Amy Koritz

Associate Professor  

Norman Mayer Room 204

Phone: (504) 862-8161

Fax: (504) 862-8958

E-mail: akoritz@tulane.edu  

Amy Koritz is Associate Professor of English at Tulane University. Her scholarship focuses on gender and performance, urban studies, and the role of the humanities in higher education and the public sphere. Her first book, Gendering Bodies/Performing Art (U Michigan P 1995) focuses on dance and literature in late 19th and early 20th century British culture. She is currently completing a book on literature, performance and the public sphere in 1920s America. Since 1998 she has been developing programs and courses for undergraduates that connect the humanities to the community beyond the university. As Director of the First Year Experience Program she initiated programming and seminars that introduced Tulane students to the culture and history of New Orleans. As Founding Director of the Urban Village Living Learning Community, she created opportunities for students to integrate academic learning with direct engagement in urban affairs and the city of New Orleans. She currently works with Student Affairs and Service Learning staff to create partnerships with community based organizations that allow undergraduates to connect literary study with community development and is the lead professor of a new summer program integrating community service with academic coursework. She has written about civic engagement in the humanities in Diversity Digest and the Modern Language Association’s Profession, and is co-editing a volume of essays on civic engagement in the arts and humanities after Katrina. She serves as Tulane University’s representative to the higher education consortium, Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life.