RELEASE #214
1 JUNE 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: MARCY DUBROFF (717) 291-3837 LANCASTER, Pa. - Lynn Brooks, Franklin & Marshall's Arthur and Katherine Shadek Professor of Humanities, has been named co-editor of Dance Chronicle. Dance Chronicle, the only journal dedicated to dance history, is published three times per year by Taylor & Francis, a division of Routledge. Brooks' co-editor will be Joellen Meglin, who taught dance at Franklin & Marshall in the 1990s and now teaches dance at Temple University. A member of the college's theater, dance and film faculty since 1984, Brooks trained at the Martha Graham Dance Company in New York. She completed her undergraduate work at the University of Wisconsin at Madison in dance education and earned her master's in choreography and her doctorate of education in dance history from Temple University. She has received three grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and two from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Her dissertation research was supported by a Fulbright-Hays award. Brooks' research interests are international and eclectic. Beginning in Golden Age Spain, she researched ecclesiastical dance and produced two monographs and several articles on that subject. Moving to Northern Europe, she worked on 17th century Dutch dance in both religious and secular contexts. Locally, her attention turned to Lancaster's own stage history and John Durang. Her book on Durang is currently under consideration by University of Illinois Press. Brooks served as editor of Dance Research Journal from 1993-1999. In her first three years at the College, Professor Brooks developed the dance program from an extracurricular activity to a full-fledged minor. In 2004, she successfully established a major in dance, distinctive because of its integration of history, theory and dance itself. Brooks has also shaped the co-curricular life of the College. She has won competitive grants from the National College Choreography Institute, bringing leading dance historians to reconstruct important early work for both our students and the Lancaster community. Her research in baroque dance helped to inform the choreography for the opera "Benjamin" performed for the College celebration of Franklin's 300th birthday. In 2007, she was selected as the recipient of the College's Bradley R. Dewey Scholarship Award, which honors the late Brad Dewey, former dean of the college and religious studies professor. The memorial award was established by family, friends, and the college "to be given annually to the faculty member who best exemplifies this ideal of the scholar whose research efforts reflect and inspire excellence and enlighten teaching." -30- |
