The Fellows of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture are an invited and distinguished group of scholars, teachers, writers, and public intellectuals in the arts and humanities. Their work as a body of individuals committed to issues in or related to the arts and humanities consists of teaching classes, presenting at programs, judging the Hiett Prize in the Humanities, and advising the Directors about the content and procedure of programs at the Dallas Institute.
Dr. Seemee Ali
Dr. Claudia Allums
Dr. Larry Allums
Dr. Glenn Arbery
Dr. Virginia Arbery
Dr. Victor Bailey
Mr. Jacques Barzun
Dr. Guy Story Brown
Dr. Bainard Cowan
Dr. Louise Cowan
Professor Keith Critchlow
Ms. Lee Cullum
Dr. James Dawes
Mr. Rod Dreher
Dr. Robert Dupree
Mr. Brad Goldberg
Dr. Randy D. Gordon
Dr. David Greenberg
Dr. Brad Gregory
Ms. Hazel Henderson
Mr. James Hillman
Dr. Benjamin Johnson
Dr. Victoria Johnson
Dr. Hilaire Kallendorf
Professor Judy French Kelly
Professor Patrick Kelly
Dr. Dorothy Kosinski
Mr. James Lehrer
Mr. Wieiming Lu
Dr. Nancy Cain Marcus
Dr. Thomas Mayo
Dr. James E. McWilliams
Dr. Tiya Miles
Mr. Thomas Moore
Dr. Albert Murray
Professor Lyle Novinski
Dr. Zsuzsanna Ozsvath
Mr. Robert Romanyshyn
Mr. Daniel Russ
Dr. Elizabeth Russ
Dr. Cheryl Sanders-Sardello
Dr. Robert J. Sardello
Dr. Dennis Patrick Slattery
Dr. Willard Spiegelman
Dr. Marilyn Stewart
Dr. Joanne Stroud
Dr. David Sweet
Dr. Gail Thomas
Dr. Frederick Turner
Professor Mary Vernon
Glenn Arbery majored in journalism at the University of Georgia before literature drew him onto an academic path. After getting his PhD at the University of Dallas in 1982, he taught at the University of St. Thomas and Thomas More College of Liberal Arts before returning to Dallas in 1997 to become director of the Teachers Academy at the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture. In 2003, he became a senior editor with People Newspapers. In January of this year, he won two national awards in the Suburban Newspaper Association's annual contest. His book Why Literature Matters appeared in 2001, and The Tragic Abyss, of which he is editor, was published in 2004. He is currently completing his first novel. He and his wife Virginia have eight children and two grandchildren.
Back To TopGuy Story Brown received his Ph. D. in Politics & Literature from the Institute of Philosophical Studies at the University of Dallas in 1979, with a dissertation entitled, "Longinus' On the Sublime: The Political Foundations of Literary Criticism." He has lectured widely and taught undergraduate and continuing education courses at Northwood University and Dallas Christian College in the Dallas area, and Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He is currently Professor of Philosophy & Literature at Lubbock Christian University in Lubbock.
Dr. Brown was Director of Research in Public Diplomacy at the Institute for International Strategic Studies in association with the University of Miami in Bethesda, Md, 1981-82, and head of the US Information Agency's international book publishing, library, and English teaching programs from 1982-1988, where he arranged for the publication of the Federalist Papers and other titles in Russian, Spanish, Hindi, Arabic, and other languages, and led negotiations between US publishers and ministerial-level Soviet, East German, and Chinese publishing authorities in Frankfurt, Moscow, Washington, D.C., and Beijing. He was Director of the USIA Office Academic Programs, administering the Fulbright Scholarships, the world's largest academic exchange program, 1988-1992, where he extended academic relations in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and led regional Fulbright conferences in Amsterdam, Holland, and Rabat, Morocco.
Brown received the Guttenberg award at the Frankfurt International Book Fair and was awarded the Ivan Fedorov medal by the Soviet Government and the Benjamin Franklin Distinguished Service medal by the US Government Printing Office. He received the Distinguished Service Award from the J.W. Fulbright Board of Foreign Scholarships for his work as head of the international Fulbright scholarships and related academic programs, 1988-1992.
