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Joan Acocella
Joan Acocella
	Acocella at the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award nominations
Born	Joan Barbara Ross; April 13, 1945; San Francisco, California, U.S.
Died	January 7, 2024 (aged 78); New York City, New York, U.S.
Education	University of California, Berkeley (BA); Rutgers University (PhD)
Occupation	Dance critic
Employer	The New Yorker
Spouse	Nicholas Acocella (divorced)
Partner	Noël Carroll
Children	1

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Joan Barbara Acocella (née Ross, April 13, 1945 – January 7, 2024) was an American dance critic and author. From 1998 to 2019, she was dance critic for The New Yorker. She also wrote for The New York Review of Books for 33 years and authored books on dance, literature, and psychology.

Early life and education

Joan Barbara Ross was born in San Francisco on April 13, 1945, to Arnold Ross, a cement company executive, and Florence (Hartzell) Ross, a homemaker.^[1] She grew up in Oakland, California, and received her B.A. in English in 1966 from the University of California, Berkeley.^[1] She earned a PhD in comparative literature at Rutgers University in 1984 with a thesis on the Ballets Russes.^[1]

Career

In the 1970s, Acocella was a writer and editor at Random House, where she co-authored a psychology textbook that went on to be reprinted in revised editions for two decades.^[1] In the 1980s, she served as senior critic for Dance Magazine, including authoring a piece about her son's performance in The Nutcracker with the New York City Ballet.^[1]

Acocella wrote for The Village Voice,^[2]^[3] and was the New York dance critic for the Financial Times. For 33 years, her writing also appeared regularly in the New York Review of Books.^[1]^[4] She began writing for The New Yorker in 1992 and served as its dance critic from 1998 to 2019.^[5]

In 1997, she accompanied Mikhail Baryshnikov on his first trip back to his birthplace of Riga, Latvia since his defection and exile from the Soviet Union in 1974.^[1]^[6]

Acocella's books included Creating Hysteria: Women and Multiple Personality Disorder (1999);^[7] Mark Morris (1993), a biography of modern dancer and choreographer Mark Morris;^[8] and Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints (2007), which explores the virtues common among extraordinary artists.^[9]^[5] Reviewing Twenty-Eight Artists in The New York Times, Kathryn Harrison called Acocella "knowledgeable without being a show-off, meticulous in her research and energetically conversational", and said her "typical essay thus functions as a tantalizing biographical sketch, as well as a critical study, inviting us to pursue a deeper exploration".^[9]

Acocella also edited The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky: Unexpurgated Edition (1999),^[10] André Levinson on Dance (1991),^[11] and Mission to Siam: The Memoirs of Jessie MacKinnon Hartzell (2001),^[12] her grandmother.

Acocella's New Yorker article "Cather and the Academy", which appeared in the November 27, 1995, issue, received a Front Page Award from the Newswomen's Club of New York and was included in the "Best American Essays" anthology of 1996.^[5] She expanded the essay into Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism (2000), receiving a starred review in Publishers Weekly.^[13]

Personal life and death

Acocella died of cancer at home in Manhattan, on January 7, 2024, at age 78.^[1] At the time of her death, Acocella's partner was Noël Carroll.^[1] She had one son from her marriage to Nicholas Acocella, which ended in divorce.^[1]

Awards and honors

2017 – Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters^[14]
2017 – Fellow, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers^[15]
2012 – Holtzbrinck Berlin Prize Fellow, American Academy in Berlin.^[16]
2009 – Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing, the National Book Critics Circle^[17]
2007 – Award in Literature, American Academy of Arts and Letters^[18]
2002–20?? – Fellow, New York Institute for the Humanities^[19]
1993–1994 – Fellow, Guggenheim Foundation.^[5]

