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UNDER THE TENT - AT HOMES The following individuals will be speaking throughout our At Homes series: Georgette Norman Georgette Norman is a writer, poet, curator, educator, producer, teacher, and dramatist. She was born, reared, and educated through grade 12 in Montgomery, AL. Her further formal and life education was received at Fisk University in Nashville, TN, where she earned a B.A. in History, and at Hampton Institute in Hampton, VA, where she received a M.A. in Education. Ms. Norman also holds a certificate in Humanistic Education from the University of Miami (Miami, FL). Her interest in drama has led to on- and off-stage pursuits with small theaters in Atlanta, Norfolk, and the Virgin Islands. In 1981, she compiled the works of Black American, Caribbean, and African poets for a theatrical journey through blackness entitled “The Many Faces of Us”. These were presented as part of the College of the Virgin Islands’ Black History Celebration. Theatergoers were also treated to her portrait of women called “Womanrise”, which resulted from a 1982 American Association of University Women Branch Grant. As a tribute to the black women of Montgomery, Ms. Norman staged the choreopoem “Hands in the Mirror”, which was presented at Alabama State University. She has taught drama to youth in an all-high-school drama club on the island of St. Croix, creative dramatics to young people in Montgomery, under the auspices of the Montgomery Arts Council, and she was the drama teacher at Springtree/Snow Hill Institute for the Performing Arts, in Wilcox County, Alabama. Ms. Norman founded the Alabama African-American Arts Alliance (a state-wide arts organization and partnership program of the Alabama State Council on the Arts) in 1992, and she served as its Executive Director for seven years. She is currently the Director of the Troy University Rosa Parks Museum, as well as an Adjunct Instructor in the Department of Communication and Dramatic Arts at Auburn University at Montgomery, where she both teaches and directs plays. Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall is the founding director of the Women’s Research and Resource Center and is the Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women’s Studies at Spelman College. She is also an adjunct professor at Emory University’s Institute for Women’s Studies, where she teaches graduate courses. Dr. Sheftall has published a number of texts within African-American and Women’s Studies, which have been noted as seminal works by other scholars, including the first anthology on black women’s literature, Sturdy Black Bridges: Visions of Black Women in Literature (Doubleday, 1980), which she co-edited with Roseann P. Bell and Bettye Parker Smith; her dissertation, Daughters of Sorrow: Attitudes Toward Black Women, 1880-1920 (Carlson, 1991); Words of Fire: An Anthology of African American Feminist Thought (New Press, 1995); and an anthology she co-edited with Rudolph Byrd entitled Traps: African-American Men on Gender and Sexuality (Indiana University Press, 2001). Her most recent publication is a book co-authored with Johnnetta Betsch Cole, entitled Gender Talk: The Struggle for Women’s Equality in African-American Communities (Random House, 2003). In 1983, she became founding co-editor of Sage: A Scholarly Journal of Black Women, which was devoted exclusively to the experiences of women of African descent.
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