Full-Time Faculty

Judson Evans (Division Director, Head Instructor of Sophomore Liberal Arts, Cores 3 and 4, Poetry Workshop) M.A. in English Literature, Tufts University; BA in English Literature, Wilkes University. Judson Evans’s teaching, and artistic and intellectual interests over the last twenty years have focused primarily on ancient Greek and Japanese culture and literature. Judson Evans has written poetry in many forms, but has worked particularly in Japanese forms of haiku, renku, and haibun. His work is represented in the new edition of Cor Van Den Heuvel’s The Haiku Anthology (Norton,1999), in the haiku anthology A New Resonance: Emerging Voice in English Language Haiku (Red Moon Press), and in the first English language anthology of haibun, edited by Bruce Ross: Journeys to the Interior (Tuttle, 1998). He publishes regularly in all the major journals in these genres, has spoken at symposia and in a radio interview for local station WUMB on these forms, and has been chosen as a judge in national competitions of haiku and renku. His chapbook of haibun, Mortal Coil will be published by Leap Press in 2006. His free verse poetry has been published in numerous publications including The Antigonish Review, West Branch, Bay Windows, The Cumberland Review, Hanging Loose , and Sow’s Ear Review. This spring (2005) his haibun “Window Washer” won chosen by poet Molly Peacock as the winner of The Comstock Review’s “Muriel Craft Bailey Award.” Evans has worked collaboratively in projects that have integrated poetry with music and dance. His poetic monologue Scrabble Ridge was performed by the late Boston choreographer, dancer, and performance artist Julie Ince Thompson as a part of the Fleet Boston Celebrity Series in 2001. His long poem Rules of Wrecking was developed into a performance piece by The Boston Theater Group and presented at the Harvard-Empworth Church in Cambridge in 2003. Most recently, his set of monologues, Wintering the Queen was developed into a musical setting by composer Rudolf Rojahn and performed as part of the Ludovico Ensemble Spring concert at The Conservatory in April 2005. He is currently working on a manuscript of prose poems and a poetic monologue based on the life of evolutionary geneticist George R. Price.

Gaynor Blandford(Coordinator of Core 1 and 2 curriculum). Ph.D. in English Literature, Tufts University; M.A in American Studies, Purdue University; B.A. in English, the University of York, United Kingdom. Her teaching experience has included a focus on interdisciplinary studies and collaborative teaching in both the Honors Program and the Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies, both at Emerson College; She has presented papers at conference in the United States, France, and Canada on several individual writers, on the subject of war, and the topic of humor. She has recently completed a memoir, a portion of which, “Losing Edie, Finding Sarah,” was published in the journal Lifeboat (Autumn 2003).

Shumona DasGupta (Ph.D., SUNY Stony Brook; MA, English Literature, University of Delhi) Shumona DasGupta specializes in Colonial/Postcolonal Theory, 20 th Century Indian Literature in English, cultural studies, theorioes of globaliztion, and 19 th and 20 th century Black” British Literature, as well as and Women’s Studies. Her dissertation examines the moment of violence in historic fiction representing the colonial encounter between Britain and India in the 19 th and 20 th centuries. She also has special interest in transnational perspectives on women’s issues, and on the question of how colonialism and imperialism shape ideas about gender. She has published and presented numerous scholarly essays on Postcolonial Literature in professional journals. She has taught in the English Department at Stony Brook and at Concordia University, Montreal. She is presently working a book length study titled: Locating Violence in narratives at the Limit of History: The Partition in South Asian Literature and Film.

Gloria Pastorino (Italian, and Core 3 and 4). Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Harvard University; MA in English UNM; MA in Modern Languages and Literatures, IULM, Milan. Gloria Pastorino wrote her dissertation on Dario Fo’s stage language, and has translated several of his plays for student productions at Harvard. Her recent translation of The Accidental Death of an Anarchist has been performed in Dallas, Pittsburgh, and Chicago. She has also translated a few plays by Luigi Pirandello, including Enrico IV for the American Repertory Theatre and short stories for Martha Clarke at the New York Theatre Workshop, and has collaborated with RAI, doing subtitles for Italian films. She is now working on some monologues for women written by Fo, and on a book on the role of servants in comedy.

