New College Professor Amy Baram Reid Joins Panel Discussion on Art, Race and Politics
Discussion Sponsored by Sarasota County Arts Council

(December 6, 2006) -- New College of Florida Associate Professor of French Language and Literature Amy Baram Reid was a featured panelist for a discussion on "Art, Race and Politics" held recently at the Hyatt Hotel in Sarasota. 

The discussion, which was billed as an attempt to break through the barriers of political correctness and engage participants in frank dialogue on the intersections of art, race and politics in our society, was part of the Sarasota Arts Council's smARTalk series. Joining Baram Reid on the panel were noted painter and visual artist Gale Fulton Ross and Lance Inouye, music director for the Sarasota Youth Opera.  Joe Loccisano, manager of the Fine Arts Gallery at Manatee Community College and an instructor for the Ringling School of Art and Design's Wildacres Retreat, moderated the discussion.

In addition to her teaching duties at New College, Baram Reid also serves as coordinator for the College's Gender Studies program. She holds both a master's degree and a doctorate in French from Yale University. Her research has moved from the representation of women's relationships in late nineteenth-century fiction to issues of memory and identity in contemporary francophone literature from Quebec, Canada, the Caribbean and Africa. Her most recent publication, Dog Days (CARAF, U Virginia Press, 2006), is a translation of an award-winning novel by the Cameroonian author Patrice Nganang. The novel is a funny and astute look at the social and political situation in Yaounde, at a moment when political protests threatened to unsettle the Biya dictatorship.   

For more information on Dr. Amy Baram Reid or New College of Florida, please contact the Office of Public Affairs at (941) 487-4150.  Or email publicaffairs@ncf.edu.

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