Posted by Bruno Johnson on February 04, 19100 at 11:55:22:
In Reply to: Various News about Judith Rose 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