MAT, Language and Literature, Harvard School of Education;
BA, Harvard University

I believe that teaching students to write well is the equivalent of teaching them to think well.  For me, writing is the critical component of a liberal arts education; it enhances everything else.

• Nonfiction Workshops
• Cultural Criticism
• Structure and Style (Introduction to Poetry, Drama, Fiction)
• Reflections of Race and Gender in American Culture:  the Women’s Voice
• Choreography as Cultural Text:  A History of Contemporary Western Theater Dance

• 2000, American Daughter, a memoir
• Recent articles in Dance Magazine
• Forthcoming second memoir

Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts
65 West 11th Street, Room 054
New York, NY  10011

Nonfiction writing; Arts writing; Early 20th Century Russian (St. Petersburg) culture; Fabric and Clothing history.

• English-Speaking Union Ambassador Book Award Committee
• Finnish American Women’s Network

• 2004-5, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center Fellowship, NYPL
• 2002-3, National Arts Journalism Program, Senior Fellow
• Guggenheim, Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation grants