Publications

Acocella, Joan (1999). Creating hysteria : women and multiple personality disorder. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. ISBN 9780787947941.
— (2000). Willa Cather and the politics of criticism. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 9780375712951.
Hartzell, Jessie MacKinnon (2001). Mission to Siam : the memoirs of Jessie MacKinnon Hartzell. Edited with a biographical essay by Joan Acocella. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. ISBN 9780824822538.
Acocella, Joan (2004). Mark Morris. Wesleyan. ISBN 9780374524180.
—, ed. (2006). The diary of Vaslav Nijinsky. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780788197772.
— (2007). 28 artists & 2 saints. Pantheon. ISBN 9780307389275.
Acocella, Joan (February 20, 2024). The Bloodied Nightgown and Other Essays. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-60809-5.^[20]^[21]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Sandomir, Richard (January 7, 2024). "Joan Acocella, Dance Critic for The New Yorker, Dies at 78". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on January 8, 2024. Retrieved January 8, 2024.
^ "My Kind of Town: New York". Archived from the original on October 19, 2021. Retrieved July 20, 2016.
^ "(untitled interview)" (PDF). National Arts Journalism Program. p. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 16, 2012. Retrieved March 20, 2015.
^ "Joan Acocella". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved September 17, 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Joan Acocella". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on October 20, 2021. Retrieved March 20, 2015.
^ Acocella, Joan (January 11, 1998). "How Ballet Saved Baryshnikov". The New Yorker. Retrieved January 15, 2024.
^ Kramer, Peter D. (November 21, 1999). "I Contain Multitudes". The New York Times. Archived from the original on January 9, 2024. Retrieved January 9, 2024.
^ Rockwell, John (January 23, 1994). "The Big Hairy Guy of Dance". The New York Times. Archived from the original on October 17, 2021. Retrieved March 20, 2015.
^ ^a ^b Harrison, Kathryn (February 18, 2007). "Lives in the Arts". The New York Times. Archived from the original on October 17, 2021. Retrieved March 20, 2015.
^ Deresiewicz, William (February 28, 1999). "Dancing With Madness". archive.nytimes.com. Archived from the original on December 16, 2023. Retrieved January 9, 2024.
^ Vail, June (April 1993). "André Levinson On Dance: Writings From Paris in the Twenties, edited by Joan Acocella and Lynn Garafola. Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 1991, for Wesleyan University Press, ix + 163 pp., photographs, bibliography, index. $25.00". Dance Research Journal. 25 (1): 39–40. doi:10.2307/1478192. ISSN 1940-509X. JSTOR 1478192. S2CID 191366116.
^ James, Helen (2006). "Review of Mission to Siam: The Memoirs of Jessie MacKinnon Hartzell". Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. 17 (2): 179–181. ISSN 0741-2037. JSTOR 40860827.
^ "Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism by Joan Ross Acocella". Publishers Weekly. January 31, 2000. Archived from the original on January 9, 2024. Retrieved January 9, 2024.
^ "2017 Literature Award Winners – American Academy of Arts and Letters". artsandletters.org. Archived from the original on July 21, 2017. Retrieved June 11, 2017.
^ "The New York Public Library's Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers Announces 2017–2018 Fellows". nypl.org. The New York Public Library. Archived from the original on October 17, 2021. Retrieved June 11, 2017.
^ "Past Fellows – American Academy". American Academy. Archived from the original on June 12, 2017. Retrieved June 11, 2017.
^ "The National Book Critics Circle Awards | 2009 Winners & Finalists". National Book Critics Circle. Retrieved January 12, 2024.
^ "Joan Acocella – American Academy". American Academy. Archived from the original on June 10, 2017. Retrieved June 11, 2017.
^ "Joan Acocella". New York Institute for the Humanities. Archived from the original on October 17, 2021. Retrieved June 11, 2017.
^ Biggs, Joanna (February 21, 2024). "Book Review: 'The Bloodied Nightgown,' by Joan Acocella". The New York Times. Retrieved September 17, 2024.
^ Arrowsmith, Charles (February 26, 2024). "'The Bloodied Nightgown' is a monument to Joan Acocella's savage wit and unsentimental generosity". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved September 17, 2024.

[:0-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Sandomir, Richard (January 7, 2024). "Joan Acocella, Dance Critic for The New Yorker, Dies at 78". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on January 8, 2024. Retrieved January 8, 2024.

[2] "My Kind of Town: New York". Archived from the original on October 19, 2021. Retrieved July 20, 2016.

[vv-3] "(untitled interview)" (PDF). National Arts Journalism Program. p. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 16, 2012. Retrieved March 20, 2015.

[4] "Joan Acocella". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved September 17, 2024.

[ny-5] "Joan Acocella". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on October 20, 2021. Retrieved March 20, 2015.

[6] Acocella, Joan (January 11, 1998). "How Ballet Saved Baryshnikov". The New Yorker. Retrieved January 15, 2024.

[7] Kramer, Peter D. (November 21, 1999). "I Contain Multitudes". The New York Times. Archived from the original on January 9, 2024. Retrieved January 9, 2024.

