Robin Bernstein
 
Curriculum Vitae
  
Assistant Professor
of
Women, Gender, and Sexuality
and of
History and Literature
Harvard University
Boylston Hall, Garden Floor
Cambridge, MA 02138
rbernst@fas.harvard.edu
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~rbernst
 
EDUCATION

Degrees

Ph.D. in American Studies, Yale University, December 2004

M.A. in American Studies, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 1999

M.A. in History, Theory, and Criticism of Theatre, University of Maryland--College Park, 1995

B.A. in Creative Writing, Honors in major, Bryn Mawr College, 1991

Diploma, Drama Department of the High School of Performing Arts, New York City, 1987

Certificates

 Certificate in Women's Studies, University of Maryland -- College Park, 1999

Uriel Weinreich Program in Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture, Columbia University and the YIVO Institute, Summer 1998

EMPLOYMENT

Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and of History and Literature, Harvard University, Fall 2006-Present

Assistant Director of Studies/Lecturer, Committee on Degrees in the Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University, 2004-2006

BOOKS

Monograph under Contract

Racial Innocence: Performing Childhood and Race from Uncle Tom's Cabinto the New Negro Movement, New York University Press, part of the series, America and the Long 19th Century"

Edited Books

Cast Out: Queer Lives in Theater, The University of Michigan Press, 2006

Generation Q: Gays, Lesbians, and Bisexuals Born Around 1969's Stonewall Riots Tell Their Stories of Growing Up in the Age of Information. Co-edited with Seth Clark Silberman. Alyson Publications, 1996

  • Finalist, 1997 Lambda Literary Award for Nonfiction Anthology
  • Two months on Lambda Book Report's bestseller list
  • Critics' praise for Generation Q
Fiction

Terrible, Terrible! A Jewish Folktale Retold. Kar-Ben Books, 1998


 
ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS

"Dances with Things: Material Culture and the Performance of Race," Social Text 101 (December 2009): 67-94.

"'Never Born': Angelina Weld Grimké's Rachel as Ironic Response to Topsy." The Journal of American Drama and Theatre, Volume 19, Number 2 (Spring 2007): 61-75.

"'Too Realistic' and 'Too Distorted': The Attack on Louise Fitzhugh's Harriet the Spy and the Gaze of the Queer Child." Critical Matrix: The Princeton Journal of Women, Gender, and Culture, vol. 12, no. 1-2 (Fall 2000 and Spring 2001), 26-47

"Rodney King, Shifting Modes of Vision, and Anna Deavere Smith's Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992." Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Vol. 14, no. 2 (Spring 2000), 121-134

  • Reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism Volume 241 (Detroit, MI: Thomson Gale)

"Inventing a Fishbowl: White Supremacy and the Critical Reception of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun."Modern Drama, v. 42 (1999), 16-27

INVITED BOOK CHAPTERS

"The Queerness of Harriet the Spy," chapter in Kenneth B. Kidd and Michelle A. Abate, eds., Over the Rainbow: Queer Children's Literature (University of Michigan Press, forthcoming 2010)

"Staging Lesbian and Gay New York," chapter in Bryan Waterman and Cyrus R. K. Patell, eds., The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York City (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2010)

ADDITIONAL ARTICLES

"In Praise of the Vernacular: Robin Bernstein Interviews Pop Icon Camille Paglia," The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review, (subsequently retitled The Gay and Lesbian Review) Spring 1996: 13-15

  • Invited lead article in special issue on popular culture

"Where Women Rule: The World of Lesbian Cartoonists," The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review, Summer 1994: 20-23

REVIEW ESSAYS

"Generation Next: Not the Only One: Lesbian and Gay Fiction for Teens edited by Tony Grima and School's Out: The Impact of Gay and Lesbian Issues on America's Schools by Dan Woog," Lambda Book Report, July/August 1995: 28

"A Literature of One's Own: Am I Blue? Coming Out from Silence edited by Marion Dane Bauer and Growing Up Gay: A Literary Anthology edited by Bennett L. Singer," The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review, Spring 1994: 23-26

BOOK REVIEWS

Southern Cultures

  • Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom, by Heather Andrea Williams, vol. 15, no. 1 (Spring 2009)

Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth

  • Clinging to Mammy: The Faithful Slave in Twentieth-Century America, by Micki McElya, vol. 2, no. 1 (Winter 2009)

