Posted by Tom Stockwell on November 08, 1998 at 16:18:36:
In case you're wondering what happened to one of CT's Wicked Witches of the West, Judith Rose has been very busy, very creative, and a very exciting person to live with.
She just received a PhD in English Literature from UC Davis and she's looking for a teaching position at a college back in the midwest. We're not certain how this will pan out -- if we'll all move back or if she'll commute. Nevertheless, it was a great dissertation that she wrote. It was about Renaissance women artists in Italy, and how they impacted Renaissance women writers in England. Really interesting investigation.
This dissertation, combined with her own creative works (poetry and fiction) published in a lot of literary journals over the last ten years, is sort of a affirmation in my view of what CT's creative process is about. (Judith Masters dissertation was, if I remember correctly, dedicated to Nora.) It's about opening a creative portal through which one can begin to explore the larger world.
Judith is teaching this year at UC Davis as a guest lecturer, and I've sat through a class. Her teaching is a performance in it's own right. (She doesn't melt at the end of Act 3, however, as she did in the Wiz of OZ and I miss that part, but it's still a spell-binding scene.)
Tom