Dr. Brown was lead presenter on the topic of "Democratization in Non-European ‘New' Democracies" at the Conference on Democratization, Culture, and the Relations between Nations, sponsored by the FRG Bundeszentrale Fur Politische Bildung and US Center for Civic Education in Santa Monica, California and Freiburg, Germany, 2002, 2005. He is Director of The Straight Gate, a 501(c)3 prison aftercare program coordinating numerous regional prison ministries and serving more than 100 persons per year in South Oak Cliff, Dallas.
His books include Calhoun's Philosophy of Politics: A Study of "A Disquisition on Government" (2000) and Shakespeare's Philosopher King: Reading "The Tragedy of King Lear" (Spring 2010) both from Mercer University Press. Among other projects, he is presently working on annotated editions of Calhoun's "Disquisition on Government" and Lipscomb's "Civil Government."
Back To TopDr. Keith Critchlow is an internationally known lecturer, teacher and author. His many books include Order in space, Time Stands Still and Islamic Pattern as a Cosmological Art. He is a founder member of RILKO (Research Into Lost Knowledge Organisation), a founder member and Director of Studies of Kairos and a founder member and president of the Temenos Academy. Keith founded VITA (Visual Islamic and Traditional Arts) a department now attached to the Prince's School of Traditional Arts. He is now semi-retired as Professor Emeritus at VITA but continues to lecture worldwide and practice as an architectural consultant. Keith's work in the field of architecture includes the Krishnamurti Study Centre in the U.K., the ecumemcal chapel an Crestone Colorado, USA and the Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medicine in Puttaparthy, India, in all of which he has embodied the principles of sacred geometry.
Back To TopLee Cullum is a journalist who contributes columns to the Dallas Morning News and commentaries to the National Public Radio station in North Texas. She also is host of CEO, a series of interviews with leaders from the world of business, produced by the PBS station in Dallas-Fort Worth.
Cullum has done regular commentary for the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and National Public Radio's All Things Considered. She was editor of the editorial page of the Dallas Times Herald and edited D Magazine, which during her tenure won a National Magazine Award.
In addition, Cullum has done political analysis for the CBS affiliate in north Texas. She has hosted Conversations, a series of biographical interviews with major newsmakers for the PBS station in that area. She has appeared on Nightline, CNN, MSNBC and on various television programs in Europe. She also has conducted seminars on journalism in Central and Eastern Europe and moderated panels for the World Economic Forum in Davos. She has spoken to press associations in Texas, Minnesota and New England; to committees on foreign relations in Houston, San Francisco, Phoenix, Dallas and Tulsa; and to the International Women's Forum in Dallas.
Cullum worked as a reporter and then executive producer and on air moderator of Newsroom, a nightly program on the PBS affiliate in Dallas. She also developed several productions for broadcast on PBS including a profile of Lillian Hellman that was nominated for an Emmy.
Cullum anchored the Election Specials that won the Columbia DuPont Broadcast Journalism Award for KERA TV. She also has received honorary degrees from the Monterey Institute for International Studies and the University of Puget Sound, the Matrix Award from Women in Communications twice, as well as the Woman of Achievement Award from Southern Methodist University and the C.E. Shuford Award for Outstanding Journalist in Dallas Fort Worth. In addition, she was given the J.B. Marryatt Award by the Dallas Press Club.
Cullum serves on the board of Freedom House, the American Council on Germany, the Social Sciences Foundation benefitting the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, and the Dallas Committee on Foreign Relations as well as the Board of Visitors of the International Programs Center of the University of Oklahoma and the Advisory Board of the World Affairs Council of Dallas-Fort Worth. Previously on the board of the Council on Foreign Relations for ten years, she is a member of CFR, the Trilateral Commission, the Inter American Dialogue, the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, the Pacific Council on International Policy, the Texas Philosophical Society and the National Conference of Editorial Writers. She also is a senior fellow of the John G. Tower Center for Political Studies at Southern Methodist University and a fellow of the Dallas Institute for Humanities and Culture as well as the author of Genius Came Early: Creativity in the Twentieth Century. In addition she contributed a chapter to Growing Up in Texas, A Texas Christmas and Literary Dallas.
