Marcia Pally

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Marcia Deborah Pally
Education
OccupationAcademic and writer

Marcia Deborah Pally is an American academic and writer. Pally teaches at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University, is a member of The Center of Theological Inquiry, [1] and is a permanent fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities.

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Academic career

Pally earned a B.Sc. from the New York State University College of Human Ecology at Cornell University in 1971, [2] and a master's degree in dance and choreography from U.C.L.A. in 1974, and her thesis was titled "Fragmented Sequences as a form of Choreography". [3] In 1995, she received a doctorate (Ed.D.) from New York University, and her dissertation was titled "Lingua franca: Film criticism as a content-based ESL text for the development of critical thinking". [4]

Pally is an adjunct professor of TESOL at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University. [5] In 2022, she is a visiting professor at the Theology Faculty of Humboldt University of Berlin. [6] [7] She has served as a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin in 2007 and 2010. [8] She is a member of The Center of Theological Inquiry, where, in 2019-2020, she was a member-in-residence. [9] Pally is a permanent fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities, [10] a member of the advisory board of the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute, [11] and of the editorial board of Telos . [12]

Her published works include the 1991 monograph Sense & Censorship: The Vanity of Bonfires, [13] and the 1994 book Sex & Sensibility: Reflections on Forbidden Mirrors and the Will to Censor, [14] which was a 1995 Mencken Award finalist. [15] [16] [17] In 2016, she published Commonwealth and Covenant: Economics: Politics, and Theologies of Relationality. [18] [19]

Journalism and media

Pally journalistic career includes having been a contributor and arts editor at the New York Native , [20] [21] a contributor to The Village Voice , [20] The Advocate , [22] Religion News Service, [23] and The New York Times . [24] She was a film critic and contributing editor for Penthouse magazine and a senior editor of Penthouse Forum . [25] [26] [27] She was also a film critic for Film Comment [28] and Cinéaste . [29] Since being sent to write about the Berlin Biennale "from ze aus-sider's point of view" in 1987, [30] Pally has been a contributor to Die Tageszeitung , [31] [32] and has written political and cultural columns for such German periodicals as Die Zeit , [33] Die Welt , [34] and Süddeutsche Zeitung . [35] In 2009, Berlin University Press published an anthology of her columns in the German press, Liebeserklärungen aus Kreuzberg und Manhattan.

Pally was the co-host of Vito Russo's television series Our Time, [22] [36] and from 1990 to 1995, she co-hosted weekly film-review programs on WBAI radio with Stuart Klawans. [37] [38] Pally also appeared in the documentaries Rights and Reactions: Lesbian and Gay Rights on Trial (1988), [39] Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989) and Vito (2011). Pally worked as a journalist to address the HIV/AIDS crisis. [36] [40] [41] [42]

Social engagement

She was a co-founder of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), [43] [44] and has served as the organization's vice chair and acting chair. [45] [46] [47] Pally founded and served as president of Feminists for Free Expression. [48] [49] Pally also served on the Media and Communications Committee of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and as vice president of The Freedom to Read Foundation. [50]

Choreography

Pally was the subject of In the Pictures (1977), a documentary about her as a choreographer. [51] She was also the subject of a portrait by photographer Robert Giard that was published in his 1997 book Particular Voices and now part of a collection at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University. [52] [53]

