Barry Horwitz  |  Interests  |  Scholarship  

Education:

• M.A. English, University of California, Berkeley, 1963
• B.A. English, Northwestern University, 1960

Teaching Experience:

• Professor, First Class - Universit�e de Paul Valery, France (2002)
• present: Adjunct in English - St. Mary's College of California (1977 - Present)
• Associate Instructor - English Department, UC Berkeley (1970 - 1981)
• Lectuer d'anglais - Universit�e de Paris, Sorbonne (1965 - 1967)
• Lecturer - Universit�e de Paris, Institut d'Etudes Politique (1965 - 1967)
• Lecturer - University of Maryland, SHAPE, NATO, Paris. (1965 - 1967)

Professional Experience:

• Dramaturge - John Hinkel Theatre, Berkeley (2002)
  Euripides, �Iphigenia in Aulis,�
• Dramaturge - Eight Street Theatre, Berkeley. (2001 - 2002)
  Giraudoux, �There Will Be No Trojan War,�
• Directing - Subterranean Shakespeare (2001)
  "Comedy of Errors, Shakespeare," Subterranean Shakespeare, Summer 2001, Associate Director and Dramaturge.
• Directing - Shotwell Studio (2000)
  �Speed-the-Plow� by David Mamet, Shotwell Studio, San Francisco, 2000, Director, Designer, and Producer.
• Dramaturge - Eighth Street Theatre, (1999)
  Euripides, �Bacchae,� Eighth Street Theatre, also playing role of Teireisias
• Dramaturge - John Hinkel Theatre, Berkeley (1998)
  Shakespeare, �As You Like It,
• Dramaturge - John Hinkel Theatre, Berkeley (1997)
  Shakespeare, �Romeo and Juliet,�
• Dramaturge - Shotgun Players, First Baptist Church, Oakland (1996)
  Shaw, �Man and Superman,�
• Directing - Somar Theatre (1994)
  # �Oedipus Rex,� Somar Theatre, San Francisco, 1994, Director (Faculty Development Grant, SMC, Dean's Roundtable, 1994, also presented at LeFevre Theatre for Collegiate Seminar).
• Directing - Intersection of the Arts (1993)
  �Incident at Vichy,� Arthur Miller, Intersection of the Arts, 1993, Director.
• Acting -
  "Bacchae," role of Tieresias "Trojan War," role of Abneos "A Midsummer Night's Dream," role: Bottom, Shakespeare & Co., S.F.
• Directing - St. Mary's College - Seminar Events
  �Everyman,� contemporary production of medieval morality play, SMC students, for Seminar Events, 1990, Soda Center, part of �Morality Plays Onstage,� English 185, Spring 1990,Teacher/ Director/Producer.
• Directing - Noah Theatre Co
  "The Jewish Wife,� Brecht, Noah Theatre Co., LeFevre Theatre, SMC, Director, Producer.

Other Experience:

• Co- Founder - Shakespeare & Co (1992 - 1995)
  Shakespeare & Co., acting group in San Francisco.
• Founder and Editor - Newman Essay Contest and UNDERGRADUATE magazine (1990 - Present)
  Newman Essay Contest and UNDERGRADUATE magazine
• Founder and Editor - OnStage Newsletter of seminar events for Campus and Community (1990 - Present)
  OnStage Newsletter of seminar events for Campus and Community
• Founder - Seminar Events Program (1990 - Present)
• Founder - Writing Tutor Program and Labs (1977)

Awards:

• O. DeSales Perez Award 2011 - Saint Mary's College of California (October 01, 2011)
  Annual Award, Gold Medallion & Grant for Distinguished Contribution to the Work of Seminar, for Seminar Events and Quixotic Players, presented by Brother Ron Gallagher, President of SMC.
• Collegiate Seminar Governing Board Special Award for Distinctive Contribution - Saint Mary's College (May 2005)
• Advising Services Award: Tenth Anniversary for Establishing Writing Tutor Program - Saint Mary's College (September 1988)
• Distinguished Teaching Award: - UC Berkeley (1981)
  Distinguished Teaching Award: Dept. of Interdisciplinary Studies, Humanities Field Major, Lecturer, UC Berkeley.