Theatre Journal

American Studies International

  • Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition, by Rebecca Alpert, vol. 35 (1997)
  • This Mad Masquerade: Stardom and Masculinity in the Jazz Age, by Gaylyn Studlar, vol. 35 (1997)

The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review (subsequently renamed The Gay and Lesbian Review)

  • Stagestruck: Theatre, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America by Sarah Schulman, 1998
  • The Escape Artist, by Judith Katz, Fall 1997: 44-45
  • The Dyke and the Dybbuk, by Ellen Galford, Winter 1995: 38
  • Tilting the Tower: Lesbians Teaching Queer Subjects, edited by Linda Garber, Summer 1995: 37-38
  • Presence and Desire: Essays on Gender, Sexuality, Performance, by Jill Dolan, Fall 1994: 39
  • Alias Olympia, by Eunice Lipton, Spring 1994: 38

The Lesbian Review of Books,

  • The Four Winds, by Gerd Brantenberg, translated by Margaret Hayford O'Leary, Spring 1997: 25
  • She's Always Liked the Girls Best: Lesbian Plays, by Claudia Allen, Summer 1994: 26
  • Elizabeth Bowen: A Reputation, by Renee C. Hoogland, Winter 1994-1995: 24

Belles Lettres

  • Sophia Parnok: The Life and Work of Russia's Sappho, by Diana Lewis Burgin, Spring 1995: 90
  • Out of the Class Closet: Lesbians Speak, edited by Julia Penelope, Spring 1995: 90

ENTRIES IN REFERENCE BOOKS

"Louise Fitzhugh's Harriet the Spy," in Censorship: A World Encyclopedia, Derek Jones, ed. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2001

"Anti-Semitism," in Encyclopedia of Lesbian Histories and Cultures, Bonnie Zimmerman, ed. Garland Publishing, 1999, pp. 44-46

"Sholem Asch," "Alison Bechdel," and "Marijane Meaker," in Gay and Lesbian Literature, Tom and Sara Pendergast, eds. Full Circle Publishing, 1997

"Robin Bernstein Interviews Roberta Gregory" and "Robin Bernstein Interviews Andrea Natalie," inDyke Strippers: Lesbian Cartoonists A to Z, Roz Warren, ed. Cleis Press, 1995: 116-117, 157-158

"Lesléa Newman," in Contemporary Lesbian Writers of the United States: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook, Denise Knight and Sandra Pollack, eds. Greenwood Press, 1993: 399-404

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

Public Talk, title TBD, Cornell University, sponsored by the Theatre Department, scheduled March 2010

Public Talk, title TBD, University of Pittsburgh, sponsored by the English Department, scheduled March 2010

Panelist, post-show discussion of Lenelle Moise’s one-woman show, Theater Offensive “Out on the Edge” festival institute, Boston, MA, scheduled November 2009

“Black Dolls, Girls, and the Performance of Pain,” Williams College (co-sponsored by the Departments of Theatre, Women’s and Gender Studies, American Studies, and Comparative Literature; the Multicultural Center; and the Sawyer Library), March 2009

"Dances with Things," invited presentation for the Photography and Memory Workshop, Yale University, September 2008

Formal Respondent, "Just Out: New Publications in American Theatre and Drama," Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Denver, CO, August 2008

Formal Respondent for panel, "Photography/Performance," at Photographic Proofs: A Conference on Image, History, and Memory, Yale University, April 2008.

"Making White Girls into Mistresses: Slavery, Race, and Raggedy Ann Stories," Columbia University Humanities Seminar, "Women and Society," May 2007.

"Can Gender Studies be a Discipline?" Formal response to Juliet Mitchell, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program and the Women Faculty Forum, Yale University, May 2007

"Intersections of American Studies and Queer Studies," Program in American Studies, Yale University, April 2003

"Lorraine Hansberry's Life and Work," panel presentation accompanying production of The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, The American Century Theater, Washington, DC, January 2001

"Re-Placing Women: Is Identity Politics Dead?" panel presentation at the Women and Theatre Conference (in conjunction with the Association for Theatre in Higher Education), Washington, DC, August 2000

Speaker, "Queer Youth in Historical Context," Freshman Composition (English 011, sections 17 and 19), George Washington University, November 1998

Panelist, "Queer Theatre," Department of Women's Studies, University of Maryland--College Park, April 1994

Speaker: "Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs: Can Popular Theatre have Pedagogical Value?" Honor Students' Colloquium, University of Maryland--College Park, November 1993

PAPERS PRESENTED

"Scriptive Books: E.W. Kemble's A Coon Alphabet," American Literature Association, Boston, MA, May 2009

"Touching Eva, Touching Tom/Touching Eva Touching Tom," "Home, School, Play, Work: The Visual and Textual Worlds of Children," Conference of the Center for Historic American Visual Culture and the Program in the History of the Book in American Culture at the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA, November 2008.

