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LEARNING CURVE Winter/Spring 2010 Mary Austin In this two session course, you’ll learn about the life and work of Mary Hunter Austin, an early twentieth-century writer of diverse and controversial books. Her early masterpiece, Land of Little Rain (1903) is still in print and provides a different view of the eastern Sierra than that of John Muir. Austin also wrote on Native American arts and rights, as well as issues still germane today such as water policy, public lands, the environment, the battle of the sexes, and human spirituality. She knew many writers and thinkers, such as Jack London, Willa Cather, Ansel Adams, and Diego Rivera. Week 1: Meet Mary Austin as performed by Professor Judy Nolte Temple. This living history presentation will provide an overview of Austin’s life and invite you to question “Austin” about her work, her opinions, and her story. Afterwards Professor Temple will discuss the concept of living history (chautauqua) presentations. Instructor: Judy Nolte Temple is a Professor at the University of Arizona, where she teaches in both the English Department and in the Gender and Women’s Studies Department. She has edited two collections of essays on the changing Southwest, its history and its literature. She is the author of A Secret to be Burried: The Diary and Life of Emily Hawley Gillespie and Baby Doe Tabor: The Madwoman in the Cabin. Professor Temple is a Past President of the Western Literature Association and was a Fulbright research fellow to New Zealand in 2003, where she studied nineteenth-century missionary women’s journals. |
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