Elizabeth Kendall
Associate Professor of Liberal Studies and Literary Studies
Email
kendalle@newschool.edu
Office Location
M - 68 Fifth Avenue
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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.
Selection of courses taught:
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Nonfiction workshops
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Cultural Criticism
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Structure and Style (Introduction to Poetry, Drama, Fiction)
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Reflections of Race and Gender in American Culture: The Woman's Voice
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Choreography as Cultural Text: A History of Contemporary Western Dance
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Writing (and Reading) Paris
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Considering Clothes
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The Russian Revolution and the Arts
Degrees Held
MAT, Language and Literature, Harvard School of Education;
BA, Harvard University
Professional Affiliation
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English-Speaking Union Ambassador Book Award Committee
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Finnish American Women’s Network
Recent Publications
2015, Balanchine and the Lost Muse, Oxford University Press paperback
2013, Balanchine and the Lost Muse, Oxford University Press
2009, Autobiography of a Wardobe, Anchor/Vintage paperback
2008, Autobiography of a Wardrobe, Pantheon
2002, American Daughter, Random House paperback
2000, American Daughter, a memoir, Random House
2002, The Runaway Bride: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1930s, Anchor-Doubleday
1992, The Runaway Bride: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1930s, Knopf
1984, Where She Danced: The Birth of American Art Dance, University of California Press paperback
1979, Where She Danced, Knopf
Research Interests
Nonfiction writing; Memoir Writing, Arts writing; Early 20th Century Russian (St. Petersburg) culture; Fabric and Clothing history.
Awards And Honors
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2011-2012, Fellow, Leon Levy Center for Biography, CUNY
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2009, Fellow, Likhachev Foundation, St. Petersbrug Russia
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2004-5, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center Fellowship, NYPL
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2002-3, National Arts Journalism Program, Senior Fellow
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Guggenheim, Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation grants