New York University Bulletin - Gallatin School of Individualized ...

GALLATIN SCHOOL OF INDIVIDUALIZED STUDYGregory EricksonClinical Associate ProfessorB.M. 1994, Minnesota; M.A. 1996, CUNY (Hunter); Ph.D. 2004, CUNY (Graduate Center)Gregory Erickson has taught at the Gallatin School since 2004, specializing in courses onmodern literature,popular culture,religion and music including“WritingTwentieth-CenturyMusic and Culture;”“Beyond Language:The Surreal, the Mystical, and the Monstrous;” and“Contexts of Musical Meaning.” He is the author of The Absence of God in Modernist Literature,published in 2007, and the coauthor of Religion and Popular Culture: Rescripting the Sacred,published in 2008. He has also published in journals such as the Henry James Review andthe Journal of Popular Music Studies and in several scholarly collections of essays on television.Erickson is trained as a literary scholar and as a classical musician and performs regularly withprofessional orchestras and chamber ensembles. He is currently working on a book on heresyand the modern literary imagination.Valerie FormanAssociate ProfessorB.S. 1986, Pennsylvania; M.A. 1989, California (Berkeley); Ph.D. 2000, California (Santa Cruz)Valerie Forman’s research and teaching interests lie in the literature and culture of 16th- and17th-century England and Europe, the early modern Caribbean, early modern drama, earlymodern women writers, early modern economic history and political theory, and Marxisttheory.She received a Ph.D.in literature from U.C.Santa Cruz,specializing in Renaissance and17th-century English literature and culture and 16th-century French literature. Before comingto Gallatin, Forman taught in the Department of English at the University of Colorado,Boulder. Her first book, Tragicomic Redemptions: Global Economics and the Early Modern EnglishStage (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008) explores the relationship between innovationsin the theatre and new economic practices necessary to the beginnings of global trade,including that among England, the East Indies, and the Ottoman Empire. Her second bookproject, which turns to trade and cultural relations in the Caribbean, is titled Developing NewWorlds: Property, Freedom, and the Economics of Representation in Early Modern England and theCaribbean. She teaches courses on theatre and politics, labor and global markets, and the riseof globalization in the early modern period.NewYork University Bulletin 2012-2013 27