October 22, 2024: Ellen Winner
Dr. Ellen Winner is Professor Emerita of Psychology at Boston College and Senior Research Associate at Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education. She received her B.A. in English Literature from Radcliffe College and her Ph.D. in Psychology from Harvard. Her research focuses on the psychology of the arts and on arts education. She has written over 200 articles and is author of five books -- Invented Worlds: The Psychology of the Arts (1982); The Point of Words: Children's Understanding of Metaphor and Irony (1988); Gifted Children: Myths and Realities (1996); How Art Works: A Psychological Exploration (2018); An Uneasy Guest in the Schoolhouse: Arts Education from Colonial Times to a Promising Future (2022), and co-author of Studio Thinking: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education (2007), Studio Thinking 2: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education (2013); and Studio Thinking from the Start: The K-8 Art Educator's Handbook (2018). She served as President of APA's Division 10, Psychology and the Arts in 1995-1996. She received the Rudolf Arnheim Award for Outstanding Research by a Senior Scholar in Psychology and the Arts from Division 10 in 2000. She is a fellow of APA Division 10 and the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics. A 2020 special issue of Empirical Studies in the Arts honored her work.
Please register to attend this event by 3 pm on October 22, 2024.
Past CLASS Reads Authors
Sarah Jaquette Ray
Sarah Jaquette Ray gave a presentation on her book, "A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet." This book aims to guide younger generations through the uncertainties of climate change, helping them work through feelings of despair while still taking action against climate change and enjoying the planet.
Valeria Luiselli
Valeria Luiselli delivered a virtual presentation on her book, "Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions," which emphasizes the stark reality faced by children fleeing terror back home in Central America as they attempt to cross the border into the United States (Photo by Diego Berruecos Gatopardo).
Nicole R. Fleetwood
Nicole R. Fleetwood, writer, curator, and the inaugural James Weldon Johnson Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU, gave a Zoom presentation at Lesley in the fall of 2021 on "Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration" (Photo by Sara Bennett).
Jill Lepore
Jill Lepore, Professor of American History at Harvard University, gave a Zoom presentation at Lesley in the fall of 2020 on her book, that year's CLAS Reads selection, "This America: The Case for the Nation" (Photo by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard University).
Why We Write
- Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions by Valeria Luiselli, Fall 2022
- Racism in America by Annette Gordon Reed, a collection of essays which includes an excerpt from Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration by Nicole R. Fleetwood, Fall 2021
- This America: The Case for the Nation by Jill Lepore, Fall 2020
- Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer, Fall 2019
- Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World by Suzy Hansen, Fall 2018
- Writing Beyond Race: Living Theory and Practice by Bell Hooks, Fall 2017
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Fall 2016
- Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home by Anita Hill, Fall 2015
- Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, Fall 2014