Part-Time Faculty

Jane Baldwin (Liberal Arts, Core 3 and 4, Dramatic Literature, Acting for Singers). Ph.D., Tufts University. Dr. Baldwin has extensive professional acting and directing experience in the United States and Europe and is the 2005 recipient of the Heather McCallum Grant, awarded by the Association for Canadian Theatre Research. She is the author of the recent book, Michel Saint-Denis and the Shaping of the Modern Actor (Greenwood Press). Her chapter “From the Côte d’Or to the Golden Hills: The Copiaus Model as Inspiration for the Dell’Arte Company” will appear in the forthcoming book, Lives and Deaths of Collective Creation ( University of Ottawa Press). Her other publications include articles for Theater History Studies, L’Annuaire théâtral, Theatre Topics, Theatre Journal, Dance Connection, and New England Theater Journal. Former faculty: Tufts University, Wellesley College, Regis College and the University of Massachusetts.

Basil Cleveland (Liberal arts Elective: History of Math and Science/ Aesthetics) Basil is currently working on his dissertation for the Ph.D. in the Doctoral Program in Poetry and Philosophy at Boston University; B.A in Philosophy, history of Mathematics and Science, St. John’s College, Annapolis, MD. His poems have appeared in numerous national literary journals, including Ploughshares, The Wallace Stevens Journal, the New Orleans Review, the Notre Dame Review, and Hayden’s Ferry; several of his newer works are scheduled to appear this spring in The Iowa Review, California Quarterly, Rosebud, PERMAfrost, The Bellingham Review, and Third Coast. He recently won a Vermont Studio Center Full Fellowship.

Pierre Hurel (French) MFA Berklee College of Music. Pierre Hurel has taught French side by side with his musical career in Boston for many years and has drawn from his musical experience and training to develop his pedagogy in the teaching of French. Paris-born Pierre Hurel's musical talents were first discovered and nurtured by Paris Jazz Conservatory's former director and founder, Charles Henry. Hurel moved to the United States in the mid-eightees to continue his advanced studies. He has also studied privately with Charlie Banacos, one of Boston's most well-known improvisational music teachers. Hurel performs internationally at the Toulon and Nice Jazz Festivals. In 1992 Pierre Hurel opened for jazz legend Chick Corea, at the Toulon Jazz Festival, where both Jazz Hot and Jazz Magazine hailed him as "the jazz discovery of the year." Nationally, Pierre performs in New York and Boston, including shows at the Knickerbocker in New York City, the French Library in Boston, and the L'Air du temps, the international music festival in and around Boston. Pierre’s CDs include What I Am Thinking About and The Crush.

Sebastian Lockwood (Liberal Arts Electives: Visual Anthropology) MA Social Anthropology, Cambridge University ( UK); MA in Education and English, Cambridge University; BA in English, Boston University. Sebastian is a poet, teacher and storyteller. He has developed a set of one-man performance pieces based on his improv versions of eastern and western classic texts: The Odyssey Project based on Homer'sOdyssey, The Epic of Gilgamesh, the 6 th Century Chinese textMonkey: A Journey to the West, and most recently a piece based on the writings of Roman senator and orator Cicero, Cicero: A Roman Life.He also teaches in the creative Arts programs Lesley and Endicott where he has developed curriculum on the use of poetry, visual arts and storytelling in the classroom. Sebastian has also collaborated with his partner Nanette Perrotte, a jazz singer and composer on a number of projects. Sebastian Lockwood’s writings include, three novels, a book of poems, translations and articles. Sebastian is a member of the New Hampshire Artists Roster.

Elisabeth Rettelbach (German). MA in Applied Linguistics/ Translation, with additional certification in Teaching German as a Foreign Language, Johannes-Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany. She is a language enthusiast, works as a freelance translator, writes and translates stories, and teaches German at various institutions in Boston, including The Goethe Institute.

Kate White (Liberal Arts Core 1 and 2) M.A. University of Massachusetts; BA, Harvard University. For many years, Kate White worked at the William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences at UMass/ Boston where she taught courses in writing and in American Studies. She also works with authors and has edited novels, murder mysteries, cinema studies texts and most recently, film scripts.