Faculty

Barbara Adams

Barbara Adams

Associate Professor

Writing
School of Humanities and Sciences

Specialty:Feature Journalism
Phone:(607) 274-3045
E-mail:adams@ithaca.edu
Office:427 Smiddy Hall
Ithaca, NY 14850

Areas

  • arts criticism
  • feature writing for newspapers and magazines
  • food writing
  • media & technology
  • public essay & nonfiction

Degrees

  • M.A. English, Yale University, 1966
  • B.A. English, University of Southern California, 1964     Phi Beta Kappa 

 

"Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good."

                                                                                                                     – P.G. Wodehouse

Some Publications

  • Theatre critic and feature writer, Ithaca Journal and Ithaca Times, mid-1970s to present.
  • Interview-based features for ICView on actor Matt Cavanaugh and actor Mark Price (both 2009); choreographer Vergiu Cornea, screenwriter Paul Bernbaum, and actor/playwright Eric Jordan Young (all 2007). Director/playwright Joe Calarco (1998).
  • Interview-based features for Ithaca Journal on film critic A. O. Scott (2/09), choreographer David Gordon (9/06), Iranian writer Azar Nafisi (8/06), novelist Tim O'Brien (9/05), and choreographer Bill T. Jones.
  • Interview-based features for Ithaca Times on actor and activist Yolanda King (9/04), writer Barbara Ehrenreich (9/00), playwright Tony Kushner (12/99), choreographer Trisha Brown (9/99), lighting designer Jennifer Tipton (12/98), choreographer Mark Morris (2/98), theatre artist Robert Wilson (10/95), playwright Wendy Wasserstein (8/95), writer Paul West and others.
  • Introduction to short story by Reza Daneshvar, "Don't Go to the Reception with Friends of the Groom!" Ithaca: Vista Periodista Press, 2006.
  • Review/essay on theatre critic Frank Rich's autobiography, Ghost Light. The Bookpress. Jan 2001.
  • "Tight Focus in Small Places," interview with writer Diane Ackerman, Writer's Digest. Sept 1997.
  • ''A Stylist's Delight: A Conversation with Paul West,'' in Creative Nonfiction 6. Summer 1996.
  • "Susan Griffin." Contemporary Lesbian Writers of the United States. Greenwood Press. 1993.