Constance S. Constantine
Director, Constance W. Stafford Charitable Trust

Chair, Capital Campaign, Hauptman-Woodward

Rosemary Feal

Executive Director, Modern Language Association
Professor of Spanish, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University at Buffalo

Rosemary Feal has published widely in Latin American literature, including two books, Novel Lives: The Fictional Autobiographies of Guillermo Cabrera Infante and Mario Vargas Llosa and Painting on the Page: Interartistic Approaches to Modern Hispanic Texts, which she co-authored with Carlos Feal. Previously Feal served as chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures in the College of Arts and Sciences at UB.

Michael Frisch

Professor of History and American Studies/ Senior Research Scholar, University at Buffalo 
Director, Randforce Corporation

Trained as a U.S. urban and social historian, for many years his scholarship and public practice has centered on oral and public history. In 2002 Frisch founded Randforce, located in UB's Technology Incubator, as the best mode through which to explore the wide applicatons of dramatic new digital tools for working with audio and video documentation in the construction and use of historical meaning in scholarship, education, and community and public life. 

Frisch is the author of over one hundred articles and essays, and of four major books, two of them highly influential in the oral history field : A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History, (SUNY Press, 1990),  and Portraits in Steel , (with photographer Milton Rogovin, Cornell University Press, 1993) Portraits was the winner of the Oral History Association's inaugural Best Book prize, for 1993-1995.

 

Elected to the Executive Board of the Organization of American Historians (1995-99) and as President of the American Studies Association (2000-2001), Frisch currently serves on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the Federation of State Humanities Councils. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Chinese in the Americas, Long Bow Films, Inc., and MUSE Incorporated (Musicians United for Superior Education).  Frisch was the editor, for ten years, of The Oral History Review .

His most recent publication is Oral History and the Digital Revolution: Toward a Post-Documentary Sensibility included in the Oral History Reader. He also serves as consultant to oral and public history projects in schools, museums, radio and television, and documentary films.

Regina Grol

Professor of Comparative Literature, Empire State College, State University of New York

Grol is a specialist in Polish literature. She is the translator and editor of Ambers Aglow: An Anthology of Contemporary Polish Women's Poetry 1985-1995 (Host Publications, 1997) and a Fulbright scholar to Poland (2001-2002).

Josephine Hogan

Board of Trustees and Artist in Residence, Irish Classical Theatre Company
Member of Actors Equity Association and the Oscar Wilde Society of America
Web site: www.JosephineHogan.com

Born in Dublin, Ireland, Josephine trained as an actress at the Oscar Theatre School in Dublin and continued her training with various theatre companies in London including the Royal Shakespeare Company. A mime artist with the Oscar Mime Company, she also trained with Pantomimteatern {Swedish National Mime Company}. She studied voice at Ireland's National Theatre Company, the Abbey Theatre, Jazz with Ellen Demos and appeared in most theatres throughout Ireland and on Irish TV as well as the BBC.

Favourites among the roles she has played include Shirley Valentine, the title roles in O'Casey's  Juno and the Paycock, Brian Friel's Molly Sweeney and Shaw's Mrs Warren's Profession, Kyra in Skylight by David Hare, Amanda in Private Lives by Noel Coward, Mrs Cheveley in An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde and Crazy Ladies, her critically acclaimed one woman show. Recent shows include; Out to Lunch, a revival of Noel Coward's Private Lives, and her directing debut with The Importance of Being Oscar by Michael MacLiammoir.

 

For the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra she adapted A Man, A Life, A Symphony based on the life and times of Ludwig van Beethoven, for the Sight, Sound and Symphony series with Vincent O'Neill. She played the Narrator in Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale and Laura in Noel Coward's Brief Encounter and most recently in Ellis Island, A Dream of America by Peter Boyer.

She has co-hosted WKBW-TV Channel 7's AM Buffalo a number of times.

