Presentations and Publications (Select) |
Presentations:
Havurot Group, “Back to Brześć”, Del Mar, California, 2020.
Havurot Group, “A Daughter Returns to the Shtetl”, Rancho Santa Fe, California, 2019.
Forum Lecture Series, Jewish Community Center, “Talking with Ghosts: A Daughter Returns to the Shtetl,” La Jolla, California, January 1998.
Emerson American Scholar Lecture Series, Cal Poly, Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society, Spring 1994.
“Reluctant Dissident: The Writing of Czeslaw Milosz,” presentation to Professor Inchausti’s English 459, October 1993.
“Opening the Boundaries: Oracy and Literacy in the Multicultural University Classroom,” Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Diego, April 1993.
“Finding a Voice: Multiculturalism and the ‘call of stories’,” California Literature Project, Orange County, July 1993.
“Naming Names: Ethnic Identity and the Teaching of Literature,” California Literature Project, Orange County, July 1992.
“Innocence and Experience: Poland’s Compromised History,” presented to the San Luis Obispo County Medical Society, October 1990.
International Business Club, Cal Poly, “The Political and Cultural Environments of Poland,” May 31, 1990.
Powerhouse Gallery Lecture Series, Cal Poly, “And the Walls Come Tumbling Down, Poland Past and Present,” May 12, 1990.
Chair, “Displacement and Identity,” Conference of “Place in American Culture,” California American Studies Association, Cal Poly, May 4-6, 1990.
Woman’s Week, Cal Poly, “Women in Poland: A View from the Other Side of the Curtain, February 22, 1990.
University Club, Cal Poly, “Poland: The Changing Meanings of ‘Left’ and ‘Right’,” February 22, 1990.
International Conference on Critical Theory, Katowice, Poland, “Barthes ‘Le Language de Connaissance’ and Female Voice in Leslie Mormon Silko, Ceremony,” May 1998.
International Conference on Women and Writing, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, “Reading Women’s Texts: The Uses of Theory,” May 1988.
University of Opole, Poland, “American Women Writers,” April 1988.
University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland, “Naypayers, Table-pounders, Shoulder-shruggers: the Ethical Legacy in Jewish-American Literature,” April 1988.
UCLA Writing Programs Colloquia on Critical Thinking, January 1987.
UCLA Chancellor’s Conference on Composition and Literature, Los Angeles, “Literature and Writing: A Connection Between Two Worlds,” December 7, 1985.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, University of California, San Diego, California, “The Epistemic Rhetoric of T.S. Eliot,” July 1985.
Miramar Community College, Department of English, San Diego, California, “The Art of Literary Close Reading,” March 1982.
Position Paper presented to the Fellows of the San Diego Area Writing Project, University of California, San Diego, California, “Black American Dialect: Implications for Teachers of English,” August 13, 1978.
Havurot Group, “Back to Brześć”, Del Mar, California, 2020.
Havurot Group, “A Daughter Returns to the Shtetl”, Rancho Santa Fe, California, 2019.
Forum Lecture Series, Jewish Community Center, “Talking with Ghosts: A Daughter Returns to the Shtetl,” La Jolla, California, January 1998.
Emerson American Scholar Lecture Series, Cal Poly, Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society, Spring 1994.
“Reluctant Dissident: The Writing of Czeslaw Milosz,” presentation to Professor Inchausti’s English 459, October 1993.
“Opening the Boundaries: Oracy and Literacy in the Multicultural University Classroom,” Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Diego, April 1993.
“Finding a Voice: Multiculturalism and the ‘call of stories’,” California Literature Project, Orange County, July 1993.
“Naming Names: Ethnic Identity and the Teaching of Literature,” California Literature Project, Orange County, July 1992.
“Innocence and Experience: Poland’s Compromised History,” presented to the San Luis Obispo County Medical Society, October 1990.
International Business Club, Cal Poly, “The Political and Cultural Environments of Poland,” May 31, 1990.
Powerhouse Gallery Lecture Series, Cal Poly, “And the Walls Come Tumbling Down, Poland Past and Present,” May 12, 1990.
Chair, “Displacement and Identity,” Conference of “Place in American Culture,” California American Studies Association, Cal Poly, May 4-6, 1990.
Woman’s Week, Cal Poly, “Women in Poland: A View from the Other Side of the Curtain, February 22, 1990.
University Club, Cal Poly, “Poland: The Changing Meanings of ‘Left’ and ‘Right’,” February 22, 1990.
International Conference on Critical Theory, Katowice, Poland, “Barthes ‘Le Language de Connaissance’ and Female Voice in Leslie Mormon Silko, Ceremony,” May 1998.
International Conference on Women and Writing, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, “Reading Women’s Texts: The Uses of Theory,” May 1988.
University of Opole, Poland, “American Women Writers,” April 1988.
University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland, “Naypayers, Table-pounders, Shoulder-shruggers: the Ethical Legacy in Jewish-American Literature,” April 1988.
UCLA Writing Programs Colloquia on Critical Thinking, January 1987.
UCLA Chancellor’s Conference on Composition and Literature, Los Angeles, “Literature and Writing: A Connection Between Two Worlds,” December 7, 1985.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, University of California, San Diego, California, “The Epistemic Rhetoric of T.S. Eliot,” July 1985.
Miramar Community College, Department of English, San Diego, California, “The Art of Literary Close Reading,” March 1982.
Position Paper presented to the Fellows of the San Diego Area Writing Project, University of California, San Diego, California, “Black American Dialect: Implications for Teachers of English,” August 13, 1978.
Publications:
Bantry Bay: American in West Cork, Ireland (in progress)
Letters to My Father: Excavating a Jewish Identity in Poland and Belarus, Bashert Press, 2021.
“Writing the Body: Female Creative Imagination in Black American Women’s Literature,” Journal of American Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland, American Studies Center, vol XI.
Book Review: “Writing Without Taboos: The New East German Literature,” Critique, Vol. XXXII, vol. 4.
African-American Women’s Literature, ed., Cal Poly English Department, ITEC Publishing Services.
Children’s Literature, ed., Cal Poly English Department, ITEC Publishing Services.
Teaching Literature in the Secondary Schools, ed., Cal Poly English Department, ITEC Publishing Services.
Teaching Writing in the Secondary Schools, ed., Cal Poly English Department, ITEC Publishing Services.
Writing About the Fine Arts, ed., UCLA Writing Programs, Academic Publishing Services.
Language Study for Teachers of English: Secondary and Postsecondary, ed., UCLA Writing Programs, Academic Publishing Services.