Mary Cassatt, Who Studied Under the French Impressionists and Put Her Name on the Impressionist Movement Both in France and the United States
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
Issue 4, Fall 2017 Penumbra: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Critical and Creative Inquiry www.unionpenumbra.org Issue 4, Fall 2017 © 2017 by Penumbra Editorial Team All rights reserved. Published in 2017. Penumbra is the official, refereed, scholarly journal of Union Institute & University’s Ph.D. Program in Interdisciplinary Studies. The journal is published at regular intervals and dedicated to challenging traditional academic and creative disciplinary boundaries in the context of social change. Penumbra’s purpose is to promote theoretically informed engagements with concrete issues and problems. The journal publishes socially engaged, innovative, creative and critical scholarship with a focus on ethical and political issues in the humanities, public policy, and leadership. Penumbra is a peer-edited and peer-reviewed journal committed to spanning the divide between scholarly and creative production, and to fostering work from graduate students, junior scholars and emerging artists, in addition to more established critical and creative voices. EDITOR Marianna Boncek ASSOCIATE EDITOR Jonina Stump ASSITANT EDITORS Amy Heath Gariot P. Louima Gariot P. Louima (2014- EDITORS EMERITI 2016) Elizabeth Aiossa (2013-2014) Jon Ross (2013-2014) John Giordano (2012-2013) Tiffany Taylor (2012-2013) ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATION Provost and Vice President for Dr. Nelson Soto Academic Affairs Associate Vice President for Arlene Sacks Academic Affairs PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies Dean Michael Raffanti EDITORAL BOARD Diane Allerdyce Larry Preston Union Institute & University Union Institute & University Shelley Armitage John Shook Union Institute & University George Mason University University at Buffalo Anthony Bogues Brown University George Shulman New York University Nancy Boxill Union Institute & University Richard Shusterman Florida Atlantic University Myriam Chancy University of Cincinnati Georgia Sorenson University of Maryland Richard Couto† University of Richmond James Henderson† Union Institute & University Vicki Crawford Morehouse College Christopher Voparil** Union Institute & University Toni Gregory † Union Institute & University Sylvia Hill University of the District of Columbia Michael Raffanti Union Institute & University *Member, Journal Advisory Jennifer Raymond Committee Union Institute & University **Chair, Journal Advisory Committee Karsten Piep* †Late Founding Board Union Institute & University Member GUIDELINES Submit online (preferred) at www.unionpenumbra.org or in email to [email protected]. Penumbra invites scholarship of all Submit as Microsoft Word kinds, creative nonfiction, fiction, compatible documents (do not submit poetry, and visual works that address PDFs). Article manuscripts should be any aspect of the journal’s mission double-spaced and between 4,000 to and scope. We seek submissions 6,000 words in length. Please follow from graduate students, junior MLA guidelines for in-text citations scholars, and emerging artists, in and bibliography. addition to more established critical and creative voices. All submissions Creative Submissions undergo double-blind peer review. Submissions may include a We do not accept previously maximum of five poems or flash published work. Simultaneous prose works; a single short story or submissions are acceptable, but the novel chapter of no more than 6,000 editors should be notified words; or creative non-fiction prose immediately upon a work’s of up to 6,000 words. Submit as acceptance for publication elsewhere. Microsoft Word compatible documents (do not submit PDFs). Submitting Online Interdisciplinary text-based works in Author name(s), email(s), and brief non-traditional formats are also bio(s) should be included in the acceptable. Please query the editors Author Comment box on the at [email protected] submission page. The author name(s) regarding text-based projects that do should not appear anywhere on the not meet our submission manuscript in compliance with our requirements. double-blind peer-review process. Images and Diagrams in Submitting in Email Manuscripts Submit two Word attachments. In the All line diagrams and photographs first document, include the title of the are termed “Figures” and should be work, author name(s), email(s), brief referred to as such in the manuscript. bio(s), and a 200-250 word article They should be numbered abstract in the first document. In a consecutively and presented in a second document, submit the article form suitable for immediate for consideration. Author name(s) reproduction (i.e. not requiring should not appear anywhere on the redrawing). They should be saved at manuscript in compliance with