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CURRICULUM VITA Gloria Feman Orenstein CURRICULUM VITA Gloria Feman Orenstein Full Professor Department of Comparative Literature and Gender Studies _______________________________________________________________________________ 360 S. Burnside Avenue University of Southern California Tower 33, Apt. 9G Department of Comparative Literature Los Angeles, CA 90036 3501 Trousdale Parkway (213) 272-3935 Los Angeles, CA 90089-0353 [email protected] (213) 740-0100 /02 and Fax: (213) 740-8286 _______________________________________________________________________________ EDUCATION 1971 Ph.D., Comparative Literature, New York University 1961 M.A. Slavic Languages and Literatures, Radcliffe Graduate School of Harvard University 1959 B.A. Romance Languages and Literatures, Brandeis University PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS 1982-2006 Tenured Professor, Department of Comparative Literature and Gender Studies, USC 1985-88 Director of a cultural program for honors students Faculty-in Residence: Pacific Apartments, USC 1975-80 Assistant Professor, English Douglass College of Rutgers University 1978-79 Director, The Rutgers Junior Year in France Douglass College of Rutgers University 1976-78 Chairperson, Women's Studies Program Douglass College of Rutgers University 1974-75 Co-Adjutant, English and Women's Studies Douglass College of Rutgers University 1971-72 Chargé de Cours in American Culture and Literature University of Paris (Paris III, Censier), Paris, France 1 HONORS AND PUBLIC RECOGNITION 2006—2007 Grant to establish an archive of video interviews of Pioneer Women Artists of Southern California at USC. 2004 Acknowledged in MELUSINE No XIX: Mexique, Miroir Magnetique Cahiers du Centre de Recherche Sur Le Surrealisme in the article “Le Mexique Revisite” by Henri Behar as the first one to write about Surrealism in Mexico in MELUSINE, No II, pp. 130—137. 2004 Elected to ART TABLE: A National Organization for Professional Women In Leadership Positions in The Visual Arts 2003 I was awarded a medal and certificate of honor from The Veteran Feminists of America. It is a salute to the feminists in the visual arts held at the National Arts Club, NYC with an International Art Exhibition in the Grand Gallery. I co-created this event, and moderated the panel with: Arlene Raven, Miriam Schapiro, Judith Brodsky, Faith Ringgold, Betsy Damon, Susan Schwalb, and Suzanne Benton. 1998 UNESCO CHAIR ON GENDER STUDIES. CREDIF. Centre de Recherches, d'Etudes, de Documentation, et d'Information TUNIS, TUNISIA Lecture: "From Women's Studies to Gender Studies: Where Have All The Women Gone?" Televised on Tunisian Television. Published with texts from this series. 1998 CONTRIBUTING EDITOR: FEMSPEC An Interdisciplinary Feminist Journal Dedicated to Critical and Creative Works in the Realms of SF, Fantasy, Magical Realism, and Other Supernatural Genres. 1998 THE WOMAN'S SALON ARCHIVES on the USC WEB. 1996 Research-Travel Grant from the GOUVERNEMENT DE QUEBEC. MINISTERE DES RELATIONS INTERNATIONALES for research on Québecois feminist writer/artist Jovette Marchessault. Interviews with Nicole Brossard, Marie-Claire Blais, Mary Meigs, Norman Chaurette, and Michelle Rossignol, Artistic Director of Le Théâtre d'Aujourd'hui, and poet Sylvie Nicolas. 1993 Invitation to attend the FIRST NATIONAL ECOFEMINIST WRITERS' RETREAT. Hopscotch House; Prospect, KY. Founded and Funded by Sally Bingham. 