Posts Tagged ‘Patricia Sawin’

The Troubling Violence Performance Project, This Week at CDS and UNC

The Troubling Violence Performance Project, This Week at CDS and UNC

Folklorists’ research often takes them into communities about which outsiders know little, but Elaine Lawless, Professor of English at the University of Missouri and current Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professor at UNC and Duke, took an unusually imaginative and harrowing step when she decided to spend her sabbatical year volunteering at a shelter for women fleeing [...]


Elaine Lawless: “Missed Representations: Visual Imagery of Intimate Partner Violence” and the Troubling Violence Performance Project

Elaine Lawless: “Missed Representations: Visual Imagery of Intimate Partner Violence" and the Troubling Violence Performance Project

Folklorists’ research often takes them into communities about which outsiders know little, but Elaine Lawless, Professor of English at the University of Missouri and current Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professor at UNC and Duke, took an unusually imaginative and harrowing step when she decided to spend her sabbatical year volunteering at a shelter for women fleeing [...]