our 300 dpi and should be no smaller double-blind peer-review process. than 5 inches (130mm) on the shortest side. Images should be Scholarly Submissions submitted as .jpg or .eps files. All figures should have short descriptive Projects that do not meet these captions typed on a separate sheet. requirements will also be considered. Please contact the co-editors Visual Art/Interdisciplinary Arts regarding artists’ projects that do not Projects meet our submission requirements. If All visual artwork and proposed an original artwork for Penumbra is artists’ projects must be submitted proposed, samples of comparable electronically. A proposal for an work should be submitted along with artist’s project or portfolio should a one-page written proposal. All comprise a one-page written work must be submitted description accompanied by ten or electronically. Please contact the co- fewer uploaded sample images. Also editors if you have concerns about acceptable are hyperlinks to an submission format. online gallery of up to ten images, or up to three videos/multimedia pieces. IN THIS ISSUE Marianna Boncek 10 Editor’s Note and Jonina Stump “So . who are you now?”: Tico Tenorio 13 Performing Women in Stage Beauty’s English Restoration Confessions of a Study Abroad Allison Budaj 29 Coordinator Brandon 34 Tropics, The Great Synagogue of Constanta, Stateman's Memorial, Marlon Upcountry Misti 39 They Aren’t in the History Books: Chamberlain Women Artists in History Nancy Pratt 50 The Truth Women Tell: Arthritis, Heartache, and a Mercedes Sharon Lin 52 Swiftly Welcome Home Sisters! : A Kris Hege 56 Personal and Political Education Nancy 66 Faculty Colloquium at the Semotiuk Country Club Faubourg Tremé: Cultural and Janis Chandler 68 Societal Progress in a Neighborhood Faced with Gentrification Greta Enriquez 84 Friendship in Frankenstein: An Artistotelian-Thomistic Analysis CONTRIBUTORS SHARON LIN is a graduate of Stuyvesant ALLISON BUDAJ is a Humanities Instructor High School in New York City. Her work has and Study Abroad Coordinator at been recognized by the Scholastic Art & Chattahoochee Technical College in Marietta, Writing Georgia and Liberal Arts adjunct instructor Awards, The New York Times, the White with Southern New Hampshire University. House, the Philadelphia Office of Arts, She is pursuing an Ph.D. in Humanities and Culture and the Creative Economy, and the Culture with a certificate in Creative Writing Huffington Post. Her poetry appears in the and Women's and Gender Studies at Union Voices of the East Coast anthology, The Institute & University. Her dissertation Feminist Press, and the New York Public research focuses on gender representation and Library. Currently, she serves as the NYC emerging female roles in AMC's The Walking Youth Poet Laureate. She is an editor for Dead. KidSpirit Magazine and a poetry reader for Polyphony HS. She currently attends the MISTI CHAMBERLAIN is an experienced Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Artist with a demonstrated history of working works as a researcher for the MIT Media Lab. in museums and the higher education community. She is an advocate for Arts in BRANDON MARLON is a writer from Education and strongly believes that art can Ottawa, Canada. He received his B.A. in make a difference. She is a strong arts and Drama & English from the University of design professional working toward a Doctor Toronto and his M.A. in English from the of Philosophy (Ph.D.) focused in History/Art University of Victoria. His poetry was History from Union Institute & University. awarded the Harry Hoyt Lacey Prize in Poetry (Fall 2015), and his writing has been JANIS CHANDLER earned an M.A. in published in 200+ publications in 27 Literature & Writing from Union Institute & countries. www.brandonmarlon.com University and am a candidate for a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies at Union Institute & NANCY PRATT is a PhD candidate in University. She worked with evacuees sent to interdisciplinary studies at Union Institute & Massachusetts following Hurricane Katrina. University with a leadership major. Creative This played a role in the First Year seminars writing that reflects the lives of women is an she has taught, as well as in the creation of interest; unarmed civilian peacekeeping is a her educational blog, which emphasizes the passion. Pratt is an executive director at Case necessity for humanity and compassion in Western Reserve University. assisting the marginalized. NANCY LOU SEMOTIUK is pursuing a GRETA ENRIQUEZ is pursuing a Ph.D. in Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies at Union Interdisciplinary Studies at the Union Institute & University. She teaches Institute & University. She works as a mental journalism and is an associate professor at health therapist in Massachusetts and New Walla Walla University. Jersey. TICO TENORIO is an English Professor at KRIS HEGE is currently pursuing