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Created:: 2014
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
Page Count:: 39
Last Updated:: 2018-07-24

Description:: David Haynes, novelist and teacher, talks to Peter Shea about his career, from elementary teaching to direction of the creative writing program at SMU. He talks about his students and the ways in which his teaching helps his writing. He thinks about his readers and his own reading, then describes a course on Speculative Fiction he taught in 2013...
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Haynes, David
Created:: 2013-11-27
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2017-11-28

Description:: Site & Incitement and the Bat of Minerva. A discussion with Peter Shea and Danny Robinson Clark, moderated by Ann Waltner.Peter Shea, Danny Clark and Ann Waltner discuss Peter's interview with Danny Robinson Clark ‚Äî an actor, sort of retired, where he thinks about his craft. The discussion will range freely, from the substance of the interview...
Creator:: Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:: Clark, Danny Robinson; Shea, Peter; Waltner, Ann
Created:: 2013-11-13
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-05

Description:: Helena Goscilo, Professor of Slavic and East European Languages, talks to Peter Shea about the course of her academic career from Russian literature to gender studies to visual imagery. She mentions her projects on Vladimir Putin's self-presentation and on Soviet posters, continuing to discuss wartime Soviet posters: their placement, their choic...
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Goscilo, Helena
Created:: 2013-10-13
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Danny Robinson Clark, retired actor, continues, drawing connections between Shakespeare, Stanislavski, the Bible, and childhood experiences. He considers how these insights helped him to prepare as an actor and to teach a young girl to prepare. He talks about dynamics of race and casting, and his preparation for two challenging roles: the charac...
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Clark, Danny Robinson
Created:: 2013-09-14
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Kristian Petersen, Professor of Religion, talks to Peter Shea about his academic path to studying Islam in China and Sino-Islamic intellectual history. He recalls his early exposure to Daoism and Sufism, their bearing on his personal life, and his influential instructors. He discribes his interest in how perceptions of religious traditions are c...
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Petersen, Kristian
Created:: 2013-09-12
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Robin Gillette, Executive Director of the Minnesota Fringe Festival since 2006, speaks retrospectively to Peter Shea about the success of the 2013 Fringe, the logistics of the festival, a participant's process of creating a Fringe production, and her decision to end her tenure as Executive Director.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Gillette, Robin
Created:: 2013-08-21
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Mary Beth Stein is a former adjunct theology teacher at St. Catherine‚Äôs University, and an activist involved with the Catholic Coalition for Church Reform. In this interview, she talks to Peter Shea about experiences in her life which motivate her to work for social justice, inclusion, and gender equity in the catholic church. She talks about ...
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Stein, Mary Beth
Created:: 2013-08-15
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Danny Robinson Clark, retired actor, takes up where he left off, at his struggle with recurrent pain during acting. He talks to Peter Shea about dynamics of race and prejudice among his fellow actors, his fascination with Constantin Stanislavski's "An Actor Prepares" and John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men". He discusses commonalities of playwrigh...
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Clark, Danny Robinson
Created:: 2013-08-13
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Matthew Trumbull, writer and actor, talks to Peter Shea about The Zebra Shirt of Lonely Children, a one-man show about his father, which he performed at the 2013 Minnesota Fringe Festival. He talks about his development as an actor and the circumstances which gradually convinced him to undertake a one-man show: notably, his father's death and do...
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Trumbull, Matthew
Created:: 2013-08-07
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13