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Sarah Schulman
Distinguished Professor BA, Empire State College (SUNY) |
Office: Building 2S Room 128
Phone: 718.982.3651 Fax: 718.982.3643 sarah.schulman@csi.cuny.edu |
Academic Interests and Activities
Sarah Schulman was born in New York City in 1958 and attended (High College) Hunter High School. She is a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, nonfiction writer, AIDS historian, journalist, and active participant citizen. She is the Co-Founder of MIX: NY LGBT Experimental Film and Video Festival, Co-Director of ACT UP Oral History Project, and the US Coodinator of the first LGBT Delegation to Palestine. Professor Schulman was also the Coordinator of the HOMONATIONALISM and PINKWASHING CONFERENCE at the City University of New York Graduate Center, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (April, 2013). Sarah Schulman is also on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace, and is a fellow at the NY Institute for the Humanities at NYU.
Awards
Guggenheim (Playwrighting), Fulbright (Judaic Studies), 2 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships - Fiction, 1 NY Foundation for the Arts Fellowship - Playwrighting, Kessler Prize for Sustained Contribution to LGBT Studies, Stonewall Award for Improving the Lives of Gays and Lesbians in the United States, Revson Fellow for the Future of New York City at Columbia University, Fellow – NY Institute for the Humanities at New York University, 9 residencies at MacDowell, 5 residencies at Yaddo, 2 American Library Association Stonewall Book Awards – fiction/nonfiction, Brown Foundation/Houston Arts Museum Fellow at the Dora Maar House, Fellow - University of Toronto Bonham Center for Sexual Diversity Studies
Sarah Schulman was born in New York City in 1958 and attended (High College) Hunter High School. She is a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, nonfiction writer, AIDS historian, journalist, and active participant citizen. She is the Co-Founder of MIX: NY LGBT Experimental Film and Video Festival, Co-Director of ACT UP Oral History Project, and the US Coodinator of the first LGBT Delegation to Palestine. Professor Schulman was also the Coordinator of the HOMONATIONALISM and PINKWASHING CONFERENCE at the City University of New York Graduate Center, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (April, 2013). Sarah Schulman is also on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace, and is a fellow at the NY Institute for the Humanities at NYU.
Awards
Guggenheim (Playwrighting), Fulbright (Judaic Studies), 2 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships - Fiction, 1 NY Foundation for the Arts Fellowship - Playwrighting, Kessler Prize for Sustained Contribution to LGBT Studies, Stonewall Award for Improving the Lives of Gays and Lesbians in the United States, Revson Fellow for the Future of New York City at Columbia University, Fellow – NY Institute for the Humanities at New York University, 9 residencies at MacDowell, 5 residencies at Yaddo, 2 American Library Association Stonewall Book Awards – fiction/nonfiction, Brown Foundation/Houston Arts Museum Fellow at the Dora Maar House, Fellow - University of Toronto Bonham Center for Sexual Diversity Studies
Scholarship & Publications
Novels
Nonfiction:
Plays (published)
Plays (produced)
Films
Novels
- The Cosmopolitans (2015)
- The Mere Future (Arsenal, 2010)
- The Child (Avalon, 2007)
- Shimmer (Avon, 1998)
- Rat Bohemia (Dutton, 1995)
- Empathy (Dutton, 1992- reissued in anniversary teaching edition from Arsenal, 2006)
- People in Trouble (Dutton, 1990)
- After Delores (Dutton, 1988)
- Girls, Visions and Everything (Seal, 1986)
- The Sophie Horowitz Story (Naiad, 1984)
Nonfiction:
- Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility and the Duty of Repair (2016)
- Israel/Palestine and the Queer International (Duke University Press, 2012)
- The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination (University of California Press, 2012)
- Ties that Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences (The New Press, 2010)
- Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America (Duke, 1998)
- My American History: Lesbian and Gay Life During the Reagan/Bush Years (Routledge, 1994)
Plays (published)
- Carson McCullers (Playscripts, 2003)
- Mercy (Belladonna, 2009)
Plays (produced)
- Carson McCullers (Playwrights Horizons, 2005)
- Manic Flight Reaction (Playwrights Horizons, 2005)
- Enemies, a Love Story – adapted from IB Singer (Wilma Theater, 2007)
Films
- The Owls, directed by Cheryl Dunye, co-written by Sarah Schulman and Cheryl Dunye – Berlin Film Festival selection 2010.
- Mommy Is Coming, directed by Cheryl Dunye, co-written by Sarah Schulman and Cheryl Dunye – Berlin Film Festival selection 2012.
- United In Anger: A History of ACT UP, directed by Jim Hubbard, produced by Jim Hubbard and Sarah Schulman –New York Premiere: Museum of Modern Art, International Premiere: Ramallah, West Bank
- Sophie (based on The Sophie Horowitz Story), written and directed by Claude Mangold 2014 (2016)
- Jason and Shirley and Me, directed by Stephen Winter, written by Stephen Winter, Jack Waters and Sarah Schulman - January, 2015