Cullum attended Sweet Briar College and graduated from Southern Methodist University. She has one son, Cullum Clark, who is in finance and lives in Dallas with his wife, Nita, and their daughters, Lili, Annabel and Charlotte.
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Rod Dreher, 42, is a columnist, editorial writer and online editor at The Dallas Morning News. He is author of the 2006 nonfiction book "Crunchy Cons," about neo-traditionalism on the cultural right. He has been chief film critic of the New York Post, a staff writer at National Review magazine, and a contributor to the Wall Street Journal, NPR's "All Things Considered," CNN and other broadcast media. His areas of interest include conservative thought, religion, culture, philosophy and food. Dreher is a 2009 Templeton Cambridge Journalism Fellow in Science & Religion, and writes the popular Crunchy Con blog on Beliefnet.com. He lives in Dallas with his wife and three children.
Dr. Robert Scott Dupree is Professor of English at the University of Dallas, Director of Library and University Research, Director of the Program in Comparative Literary Traditions, and Chair of Modern Languages and Literature. I do not know how he does all that and have time for his own copious reading and writing. He is proficient in several languages and is a recognized authority on literary theory and the literary genres, including tragedy, about which he writes in this paper, which is titled "The Ties that Blind: Unity and Tragedy, Purity and Danger."
Back To TopBrad Goldberg is an artist whose work is centered on developing a fusion between sculpture, landscape, urban design, place, culture, and community. It is an art that aspires to escape categorical definitions, restrictions or limitations Each new project generates a unique response encompassing the total aspect of a specific place or circumstance. This response may include sculpture, architecture, landscape, water, furniture etc.
The complexities of working on large environmental projects have led to collaborative efforts with other artists, design professionals, civic leader's, corporations, and communities. His work as an artist reflects a strong interest in archetypal forms, the cycles of nature, the evolution of technology, and examines the metaphor of stone viewed within the span of geologic time while creating people-oriented community spaces. Within this framework, he works to enrich each project with a sense of belonging to its context through beautiful objects imbued with meaning, sensitivity to scale, attention to craftsmanship and simple materials used with the evidence of the touch of the human hand.
Brad resides in Dallas, where he keeps his studio. He works on a wide array of projects nationally as well as internationally and frequently travels abroad to work on projects and to maintain a world-perspective. "In time," he states, "with many experiences layered over one another, I am hoping my work will reflect a cultural collage.....more in keeping with artistic truths, than passing fashions.
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B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Kansas; J.D., Washburn University ; LL.M., Columbia University; Ph.D., University of Edinburgh
Randy Gordon is a partner in the Complex Litigation Group of Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP, where he focuses on antitrust, RICO, and intellectual property matters. He also serves as General Counsel of the Global Semiconductor Alliance, an international trade association devoted to the semiconductor industry. He is a past Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, an Adjunct Professor of Law and Lecturer in English at Southern Methodist University, and a fellow of the Dallas Institute of Humanities. His professional activities include service as Immediate Past Chair of the State Bar of Texas Antitrust & Business Litigation Section, a member of the Professionalism Committee of the Legal Education Section of the ABA, and an elected member of both the Society of Writers to Her Majesty's Signet and the American Law Institute. Randy is also an Advisory Board Member of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, the Hall Center for the Humanities, and the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas and a Key Collaborator in the Beyond Text project at the University of Edinburgh School of Law. A frequent lecturer and writer (with a book entitled Rehumanizing Law: A Narrative Theory of Law and Democracy expected to be published in 2010 by the University of Toronto Press and recent law-review articles either published or forthcoming in journals of Columbia, SMU, Florida, Vermont, and San Francisco), he is the Senior Host of "The Writer's Studio," a series of interviews with contemporary authors broadcast throughout the country by KERA/National Public Radio. He is recognized in antitrust law by both Chambers & Partners and Who's Who Legal.