[nyt1-8] Rockwell, John (January 23, 1994). "The Big Hairy Guy of Dance". The New York Times. Archived from the original on October 17, 2021. Retrieved March 20, 2015.

[nyt2-9] Harrison, Kathryn (February 18, 2007). "Lives in the Arts". The New York Times. Archived from the original on October 17, 2021. Retrieved March 20, 2015.

[10] Deresiewicz, William (February 28, 1999). "Dancing With Madness". archive.nytimes.com. Archived from the original on December 16, 2023. Retrieved January 9, 2024.

[11] Vail, June (April 1993). "André Levinson On Dance: Writings From Paris in the Twenties, edited by Joan Acocella and Lynn Garafola. Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 1991, for Wesleyan University Press, ix + 163 pp., photographs, bibliography, index. $25.00". Dance Research Journal. 25 (1): 39–40. doi:10.2307/1478192. ISSN 1940-509X. JSTOR 1478192. S2CID 191366116.

[12] James, Helen (2006). "Review of Mission to Siam: The Memoirs of Jessie MacKinnon Hartzell". Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. 17 (2): 179–181. ISSN 0741-2037. JSTOR 40860827.

[13] "Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism by Joan Ross Acocella". Publishers Weekly. January 31, 2000. Archived from the original on January 9, 2024. Retrieved January 9, 2024.

[14] "2017 Literature Award Winners – American Academy of Arts and Letters". artsandletters.org. Archived from the original on July 21, 2017. Retrieved June 11, 2017.

[15] "The New York Public Library's Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers Announces 2017–2018 Fellows". nypl.org. The New York Public Library. Archived from the original on October 17, 2021. Retrieved June 11, 2017.

[16] "Past Fellows – American Academy". American Academy. Archived from the original on June 12, 2017. Retrieved June 11, 2017.

[17] "The National Book Critics Circle Awards | 2009 Winners & Finalists". National Book Critics Circle. Retrieved January 12, 2024.

[18] "Joan Acocella – American Academy". American Academy. Archived from the original on June 10, 2017. Retrieved June 11, 2017.

[19] "Joan Acocella". New York Institute for the Humanities. Archived from the original on October 17, 2021. Retrieved June 11, 2017.

[m865-20] Biggs, Joanna (February 21, 2024). "Book Review: 'The Bloodied Nightgown,' by Joan Acocella". The New York Times. Retrieved September 17, 2024.

[c518-21] Arrowsmith, Charles (February 26, 2024). "'The Bloodied Nightgown' is a monument to Joan Acocella's savage wit and unsentimental generosity". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved September 17, 2024.

