Patricia+Zumhagen


 * CS54. Patricia Zumhagen ** – //Interpreting “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”//

May 28 Saturday 9:45-10:30 PM HM 152

This presentation will share the aesthetic process, effects and reflections on an engagement of 22 pre-and in-service Columbia Teachers College student teachers in a collaborative integrated-arts exploration of Wallace Stevens’ celebrated poem, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.” (The resulting multi-media production, with possible audience talk-back, may be made available at during the conference.) Students in the 2010 class which created this project (Teaching Secondary English Through Drama and the Arts), can re-present the workshop in which they created an artistic/ musical/ dramatic performance through which to explore and interpret the poem. Affiliation/Bio: Teachers College Columbia University. Lecturer, English Ed Program, zumhagen@tc.edu. Patricia Zumhagen, a lecturer in the English Education faculty at Teachers College, earned an MA from the University of Toronto at OISE, and Ph.D in English Education from The Ohio State University. The combination of her foci on American Literature, Literary Theory and Educational Drama is evident in course offerings, in her work with the Lincoln Center Institute, in her conference presentations, and in her publications, which include: “Performing Mango Street: “Playing” With Curriculum To Reduce Resistance to Feminism in the High School English Classroom,” in //Interpretive Play: Extending into Literate Thinking using Literary Theories and Young Adult Literature//) Christopher –Gordon and edited by Anna Soter, Theresa Rogers and Mark Faust. August 2007; “Using Improvisational Workshop to Explore Gender Issues in //The Untold Lie in English Journal//. September, 2005; and, “Pathways into Gender: Encountering The House on Mango Street Through Educational Drama.” With Ambika Gopalakrishnan, Angela Beumer-Johnson and Elizabeth Sweet: in //Signal Journal//. Spring, 2004.