Back To TopDavid Greenberg, PhD is an assistant professor of Journalism & Media Studies and of History at Rutgers University, specializing in American political and cultural history. His first book, Nixon's Shadow: The History of an Image (W.W. Norton, 2003) won the Washington Monthly Political Book Award, the American Journalism History Book Award, and, in dissertation form, Columbia University's Bancroft Dissertation Award. In 2006 he published two books: Calvin Coolidge, a biography in the American Presidents Series edited by the late Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (Henry Holt); and Presidential Doodles (Basic Books). He is currently at work on a book for Norton about the history of presidents and spin. He has been recognized with awards and fellowship from other organizations, including the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the White House Historical Association, and the Mrs. Giles R. Whiting Foundation.
Before pursuing his graduate studies, Prof. Greenberg worked as a political journalist in Washington. He served as the assistant to author Bob Woodward of the Washington Post, on The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House (Simon & Schuster, 1994) and went on to become Managing Editor and later Acting Editor of The New Republic magazine. As an academic, he has continued to write for a general readership as a columnist for Slate and a contributing editor to The New Republic. He has also written for the New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Affairs, and other popular publications. His scholarly articles and reviews have appeared in Raritan, Daedalus, The Journal of American History, and Political Science Quarterly, among other journals. He holds a BA, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Yale University (1990) and a PhD in history from Columbia University (2001). He lives in New York City with his wife and two children.
Back To TopHazel Henderson is the founder of Ethical Markets Media, LLC and the creator and co-executive Producer of its TV series. She is a world renowned futurist, evolutionary economist, a worldwide syndicated columnist, consultant on sustainable development, and author of The Axiom and Nautilus award-winning book Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy (2006) and eight other books. She co-edited, with Harlan Cleveland and Inge Kaul, The UN: Policy and Financing Alternatives, Elsevier Scientific, UK 1995 (US edition, 1996).
Her editorials appear in 27 languages and in 200 newspapers syndicated by InterPress Service, Rome, New York, and Washington DC. Her articles have appeared in over 250 journals, including (in USA) Harvard Business Review, New York Times, Christian Science Monitor; and Challenge, Mainichi (Japan), El Diario (Venezuela), World Economic Herald (China), LeMonde Diplomatique (France) and Australian Financial Review. Her books are translated into German, Spanish, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Korean, Portuguese and Chinese. She sits on several editorial boards, including Futures Research Quarterly, The State of the Future Report, and E/The Environmental Magazine (USA), Resurgence and Foresight and Futures (UK).
Since becoming a full-time TV producer, Hazel has stepped down from her many board memberships, but she remains on the International Council of the Instituto Ethos de Empresas e Responsabilidade Social, Sao Paulo, Brasil, a Patron of the New Economics Foundation (London, UK) and a Fellow of the World Business Academy. The first version of her Country Futures Indicators (CFI©), an alternative to the Gross National Product (GNP), is a co-venture with Calvert Group, Inc.: the Calvert-Henderson Quality-of-Life Indicators.
In addition, she has been Regent's Lecturer at the University of California-Santa Barbara, held the Horace Albright Chair in Conservation at the University of California-Berkeley, and advised the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment and the National Science Foundation from 1974 to 1980. She holds Honorary Doctor of Science degrees from the University of San Francisco, Soka University (Tokyo) and Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts (USA). She is an active member of the National Press Club (Washington DC), the World Future Society (USA), a Fellow of the World Futures Studies Federation and a member of the Association for Evolutionary Economics. Henderson has many awards and is listed in Who's Who, USA, Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in Business and Finance and Who's Who in Science and Technology. She is an Honorary Member of the Club of Rome. She shared the 1996 Global Citizen Award with Nobelist A. Perez Esquivel of Argentina. She is a Fellow of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture and in 2007 was elected a Fellow to Britain's Royal Society of Arts.
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Professor James Hillman is a Founding Fellow of the Dallas Institute and is, among his many other achievements, creator and founder of Archetypal Psychology, a movement and school of thought that has had a profound impact, beyond Freud and Jung, on the way the discipline of psychology is regarded and practiced, and the way we view the world psychologically.
In 1959 Prof. Hillman was named Director of Studies of the Jung Institute in Zurich, where he served until 1969. Around 1960, he began what has become a highly distinguished publishing career now in its fifth decade. He returned to the U.S. in 1978, joining Drs. Louise and Donald Cowan and Robert Sardello at the University of Dallas. This was where he also began his acquaintance and work with Drs. Joanne Stroud and Gail Thomas.
