Lisa Mullenneaux
University of Maryland Global Campus, Writing, Department Member
- Baruch College CUNY, Writing, Faculty Memberadd
- My professional life is divided between my teaching and research projects. I currently teach Advanced Research Writin... moreMy professional life is divided between my teaching and research projects. I currently teach Advanced Research Writing for the University of Maryland Global Campus. I previously taught an undergraduate course in World Literature at Baruch College. My teaching follows a 30-year career in journalism. Outside the classroom, I publish poetry, essays, and books. My critical study of the fiction of Elena Ferrante (Penington Press, 2016) reawakened my interest in Italian literature and translation. Among contemporary Italian poets, I have translated the work of Anna Maria Carpi, Andrea Zanzotto, Patrizia Cavalli, and Maria Attanasio into English. I live in Manhattan and Woodstock, NY. Awards: Winner of the Foley Prize for Poetry 2022. Winner of the Fourth Hektoen Grand Prix Essay Competition, 2016. Professional Development, University of Maryland GC, 2016, 2017.edit
Today when newspapers carry daily reports of migrants drowning in capsized vessels, Théodore Géricault’s painting The Raft of the Medusa (1819) seems the perfect metaphor for human refuse pushed aside and ignored by the state. Will EU... more
Today when newspapers carry daily reports of migrants drowning in capsized vessels, Théodore Géricault’s painting The Raft of the Medusa (1819) seems the perfect metaphor for human refuse pushed aside and ignored by the state. Will EU politics bury the human rights laws it helped create?
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Remembered for her historical novel "Ramona" (1884), Jackson's passion during the last six years of her life was reparations and justice for America's native population. Her 500-page "A Century of Dishonor" (1881) was the first serious... more
Remembered for her historical novel "Ramona" (1884), Jackson's passion during the last six years of her life was reparations and justice for America's native population. Her 500-page "A Century of Dishonor" (1881) was the first serious study of US federal Indian policy.
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My article suggests many reasons for the Italian poet's empathy with and admiration for Sylvia Plath. I have also translated--for the first time in English- Rosselli's 1980 essay on Plath. It may be easier to read this online:... more
My article suggests many reasons for the Italian poet's empathy with and admiration for Sylvia Plath. I have also translated--for the first time in English- Rosselli's 1980 essay on Plath. It may be easier to read this online: http://criticalflame.org/can-you-call-her-sister-amelia-rosselli-on-sylvia-plath/
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"In her 20s, the New York poet Hilda Morley visited Hilda Doolittle, her namesake and mentor, in London. “Don’t publish too early,” H.D. advised her. How acutely Morley heeded her advice!" Morley, better known to their artist friends as... more
"In her 20s, the New York poet Hilda Morley visited Hilda Doolittle, her namesake and mentor, in London. “Don’t publish too early,” H.D. advised her. How acutely Morley heeded her advice!"
Morley, better known to their artist friends as Stefan Wolpe's wife, was 60 before she saw her first collection in print yet she had admirers like Stanley Kunitz and Denise Levertov. My essay is the first critical assessment of the ekphrastic element in her poems and suggests she wrote with a painter's eye for color and space.
Morley, better known to their artist friends as Stefan Wolpe's wife, was 60 before she saw her first collection in print yet she had admirers like Stanley Kunitz and Denise Levertov. My essay is the first critical assessment of the ekphrastic element in her poems and suggests she wrote with a painter's eye for color and space.
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2007 essay on the Italian novelist's first book, "Troubling Love," published in Forum Italicum.
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Review of Rossana Campo's (b. 1963) novel, translated by Adria Frizzi
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In this follow-up to her 2009 book "A Movement without Marches", the UNC Greensboro history professor argues that the 1990s was a transitional decade that saw the women’s movement became global, multiracial,
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My reviews of "Incidental Inventions" by Elena Ferrante (Europa, 2019) and Elena Ferrante's Key Words by Tiziana de Rogatis (Europa, 2019)
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Mary Gabriel, whose "Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution" was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2012, sets out to tell the story of five women—Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan... more
Mary Gabriel, whose "Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution" was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2012, sets out to tell the story of five women—Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler—whose work was essential to the Ab Ex movement, but whose importance—until recently—has been ignored.
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To appreciate Beatriz Bracher's fictional portrait of how families survived their losses after the 1964 military coup in I Didn't Talk (2004) it's well to remember Brazil's recent history. Only in 1985 after 21 years of media censorship... more
To appreciate Beatriz Bracher's fictional portrait of how families survived their losses after the 1964 military coup in I Didn't Talk (2004) it's well to remember Brazil's recent history. Only in 1985 after 21 years of media censorship and torture of political dissidents-including former President Dilma Roussef-did Brazilians elect a civilian government and return to democracy.
