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Dr. Kathleen Butterly Nigro is a lecturer in gender studies and Assistant Director for the Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. In addition, she is president of the Kate Chopin Society of North America and scholar-in-residence at Kirkwood Public Library and a project coordinator for ReadMOre, a state-wide reading initiative that encourages all Missourians to read and discuss a selected book each year. Kathleen is a contributing writer for In Her Place: a Guide to St. Louis Women’s History, published by the Missouri Historical Society Press in 1999. Her article, “Mr. Emerson Comes to St. Louis: ‘Inspiration’ and Kate Chopin,” has been accepted for publication by the Concord Saunterer, the journal of the Thoreau Society. Also accepted for publication by the University of Missouri Press in the anthology of Women in the Arts is her study of the Potters, a group of young St. Louis women who created their own magazine in the early years of the twentieth century. It was in the Potter’s Wheel that Sara Teasdale’s poetry first appeared in print.
Dr. Barbara Harbach, Professor of Music at University of Missouri-St. Louis, composer, organist and harpsichordist, has written symphonies,
works for chamber ensembles, string orchestra, organ, harpsichord, musicals, choral anthems, film scores, ballets, and many arrangements
for brass and organ of various Baroque works. As organist and harpsichordist she has toured extensively throughout the United States, Asia and
Europe. "Musical America" has called her "nothing short of brilliant," and Gramophone has cited her as an "acknowledged interpreter - and, indeed, muse - of modern harpsichord music." She holds academic degrees from Pennsylvania State University (B.A.), Yale University (M.M.A.), Musikhochschule (Konzertdiplom) in Frankfurt, Germany, and the Eastman School of Music (D.M.A.). In 2002, Harbach received an honorary doctorate in music, honoris causa, from Wilmington College, Ohio. In 2006, Harbach received the Missouri Arts Council Arts Education Award, the College of Fine Arts and Communication - Faculty Excellence Award (UM-St. Louis), the Missouri Citizens for the Arts - Frederick H. Laas Memorial Award, and the Zonta Club of St. Louis, Yellow Rose Award.
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