Deb Margolin
13th Annual Zale Writer-in-Residence
Newcomb College, Tulane University
October 20-25, 1997
Tuesday 14 October, 4 p.m.
Of Mice, Bugs and Women
Thursday 16 October, 4 p.m.
Carthieves! Joyrides!
Both screenings will be held in the Anna E. Many Lounge
Newcomb College Center for
Research on Women
Meet the Author
Assistant Professor of Theatre Lisa Jo Epstein will interview Deb Margolin about her life,
work, and career. Bring your lunch. Beverages will be provided.
Tuesday 21 October
Noon
Anna E. Many Lounge
Newcomb College Center for Research on Women
Dedication of the Seltzer-Gerard Reading Room
A light reception will follow the dedication.
Thursday 23 October
5 p.m.
Nadine R. Vorhoff Library
Newcomb College Center for Research on Women
The reading room is a gift of the M. B. and Edna Zale Foundation in honor of cousins Karen
Landsberg Seltzer N '83 and Dana Zale Gerard N '85. This gift recognizes Karen's and Dana's
commitment to their families, service to their
communities, and dedication to their alma mater.
Read "Zale Gift Benefits the Center", by Donna
Soper, Under The Oaks, Fall 1997
"Body/Talk: Performing the Real Queer"
A lecture by Lynda Hart, Associate Professor of
English, the University of Pennsylvania.
Wednesday 22 October
4:30 p.m.
Anna E. Many Lounge
Newcomb College Center for Research on Women
In addition to her current collaboration with Deb Margolin
on the volume Of All the Nerve:
Deb Margolin Solo, Hart is author of Fatal Women: Lesbian Sexuality and the Mark of
Aggression (Princeton University Press, 1994)
and Between the Body and the Flesh:
Performing Sadomasochism (Columbia University Press,
forthcoming Dec. 1997), editor
of Making a Spectacle: Feminist Essays on Contemporary
Women's Theater, and
co-editor, with Peggy Phelan, of Acting Out: Feminist Performances.
O Wholly Night and Other Jewish Solecisms
A one-woman performance by Deb Margolin
Thursday 23 October
7:30 p.m.
Freeman Auditorium
Woldenberg Art Center
A reception in Woodward Way will follow the performance.
"Deb Margolin embraces what she calls the "exquisite burdens" of Jewishness in her lyrical one-woman show, managing to be funny, yet earnest, scornful yet sentimental, lighthearted yet brokenhearted, as she recounts her memories: childhood accusations of being a Christ killer, Holocaust films in grade school ("more socially relevant than Power Rangers"), trips to her grandmother's Florida retirement community, insomnia, and-a perfect example of the love that comes out of grief-her husband's marriage proposal at his mother's funeral. According to Margolin, these all come under the rubric of waiting for the Messiah, an activity for which you should always 'behave gracefully and dress reasonably.'" The New Yorker, 23 September 1996Read the Introduction to "O Wholly Night"