February 25, 2008 (Vol. 7, No. 3)

Professor Perl to Lecture at Mt. St. Vincent March 5

English Professor Sondra Perl will lecture and sign copies of her book, On Austrian Soil: Teaching Those I Was Taught to Hate, at the College of Mount St. Vincent in nearby Riverdale on March 5. The free talk is open to the public and will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Smith Hall, located in the Administration Building.

On Austrian Soil is a memoir of Professor Perl's experiences working in Innsbruck, Austria, with adult teachers of English.

Together with her students, she uses the tool of writing and the power of dialogue to break lifelong silences and to explore the idea of the classroom as a place “where prejudice can wither and empathy can be nourished.”

The book was a 2006 finalist in the Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) in the autobiography/memoir category and gave rise to a lecture tour, which brought Professor Perl to audiences in Austria, as well as to several colleges and universities in the Northeast.

Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1984, Professor Perl was named 1996 New York State Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Her other works include Felt Sense: Writing with the Body; (with Nancy Wilson) Through Teachers' Eyes: Portraits of Writing Teachers at Work; (with Mimi Schwartz) Writing True: The Art and Craft of Creative Nonfiction; and (as editor) Landmark Essays on Writing Process.

The lecture is sponsored by the Mount Saint Vincent Values Committee. For more information, call Dr. Ed Zukowski at 718-405-3307.

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