Unequal Before Death

About

Christina Staudt (Ph.D. Art History Columbia University) is the Chair of the Columbia University Seminar on Death and the co-founder of the Westchester End-of-Life Coalition. She is the co-editor of The Many Ways We Talk About Death in Contemporary Society (Mellen 2009) and contributed chapters on the literature of death and dying and on the imagery of death after 9/11 for Speaking of Death - America''s New Sense of Mortality Michael Bartalos ed. (Praeger 2009). She organizes events and speaks in the public and professional arena to promote a better end-of-life experience for patients and their families and has been an active hospice volunteer for fifteen years.Marcelline Block''s publications include World Film Locations: Paris and World Film Locations: Las Vegas. Her Situating the Feminist Gaze and Spectatorship in Postwar Cinema was selected as Book of the Month in January 2012 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. It is translated into Italian as Sguardo e pubblico femminista nel cinema del dopoguerra as part of the Universita degli Studi di L''Aquila''s Cinema ed estetica cinematografica series (Aracne editrice). She co-edited Gender Scripts in Medicine and Narrative and Critical Matrix: The Princeton Journal of Women Gender and Culture (vol. 18). Her articles are published in Excavatio: Realism and Naturalism in Film Studies (vol. 22) The Harvard French Review (vol. 2) and LINE: Journal of the Hadar Foundation (vol. 1). She contributed chapters to The Many Ways We Talk about Death in Contemporary Society; Vendetta: Essays on Honor and Revenge and Cherchez la femme: Women and Values in the Francophone World. Her writing in French appears in Vingtieme siecle: revue d''histoire (vol. 96). Her art criticism was translated into Russian for Russian Art beyond Borders: Late 20th Century-Early 21st Century (National Center for Contemporary Art Moscow). She has taught in several departments at Princeton including as a Lecturer in History.