Professional Licenses & Certifications:

• Cerificate - University of Paris, Sorbonne (September 1965)
• Lifetime Credential, Language & Literature - California College Teaching Credential (June 1963)

Presentations:

Conference paper

• “Express Yourself”: Staging Chaucer’s “Wife of Bath”—from Medieval to Modern. Horwitz, Barry and Nicholas, Leither (talk, speech or lecture, invited, co-author)
  Amer. Conf. of Core Texts, ACTC, at New Haven, Conn.
  “Express Yourself”: Staging Chaucer’s “Wife of Bath”—from Medieval to Modern--How we produced and directed Chaucer's Wife of Bath as a modern stage production, using Chaucer's text and contemporary actors and themes on stage.
  (March 28, 2011)
• The American Dream Conspiracy: Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee. Horwitz, Barry (talk, speech or lecture, invited, paper)
  Conspiracy & Consent in History & Culture
  University of Montpelier, France, 30th Anniversary Conference on American Literature and Historical Influences
  (June 24, 2009)
• Did Langston Hughes Repent?--Harlem Renaissance & the U.S. Red Scare. Horwitz, Barry D. (invited, paper)
  Terror & Its Representations in U.S. History, Univ. of Montpellier, France
  Langaton Hughes, leading African American poet of the Harlem Renaissance, was pursued by critics and demonstrators throughout the 20s and 30s by the Red Scare tactics of the U.S. government, the Palmer raids, and critics hostile to his views on socialism and social justice.
  (June 20, 2007)
• Langston Hughes, Black Pierrot--His Gentle Camp. Horwitz, Barry (invited, paper)
  Many Camps: A Conference on Subcultures & the Arts of Survival, SFSU
  Langston Hughes, the voice of the Harlem Renaissance in 20s/30s New York, disguises himself and wears many masks to express his gentle critique of the many repressions of Black and oppressed people in his poems.
  (October 28, 2006)
• Everyman in California: Classic Plays/ Modern Issues. Horwitz, Barry (paper)
  Generations: Tensions, Rupture, Continuity
  (June 21, 2005)
• “Express Yourself”: Staging Chaucer’s “Wife of Bath”—from Medieval to Modern. Horwitz, Barry and Leither, Nicholas

Master Class

• Shakespeare Intensive Workshop for Actors, New York City. Horwitz, Barry and Tichler, Rosemarie (talk, speech or lecture, invited, primary presenter)
  Bilingual Acting Workshop, Living Theatre
  Discussion of characters, scenes, and language in Twelfth Night, introducing actors to the play's ideas, imagery, and language. With Rosmary Tichler, NYU Tisch school of the Arts.
  (June 09, 2009)

Panel Chair/Speaker

• Modernist Writers: Nationalism and Despair. Horwitz, Barry (panel or forum member, panel or forum chair, moderator, or leader)
  International Conference in New Directions in the Humanities
  (July 22, 2004)

Panel Speaker

• The American Outsider: Thoreau, Emerson, Darrow. Horwitz, Barry (panel or forum member)
  Inherit the Wind--Fifty Years Later
  (October 27, 2005)
• On a Midsummer Night's Dream. Horwitz, Barry (panel or forum member)
  Bard Talk, Claifornia Shakespeare Festival
  (1993)

Publications:

• Horwitz, Barry D. "The American Dream Conspiracy: Cultural Critique in Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, and Edward Albee." Divergences: revue libertaire internationale en ligne Number 25.April 2011 (2011): http://divergences.be/spip.php?article2518&lang=en
• Horwitz, Barry. February 14, 2010. From the Venus Hottentot to the Slumdog Millionaire: Imperialist Culture in Suzan-Lori Parks� Venus, Divergences, vol. Online-Zine, ed. Passavant, Christiane , Divergences
• Horwitz, Barry. January 10, 2010. Langston Hughes: Poetry and Resistance in the Capitalist Desert, Divergences, vol. Online-Zine, Divergences
• Horwitz, Barry David. "Langston Hughes, Shakespeare in Harlem: Socialist Poet in the Desert." Terror and its Representations. Ed. Portis, Larry Montpellier, France: Presses universitaires de la Mediterranee, 2009. 125 - 137
• Horwitz, Barry. "Beyond the Classroom: The Informal Curriculum." Perspectives on Seminar: A Collection of Writings by Seminar Faculty May 2007: 55-61

