Alvin Goldfarb

Alvin "Al" Goldfarb is the tenth president of Western Illinois University. Prior to his current position from 1977 to 2002 he was on the faculty of the department of theatre at Illinois State University in Bloomington, where he was also chairman of the theatre department, dean of fine arts from 1988 to 1998, and provost and vice president for academic affairs from 1998.Rachel Hays, [http://media.www.westerncourier.com/media/storage/paper650/news/2002/03/27/News/Wiu-President.Alvin.Goldfarb.To.Take.Office.July.1-442722.shtml "WIU President Alvin Goldfarb to take office July 1,"] , "Western Courier", March 27, 2002.] [http://www.khqa.com/news/news_story.aspx?id=15744 "WIU's president says he's being treated for prostate cancer,"] Associated Press, Aug. 25, 2006.] "Western Illinois University picks ISU provost as new president," Associated Press State & Local Wire, March 8, 2002.] Randy Gleason, "Goldfarb to be Illinois State provost; role as healer seen," "Pantagraph" (Bloomington, Il.), May 8, 1998.] He earned a Ph.D. in theater history from the City University of New York. In 2006 Goldfarb announced that he was being treated for prostate cancer and that a complete recovery was expected.

Career

At Illinois State University Goldfarb was involved in setting up an acting internship program with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company and construction of a new center for the performing arts.

Goldfarb has researched and written extensively on the arts and on the Holocaust, of which his parents are survivors. He co-edited and contributed to the book "Holocaust and Performance".

Together with Rebecca Rovit, he edited the book "Theatrical performance during the Holocaust: texts, documents, memoirs" (Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. ISBN 0801861675).

Textbooks

He has written three widely used university textbooks on theater jointly with Edwin Wilson, a former Broadway theatre critic for the Wall Street Journal.

*Living Theatre : A History,
**2nd edition. New York : McGraw-Hill, c1994. ISBN 0070707332 (alk. paper)
**3rd edition ISBN 007038469X
*Anthology of living theater,
**1st edition, Boston: McGraw-Hill, c1998. ISBN 007070774X
**2nd edition. Boston: McGraw-Hill, c2001. ISBN 0072317299
**3rd edition. ISBN 9780073514130
*Theater: the lively art
**1st edition, 1991, ISBN 0070707340
**4th edition, 2002, ISBN 0072407182
**6th edition, forthcoming, ISBN 9780073514116

References

External links

* [http://wiu.edu/connection/archive/2002/030802cc/index.shtml Western Illinois University press release – "Dr. Alvin Goldfarb Named Western Illinois University President"]
* [http://www.wiu.edu/president/ Western Illinois University – President Al Goldfarb]