"Joel Chandler Harris's Reconstruction of Uncle Tom's Cabin," American Studies Association, Albuquerque, NM, October 2008.

"Scriptive Things," Performance Studies International, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 2008

"Harnessing the Dramatic Instinct," American Society for Theatre Research, Phoenix, AZ, November 2007.

"Surrogation: The Hinge between 'Real Children' and 'The Child.'" Conference of the American Society for Theatre Research, Chicago, IL, November 2006.

"L is for Longing." Paper in panel, "Photography and Memory: Relearning the Critical Alphabet." Thinking Photography (Again): An International Conference on Photography Studies, University of Durham, UK, July 2005.

"Raggedy Ann Stories and Children's Performances of the Old South." Performing Childhood: The Conference of the Children's Literature Association, Winnipeg, Canada, June 2005.

The Literary Management of Reproduction: Raggedy Ann Stories and the Training of Child-Consumers." Conference of the American Literature Association,Boston, MA, May 2005.

The Continuity between Good and Bad Taste: James Whitcomb Riley as Hawker of Patent Medicine and Nationalist Poetry." Conference of the American Society for Theatre Research, Las Vegas, NV, November 2004.

“Storytime: Re-Imagining the Civil War through the Space of the Nursery.” Conference of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Toronto, Canada, July 2004

"Using Performance Theory to Analyze Racist Collectibles." Conference of the American Studies Association, Hartford, CT, October 2003

  • Organized panel, "Race and Material Culture: Enabling Objects to Speak about Racist Violence"; participants included Kirk Savage (chair), Cheryl Finley, and Adrianne A. Santina

"Talismans of the Middle Class: Nineteenth-Century Postmortem Daguerreotypes of Children." Conference of the American Studies Association, November 2001

"Minstrelsy and the Enfreakment of Little Eva." Conference of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Washington, DC, August 2000

"Collecting Exotics: Realism, White Supremacy, and the Critical Reception of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun." Conference of the Modern Language Association, Chicago, IL, December 1999

"The White Girl on the Minstrel's Knee: Little Eva, Uncle Tom, and the Cross-'Racial' Embrace." Conference of the American Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, October 1999

  • Organized panel, "Staging Racial Biology: The Negotiation of Essence in Nineteenth Century Popular Performance"; participants included Eric Lott (chair), Rachel Adams, and Benjamin Reiss

"Performing America: The Merging of American Studies and Performance Studies." Conference of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Toronto, Canada, July 1999

"'Too Realistic' and 'Too Distorted': The Attack on Louise Fitzhugh's Harriet the Spy and the Gaze of the Queer Child." Conference of the American Literature Association, Baltimore, MD, April 1999

"'Awakened by her loving touch': A Perverse Reading of Popular Representations of Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan." Conference of the Popular Culture Association, San Diego, CA, March 1999

"A Living Museum of a Dead Race: Edwin Forrest in Metamora." Conference of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, San Antonio, TX, August 1998

"Rodney King, Shifting Modes of Vision, and Anna Deavere Smith's Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992." Conference of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, San Antonio, TX, 1998

"Women and Theatrical Cross-Dressing in Spain During the Golden Age." Women's Works, Women's Words, Duke University, Durham, NC, November 1994

  • Paper published in Conference Proceedings, Rosa Proietto, ed., 111-116

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY

“Everyone is Impressed: Slavery as a Tender Embrace From Uncle Tom’s to Uncle Remus’s Cabin,” The Gender and Sexuality Seminar of The Humanities Center at Harvard University, February 2009

Panelist, “Talkback” following The Veiled Monologues, American Repertory Theatre, October 2007

Featured Guest Speaker, Women in Society Dinner for the Harvard-Radcliffe Women’s Leadership Conference, September 2007.