1991 Torch and Tassel Chapter of MORTAR BOARD National Senior Honor Society 1990 THE VESTA AWARD from THE WOMAN'S BUILDING in Los Angeles 2 1990 FRIF GRANT USC for Research on Sami Women Lapland, Northern Norway. Summer, 1990. 1989 ISWM SUMMER STIPEND for research on Sami Folklore Institute for the Study of Women and Men in Society 1989 FEMINIST ART CRITICISM: AN ANTHOLOGY, Edited by Arlene Raven, Cassandra L. Langer, Joanna Frueh. Awarded prize for a distinguished anthology of art criticism. My article "The Reemergence of the Archetype of the Great Goddess in Contemporary Art by Women" is included in this anthology. 1988 GYNOCRITICS/LA GYNOCRITIQUE Edited by Barbara Godard awarded the Gabrielle Roy prize for the best critical work of the year in Canada. My article on Jovette Marchessault "The Ecstatic Vision-Quest of the New Feminist Shaman" is in this anthology. 1988 Special report on Ecofeminism and the conference I co-created at USC in FEMINIST STUDIES, Summer, 1988. 1988 Article on "Ecofeminism at the Cutting Edge" and on our Ecofeminism Conference at USC in THE NATION. 1985 Innovative Teaching Fund Award to write a MANUEL FOR TEACHING GENDER STUDIES. Award shared with Lois Banner and Elinor Accampo (Historians). 1985-86 President, Division on Relations of Literature and the other Arts, The Modern Language Association. 1984-86 Board of Directors, The Woman's Building; Los Angeles. 1983-84 Originator, THEME YEAR ON GENDER STUDIES. Sponsored by the Center for the Humanities and SWMS at USC. 1982 Phi Beta Kappa; Mu Chapter of Massachusetts. Brandeis University. Retroactive membership. 1976-79 Press coverage of the Women's Salon in New York. I was the Co-creator of this Salon for Feminist Literature. The New York Times, Dec. 22, 1977. The Herald Tribune (Paris), Nov. 1978. The Villager (New York), Feb. 16, 1978. El Sur (Chile), April 7, 1979. Le Devoir (Montreal), Oct. 1979. Choisir (Paris), Dec. 1979. 1966-71 DANFORTH GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP FOR WOMEN 1959 Brandeis University: Magna Cum Laude; Honors in Romance Languages and Literatures; Brandeis Honor 3 Society; Louis D. Brandeis Honorary Scholarship (1957 and 1959). Awarded for high scholastic attainment to three students in each class. PUBLICATIONS BOOKS IN PREPARATION, FORTHCOMING, AND FUTURE PROJECTS: 2011 “Salon Women of the Second Wave: Honoring the Great Matrilineage of Creators of Culture” in ENTERING THE PICTURE. Edited by Kill Fields. Routledfge, Taylor and Francis. New York City, Spring 20100 (with three photos—approx 30 pages.) 2011 “Down the Rabbit Hole: Shamanic Initiation and Mythic Rebirth From the Womb of the Great Mother in the Art of Women Surrealists in Mexico and the U.S.” IN WONDERLAND. Catalogue/book for the exhibition to open in Museo de Arte MOderno in Mexico City, Dec. 2011 and then at LACMA in March 2012. Published by LACMA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art., Los Angeles, 2011. WORKS REGARDING THE ART OF ALAN GLASS, ALL FORTHCOMING AFTER 2010: 2010 “Bee Dreaming: The Surreal Odysseys Behind Alan Glass’ WUNDERKABINETS. In JOURNAL OF SURREALISM IN THE AMERICAS. End of Nov. 2010. 2010 “The Artist as Curator of a World of Wonders” in ALAN GLASS. By Masayo Nonaka. This is the PROLOGUE to the book by Masayo Nonaka. To be published in Mexico after 2010. 