Books

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References

  1. ↑ Center of Theological Inquiry
  2. ↑ "Bachelor of Science: Human Ecology", The Cornell Daily Sun, Volume 87, Number 135, June 4, 1971, p. 11
  3. ↑ Pally, Marcia Deborah."Master's thesis: Fragmented sequences as a form of choreography" (1974)
  4. ↑ Marcia Pally, "Lingua franca: Film criticism as a content-based ESL text for the development of critical thinking", Doctoral Dissertation, UCLA, 1995
  5. ↑ Marcia Pally, NYU
  6. ↑ "Marcia Pally", Humboldt University
  7. ↑ "Marcia Pally", Deutsche Times
  8. ↑ Humboldt University Berlin
  9. ↑ Insights, Newsletter of the Center of Theological Inquiry, Feb., 2020
  10. ↑ Fellows of the New York Institute for the Humanities
  11. ↑ Advisory Board, Telos-Paul Piccone Institute
  12. ↑ Telos
  13. ↑ Marcia Pally, Sense & Censorship.pdf Sense & Censorship: The Vanity of Bonfires
  14. ↑ National Society of Film Critics (1995). Keough, Peter (ed.). Flesh and Blood: The National Society of Film Critics on Sex, Violence and Censorship. pp. 256–258. ISBN   1562790765.
  15. ↑ Mencken Award Finalists
  16. ↑ Nadine Strossen, “Feminist Critique of the Feminist Critique of Pornography, An Essay,” 79 Va. L. Rev. 1099 (1993)
  17. ↑ John B. Harer & Jeanne Harrel, "Marcia Pally: Sense and Censorship", in John B. Harer & Jeanne Harrel, People for and Against Restricted or Unrestricted Expression, 126-129 (2002)
  18. ↑ Waldstein, Edmund (July 19, 2018). "Book Reviews: Marcia Pally, Commonwealth and Covenant: Economics, Politics, and Theologies of Relationality". Studies in Christian Ethics. 31 (3): 354–357. doi:10.1177/0953946818769552p . Retrieved June 25, 2022.
  19. ↑ David Brooks, "How Covenants Make Us", The New York Times, April 5, 2016]
  20. 1 2 "Marcia Pally, Contributor, The Village Voice; former Arts Editor, New York Native", Gay Community News, May 19, 1984, p. 9
  21. ↑ Gay Press Award for Excellence in Editorial and Commentary for Marcia Pally, "Fireworks at the Sexuality Conference" (Montrose Voice, No. 133, May 13, 1983, p.8)
  22. 1 2 Schiavi, Michael (2011). Celluloid Activist: The Life and Times of Vito Russo. p. 217. ISBN   9780299282301.
  23. ↑ "Marcia Pally" at Religion News Service
  24. ↑ Marcia Pally, "The New Evangelicals", The New York Times, December 9, 2011
  25. ↑ Schaefer, Stephen (August 9, 1999). "Friends and / or Lovers". Newsday (Nassau ed.). p. 91. Retrieved June 17, 2022.
  26. ↑ Penthouse, July 1996, p.8
  27. ↑ Masthead, Forum, October 1986, p. 5
  28. ↑ Max Nelson, "50 Years of Film Comment Part Three", Film Comment, November-December 2013
  29. ↑ Marcia Pally, "The Politics of Passion: Pedro Almodovar and the Camp Esthetic", Cinéaste 18, no. 1 (1990) p. 32
  30. ↑ "Could you imagine?" in Marcia Pally, Liebeserklärungen aus Kreuzberg und Manhattan (Berlin University Press, 2009) p. 17
  31. ↑ Marcia Pally, "Kampf der Traumatisierten", Die Tageszeitung, January 23, 2021
  32. ↑ "Marcia Pally" at Taz Archiv
  33. ↑ "Marcia Pally", Die Zeit
  34. ↑ Marcia Pally, "Wir Amerikaner waren schon früh brutal", Die Welt, January 1, 2011
  35. ↑ Marcia Pally, "Trügerische Sehnsucht", Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 17, 2010
  36. 1 2 Herold, Lauren (January 2020). "Televisual Emotional Pedagogy: AIDS, Affect, and Activism on Vito Russo's Our Time". Television & New Media. 21 (1): 25–40. doi:10.1177/1527476418813440. S2CID   149873408.
  37. ↑ WBAI Folio, March/April 1993
  38. ↑ Marcia Pally, CV [ non-primary source needed ]
  39. ↑ Pally representing GLAAD in "Rights and Reactions: Lesbian and Gay Rights on Trial" on YouTube (from 37:05)
  40. ↑ Paula A. Treichler, "AIDS, Gender, and Biomedical Discourse: Current Contests for Meaning", in AIDS: The Burdens of History (Elizabeth Fee & Daniel M. Fox, eds.) (1988) p. 216
  41. ↑ Marcia Pally, "AIDS and the Politics of Despair: Lighting Our Own Funeral Pyre", The Advocate, December 24, 1985, p. 8
  42. ↑ "Sex in the Age of AIDS", The Advocate (July 8, 1986) pp.41-47
  43. ↑ Steven Capsuto, Alternate Channels, p. 254 (2000)
  44. ↑ Mark Thompson (ed.), Long Road to Freedom, (1994) p. 290
  45. ↑ Michael Schiavi, pp. 238-239
  46. ↑ "Media Watch Group meets with Time", Bay Area Reporter, March 17, 1988
  47. ↑ Elizabeth Pincus, "Politics or Ego: GLAAD Saga Unravelled", Gay Community News, March 1–7, 1987, p. 3
  48. ↑ Strossen, Nadine (1996). Defending Pornography. Anchor Books. pp. 33, 81. ISBN   038548173X.
  49. ↑ Robert Trager & Donna L. Dickerson,Freedom of Expression in the 21st Century, (1999) p. 123
  50. ↑ John B. Harer & Jeanne Harrel, "Marcia Pally: Sense and Censorship", in John B. Harer & Jeanne Harrel, People for and Against Restricted or Unrestricted Expression, 127 (2002)
  51. ↑ "In the Pictures", Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, issue 24/25, March 1981, p. 90
  52. ↑ Robert Giard. (1997). Particular Voices MIT Press. p. 290.
  53. ↑ Portrait of Marcia Pally by Robert Giard, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Further reading

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