Word: fiorenza
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...caucus was very much urging the dean in terms of interviewing [women for a recent position]," says Stendahl Professor of New Testament and Ministerial Studies Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza. She says the caucus sent letters to school administrators on behalf of women applicants and attended lectures by visiting women scholars...
When she was appointed in the fall of 1987, Schussler Fiorenza says, she was the first woman to have an endowed chair at the school. The author of 12 books, including In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins, she joined the faculty only last year...
...sense a frustration," says Schussler Fiorenza of women at the school, saying that frustration stems from the dearth of female faculty members...
Schussler Fiorenza says of the number of women faculty compared to the rest of the divinity faculty, "That ratio's very much out of balance. Harvard in general doesn't have a name that is very hospitable to women--especially on a senior level...
Consider the casting of Aida. Mitchell is a fine American singer still some years away from attaining the heft and bravura that her role requires. Italian mezzo Fiorenza Cossotto, as the vengeful princess Amneris, is past her prime at 53 (she made her Met debut in the same part 20 years ago). And the omnipresent Domingo serves up his familiar blend of pathos and bathos without seeming to care where one stops and the other starts. It is a fatal -- but typical -- blend of age and inexperience that even Levine's elegant conducting cannot ameliorate...