In 1997 Hogan was awarded the YMCA Toast of Buffalo Award for her contribution to the cultural life of Western New York.

She also received an Arts Council Award for continued Artistic Excellence for work with the Irish Classical Theatre Company.

Thomas R. Hyde

Partner, Hodgson Russ LLP

Mr. Hyde concentrates his practice in tax and estate planning and administration. He is leader of the firm's Estates and Trusts Practice Group and a member of the firm's Canada and Not-for-Profit Practice Groups. His clients include many individuals with cross-border estate and tax issues, as well as not-for-profit organizations in both Canada and the U.S. In addition to his law practice, Mr. Hyde is on the faculty of the University at Buffalo's Arts Managment Program and recently was also an adjunct professor of Comparative Literature at UB. He serves as trustee for several Buffalo-area charitable and cultural organizations. He is a past Chair of the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario and is also a Director and Vice President of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo. In a former career, Mr. Hyde taught English for 11 years at Yale University and also served as Associate Dean of Yale College.

E. Ann Kaplan

Distinguished Professor, English and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies
Director, The Humanties Institute
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
Website: http://www.stonybrook.edu/humanities           

E. Ann Kaplan is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, where she also founded and directs the Stony Brook Humanities Institute. She is also President of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Kaplan has written many books and articles on topics in cultural studies, media, and women's studies, from diverse theoretical perspectives including psychoanalysis, feminism, postmodernism, and postcolonialism. She has given lectures all over the world and her work has been translated into six languages. Her many books include most recently Trauma Culture: The Politics of Terror and Loss in Media and Literature (Rutgers University Press, 2005), Looking For the Other: Feminism, Film and the Imperial Gaze (Routledge, 1997), Playing Dolly: Technocultural Formations, Fantasies and Fictions of Assisted Reproduction (Rutgers University Press, 1998, co-edited with Susan Squier) and Feminism and Film (Oxford University Press, 2000). Her volume, Trauma and Cinema: Cross-Cultural Explorations (co-edited with Ban Wang) appeared from Hong Kong University Press in 2004.

Richard Kurin

Director, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Acting Director, Smithsonian National Programs

Smithsonian Institution , Washington, D.C.

Member, UB College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Advisory Council

Richard Kurin has headed the Center for Folklore and Cultural Heritage of the Smithsonian Insitution since 1990. As such, he organizes the Smithsonian Festival for Folklore which is held every summer in Washington D.C. He also runs the Institution’s collection of traditional music and several other cultural programmes. He holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Chicago, has lectured at John Hopkins University, and currently teaches at George Washington University. He has published several books, particularly on traditional culture in India and Pakistan.

To be human is to have an oral tradition. It is the stories, the tales, the poetry, the songs, the languages that give meaning to experience and provide continuity across the generations. Our work is to encourage that continuity. If we don't do our job, the voices of the past may be silenced and future generations may be deprived of their cultural inheritance. - Richard Kurin

Click here to read Richard Kurin's UB alumnus profile

Dominick La Capra

Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor of Humanistic Studies
Departments of Comparative Literature and History
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
Website:  http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/dcl3/

Dominick LaCapra received his B.A. from Cornell and his Ph. D. from Harvard. He began teaching in Cornell's History Department in 1969.  He has a joint appointment in the Department of Comparative Literature and is member of the field of Romance Studies and the Program in Jewish Studies. At Cornell he received the Clark Award for distinguished teaching. He also served for two years as Acting Director and for ten as Director of Cornell's Society for the Humanities. In addition, LaCapra is a senior fellow of the School of Criticism and Theory (SCT), was SCT's Associate Director from 1996 to 2000, and since 2000 its Director.

