Wednesday, April 14 2021 at 5:00pm MDT
Join us for a live Colorado College Alumni/Parent Book Club discussion of Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life, with alum and author Katherine E. Standefer (‘07). On each evening of the series, Standefer and a different series of Colorado College professors and/or distinguished alumni will lead an interactive, virtual conversation.
Tonight Kati is in conversation with her former Professors Regula Evitt (English), Tom Lindblade (Theatre & Dance), and Gail Murphy-Geiss (Sociology).
Regula Evitt (Ph.D., English, University of Virginia,1992; M.A., English, Stanford University 1982; B.A. English, Stanford University, 1981) explores connections between medieval languages, literature, and culture. She is interested in both English and continental literatures, with an emphasis on narrative poetry and medieval drama. In her primary area of research, she considers Jewish-Christian relations during the high and late middle ages, in particular Christian dramatic representations of Jewish communities in western medieval Europe as embedded in liturgical practice and drama. (Kati and Re traveled in Italy together for the class “Dante’s Exile” in 2005.)
Tom Lindblade was the National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Teaching Professor at Colorado College, and was the college's inaugural T. William and Nancy Bryson Schlosser Professor of the Arts. He teaches in Colorado College's Department of Theatre and Dance, where he is Full Professor and served fourteen years as Chair between 1995 and 2009. He hails from Minnesota and came to Colorado College after receiving his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin (1979), his M.A. from the University of Minnesota (1982), and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in Drama and Humanities (1989). (Tom was randomly assigned as Kati’s advisor when she was a freshman at CC and she later loved his 2005 class “Good and Evil,” co-taught with English professor Ruth Barton).
Gail Murphy-Geiss (B.A., Westminster College, PA; M.Div., Boston University; Ph.D., University of Denver and Illif School of Theology) teaches classes in religion, law, gender, French society, and research design. Her dissertation was on Protestant family values, and more recent research has been on changing roles for clergy spouses, sexual misconduct in the United Methodist and Episcopal denominations, and domestic violence court procedures. She has also published on midwifery in the U.S. and gender depictions in Sunday School materials. As an applied researcher, she regularly oversees student research on behalf of Planned Parenthood and the El Paso County courts. (Gail was Kati’s professor for “Sociology of Family” and “Research Methods” and her advisor in the Sociology department.)
