Summer Hirtzel

Summer Hirtzel is a Hampshire alum who went to Hampshire because she couldn't imagine choosing between art, music, poetry, and research; because they gave her a great financial aid package; and because a George Lucas-lookalike (plaid, beard, and all) overheard her agonizing about the choice between Hampshire and two other East Coast liberal arts colleges in a Starbucks in Sacramento, CA and told her to choose Hampshire.

= Division III : Moralis Memoria: Representing the Pain of Others =

A book written and designed by Hirtzel with 6 chapters (essays, thinkpieces, art history, poetry analysis) and 6 poems exploring the ethics of representation in art and poetry after World War II in Europe.

Contents
(* = poem or poetic essay)

Collective Memory* Introduction: Memory &amp; Trauma Statement of Poetic Intent Notes sur Les Otages* "Sarah" in Occupied France, 1942 regain* In the Corpse-Warm Foyer of History Growthpoints* Sophie Scholl is Not a Monument Godhead* Her Ashen Hair to Heaven Luxation* A Legacy of Memories For Carolyn Forche*

Subject Matter
Spanish Civil War, Shoah/Holocaust, World War II, Vichy France, Clemente Bernad, Jean Fautrier, Ingeborg Bachmann, Sylvia Plath, Sophie Scholl, the White Rose, Anselm Kiefer, Paul Celan, Kaballah, Beth Burstein.

Major Influences
Susan Sontag, Theodor Adorno, Carolyn Forche, James Wertsch, Rachel E. Perry, Francis Ponge.

Courses

 * Advanced Poetry Workshop
 * Humanities Concentrators Course

Activities

 * Curatorial Intern for the Riverscaping Project
 * Co-Chair of the Abortion Speakout Committee for the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Conference (CLPP)
 * Bellydancing with Jericha Senyak
 * Lead singer of the Gallows Birds, a Mars Volta cover band project, performed at a VIBE concert and at Spring Jam
 * Singer in the all-female Five College Early Music Program choir, Voces Feminae, put on two concerts
 * Performed poetry at Ladyfest
 * 2 poems published in The Reader, the annual student literary publication
 * Student worker at the Career Options Resource Center (CORC) 
 * Read a section of completed Division 3 at the Humanities, Arts, &amp; Culture Conference

= Division II  =

Spring 2011 Courses

 * Teacher Assistant: Anatomy of Visual Culture
 * Poetry &amp; the Political Imagination
 * Voces Feminae (5-College Early Music Program)
 * Reconstructing Modernity
 * Div II Projects in Drawing

Janterm 2011 Courses

 * Exhibition Practicum

Fall 2010 Courses

 * Modernism &amp; the Neo Avant Gardes (at Smith College)
 * Poetry Workshop: Writing About Art
 * Deterritorialized Spaces

Spring 2010 Courses

 * Poetry Workshop
 * The Bioapparatus
 * Gentle Rejuvenative Yoga
 * Literature, Violence, and the State

Fall 2009 Courses

 * Bodies &amp; Souls in History
 * Painting Foundations
 * The 1950s: Cold War Culture
 * The 1950's Writing About Art/Architecture/Critical Theory

Activities

 * Volunteered with CLPP, helping to plan the conference, specifically the Abortion Speak Out, flyering, packet stuffing, and staffing the registration table and workshops
 * 3 poems published in The Reader
 * Singer in Voces Feminae
 * Lead singer of Gallows Birds, had first performance at VIBE's Saga show
 * Student worker at CORC
 * Research Intern for the Five College Architecture Seminar
 * Ran the "Hot Chocolate Run" 5k for Safe Passage 

= Division I =

Spring 2009 Courses

 * Fiction Writing Workshop


 * Hybrid Identities, Authentic Selves


 * Guernica: 1936-Present

Janterm 2009 Courses

 * Intro to Writing


 * Sport Fencing

Fall 2008 Courses

 * Apocalypse &amp; Utopia (Tutorial)


 * The Body in Modern Art


 * Web Design


 * Sex, Death, &amp; Teeth

Activities

 * Cut teeth with a diamond saw and attached them to slides for Alan Goodman's New York African Burial Ground Project
 * One of the mothers (singer, actor, cryer, wearer-of-amazing-mask) for Brennin Weiswerda's Div III play, Bind Their Wombs, an adaptation of Euripides' The Suppliant Women
 * Trained and volunteered for the Backrub Club back when it was called Chair Massage
 * Sang in the Gin &amp; Tonics acapella group