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  • Elizabeth Kendall

    Associate Professor of Liberal Studies and Literary Studies

    Email
    kendalle@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    M - 68 Fifth Avenue

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    Elizabeth Kendall

    Profile

    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:

    • Nonfiction workshops
    • Cultural Criticism
    • Structure and Style (Introduction to Poetry, Drama, Fiction)
    • Reflections of Race and Gender in American Culture: The Woman's Voice
    • Choreography as Cultural Text: A History of Contemporary Western Dance
    • Writing (and Reading) Paris
    • Considering Clothes
    • The Russian Revolution and the Arts

    Degrees Held

    MAT, Language and Literature, Harvard School of Education;
    BA, Harvard University


    Professional Affiliation

    • English-Speaking Union Ambassador Book Award Committee
    • 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

    • 2011-2012, Fellow, Leon Levy Center for Biography, CUNY
    • 2009, Fellow, Likhachev Foundation, St. Petersbrug Russia
    • 2004-5, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center Fellowship, NYPL
    • 2002-3, National Arts Journalism Program, Senior Fellow
    • Guggenheim, Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation grants

    Current Courses

    Ind Senior Project
    LLSW 4990, Fall 2024

    Independent Study
    LLSW 3950, Fall 2024

    Intro Non-Fiction
    LLSW 2010, Fall 2024

    Future Courses

    Ind Senior Project
    LLSW 4990, Spring 2025

    Independent Study
    LLSW 3950, Spring 2025

    Past Courses

    Ind Senior Project
    LLSW 4990, Spring 2024

    Independent Study
    LLSW 3950, Spring 2024

    Literary Reinvention
    LLST 2005, Spring 2024

    Literary Reinvention: DSC
    LLST 2006, Spring 2024

    Senior Sem:NonFic/Journ
    LLSW 4992, Spring 2024

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