Performances:

Freshman Collaborative Discussion

• Roman Christian Day. Seminar Events for Roman-Christian Thought. (March 15, 2010)

Performance, Co-Director

• Sappho: Dances for Love. (2005)

Play, Adaptor & Director

• Antigone. (2004)

Play, Director

• Face to Face: Sor Juana Meets Virginia Woolf. (2004)
• A Doll House. (2004)

Play, Producer

• Live Scenes from Shakespeare's: "The Tempest". Saint Mary's College, Seminar Events. (February 22, 2010)
  Organized and produced Theater First of Oakland's staged reading of scenes from The Tempest for students in Hagerty Lounge.
• Lysistrata. Quixotic Players, Seminar Events. (October 18, 2009)
  Aristophanes' play, Lysistrata, by the Quixotic Players, modernizing the sexual struggle of Greek women against war! Directed by Sharon Huff. English version by Steve Tillis.
• The Odyssey. Quixotic Players, Seminar Events. (September 14, 2009)
  Prize-winning new play by Marie Dana (SMC '12), UNDO IT! Script Winner, featuring all the Greek gods, LIVE! Directed by David DeRose.
• King Lear. Collegiate Players, Soda Center. (October 03, 2006)

Play, Producer and Directror

• "The Oh No Inferno" by Marie Dana. Undo It! Script Contest Winner, Seminar. (December 01, 2011)
  Director, Quixotic Players, and Producer of Marie Dana's UNDO IT! Contest-Winning play, 2011, in Hagerty Lounge, w/ David DeRose as Virgil, Sam Tillis as Dante, and Steve Tillis as Lucifer.
• The Wife of Bath Speaks. Quixotic Players, Seminar Events. (March 30, 2009)
  Quixotic Players production of the text of Chaucer's "wife of Bath" prologue and tale for seminar students. A medieval-modern Madonna tells tales of love. Adaptation by Nicholas Leither.
• Agamemnon. (2003)

Play, Producer and Dramaturge

• Quixotic Players Present: The Tempest. Seminar Events, Rennaisance Thought, LeFevre Theater. (February 22, 2011)
  Live Quixotic Players production of selected scenes from Shakespeare's Tempest. Artistic Director.
• Oedipus Re-Born. UNDO IT! Contest winner - Soda Center. (October 12, 2010)
  "Oedipus Re-Born" written by the winner of the 2010 UNDO IT! script contest, Jenny Nicholson. Four performances for students by the Quixotic Players.
• Kafka's Metamorphosis. Seminar Events, Quixotic Players, Soda Center. (March 22, 2010)
  Live performance of "You're What?" by Rosa Del Duca, winner of the UNDO IT! script-writing contest. Presented for 19&20th Century Thought students in Soda Center by Quixotic Players.
• Club Underground. Collegiate Players: Soda Center. (April 25, 2007)
  Producer and Dramaturge of a modernized version of Dante's Inferno, performed by the Collegiate Players.
• Don Quixote's Sorrowful Face. Collegiate Players, LeFevere Theatre. (February 28, 2007)
  Producer and Dramaturge, for a modern adaptation of "Don Quixote," set in Iraq and performed by the Collegiate Players.
• Orestes' Excellent Adventure. Collegiate Players, Soda Center. (September 23, 2006)
• Marie de France. Collegiate Players, Soda Center. (2006)
• A Doll House. Collegiate Players, Soda Center. (2006)
• The Bacchae. (2005)
• Everyman 2005. (2005)
• Antony & Cleopatra. (2005)

Staged Reading, Director

• Pygmalion, Bernard Shaw. Collegiate Players, Soda Center. (October 09, 2007)
  Director, Shaw's Pygmalion, a staged reading, with the locale transfered to the U.S., done with American accents, and African American Eliza Doolittle and Alfred Doolittle. Performed for Modern Seminar and public.