creator:

Curry, Jane (1945- )

title:

Women in Science Performance Script

dates:

1996

extent:

0.21 linear ft.  (1 half document box)

collection number:

MS 375

repository:

Special Collections Department, Iowa State University.

access:

Open for research

publication rights:

Consult Head, Special Collections Department

preferred citation:

Jane Curry Performance Script, MS 375, Archives of Women in Science and Engineering, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University Library.

Jane Curry was born in 1945 in Speedway, Indiana.  She received her B.A. (1967) in English from Hanover College and an A.M. (1970) and Ph.D (1975) in American Culture at the University of Michigan.  She has been employed as an Assistant Professor of English and American Studies (1974-1978) at Lafayette College and as an independent scholar.  Since 1981, she has been writing and performing independently and with the Minnesota Chatauqua Program.  The programs have included “Samantha 'Rastles' the Woman Question,” “Just Say Know: Educating Females for the 21st Century,” “Nice Girls Don’t Sweat,” and “Miz Wizard’s Science Secrets.”

Curry has also published articles and books, such as The River’s in My Blood: Riverboat Pilots Tell Their Stories (1983); Samantha Rastles the Woman Question (1983) and Marietta Holley (1996).

Collection description

This collection (1996) contains one brochure, one program and a performance script of “Miz Wizard’s Science Secrets.”  The presentation was written and is performed by Jane Curry.  The premise is that she is developing a program for public access television that focuses on women in science and includes hands-on scientific experiments.