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-'''Joan Barbara Acocella''' (née '''Ross''', April 13, 1945 – January 7, 2024) was an American cultural critic. From 1998 to 2019, she was dance critic for ''[[The New Yorker]]''.<ref name="ny">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.newyorker.com/contributors/joan-acocella |title=Joan Acocella |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |access-date=March 20, 2015}}</ref> She also wrote for [[The New York Review of Books|''The New York Review of Books'']] for 33 years and authored books on dance, literature, and psychology.
+'''Joan Barbara Acocella''' (née '''Ross''', April 13, 1945 – January 7, 2024) was an American dance critic and author. From 1998 to 2019, she was dance critic for ''[[The New Yorker]]''. She also wrote for ''[[The New York Review of Books]]'' for 33 years and authored books on dance, literature, and psychology.
+==Early life and education==
-==Education==
-Joan Barbara Ross was born in San Franciso on April 13, 1945, to Arnold Ross, a cement company executive, and Florence (Hartzell) Ross, a homemaker.<ref name=":0" /> She grew up in [[Oakland, California]] and received her [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] in English in 1966 from the [[University of California, Berkeley]].<ref name=":0" /> She earned a PhD in comparative literature at [[Rutgers University]] in 1984 with a thesis on the [[Ballets Russes]].<ref name=":0" />
+Joan Barbara Ross was born in San Francisco on April 13, 1945, to Arnold Ross, a cement company executive, and Florence (Hartzell) Ross, a homemaker.<ref name=":0" /> She grew up in [[Oakland, California]], and received her [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] in English in 1966 from the [[University of California, Berkeley]].<ref name=":0" /> She earned a PhD in comparative literature at [[Rutgers University]] in 1984 with a thesis on the [[Ballets Russes]].<ref name=":0" />
 ==Career==
-In the 1970s, Acocella was a writer and editor at [[Random House]], where she co-authored a psychology textbook that went on to be reprinted in revised editions for two decades.<ref name=":0" /> In the 1980s, she served as senior critic for ''[[Dance Magazine]]'', including authoring a piece about her son’s performance in [[The Nutcracker|''The Nutcracker'']] with the [[New York City Ballet]]''.''<ref name=":0" />
+In the 1970s, Acocella was a writer and editor at [[Random House]], where she co-authored a psychology textbook that went on to be reprinted in revised editions for two decades.<ref name=":0" /> In the 1980s, she served as senior critic for ''[[Dance Magazine]]'', including authoring a piece about her son's performance in ''[[The Nutcracker]]'' with the [[New York City Ballet]].<ref name=":0" />
-Acocella wrote for ''[[The Village Voice]]'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/my-kind-of-town-new-york-37072818/?no-ist=|title=My Kind of Town: New York|access-date=July 20, 2016}}</ref><ref name="vv">{{cite web |url=http://www.najp.org/publications/criticism.pdf |title=(untitled interview) |publisher=National Arts Journalism Program |page=5 |access-date=March 20, 2015 |archive-date=July 16, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120716082333/http://najp.org/publications/criticism.pdf |url-status=dead}}</ref> and was the New York dance critic for the ''[[Financial Times]]''. For 33 years, her writing also appeared regularly in the ''[[New York Review of Books]]''.<ref name=":0" /> She began writing for ''[[The New Yorker]]'' in 1992 and served as its dance critic from 1998 to 2019.<ref name="ny" />
+Acocella wrote for ''[[The Village Voice]]'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/my-kind-of-town-new-york-37072818/?no-ist=|title=My Kind of Town: New York|access-date=July 20, 2016|archive-date=October 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211019200423/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/my-kind-of-town-new-york-37072818/?no-ist=|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="vv">{{cite web |url=http://www.najp.org/publications/criticism.pdf |title=(untitled interview) |publisher=National Arts Journalism Program |page=5 |access-date=March 20, 2015 |archive-date=July 16, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120716082333/http://najp.org/publications/criticism.pdf |url-status=dead}}</ref> and was the New York dance critic for the ''[[Financial Times]]''. For 33 years, her writing also appeared regularly in the ''[[New York Review of Books]]''.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Joan Acocella |url=https://www.nybooks.com/contributors/joan-acocella/ |access-date=2024-09-17 |website=The New York Review of Books |language=en}}</ref> She began writing for ''[[The New Yorker]]'' in 1992 and served as its dance critic from 1998 to 2019.<ref name="ny">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.newyorker.com/contributors/joan-acocella |title=Joan Acocella |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |access-date=March 20, 2015 |archive-date=October 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211020050343/https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/joan-acocella |url-status=live }}</ref>
+In 1997, she accompanied [[Mikhail Baryshnikov]] on his first trip back to his birthplace of Riga, Latvia since his defection and exile from the [[Soviet Union]] in 1974.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Acocella |first1=Joan |title=How Ballet Saved Baryshnikov |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1998/01/19/profile-mikhail-baryshnikov |access-date=15 January 2024 |magazine=The New Yorker |date=11 January 1998}}</ref>