In 1970 he became editor of Spring Publications, and it was then that he began the movement that would become known as "archetypal psychology," which among other things aimed to broaden the concerns of psychology beyond its focus on personal therapy to include an imagination of culture through myth, poetry, the arts, and other creative expressions of human experience—that is, to turn psychology toward the world. Through this important, extended work, he is credited with being a central figure in returning "soul" to psychology, and much of that return was accomplished here in Dallas, at the University of Dallas and at the Dallas Institute.
Prof. Hillman received a Pulitzer Prize nomination in 1975 and the Medal of the Presidency of the Italian Republic in 2001, for the creativity of his thinking. He has held distinguished lectureships at the Universities of Yale, Princeton, Chicago, and Syracuse, and his books have been translated into some twenty languages. Among his many volumes are The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling (a NY Times bestseller), The Force of Character, Re-Visioning Psychology, The Dream and the Underworld, Suicide and the Soul (a landmark book that re-introduced the term "soul" into psychological discourse), A Terrible Love of War, Healing Fiction, Pan and the Nightmare, and Archetypal Psychology: Volume One of the Uniform Edition of the Writings of James Hillman (published by Spring Publications in conjunction with Dallas Institute; volume 2 is at the printer, and Prof. Hillman is currently at work on volume 3).
Back To TopWeiming Lu is President of Lowertown Redevelopment Corporation, an independent non-profit that has spearheaded the transformation of Lowertown, Saint Paul's sixteen- block historic district, into an urban village. Lowertown has become a national model of successful central city revitalization through the use of public-private partnerships. An internationally recognized urban planner and designer, Mr. Lu brings years of historic preservation experience to Historic Saint Paul.
Back To TopNancy Cain Marcus currently serves on the Board of Directors of Westwood Trust (NYSE), Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Foundation, Trinity Trust, Dallas Committee on Foreign Relations and is a Life Trustee and Fellow of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture. Ms. Marcus also served three terms as a trustee of The University of Dallas, where she was a member of the Executive Committee, and one term as a trustee of The Hockaday School. Texas Governor Rick Perry appointed Ms. Marcus Commissioner on the State of Texas Commission on 21st Century Colleges and Universities, and she served as well on the Board of Visitors of Trinity College at Duke University and the Executive Board of Southern Methodist University Libraries; she remains a member of the Board of Visitors of Columbia College at Columbia University and on the Advisory Boards of the World Affairs Council and of the Dallas Women's Foundation.
In 2001, Nancy Cain Marcus received a Presidential appointment and Senate confirmation to serve as a United States Public Delegate to the 56th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, a post she held for one year beginning September 10 on the eve of the national tragedy. Dr. Marcus holds a Ph.D. in Literature from the Institute of Philosophic Studies at the University of Dallas, where she has taught the Greek and Roman Epic portion of the University's required course on the Literary Tradition. She is a core faculty for the Dallas Institute's Teachers Academy and Principals Institute programs.
Back To TopTom Mayo is Director of the Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility at Southern Methodist University; Associate Professor at SMU's Dedman School of Law; Adjunct Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Texas B Southwestern Medical School; and of counsel, Haynes and Boone, all in Dallas. He teaches courses in legislation, administrative law, constitutional law, health law, and bioethics, as well as a literature course for medical students and law students together (titled, unsurprisingly, "Law, Literature & Medicine"). He currently serves on five hospital ethics committees and is co-chair of the committees at Parkland Hospital and Children's Medical Center. He is a co-founder of the Dallas Legal Hospice, Texas' first pro bono legal clinic for persons with HIV disease and persons with terminal illnesses. In 2002 he received the Dallas County Medical Society's Heath Award for outstanding leadership and service to medicine and to the community of Dallas and has twice received the law school's outstanding teacher award. He is also a member of the Advisory Committee of the Program in Ethics in Science and Medicine at the University of Texas - Southwestern Medical Center; the editor of the Medical Humanities Series of the SMU Press; and the monthly poetry columnist for the Dallas Morning News.
