WRITING
PAPERS & PUBLICATIONS:
Artist Interview, Short Fiction, Reviews, Articles, Panel Papers, Poetry, Dramatic Dialogue and Monologue, Creative Non-Fiction, Dissertation
Interview: “Interview With Richard Brown Lethem,” 2005
Dissertation: Portraits of Success: Immigrant Women’s Strategies for Overcoming Barriers in the Urban U.S., Boston University, 1995
Article: “Emotional Lives of Refugee and Immigrant Mothers in the Urban U.S.: Strategies for Acculturation,” in Selected Papers on Refugee Issues IV, Ann M. Rynearson and James Phillips, Editors, CORI (Committee on Refugees and Immigrants) Publications of the American Anthropological Association; Part II: Starting Life in a New Land: Communities and Individuals; 1995
Corresponding Editor: Council on Refugees and Immigrants (CORI) for Newsletter of the American Anthropological Association, 1994-1996
Poem, “Early May,” http://bestpoem.wordpress.com/2009/01, January, 2009
Short Story Collection of 8 or more stories focusing on the inner lives of handicapped children and youth, 2008-09
Creative Non-fiction: A Way of Going Elsewhere: Growing Up in the Twenties on the Lower East Side, 2008
Poem: “Raymond and Thelma in Boston”: Boston City Hall Poetry Exhibit, 2008
Chapbook, Fall, 2007: Creative Writing with Spanish Judges, from English Intensive Ekphrastic Writing Workshop; Publisher: International Institute in Madrid
Chapbook, Fall, 2007: Wounded Warriors; contributor, workshop teacher. Publisher: Freedom-to-Write Committee, PEN New England
Memoir (Work in Progress): Hajnal: 2006: Memoir in progress of Hungarian-Jewish American operatic singer who seeks out Hungarian relatives in 1938
Interview: “Interview with (Painter) Richard Brown Lethem,” Words and Images; http://www.aucocisco.com/artists/richard_lethem_05/interview.html, February 2005
Theatre Review of Permanent Collection, in ArtsEditor, “Permanent Collection at the New Repertory Theatre, 2004: http://www.artseditor.com/html/opinions/1104_permanent.shtml
Poetry: I’m With You: Online in Poets Against the War.Org: http://www.poetsagainstthewar.org/displaypoem.asp?AuthorID=10996#453070069, February, 2003
The Wholeness of Dead Bodies: Online in Poets Against the war.Org: http://www.poetsagainstthewar.org/displaypoem.asp?AuthorID=10996#453071190, February, 2003
Paper: American Anthropological Association, San Francisco: Panel on Visual Anthropology: “Transferring Ethnography to Fiction,” Nov, 2000
Invited Paper: Society for Applied Anthropology: Santa Fe: “Without Footnotes: Writing Creative Ethnography,” Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA): process of ethnographic fiction, March, 2009
Article: “Using Oral Histories to Elicit Reflective Writings: The Experience of Being an Immigrant Adolescent in the Urban U.S., MultiCultural Review, Vol. 4, 2, June, 1995
Paper: “Adolescent Multicultural Reflections on Gathering Community Oral Histories,” International Multicultural Conference: University of Massachusetts at Lowell, 1994
Teacher Guide and Student Workbook, Multicultural Oral History Curriculum: Chelsea Public Schools, Chelsea, MA, 1992
Book Review: Hopeful Openings: A Study of Five Women's Development Organizations in Latin American and the Caribbean, by Yudelman, Sally; (Women in International Development (WID) movement); www.anthrosource.net/doi/ pdfplus/10.1525/jlat.1991.3.2.72 OR http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1525/jlca.1991.3.2.72?cookieSet=1&journalCode=jlca.3 (Latin American Anthropology Review), Winter, 1991
Short Story, “Joe’s Second-hand Shoppe,” The Monadnock Writer, 1985
Cover Story: “Shoplifting in New England: Any number can play, The New Englander, Vol. 23, 11, p. 40, 1977, March
Staged Readings of Short-Short Plays based on ethnographic research of Salvadoran Mothers Strategies for Cultural Integration
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 2000, Chicago, 1999
TEACHING
30 years’ experience in K—12 public and private schools as school psychologist; teacher and coordinator of special education; ESL Harvard U; Boston U; International Institute, Madrid, Spain
PEN-New England prison writing workshop teacher at S. Middlesex Women’s Prison (Pre-Release Facility); fiction, non-fiction and poetry with women prisoners
RESEARCH
Education Development Center: Adult Literacy Media Project: (ALMA) Researched and wrote collaborative report on infrastructure research for ongoing public television program
Immigrant Adolescents: Doing Ethnography (above)
Dissertation (above) Central American mothers’ acculturation
Degrees
Ed.D. Boston University, Cultural Studies, 1995
M.A. Antioch New England Graduate School, Counseling Psychology, 1981
M.Ed. Keene State College, English, 1972
AB Temple University, English, 1963
Memberships and Awards
MacDowell Colony Regional Host
MacDowell Colony Fellowship: 1978
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
PEN-New England: past Secretary, Freedom to Write Committee, Prison Writing Program Training Committee
PEN-New England Annual Book Party, 2004: A Memoir of Collaboration
Society for Applied Anthropology
Phi Beta Delta International Scholars
Studied with:
Grace Paley-short fiction, Fine Arts Work Center
Robert Pinsky- poetry, Fine Arts Work Center
Maxine Rodburg-non-fiction, Harvard Extension
Andrew Holleran-short fiction, Fine Arts Work Center
Don Share-poetry, Harvard Extension