The Conversation
http://mals.retroforward.com/archives/number_1/contributors-4.shtmlContributors, Issue 1
Stephanie Barann (MALS '08) attended her first academic conference in April in Canada. The topic was Terrorism, and it was part of the human condition series. “I presented a paper on Feminism," she writes. "I continue to be interested in creating communities of equality because we cannot express ourselves in inequality. Expression is the foundation of our ability to create meaning, and play with or experience our relationships to one another and to ourselves.”
Rachel M. Brownstein is a Professor of English at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, and deputy executive officer of the master of arts in Liberal Studies program. She has written a biography (Tragic Muse: Rachel of the Comédie-Française) as well as a book about reading novels (Becoming a Heroine).
Carrie Crow’s photographs have appeared in numerous international magazines. She lives in Paris.
Daniel D’Arezzo (MALS '08) is a copyeditor and lives in Park Slope but is currently visiting friends and family in California. At the same time, he is preparing the second issue of The Conversation, to be posted in April or May.
Christopher Ian Foster (MALS '08) received two bachelor’s degrees from the University of Washington, Seattle—one in Anthropology and the other in English literature. He is currently working on a Ph.D. in English at the Graduate Center.
William Warner is an essayist and linguist who lives in New York City. After many years of study at the City University Liberal Studies program, he is writing a book on our commitment (as human beings) to ignorance.
Robert Wechsler was born in 1928 in New York City, where he attended local schools. He was graduated from Harvard College (A.B. cum laude) and attended the Yale School of Drama but left without a degree. His education was interrupted by four years in the U.S. Air Force. Wechsler worked for a time in television, where his last job was associate producer of The Perry Mason Show. Thereafter, he spent many years in the food-service industry. At age 76, he decided to return to school for a master’s degree with the objective of teaching. He is currently finished with course work in the Liberal Studies program and is writing a thesis on an aspect of the Civil Rights Movement, in which he was engaged in 1964 and 1965.