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James E. McWilliams earned his Ph.D. in History at The Johns Hopkins University in 2001. He is Associate Professor of History at Texas State University--San Marcos and an Associate Fellow in the Program in Agrarian Studies at Yale University. His interests center on American history, with specializations in environmental, agricultural, and economic history. His books include A Revolution in Eating: How the Quest for Food Shaped America (Columbia University Press, 2005), Building the Bay Colony: Economy and Society in Early Massachusetts (University of Virginia Press, 2007), and American Pests: The Losing War on Insects from Colonial Times to DDT (Columbia University Press, May 2008). His most recent book, Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong And How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly (Little, Brown, 2009), explores the viability of achieving a sustainable global diet for a world population expected to reach 8.9 billion by 2050. In addition to writing academic books, McWilliams publishes frequently in the popular press, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and USA Today, and is a contributing writer at The Texas Observer. His permanent home is in Austin, Texas, where he lives with his wife, Leila Kempner, and two children.
The 2008 winner of the Hiett Prize in the Humanities, Dr. Tiya Miles received her AB in Afro-American Studies from Harvard University, her MA in Women's Studies from Emory University, and her PhD in American Studies from the University of Minnesota. She taught at UC Berkeley before moving to the University of Michigan in 2002. Her research and creative interests include African American and Native American interrelated and comparative histories and literatures; African American women's history; and the histories of women in the United States. At the University of Michigan she is Assistant Professor in the Program in American Culture, the Native American Studies Program, and the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies. Her book Ties That Bind; The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom (2005) received the Frederick Jackson Turner Award and the Lora Romero Distinguished First Book Award. Her second book-length publication is a co-edited collection of essays titled Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country.
Back To TopLyle Novinski is a long time Professor at the University of Dallas, an established painter and designer. MA and MFA degrees from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, further study in Philosophy and Theology at Marquette University. Professor Novinski's interests as a working artist embrace a wide range of topics, painting as a discipline, design and execution of liturgical spaces. Widely known as a lecturer on the nature of the Sacred in Art and Architecture, Professor Novinski now teaches courses on the History of Sacred Art at the University of Dallas, Retiring from active studio instruction he remains the professor of the large and popular History of Art and Architecture course. His many exhibits over the years have brought note to his work, culminating in a Retrospective Exhibition at the University of Dallas. His work graces over 60 installations in the churches of the region, including the windows at St. Rita in Dallas, and the furnishings of the Neuhoff Chapel at SMU. He served as furnishings designer and consultant on the renovation of Perkins Chapel at SMU. His essays have appeared in various Institute publications. He is currently working on several publications, a volume on his experiences as a GI in Korea, a book of his Poetry, and a History of Sacred Art.
Back To TopZsuzsanna Ozsváth is the Leah and Paul Lewis Chair in Holocaust Studies and Professor of Literature and the History of Ideas in the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas. Her work focuses on two areas: Holocaust literature and poetry translation. She has published several books, such as Foamy Sky: The Major Poems of Miklós Radnóti (with Fred Turner), Princeton UP, 1992; (in an extended, bi-lingual edition, Foamy Sky, Budapest: Corvina, 1999); Attila József, The Iron-Blue Vault: Selected Poems (with Fred Turner), Bloodaxe, 1999, and a critical study of Miklós Radnóti's life: In the Footsteps of Orpheus: The Life and Times of Miklós Radnóti, Indiana UP, 2000. This book has been translated into Hungarian: Orpheus nyomában: Radnóti Miklós élete és kora, Akadémiai Kiadó, 2004. In addition, she has published a large number or articles and translations in a wide variety of journals, among them, Judaism, Partisan Review, German Studies Review, The Hungarian Quarterly, Poetry, Research Studies, and in anthologies such as Encyclopedia of Holocaust Literature, Oryx Press, 2002; Comparative Cultural Studies and Post-1989 Central European Culture, Purdue UP, 2002; The Life and Poetry of Miklós Radnóti, Columbia UP, 1999, The Holocaust in Hungary: Fifty Years Later, Columbia UP, 1997. In addition, she has been the recipient of two major literary awards: the Milán Füst Prize, in 1995 (with Fred Turner), the highest literary prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, for their renderings of Radnóti's poetry. And in 1999, their volume of Attila József translations (with Fred Turner) was invited by, and won one of the publishing prizes of, the Hungarian Ministry of Culture and Education at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Her newest essays are: "Foreseeing Destruction in the Work of Miklós Radnóti's work. In http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol1/1iss1/, 2009; "From Country to Country: My Search for Home." In The Writer Uprooted: Contemporary Jewish Exile Literature. Bloomington: Indiana UP (2008). 177-215; and "Trauma and Distortion: Holocaust Fiction and the Ban on Jewish Memory." The Holocaust in Hungary: Sixty Years After. Ed. R. Braham. New York: Columbia UP (2006). 337-48.