Panelist, "Talkback" following production of Adelheid Roosen's The Veiled Monologues, American Repertory Theatre, October 2007

Panelist, GLBTQ Scholarship in Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard, The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus, June 2007.

"Making White Girls into Mistresses: Slavery, Race, and Raggedy Ann Stories," the Gender and Sexuality Seminar of The Humanities Center at Harvard University May 2006.

“‘Never Born’: Angelina Weld Grimke’s Rachel as Ironic Response to the Topsy Stereotype,” Talking Shop: A Conference of the History and Literature Tutorial Board, December 2006.

“Making White Girls into Mistresses: Slavery, Race, and Raggedy Ann Stories,” Humanities Center New Faculty Lunch Series, November 2006.

Guest Speaker, Mae West’s 1933 movie screening, She Done Him Wrong, Radcliffe Institute, October 2006.

“Introduction to Cultural Studies,” Against the Grain: Critical Approaches to Gender and Sexuality (WGS 1002), Spring 2005.

“Performance Theory,” Against the Grain: Critical Approaches to Gender and Sexuality (WGS 1002), Spring 2005.

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

National and International Competitions

Betsy Beinecke Shirley Fellowship in American Children's Literature, The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, 2008.

Jay and Deborah Last Fellowship for research on American art or visual culture, American Antiquarian Society, 2008

David Keller Travel Grant, American Society for Theatre Research, 2006

Thomas F. Marshall Travel Grant, American Society for Theatre Research, 2004

Mellon Seminar in Writing Performance History, Yale University, 2003

Gene Wise-Warren Susman Prize, 2001

  • Awarded for the best paper presented by a graduate student at the annual conference of the American Studies Association

Honorable Mention in Fiction, Astraea Emerging Lesbian Writers Fund Award, 1999

Debut Panels (competitive sessions designed to showcase work of emerging scholars), Conference of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, San Antonio, TX, August 1998

Lambda Book Report Travel Grant to attend 1997 Lambda Literary Awards Ceremony

Internship, National Yiddish Book Center. Amherst, MA, Summer 1991

Selected University-Wide Competitions

Grantee, Open Gate Funding to bring performance artist Tim Miller to perform and speak at Harvard, November 2009

Grantee, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Tenure-Track Faculty Publication Fund to support inclusion of 60 images in monograph, Racial Innocence: Performing Childhood and Race from Uncle Tom’s Cabin to the New Negro Movement (New York University Press), 2009

Awardee, Clark Fund for Research Support, 2008

Awardee, Gordon Gray Faculty Grant for Writing Pedagogy for committee to create a guide for senior thesis-writers in the Program of Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality, 2007

Recipient, Course Innovation Funds to fund live performances for students in Gender and Sexuality (WGS 1133), Fall 2007

Faculty Ally of the Year, The Harvard Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters Alliance (now the QSA), Harvard University, 2005

Award, John Perry Miller Fund, Yale University, Summer 2004

Graduate Fellowship, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, Summer 2004 (declined)

University Dissertation Fellowship, Yale University, 2003-2004

Graduate Fellowship, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, Fall 2002

John F. Enders Research Grant, Yale University, Summer 2002

University Fellowship, Yale University, 1999-2003

  • Full tuition plus stipend

Full Scholarship, Uriel Weinreich Program in Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture, Columbia University and the YIVO Institute, Summer 1998

Travel Grant to attend the national conference of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, George Washington University, 1998

Graduate Fellowship, George Washington University, 1996-1998

  • Full tuition plus stipend

University Fellowship, University of Maryland--College Park, 1993-1995

  • Full tuition plus stipend

Dolphin Scholarship, Bryn Mawr College, 1987-1991

  • Full tuition
  • Bryn Mawr's only non-need-based grant

COURSES TAUGHT

    Harvard University

  • Dreams of a Common Language: Feminist Conversations across Differences (Program of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 97), Spring 2010, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, and Fall 2005.
  • Gender and Performance (General Education/Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 26, previously Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1133 ), Fall 2009, Fall 2007, Fall 2006
  • Performing America (History and Literature 90q), Fall 2009
  • Liberties and Limits: Reading and Writing U.S. Experiences, 1776-1876 (History and Literature 97, co-taught with Katherine Stebbins McCaffrey), Spring 2008
  • The Nadir of Civil Rights: Race in the U.S. at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (History and Literature 90c), Fall 2007
  • The American Century? (History and Literature 97b, co-taught with Amy Kittelstrom), Spring 2007
  • Logics and Centers of Gravity in U.S. Culture (History and Literature 97a, co-taught with Amy Kittelstrom), Fall 2006
  • Tomboys, Angels, and Dolls: Girls in American Culture (Program of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1408), Spring 2006
  • Dreams of a Common Language: Feminist Conversations across Differences (Program of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 97), Fall 2005
  • Gender and the Cultures of U.S. Imperialism (Program of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1203), Spring 2005
  • Introduction to Transnational Feminist Thought (Program of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 97), Fall 2004