-Her books include ''Creating Hysteria: Women and Multiple Personality Disorder'' (1999);<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kramer |first=Peter D. |date=November 21, 1999 |title=I Contain Multitudes |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/11/21/reviews/991121.21kramert.html |access-date=2024-01-09 |website=The New York Times}}</ref> ''Mark Morris'' (1993), a biography of modern dancer and choreographer [[Mark Morris (choreographer)|Mark Morris]];<ref name="nyt1">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/23/books/the-big-hairy-guy-of-dance.html |title=The Big Hairy Guy of Dance |last=Rockwell |first=John |authorlink=John Rockwell |date=January 23, 1994 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=March 20, 2015}}</ref> and ''Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints'' (2007), which explores the virtues common among extraordinary artists.<ref name="nyt2">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/18/books/review/Harrison-Kathryn.html |title=Lives in the Arts |last=Harrison |first=Kathryn |authorlink=Kathryn Harrison |date=February 18, 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=March 20, 2015}}</ref><ref name="ny" /> Reviewing ''Twenty-Eight Artists'' in ''[[The New York Times]]'', Kathryn Harrison called Acocella “knowledgeable without being a show-off, meticulous in her research and energetically conversational,” and said her “typical essay thus functions as a tantalizing biographical sketch, as well as a critical study, inviting us to pursue a deeper exploration.”<ref name="nyt2" />
+Acocella's books included ''Creating Hysteria: Women and Multiple Personality Disorder'' (1999);<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kramer |first=Peter D. |date=November 21, 1999 |title=I Contain Multitudes |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/11/21/reviews/991121.21kramert.html |access-date=January 9, 2024 |website=The New York Times |archive-date=January 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240109073124/https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/11/21/reviews/991121.21kramert.html |url-status=live }}</ref> ''Mark Morris'' (1993), a biography of modern dancer and choreographer [[Mark Morris (choreographer)|Mark Morris]];<ref name="nyt1">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/23/books/the-big-hairy-guy-of-dance.html |title=The Big Hairy Guy of Dance |last=Rockwell |first=John |authorlink=John Rockwell |date=January 23, 1994 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=March 20, 2015 |archive-date=October 17, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211017062859/https://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/23/books/the-big-hairy-guy-of-dance.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and ''Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints'' (2007), which explores the virtues common among extraordinary artists.<ref name="nyt2">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/18/books/review/Harrison-Kathryn.html |title=Lives in the Arts |last=Harrison |first=Kathryn |authorlink=Kathryn Harrison |date=February 18, 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=March 20, 2015 |archive-date=October 17, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211017064423/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/18/books/review/Harrison-Kathryn.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="ny" /> Reviewing ''Twenty-Eight Artists'' in ''[[The New York Times]]'', Kathryn Harrison called Acocella "knowledgeable without being a show-off, meticulous in her research and energetically conversational", and said her "typical essay thus functions as a tantalizing biographical sketch, as well as a critical study, inviting us to pursue a deeper exploration".<ref name="nyt2" />
-Acocella also edited ''The Diary of [[Vaslav Nijinsky]]: Unexpurgated Edition'' (1999),<ref>{{Cite web |last=Deresiewicz |first=William |date=February 28, 1999 |title=Dancing With Madness |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/02/28/reviews/990228.28deresit.html |access-date=2024-01-09 |website=archive.nytimes.com}}</ref> ''André Levinson on Dance'' (1991),<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Vail |first=June |date=April 1993 |title=André Levinson On Dance: Writings From Paris in the Twenties, edited by Joan Acocella and Lynn Garafola. Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 1991, for Wesleyan University Press, ix + 163 pp., photographs, bibliography, index. $25.00 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/dance-research-journal/article/abs/andre-levinson-on-dance-writings-from-paris-in-the-twenties-edited-by-joan-acocella-and-lynn-garafola-hanover-new-hampshire-university-press-of-new-england-1991-for-wesleyan-university-press-ix-163-pp-photographs-bibliography-index-2500/737498A82C83FC05EB1EB78A19FD99AF |journal=Dance Research Journal |language=en |volume=25 |issue=1 |pages=39–40 |doi=10.2307/1478192 |jstor=1478192 |s2cid=191366116 |issn=1940-509X}}</ref> and ''Mission to Siam: The Memoirs of Jessie MacKinnon Hartzell'' (2001),<ref>{{Cite journal |last=James |first=Helen |date=2006 |title=Review of Mission to Siam: The Memoirs of Jessie MacKinnon Hartzell |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40860827 |journal=Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies |volume=17 |issue=2 |pages=179–181 |jstor=40860827 |issn=0741-2037}}</ref> her grandmother.
