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33: 901: 302:, Kathryn Harrison called Acocella "knowledgeable without being a show-off, meticulous in her research and energetically conversational", and said her "typical essay thus functions as a tantalizing biographical sketch, as well as a critical study, inviting us to pursue a deeper exploration". 902:"André Levinson On Dance: Writings From Paris in the Twenties, edited by Joan Acocella and Lynn Garafola. Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 1991, for Wesleyan University Press, ix + 163 pp., photographs, bibliography, index. $ 25.00" 328:
article "Cather and the Academy", which appeared in the November 27, 1995, issue, received a Front Page Award from the Newswomen's Club of New York and was included in the "Best American Essays" anthology of 1996. She expanded the essay into
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Joan Barbara Ross was born in San Francisco on April 13, 1945, to Arnold Ross, a cement company executive, and Florence (Hartzell) Ross, a homemaker. She grew up in
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Acocella died of cancer at home in Manhattan, on January 7, 2024, at age 78. At the time of her death, Acocella's partner was
535: 1202: 1002: 870: 766: 167:, April 13, 1945 – January 7, 2024) was an American dance critic and author. From 1998 to 2019, she was dance critic for 1055:"The New York Public Library's Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers Announces 2017–2018 Fellows" 643: 196: 89: 38: 1294: 1171: 516: 497: 478: 459: 440: 421: 617: 1329: 1289: 1279: 1274: 1269: 1084: 740: 1119: 800: 390: 175: 285: 1024: 839: 579: 379: 1229:"'The Bloodied Nightgown' is a monument to Joan Acocella's savage wit and unsentimental generosity" 252: 269:
on his first trip back to his birthplace of Riga, Latvia since his defection and exile from the
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2017 – Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters
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2017 – Fellow, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers
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for 33 years and authored books on dance, literature, and psychology.
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Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
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Creating hysteria : women and multiple personality disorder
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2007 – Award in Literature, American Academy of Arts and Letters
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Mission to Siam : the memoirs of Jessie MacKinnon Hartzell
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Creating Hysteria: Women and Multiple Personality Disorder
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in 1992 and served as its dance critic from 1998 to 2019.
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2002–20?? – Fellow, New York Institute for the Humanities
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Mission to Siam: The Memoirs of Jessie MacKinnon Hartzell
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National Book Critics Circle Award
University of California, Berkeley
BA
Rutgers University
PhD
The New Yorker
Nicholas Acocella
Noël Carroll
The New Yorker
The New York Review of Books
Oakland, California
B.A.
University of California, Berkeley
Rutgers University
Ballets Russes
Random House
Dance Magazine
The Nutcracker
New York City Ballet
The Village Voice
Financial Times
New York Review of Books
The New Yorker
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Soviet Union
Mark Morris
The New York Times
Vaslav Nijinsky
Willa Cather

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