    • Yale University

  • Youth Cultures in Twentieth-Century America (American Studies S-429), Summer 2003
  • Gender and Performance in American Culture (American Studies 415b), Spring 2003

    The George Washington University

  • Performing America: Gender, Race, and the Spectacle of Bodies (American Studies 198), Spring 1999

    • Courses Assistant-Taught

  • The Formation of Modern American Culture, 1920 to the Present (American Studies 191), Yale University, Spring 2002
  • Introduction to Women's Studies and Feminist Thought (Women's and Gender Studies 295a), Yale University, Fall 2001
  • Themes in US Cultural History (American Civilization 167), George Washington University, Fall 1998
  • Contested American Cultures: 1880-1996 (American Civilization 72), George Washington University, Spring 1998
  • Inventing Ourselves: American Culture Through 1876 (American Civilization 71) George Washington University, Fall 1997
  • Women, Art, and Culture (Women's Studies 250), University of Maryland at College Park, Summer 1995

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

Member, Conference Committee, “Destined for Men: Visual Materials for Male Audiences, 1750-1880,” conference of the Center for Historic American Visual Culture, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA, October 2009

Member, Awards and Honors Committee, American Theatre and Drama Society, 2009-2010

Member, Marshall and Keller Travel Award Committee of the American Society for Theatre Research, 2008-2011

Co-organizer, “Performance in Historical Paradigms Working Group,” 2008-2010:

  • 2010: with Ioana Szeman, co-curating panels and summary discussion at Performance Studies International (PSi), Toronto, Canada
  • 2009: Initiated a second annual meeting to convene at the Performance Studies Focus Group in New York City (previously, the working group had convened only once each year at PSi). With Paige McGinley (Yale University, New Haven, CT) and Sophie Nield (Royal Holloway University of London, UK), curated and moderated “On History and Performance,” a double-length panel of senior scholars discussing the “state of the field” of performance studies as it intersects with historical inquiry.
  • 2008: With Ioana Szeman (Roehampton University, London), curated and moderated three panels and summary discussion at Performance Studies International, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Evaluator, Boston Social Innovation Forum, “Women and Girls” division, 2007-2008 and 2009-2010 (member of committee charged with awarding over $70,000 in funding and services to a Boston-based nonprofit that serves women and/or girls)

    Referee, Rutgers University Press (2005-2007), The University of Michigan Press (2005-2007), The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth (2008), The Journal of American Drama and Theatre (special issue edited by the American Theatre and Drama Society, 2008 and 2009), and the Children’s Literature Association Quarterly (2005-2007).

    Panel Chair, “The Child and the New Republic,” New England Modern Language Association, Boston, MA, February 2009

    Moderator, "Representations: Looking at Imagined Bodies and Identities," panel at the Conference of the Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies, March 2007

    Email List Manager, Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers Study Group, 2004-2007

    Member at Large, Women and Theatre Program, 2004-2007

    Member, Nominations Committee, American Theatre and Drama Society, 2005

    Co-Founder and Co-Coordinator, Childhood Studies Working Group, Yale University, 2003-2004

    Co-Coordinator, Photography and Memory Workshop, Yale University, 2002-2004 (Member, 1999-2004)

    Graduate Student Representative, Board of the American Theatre and Drama Society, 1998-2003
    • Conceived, designed, and co-coordinated "First Contacts" program to match graduate students with faculty mentors, 2003
    • Member, Committee to Select Debut Panelists, 2002 and 2003

    Co-Organizer, American Studies Symposium, Yale University, May 2002

    Single-time consultant to Kathleen Hulser, Public Historian, New-York Historical Society, regarding NYHS exhibit on Uncle Tom's Cabin in American culture, November 2000

    Editor, "Report of the Task Force on Achieving Excellence in Undergraduate Education," University of Maryland--College Park, 1996

