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Events, Talks and Conferences! |
Guest Lecture
Monday, April 13, 7:00 PM
Dr. Joy Ladin, The David and Ruth Gottesman Chair in English, College, Yeshiva University
Author, Poet, and Memoirist
Case, Inamori Center, Crawford Hall, Ground Floor |
"If I Am for Myself Alone”-Gender Transition and the Ethics of Becoming
At least since Emerson, Americans have been exhorted to be ourselvesto live authentically, in the face of others. Throughout her forty-odd years as a deeply closeted transsexual, Dr. Joy Ladin was tormented by her failure to live up to this ideal of authenticity, by the cowardice her male persona reflected. Ladin's midlife transition from husband, father, and bearded, kippah-wearing professor at an Orthodox Jewish college, to living as a woman, resolved the torment of inauthenticity, but at a cost to those closely bound up with her former inauthentic self. |
Reading/Workshop
Tuesday, April 14,
Dr. Joy Ladin, The David and Ruth Gottesman Chair in English, College, Yeshiva University
Author, Poet, and Memoirist
11:30-1:00 P.M. Case, Clark Hall 302
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Writing Identity: The Composition & De-Composition of Language
Dr. Joy Ladin holds a PhD in English Literature from Princeton University, and an MFA in Poetry from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. In addition to Stern College, Ladin has also taught in the Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Sarah Lawrence College, Princeton University, Tel Aviv University as Fulbright Poet-in-Residence, Reed College and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her essays have appeared in Parnassus, Southwest Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Emily Dickinson Journal The King's English, and New Haven Review. Her books of poetry, Alternatives to History, and The Book of Anna, were published by Sheep Meadow Press in 2003 and 2007 respectively; it will bring out her third book of poetry, Transmigration, next spring. In 2007 Ladin was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in Poetry. She is currently completing her new book, Inside Out: Confessions of a Woman Caught in the Act of Becoming, a book of autobiographical essays reflecting on gender transition and what it shows about identity, gender and the processes of becoming human.
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