Janet Kauffman

Janet Kauffman

Janet Kauffman (born 1945 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania)cite web | title="Janet Kauffman - American Novelist" at kyluka.com | url=http://kyluka.com/briefing/Janet_Kauffman_American_Novelist ] is a novelist, poet, and mixed media artist. She has taught in the English Department at Eastern Michigan University (EMU) in Ypsilanti, Michigan since 1988.cite web | title=Janet Kauffman at emich.edu | url=http://www.emich.edu/english/details.php?dep=English&ID=83 ] She received her PhD from University of Chicago in 1972.cite web | title=Janet Kauffman at emich.edu | url=http://www.emich.edu/english/details.php?dep=English&ID=83 ]

Dr. Kauffman was instrumental in establishing EMU's Creative Writing Master's degree program, which has received national attention through its unconventional approach to writing. In her classes, Ms. Kauffman challenges her students to re-think the definition of "book" and ways in which to use text to communicate ideas. Her unusual approach to Imaginative Writing includes creating deformed books, using found objects married to original or "borrowed" text, creative alphabets, and engineered books.

Dr. Kauffman has been the recipient of numerous awards, including:

  • Michigan Arts Award, 1997
  • Creative Artist Grants
  • Michigan Council for the Arts 1984 and 1987
  • National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1985
  • Rosenthal Award, American Academy-Institute of Arts and Letters, 1983

Her passions include fighting the pollution of commercial agriculture, which has been the focus of much of her recent work such as [http://my.dmci.net/~kauffman/plowshares.htm The Violence of Plowshares.] This 2006 exhibit draws items from her childhood growing up on a tobacco farm together with other found objects to make a strong statement. As Dr. Kauffman exhorts in her exhibit notes:

The vision of farming as a peaceful way of life, surrounded by idyllic and pastoral landscapes, is a deeply-rooted dream in American life. That dream has turned nightmare where I live, and in many areas of the country.

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External links

* http://my.dmci.net/~kauffman/connect.htm


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