    Writer, "Adopt-A-Character" fundraiser, Shakespeare on Wheels, University of Maryland-Baltimore County, Summer 1994

    • Wrote 40 letters in voices of characters from Hamlet (Donors "adopted" individual characters and received, over the course of the summer, four letters from each adopted character)
    • Created puzzles for the Shakespeare on Wheels 1994 Performance Guide

    Founding Director, Bisexual, Gay, and Lesbian Alliance Center, Bryn Mawr College, 1989-1991

    • Wrote six successful grants
    • Acquired, organized, and maintained over 1,500 books, 150 audio/visual resources, and 20 subscriptions to journals and magazines

    SELECTED SERVICE TO HARVARD UNIVERSITY

    Member, Board of Directors, Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies (Representative of Harvard University), 2009-2010, 2007-2008

    Co-Chair, Gender and Sexuality Seminar, The Humanities Center, 2009-2010 (with Joyce Antler of Brandeis University), 2006-2007 (with Brad Epps of Harvard University), and 2005-2006 (with Afsaneh Najmabadi and Judith Surkis of Harvard University)

    Committee Chair, Eugene R. Cummings Thesis Prize for GLBTQ Studies, 2008

    Co-Chair (with Nancy Cott and Afsaneh Najmabadi), Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Research Workshop, "Interdisciplinary Gender and Sexuality Workshop" for graduate students, 2007-2008

    Organizer of Roundtable discussion, “Legends in Queer Performance: Can Theater Change the World?,” October 2007. Roundtable featured founding members of Split Britches Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver, plus the Five Lesbian Brothers Ladies Auxiliary including Moe Angelos, Karen “Mal” Malme, Linda Monchik, Brigid O’Connor, and Vanessa Soto, and directors Kate Caffery and Adam Sussman. Created 16-page program for event.

    Faculty Advisor, The Harvard Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters Alliance, 2006-2008

    Co-Leader, Curriculum Vitae Workshop for Graduate Students in Gender and Sexuality Studies, April 2006

    Chair, Junior Essay Award Committee, Program of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Spring 2005 and Spring 2006

    Chair, Senior Thesis Award Committee, Program of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Spring 2006

    Co-Organizer, "The Weather in Proust," a series of lectures accompanied by an exhibit of fiber art by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Fall 2005

    Member, Committee to Organize "Turning Points: Celebrating our Past, Present and Future," Program of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, 2004-2005

     

    EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE

    Editor, Bridges, a biannual, international journal of Jewish feminist culture and politics, 1996-2000

    Associate Editor/Features, The Washington Blade, nationally distributed weekly of Washington, D.C. 1994-1995

    PRESS

    Interviewed by Caitlin E. Curran for "Socks Appeal," an article about drag kings, Boston Phoenix, 9 July 2008

    Interviewed by Harbour Fraser Hodder for"Girl Power," article in Harvard Magazine, January-February 2008

    THEATRICAL PRODUCTION EXPERIENCE

    Directing

    "Raid," performance based on 1923 controversy surrounding Sholem Asch's God of Vengeance, University of Maryland--College Park, March 1994.

    Dramaturgy

    The London Merchantperson, "distorted" by Susan Leonardi and Catherine Schuler from George Lillo's The London Merchant, University of Maryland-College Park, March-April 1995

    God of Vengeance, by Sholem Asch, adapted by Stephen Fife, University of Maryland-College Park, March 1994

    • Initiated and co-ordinated post-performance discussions with guest speakers Stephen Fife and Evelyn Torton Beck

    Brighton Beach Memoirs, by Neil Simon, University of Maryland-College Park, November 1992

    • Wrote program notes in rhymed verse

    Playwriting

    "Good Food Foot" produced as part of Feast or Famine, directed and adapted by Tina Thuerwachter, Live Bait Theatre, Chicago, IL, January-February 1996

    "Selected Shorts" opened evening of one-act plays produced by Avalanche: A Multi-Racial Lesbian and Gay Theatre Troupe, Philadelphia, PA, June 1991  

    PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

    American Studies Association,

    Modern Language Association

    Women and Theatre Program

    Association for Theatre in Higher Education,

    American Society for Theatre Research

    American Theatre and Drama Society

    Society for the Study of American Women Writers

    Society for the History of Childhood and Youth

    Children's Literature Association

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