danielle Hipkins and Gill Plain. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2007.  She organized a panel and served as respondent at the Modern Language Assoc. on "Women Writers as Public Intellectuals."  At the end of January she gave a talk to faculty and students at Northwestern Hillel entitled "Displaced Witnesses: British Jewish Women Writing the Holocaust."

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