2010 A SERIES OF THREE EXAMPLES OF LE HASARD OBJECTIF IN ALAN GLASS’S WORK: All are forthcoming in a scrapbook that accompanies the large art biography by Masayo Nonaka. These three texts form one unit on Le Hasard Objectif in his work. 1. “The Secret Life of the Bronze Glove: Alan Glass’ Centennial Discovery” 2. “The Invisible Weavings of Le Hasard Objectif or The Surreal Genesis of Alan Glass’ Large Glass Box, PIGALLS: PARA LOUIS MORIN Y MARCEL DUCHAMP” 3. “The Mystery of a Visit to the Flea Market on a Rainy Day in Rome.” All three texts will be published in English, French, and Spanish. The publication of the book ALAN GLASS and the SCRAPBOOK of other texts and photos is a production of SEVEN DOC and a creation of Aube Elleouet (the daughter of Andre Breton). THE SURREALIST COSMOVISION OF BRIDGET TICHENOR The first art historical study of Bridget Tichenor, a contemporary of Leonora 4 Carrington, and affiliated with the Mexican Surrealist Movement. Commissioned and by Carlos de Laborde. To be published by Laborde and Friedeberg. (The book is completed, but the publication was held up because of the economic crisis in Mexico. A preview of my research was in FEMSPEC Vol. 1, Issue 1, 1999.. "Jovette Marchessault's Mystical Theatre: The Confessions of a Cherubinic Peregrine" Written in completion of a Grant for the American Council For Quebec Studies. Soon to be published as the Introduction to LA PEREGRINE CHERUBINIQUE by Jovette Marchessault. Editions Léméac, Montreal. JUDAISM, FEMINISM ART: THE VISIONARY JOURNEYS OF CONTEMPORARY JEWISH WOMEN ARTISTS I have collected my initial slide-presentation material, and presented a three and one- half hour lecture at The Woman's Institute for Continuing Jewish Education in La Jolla, Ca. in Oct., 1999. I have an article based on some of this material which appeared in FEMSPEC, Vol. 4, Issue 2, 2004, entitled: “Vision and Visibility: Contemporary Jewish American Artists Visualize the Invisible”. RECENT PUBLICATIONS: 2010 “The Earth is a Heavenly Body” The Mythopoetic Universe of Linda Vallejo” FIERCE BEAUTY: LINDA VALLEJO: A FORTY-YEAR RETROSPECTIVE. Plaza de la Raza: Cultural Center for the Arts and Education. Los Angeles, 2010. 2010 “Visionary Time Travel abroad a Solar Barque: Suzanne Bellamy’s Venusian Journey.” Catalogue Essay. Exhibition Buffalo, NY Summer 2010. 2009 “Torah Study, Feminist and Spiritual Quests in the Work of Five American Women Artists” NASHIM: JOURNAL OF WOMEN’S STUDIES AND GENDER ISSUES. Fall, No. 14, 5768/2007. Indiana University Press and Brandeis Hadassah Institute and The Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies. Pp. 97-131. 2009 Review of “The Politics of Spiritual and Aesthetic Altarities” by Laura E. Perez, Duke University, 2007. In FEMSPEC, 10.1, Vol. 10 Issue 1, 2009. 2008 “Awakening the Sleeping Goddess: Anne Gauldin’s Visionary Journeys in Search of Women’s Empowered Heritage” in THE WAITRESSES UNPEELED: PERFORMANCE ART AND LIFE. By Jerri Allyn and Anne Galudin. Copyright The Waitresses, Los Angeles, 2008. 2008 “The Dreaming Universe of Jean Kazandjian,” JEAN KAZANDJIAN C.A.G. and Jean Kazandjian, 2008, Los Angeles, CA. 5 2006 “When the Imaginary Becomes Real as Surrealism Said It Would: All the Rest is Litterature” in FEMSPEC 7.2, VOL.7, Issue 2, 2006. 2005 “The World As You Dream It: the Ecstatic Vision-Quest Journeys of Anais Nin” in WOMEN TRAVELERS. Continuum, 2005. Edited by Alba Amoia and Bettina Knapp 1993 MULTI-CULTURAL CELEBRATIONS: THE PAINTINGS OF BETTY LA DUKE 1970-1990.
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