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An interview with debut novelist Negar Djavadi.
Review of Gerald Finin's biography of Anna Perkins, a legendary country doctor
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From the first poem in this 22-page chapbook, "Deep Inside," it's clear that war is a catastrophe that extends far beyond the fields of battle, affecting civilians and soldiers the rest of their lives. A series of poems, "The War After... more
From the first poem in this 22-page chapbook, "Deep Inside," it's clear that war is a catastrophe that extends far beyond the fields of battle, affecting civilians and soldiers the rest of their lives. A series of poems, "The War After the War," carries that burden from WWII till today's covert wars in Syria and Afghanistan.
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This pocket-sized travel guide lists 141 properties in New York City's five boroughs that cost less than $150 a night (the average is closer to $99). Hotels, B&Bs, hostels, and extended-stay residences are reviewed and rated according to... more
This pocket-sized travel guide lists 141 properties in New York City's five boroughs that cost less than $150 a night (the average is closer to $99). Hotels, B&Bs, hostels, and extended-stay residences are reviewed and rated according to value, cleanliness, security, and guest services. Accommodations are organized by neighborhoods with lots of street maps and photographs of individual hotels. Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Sleep-Cheap-New-York-High-Quality/dp/0970429622/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Sleep+Cheap+Mullenneaux&qid=1584034807&s=books&sr=1-1
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Seven driving tours of Vermont include profiles and photographs of over 100 of the state's best antiques dealers, maps, easy-to-follow directions and mileage between towns, and recommended inns and restaurants along the way. Appendix... more
Seven driving tours of Vermont include profiles and photographs of over 100 of the state's best antiques dealers, maps, easy-to-follow directions and mileage between towns, and recommended inns and restaurants along the way. Appendix lists travel resources, annual shows, and essays about collecting. Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Vermont-Antiquing-Seven-Day-Trips/dp/0970429630/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Vermont+antiquing+Mullenneaux&qid=1584034158&s=books&sr=1-1
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A description of the civil disobedience movement on Vieques, Puerto Rico, that forced the U.S. Navy to abandon its use of the island as a bombing range. Chronicles the events that captured the attention of the world with news reports,... more
A description of the civil disobedience movement on Vieques, Puerto Rico, that forced the U.S. Navy to abandon its use of the island as a bombing range. Chronicles the events that captured the attention of the world with news reports, photos, maps, and government documents including the Navy's investigation of the April 19, 1999 accident that killed David Sanes Rodriguez. Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Ni-Una-Bomba-Mas-Vieques/dp/0970429606/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Ni+una+bomba+mas+Mullenneaux&qid=1584033915&s=books&sr=1-1
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Eleven poems and an essay "Hilda Morley: A Painter's Poet" celebrate the synergy between the two genres of painting and poetry. Full color reproductions of works by De Kooning, Matisse, Joan Mitchell, Philip Guston, and other masters of... more
Eleven poems and an essay "Hilda Morley: A Painter's Poet" celebrate the synergy between the two genres of painting and poetry. Full color reproductions of works by De Kooning, Matisse, Joan Mitchell, Philip Guston, and other masters of modern art. www.paintersandpoets.com allows readers to extend the conversation by contributing their own work and comments.
Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Painters-Poets-Lisa-Mullenneaux/dp/0615633781/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Painters+and+poets+Mullenneaux&qid=1584033592&s=books&sr=1-1
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In his poetry, Giovanni Giudici (1924-2011) often drew on his Catholic education and his Marxist affiliations to ask questions about the challenges of living an honest life. Besides his poems and essays, Giudici was known for translations... more
In his poetry, Giovanni Giudici (1924-2011) often drew on his Catholic education and his Marxist affiliations to ask questions about the challenges of living an honest life. Besides his poems and essays, Giudici was known for translations of Pound, Coleridge, Frost, Pushkin, and Plath. The poet's acute attention to sound, especially in internal and end rhymes, means his lines can best be appreciated by reading them aloud.
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My English translation of a poem from Attanasio's "Blu della cancellazione"
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Translations from the Italian plus a biography of the Milanese poet.
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World Literature Today, Winter 2017
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K1N Journal, Winter 2017
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McPhee is the author of several novels and specializes in the translation of Italian fiction. My interview focuses on her translation of Elsa Morante's "Lies and Sorcery" (2023), at 800 pages a monumental effort and triumph.
