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GALLATIN SCHOOL OF INDIVIDUALIZED STUDYSharon FriedmanAssociate ProfessorB.A. 1969, Boston; M.A. 1971, Ph.D. 1977, NewYorkSharon Friedman’s teaching and research interests are in the areas of literary and dramaticcriticism,feminist criticism,theories of adaptation and critical writing across the curriculum.Herpublications include an edited volume titled Feminist Theatrical Revisions of Classic Works(McFarland,2008) and numerous essays including“Feminism asTheme inTwentieth-CenturyAmericanWomen’s Drama”in American Studies,“Revisioning theWoman’s Part in PaulaVogel’sDesdemona”in NewTheatre Quarterly,“Honor orVirtue Unrewarded:Susan Glaspell’s Challengeto Ideologies of Sexual Conduct and the Discourse of Intimacy” in New England TheatreJournal,“‘Sounds Indistinguishable from Sights’:Staging Subjectivity in Katie Mitchell’s Waves”in Text and Presentation, and “The Gendered Terrain in Contemporary Theatre of War byWomen” in Theatre Journal. Other essays have appeared in Contemporary Authors BibliographicalSeries:American Dramatists,TDR,Women and Performance, Susan Glaspell: Essays on herTheater andFiction,and Codifying the National Self:Spectators,Actors,and theAmerican DramaticText.She has alsoco-authored Writing and Thinking in the Social Sciences. Her courses include “Revisioning theClassics,” Literary Forms and the Craft of Criticism,”“Text and Performance” (co-taught withProfessor Julie Malnig),“The Art of the Personal Essay,” and Fictionalizing History/HistoricizingFiction.” In 1988, she received NewYork University’s DistinguishedTeaching Award.Lisa GoldfarbAssociate ProfessorB.A. 1976, SUNY-Purchase; M.Phil. 1985, Ph.D. 1991, CUNY (Graduate Center)Lisa Goldfarb’s research and teaching interests are in the fields of comparative literature (Frenchand English) and critical writing. She focuses on 19th- and 20th-century European andAmerican literature, and is particularly interested in modern poetry and poetics, the relationshipbetween music and poetry,philosophic questions in literature,as well as the literature andhistory of NewYork City. Her interdisciplinary seminars on related themes include“Belief andSkepticism,”“Sound and Sense,”“Reading Poetry,”“Wallace Stevens and the 20th Century,”“Modern Poetry and the ActualWorld” and “The Music of Poetry and the Poetry of Music.”Professor Goldfarb has taught a foreign study course in Nîmes (France) and has accompaniedstudent travel and study groups to Cuba, Prague, Athens, and Ireland. She is a recipient ofGallatin’s Adviser of Distinction Award and NYU’s Great Teacher Award. Her book, TheFigure Concealed:Wallace Stevens, Music, and Valéryan Echoes, focuses on the resonance of PaulValéry’s musical poetics in the poetry and prose of Wallace Stevens. In addition to her manyjournal articles on modern poetry,she is co-editor,with Bart Eeckhout,of a volume of essays,Wallace Stevens, New York, and Modernism (Routledge, 2012), which considers the impact ofNewYork University Bulletin 2012-2013 29