Amy Hempel is the 25th Zale-Kimmerling Writer-in-Residence @NCCROW

Please plan to join us March 14-20 as we celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Zale-Kimmerling Writer-in-Residence Program with Amy Hempel.

FIrst-year Tulane students are invited to join the Spring 2010 "Reading/Writing Women TIDE" built around the 25th Anniversary of the Program. The one-credit seminar is co-taught at NCCROW by Crystal Kile and Charlotte D'Ooge and meets Mondays 4-5:15 pm for the first nine weeks of the semester.

Amy Hempel was born in Chicago in 1951. She lived in Denver and San Francisco before moving to New York to work in publishing. With the publication of her first book of short stories, Reasons to Live (Knopf, 1985), Amy Hempel earned a reputation in the vanguard of American short story writers. One of the stories from that collection, “In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried,” is one of the most extensively anthologized stories of the last quarter century. Her three succeeding collections, At the Gates of The Animal Kingdom (Knopf, 1990); Tumble Home (Scribner, 1997) and The Dog of the Marriage (Scribner, 2005) received rave reviews and increased her high stature as a writer of short fiction. More...

Sophielab is the media collaboratory at Newcomb College Center for Research on Women.

Sophielab is a physical space on the second floor of Caroline Richardson Hall. Sophielab is also a living web of people, consciousness, learning, projects, and activity. More...

Report: Katrina and the
Women of New Orleans

Katrina and the Women of New Orleans is a collaborative effort of the Gender and Disasters Research Group sponsored by the Newcomb College Center for Research on Women. The goal in writing this report was to analyze the ways the hurricanes of 2005 affected the lives of women and girls and to bring those findings to the attention of policy makers, community leaders, scholars, grant makers, and disaster managers. More...