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Dr. Marta Effinger-Crichlow
Dr. Marta Effinger-Crichlow
Assistant Professor
A-643
718.260.5205
meffinger@citytech.cuny.edu

Dr. Effinger-Crichlow teaches:

  • Black Women in Literature
  • Early Black Writers
  • Contemporary Black Writers
  • Black Theatre
  • African Folklore

Publications:

  • “"Madame Sissieretta Joyner Jones," African American National Biography, 2008” Footsteps, 2005
  • “Wordsmiths and Warriors: Early Black Female Writers,” Footsteps, 2005
  • “African American Folk Painters: Clementine Hunter & Horrace Pippin,” Footsteps, 2003.
  • “Review of Sourcebook of African-American Performance: Plays, People, Movements by Annemarie Bean,” Theatre Journal, The John Hopkins University Press, December 2002
  • “Rose McClendon: First Lady of the Stage,” Footsteps, 2001.
  • “Drama Review of Sydne Mahone’s Moon Marked and Touched by the Sun,” African American Review Indiana State University, 1997

Associations:

  • BTA (Black Theatre Association for the Association for Theatre in Higher Education)
  • BTN (Black Theatre Network)
  • MLA (Modern Language Association)
  • NYASA (New York African Studies Association)

Additional Activities:

  • " Lecture, "Storytelling in August Wilson's The Piano Lesson," Xiamen University, Xiamen, China, January 2008
  • " Project Director, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Faculty Development Initiative at City Tech entitled Retentions and Transfigurations: The Technological Evolution and Social History of Five New York City Neighborhoods, 2006 - 2007
  • " Founder & Organizer, Black Women in Literature Quilting Project at City Tech, 2006 - Present
  • " Dramaturg, Passage Theatre, 2007
  • " Dramaturg and Contest Judge, Kuntu Repertory Theatre, 2007
  • " Lecture, "Storytelling in the African Tradition," Black History Month at City Tech, 2006
  • " Conference Paper, What's a Sista' to Do With Her Body?: Marcia Leslie's The Trial of the One-Short Sighted Black Woman Vs. Mammy Louise and Safreeta Mae, 2006
  • " Conference Paper, Narratives of Mobility: Pearl Cleage's Flyin' West and Blues for an Alabama Sky, 2004

Dissertation:

  • “Staging Migrations Toward an American West: From Ida B. Wells to Rhodessa Jones”

Degrees:

  • Northwestern University, Ph.D.
  • Yale University, M.A.
  • University of Pittsburgh, B.A.
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