Back To TopCheryl Sanders-Sardello is co-founder and co-director of the School of Spiritual Psychology and co-editor of Goldenstone Press. She is the administrative director of the School. She focuses teaching and writing on the spiritual psychology of embodiment and sensing, the spiritual psychology of aging, and our spiritual connection with those who have died and the implications of those practices for the health of the social world. She has contributed chapters to numerous books, including Silence and Love and the Soul. She is an independent teacher and scholar and has taught all over the U.S, Canada, and the U.K., as well as the Philippines and Australia.
Back To TopIone of the six founding Fellows of the Dallas Institute, Robert Sardello is co-founder and co-director of The School of Spiritual Psychology, which began in 1992, and co-editor of Goldenstone Press. He has written Money and the Soul of the World (with Randolf Severson), Facing the World with Soul, Love and the Soul (re-issued as Love and the World), Freeing the Soul from Fear, The Power of Soul: Living the Twelve Virtues, Silence, and A Few Steps on the Stone Path: Working with Crystals and Minerals as Spiritual Practice (in press). His main emphasis has been to develop theoretical and practical approaches to perceiving and being in right relation with the Soul of the World, showing that humans are pulled from the time stream from the future rather than pushed from the past, and developing the interior consciousness of the heart. He is an independent teacher and scholar.
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Dennis Patrick Slattery, Ph.D., is currently Core Faculty member in the Mythological Studies Program at Pacifica Graduate Institute. He has taught for forty years at the elementary, secondary, undergraduate, and graduate levels. From 1984-87 he taught teachers the classics of literature in The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture's Summer Program for Teachers. He also taught for six years at The Fairhope Institute of Humanities and Culture's Summer Program for high school teachers under the direction of Dr. Larry Allums, current director of The Dallas Institute. He is the author or coeditor of twelve books, among them: The Idiot: Dostoevsky's Fantastic Prince (1984); The Wounded Body: Remembering the Markings of Flesh (2000); and Grace in the Desert: Awakening to the Gifts of Monastic Life (2003). With Lionel Corbett, he coedited Depth Psychology: Meditations in the Field (2001) and Psychology at the Threshold (2002); with Glen Slater, he coedited Varieties of Mythic Experience: Essays on Religion, Psyche and Culture (2008). He has composed three volumes of poetry: Casting the Shadows: Selected Poems (2001); Just Below the Water Line: Selected Poems (2004); and Twisted Sky: Selected Poems (2007). He offers workshops on Joseph Campbell and personal mythology to Jungian groups and organizations in the United States. He is writing a book titled Riting One's Personal Myth: Joseph Campbell and the Journaling Psyche.
Willard Spiegelman is the Hughes Professor of English at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, where he has taught since 1971. He received his A.B. degree from Williams College, magna cum laude and with highest honors in English. He did graduate work at Harvard, where he held Woodrow Wilson and Danforth fellowships and received an A.M. and a Ph.D.
Dr. Spiegelman is the author of two books about the English Romantic poets: Wordsworth's Heroes (1985) and Majestic Indolence: English Romantic Poetry and the Work of Art (1995). He has also written The Didactic Muse: Scenes of Instruction in Contemporary American Poetry (1989) and dozens of scholarly articles on English and American poetry. Most recently, he has edited the selected letters of American poet Amy Clampitt in a volume entitled Love, Amy (2005) and published How Poets See the World: The Art of Description in Contemporary Poetry (2005). He is a regular contributor to the "Leisure & Arts" page of The Wall Street Journal and since 1984 has been the editor-in chief of The Southwest Review, the country's fourth oldest, continuously published literary quarterly.
