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词条 Joan Acocella
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  1. Education and career

  2. Awards and honors

  3. References

  4. External links

Joan Acocella (née Ross, born 1945) is an American journalist who is a staff writer for The New Yorker,[1] writing about dance and books. She has written books on dance, literature, and psychology.

Education and career

Acocella received her B.A. in English in 1966 from the University of California, Berkeley. She earned a Ph.D. in comparative literature at Rutgers University in 1984 with a thesis on the Ballets Russes.

Acocella has written for The Village Voice,[2][3] has served as a senior critic and the reviews editor for Dance Magazine, and was the New York dance critic for the Financial Times. Her writing also appears regularly in the New York Review of Books. She began writing for The New Yorker in 1992 and was appointed dance critic in 1998.[1]

Her books include Creating Hysteria: Women and Multiple Personality Disorder (1999); Mark Morris (1993), a biography of modern dancer and choreographer Mark Morris[4]; and Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints (2007), which explores the virtues common among extraordinary artists.[5][1] She also edited The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky: Unexpurgated Edition (1999), André Levinson on Dance (1991), and Mission to Siam: The Memoirs of Jessie MacKinnon Hartzell (2001),[1] her grandmother.

Her New Yorker article "Cather and the Academy," which appeared in the November 27, 1995 issue, received a Front Page Award from the Newswomen’s Club of New York and was included in the “Best American Essays” anthology of 1996.[1] She expanded the essay into Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism (2000).

Awards and honors

  • 2017 – Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters[6]
  • 2017 – Fellow, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers[7]
  • 2012 – Holtzbrinck Berlin Prize Fellow, American Academy in Berlin.[8]
  • 2009 – Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing, the National Book Critics Circle
  • 2007 – Award in Literature, American Academy of Arts and Letters[9]
  • 2002–present – Fellow, New York Institute for the Humanities[10]
  • 1993–1994 – Fellow, Guggenheim Foundation.[1]

References

1. ^{{cite journal |url=http://www.newyorker.com/contributors/joan-acocella |title=Joan Acocella |journal=The New Yorker |accessdate=March 20, 2015}}
2. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/my-kind-of-town-new-york-37072818/?no-ist=|title=My Kind of Town: New York|access-date=2016-07-20}}
3. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.najp.org/publications/criticism.pdf |title=(untitled interview) |publisher=National Arts Journalism Program |page=5 |accessdate=March 20, 2015}}
4. ^{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/23/books/the-big-hairy-guy-of-dance.html |title=The Big Hairy Guy of Dance |last=Rockwell |first=John |authorlink=John Rockwell |date=January 23, 1994 |newspaper=The New York Times |accessdate=March 20, 2015}}
5. ^{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/18/books/review/Harrison-Kathryn.html |title=Lives in the Arts |last=Harrison |first=Kathryn |authorlink=Kathryn Harrison |date=February 18, 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |accessdate=March 20, 2015}}
6. ^{{Cite web|url=http://artsandletters.org/pressrelease/2017-literature-award-winners/|title=2017 Literature Award Winners – American Academy of Arts and Letters|website=artsandletters.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-06-11}}
7. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.nypl.org/press/press-release/april-20-2017/new-york-public-librarys-dorothy-and-lewis-b-cullman-center|title=The New York Public Library's Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers Announces 2017–2018 Fellhttps://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/feb/12/language-wars-henry-hitchings-reviewows|website=The New York Public Library|access-date=2017-06-11}}
8. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.americanacademy.de/fellows-distinguished-visitors/alumni/fellows/|title=Past Fellows – American Academy|work=American Academy|access-date=2017-06-11|language=en-US}}
9. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.americanacademy.de/person/joan-acocella/|title=Joan Acocella – American Academy|work=American Academy|access-date=2017-06-11|language=en-US}}
10. ^{{Cite web|url=http://nyihumanities.org/joan-acocella/|title=Joan Acocella|website=New York Institute for the Humanities|language=en-US|access-date=2017-06-11}}

External links

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20050410190330/http://www.danceview.org/writers/Acocella/whatcriticsdo.htm "What Critics Do"], Joan Acocella, Dance Ink, 1992
  • "In Conversation with Joan Acocella" Interview, Construction Magazine, March 2012
  • "You got a problem with that?", Joan Acocella, "You got a problem with that?", 2005
  • Joan Acocella bibliography
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