LaCapra has edited The Bounds of Race: Perspectives on Hegemony and Resistance (1991) and with Steven L. Kaplan co-edited Modern European Intellectual History: Reappraisals and New Perspectives. He has written Emile Durkheim: Sociologist and Philosopher (1972), A Preface to Sartre (1978), "Madame Bovary" on Trial (1982), Rethinking Intellectual History: Texts, Contexts, Language (1983), History and Criticism (1985), History, Politics, and the Novel (1987), Soundings in Critical Theory (1989), Representing the Holocaust: History, Theory, Trauma (1994), History and Memory after Auschwitz (1998), and History in Transit: Experience, Identity, Critical Theory. (All the above books were published by Cornell University Press.) He has also written History and Reading: Tocqueville, Foucault, French Studies (University of Toronto Press, 2000) and Writing History, Writing Trauma (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001).

Patrick Martin

Senior Partner, Kennedy, Stoeckl, and Martin, general legal counsel Buffalo and Erie County Public Library and a literary agent of the Mark Twain Foundation of NY City and the Mark Twain Papers of U. Cal. Berkeley; President, riverrun, Inc.; Executive Director, Cinegael Buffalo; Producer and Director of films on Nelson Mandela and James Joyce.

Erika Metzger

Professor Emeritus, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures

Longtime supporter of UB. Erika Metzger is a UB Professor Emeritus of German.

Michael Metzger

Professor Emeritus, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures

Longtime supporters of UB. Michael Metzger is a UB Professor Emeritus of German.

Laurence Shine

Lecturer, Department of English, Buffalo State College
Director and co-organizer of James Joyce Annual Bloomsday Festival.

Laurence Shine is the founder and moderator of the Ulysses Reading Circle (2003 to present); Mentor, English-major student  Summer Fellowship Program with the Joyce studies project (2002). Mr. Shine is also a lecturer at Buffalo State College and, since 1998, Coordinator and Master of  Ceremonies for Bloomsday Buffalo. He is Chairman of the Western New York Irish Famine
Commemoration Committee and co-founder of a successful five-year project to fund and build Buffalo’s Famine Monument with participation of the City of Cork, Ireland, (1995-present).

Kathleen Woodward

Director, Simpson Center for the Humanities
Professor of English, University of Washington at Seattle, Washington

Website:   http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/about_woodward_bio.htm

Kathleen Woodward has served as Director of the Simpson Center for the Humanities since 2000. The author of Aging and Its Discontents: Freud and Other Fictions (1991) and At Last, the Real Distinguished Thing: The Late Poems of Eliot, Pound, Stevens, and Williams (1980), Woodward is completing a book on the cultural politics of the emotions entitled Statistical Panic and Other Strong Feelings, forthcoming from Duke University Press in 2008. She has published essays in the broad  crossdisciplinary domains of technology and culture, aging, and emotions in American Literary History, Discourse, differences, Generations, Indiana Law Journal, SubStance, Journal of Women's History, Women's Review of Books, South Atlantic Review, Studies in the Novel, and Cultural Critique , among other journals, and is the editor of Figuring Age: Women—Bodies—

Generations (1999) and The Myths of Information: Technology and Postindustrial Culture (1980). She is also the coeditor of Memory and Desire: Aging—Literature—Psychoanalysis (1986), The Technological Imagination: Theories and Fictions (1980), and Aging and the Elderly: Humanistic Perspectives in Gerontology (1978). From 1986-1995 she coedited Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture.

Woodward has received grants from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Endowment for the Arts and is a member of the Program Advisory Board of the International Longevity Center—U.S.A. She serves on the Board of Directors of the National Humanities Alliance and from 2000-2005 was Chair of the National Advisory Board of Imagining America, a broad-based network of scholars and leaders of cultural institutions devoted to fostering the development of campus-community partnerships. From 1995-2001 she was President of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, an international organization of over 140 members, and she continues to serve on its International Advisory Board. Woodward was Director of the Center for Twentieth Century Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee from 1981 to 2000, where she taught in the Department of English and the interdisciplinary graduate program in Modern Studies. She has also taught at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She holds a B.A. in Economics from Smith College and a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of California at San Diego.