Professor Spiegelman has won three fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as major grants from the Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundations.
He has been twice named an "Outstanding Professor" at SMU, and all of his books have been named "best faculty publication" by the university. He is also the recipient of the Perrine Prize of Phi Beta Kappa for distinguished intellectual achievement.
Back To TopDr. Joanne Stroud is a Founding Fellow of the Dallas Institute, Director of Institute Publications, and Editor of the Gaston Bachelard Translation Series, which consists of seven works on elemental imagination written by the 20th century philosopher of science and which Joanne is on the verge of completing after two decades. The 2002 Bachelard Symposium she chaired in Dallas, "Matter, Dream, and Thought," attracted international attention. She received her M.A. and Ph.D in Psychology and Literature from the University of Dallas and lectures in Dallas, New York City, and Connecticut. She has taught literature and psychology and is author of The Bonding of Will and Desire, the four-volume series Choose Your Element, and Time Doesn't Tick Anymore.
Back To TopDr. David Sweet is Associate Professor of Classics, Dean of the Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts, and Director of the Institute of Philosophic Studies (from which several of us present here today hold our graduate degrees) at the University of Dallas. He holds the A.B. degree from Harvard and the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley. He has taught at Ohio State University, Cal Berkeley, and the University of Dallas, where he has taught since 1974. His teaching fields and research interests include Greek epic and tragedy, Greek mythology, Plato, and Latin poetry (Catullus, Vergil, Horace, and Juvenal). For many years he has been of enormous assistance to the Dallas Institute's Teachers Academy programs and regularly lectures in the Summer Institute for Teachers, as he will do this summer in our 25th consecutive July program, which will be in The Epic Tradition. The title of his presentation this afternoon borrows a phrase from Euripides' Hyppolytus: "The Noose of Words.
Back To TopDr. Gail Thomas is a Founding Fellow of the Dallas Institute and creator of its Center for the City. She served as the Institute's Founding Director for seventeen years and has throughout her career been a strong advocate for the active presence of the humanities in the life of the city. Dr. Thomas has taught at The Dallas Institute, Schumacher College in the United Kingdom, and The University of Dallas, where she directed the Center for Civic Leadership. She was instrumental in the creation of Pegasus Plaza in downtown Dallas and also led the successful effort to recreate the Flying Red Horse landmark sign in downtown Dallas. A recipient of the Kessler Award, she currently serves as President and Executive Officer of the Trinity Trust Foundation, whose mission is to raise private funds to implement the "Balanced Vision Plan" for the Trinity River Corridor and coordinates with the City of Dallas and the Trinity Commons Foundation in the effort to build public support, secure public funding and build the project.
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Professor of Art, Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor, Southern Methodist University
Color transforms the assertion of a formal plan. While geometric arrangement determines the field in my painting, it does not control color, and it is not at war with color. Color takes on what Derrida called the "second navigation" of the work (The Truth in Painting, 1987). In each of these paintings, the geometric pattern builds the painting, and color completes it by transforming it. I am a landscape painter, and I work out, in these paintings, the identity of landscapes, plants, and certain spaces.
I grew up in the Pecos valley, in Southern New Mexico. The land outside the valleys is desert land, of subtle and nuanced color, its variation great, its values pale, its shadows intense and chromatic. The painted, wooden Santos bore saturated, matte-finished coats of paint, and the Immaculate Conception statue in the local 
church had a blue neon halo. The rocks my father used to build our house held grays worthy of Whistler. In the valleys, the wind more often than not tossed the leaves of the willows, apple trees, pecans, and lilacs about in the air so that all the complex greens were dulled and robbed of their glossy surfaces. The weather announced itself days ahead of time by minute changes in the sky. Gardens of hollyhocks, daisies, and old asparagus grew quickly and made dense patterns. That landscape taught me what to look for.
BFA, MA, University of New Mexico
Still Life with Dictator, 2008, oil on gessoboard, 30" x 30"
(picture to the right)