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Respecting the wishes of the dying is increasingly the focus of my 60+ generation as we turn our energies to caring for elderly relatives. It is also a prompt for serious end-of-life choices for ourselves. Elders are by far this country’s... more
Respecting the wishes of the dying is increasingly the focus of my 60+ generation as we turn our energies to caring for elderly relatives. It is also a prompt for serious end-of-life choices for ourselves. Elders are by far this country’s fastest growing age group and, according to geriatric researchers, the average 85-year-old can expect to spend her last few years completely dependent on others. Simply put, Boomers will live longer and die slower. Good reasons, I decided, to be prepared.
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Why we must never forget the human rights travesty of America's "gulag"
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Afghan refugees are still being resettled in the Hudson Valley--along with Ukrainians, Syrians, Mexicans, Venezuelans, and many more--but the big push came in fall 2021 when volunteer organizations were told they would need to house,... more
Afghan refugees are still being resettled in the Hudson Valley--along with Ukrainians, Syrians, Mexicans, Venezuelans, and many more--but the big push came in fall 2021 when volunteer organizations were told they would need to house, clothe and feed hundreds of those evacuated from Kabul. My article describes the outpouring of support and teamwork that got the job done.
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Many compelling reasons for using Catania as a base to tour the villages of southeastern Sicily.
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A memoir of hiking the Catskill Mountains
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Eugene O'Neill's mother, Mary "Ella" Quinlan O'Neill, became addicted to morphine to ease the pain of her son's birth, and the playwright's harrowing portrait of her as Mary Tyrone in "Long Day's Journey into Night" presents a woman lost... more
Eugene O'Neill's mother, Mary "Ella" Quinlan O'Neill, became addicted to morphine to ease the pain of her son's birth, and the playwright's harrowing portrait of her as Mary Tyrone in "Long Day's Journey into Night" presents a woman lost to her husband and two sons. What her son left out was Ella's recovery, a healing she herself chose with the support of nuns in a Brooklyn convent.
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If we want to create social change, we need to engage the imagination. Photographers like Chris Jordan and David Maisel and mixed media artists like Helen Evans and Heiko Hansen make conservation a priority, mirroring a planet under... more
If we want to create social change, we need to engage the imagination. Photographers like Chris Jordan and David Maisel and mixed media artists like Helen Evans and Heiko Hansen make conservation a priority, mirroring a planet under stress, given to extreme weather events. Using media as varied as LED lights and aerial photographs, they invite viewers to adopt behavior that aligns with and sustains Earth's natural systems.
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What happens when big names and small towns discover a lot of common ground? The effort to ban the gas extraction method called "fracking" is a growing grassroots movement in upstate New York.
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Nail salon workers are fighting against sweatshop conditions in airport after airport and in elegant spas from Park Avenue to Palo Alto, and in many strip malls in between.
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What would the poet Nelly Sachs make of the 2013 poll by the Viennese newspaper Der Standard showing that 54 percent of. Austrian adults think Nazis would win seats if the party was readmitted to politics, 61 percent want to see a “strong... more
What would the poet Nelly Sachs make of the 2013 poll by the Viennese newspaper Der Standard showing that 54 percent of. Austrian adults think Nazis would win seats if the party was readmitted to politics, 61 percent want to see a “strong man” heading their government, 42 percent agree with the view that life “wasn’t all bad under the Nazis,” and 39 percent won’t be surprised at a recurrence of anti-Semitism in their country? The opinion poll was published as Austria prepared to mark the 75 anniversary of its annexation by Hitler in 1938.
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Arthur Waite was a young man in a hurry, in a hurry to inherit the Peck millions by any means necessary.
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Mary Mallon, the Irish cook who infected at least forty-eight people with typhoid bacilli, three of whom died, had a surname and a history, but Americans remember her only for her germs.
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A report back by Angela Davis and other university educators on their trip to Israel and the West Bank.
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Nawal el Saadawi reports on the Arab Spring during a visit to New York City in 2011.
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Though he's not on any ballot in 2012, Nader has plenty to say about those who are.
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An early morning raid by ICE in 2007 triggered a humanitarian crisis in this Massachusetts coastal city.
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This list includes two chapbooks and many individual poems published in literary journals and anthologies. It also mentions prizes awarded.
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When Maria Montessori was handed her diploma as a doctor of medicine at the University of Rome in 1896, many of the words had been changed in ink from masculine to feminine. Her graduation was one of many firsts in a remarkable career... more
When Maria Montessori was handed her diploma as a doctor of medicine at the University of Rome in 1896, many of the words had been changed in ink from masculine to feminine. Her graduation was one of many firsts in a remarkable career that has made her name synonymous was early education. Lost in what we know of the Italian educator is her pioneering feminism and peace work, the focus of Erica Moretti's new study. Montessori's vision was always global: she saw her classrooms as the gateway to social and political reform.