+Acocella also edited ''The Diary of [[Vaslav Nijinsky]]: Unexpurgated Edition'' (1999),<ref>{{Cite web |last=Deresiewicz |first=William |date=February 28, 1999 |title=Dancing With Madness |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/02/28/reviews/990228.28deresit.html |access-date=January 9, 2024 |website=archive.nytimes.com |archive-date=December 16, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231216081307/https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/02/28/reviews/990228.28deresit.html |url-status=live }}</ref> ''André Levinson on Dance'' (1991),<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Vail |first=June |date=April 1993 |title=André Levinson On Dance: Writings From Paris in the Twenties, edited by Joan Acocella and Lynn Garafola. Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 1991, for Wesleyan University Press, ix + 163 pp., photographs, bibliography, index. $25.00 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/dance-research-journal/article/abs/andre-levinson-on-dance-writings-from-paris-in-the-twenties-edited-by-joan-acocella-and-lynn-garafola-hanover-new-hampshire-university-press-of-new-england-1991-for-wesleyan-university-press-ix-163-pp-photographs-bibliography-index-2500/737498A82C83FC05EB1EB78A19FD99AF |journal=Dance Research Journal |language=en |volume=25 |issue=1 |pages=39–40 |doi=10.2307/1478192 |jstor=1478192 |s2cid=191366116 |issn=1940-509X}}</ref> and ''Mission to Siam: The Memoirs of Jessie MacKinnon Hartzell'' (2001),<ref>{{Cite journal |last=James |first=Helen |date=2006 |title=Review of Mission to Siam: The Memoirs of Jessie MacKinnon Hartzell |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40860827 |journal=Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies |volume=17 |issue=2 |pages=179–181 |jstor=40860827 |issn=0741-2037}}</ref> her grandmother.
-Acocella's ''New Yorker'' article "Cather and the Academy," which appeared in the November 27, 1995, issue, received a Front Page Award from the Newswomen's Club of New York and was included in the "Best American Essays" anthology of 1996.<ref name="ny"/> She expanded the essay into ''[[Willa Cather]] and the Politics of Criticism'' (2000), receiving a starred review ''in [[Publishers Weekly]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=January 31, 2000 |title=Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism by Joan Ross Acocella |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780803210462 |access-date=2024-01-09 |website=Publishers Weekly}}</ref>
+Acocella's ''New Yorker'' article "Cather and the Academy", which appeared in the November 27, 1995, issue, received a Front Page Award from the Newswomen's Club of New York and was included in the "Best American Essays" anthology of 1996.<ref name="ny"/> She expanded the essay into ''[[Willa Cather]] and the Politics of Criticism'' (2000), receiving a starred review ''in [[Publishers Weekly]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=January 31, 2000 |title=Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism by Joan Ross Acocella |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780803210462 |access-date=January 9, 2024 |website=Publishers Weekly |archive-date=January 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240109073514/https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780803210462 |url-status=live }}</ref>
 ==Personal life and death==
-Acocella died of cancer at her home in Manhattan, on January 7, 2024, at the age of 78.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Sandomir |first=Richard |date=January 7, 2024 |title=Joan Acocella, Dance Critic for The New Yorker, Dies at 78 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/07/obituaries/joan-acocella-dead.html |access-date=January 8, 2024 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> At the time of her death, Acocella's partner was [[Noël Carroll]].<ref name=":0" /> She had one son from her marriage to [[Nicholas Acocella]], which ended in divorce.<ref name = :0/>
+Acocella died of cancer at home in Manhattan, on January 7, 2024, at age 78.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last1=Sandomir |first1=Richard |date=January 7, 2024 |title=Joan Acocella, Dance Critic for The New Yorker, Dies at 78 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/07/obituaries/joan-acocella-dead.html |access-date=January 8, 2024 |newspaper=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=January 8, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240108000350/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/07/obituaries/joan-acocella-dead.html/ |url-status=live }}</ref> At the time of her death, Acocella's partner was [[Noël Carroll]].<ref name=":0" /> She had one son from her marriage to [[Nick Acocella|Nicholas Acocella]], which ended in divorce.<ref name = :0/>
-==Bibliography==
-* {{cite book |author=Acocella, Joan |title=Creating hysteria : women and multiple personality disorder |date=1999 |location=San Francisco |publisher=Jossey-Bass}}
-* {{cite book |author=Acocella, Joan |author-mask=1 |title=Willa Cather and the politics of criticism |date=2000 |publisher=University of Nebraska Press}}
-* {{cite book |author=Hartzell, Jessie MacKinnon |others=Edited with a biographical essay by Joan Acocella |title=Mission to Siam : the memoirs of Jessie MacKinnon Hartzell |date=2001 |location=Honolulu |publisher=University of Hawai'i Press}}
-* {{cite book |author=Acocella, Joan |title=Mark Morris |date=2004 |publisher=Wesleyan |isbn=9780374524180}}
-* {{cite book |editor=Acocella, Joan |editor-mask=1 |title=The diary of Vaslav Nijinsky |date=2006 |publisher=University of Illinois Press |isbn=9780788197772}}
-* {{cite book |author=Acocella, Joan |author-mask=1 |title=28 artists & 2 saints |date=2007 |publisher=Pantheon}}
 ==Awards and honors==
-*2017 – Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://artsandletters.org/pressrelease/2017-literature-award-winners/|title=2017 Literature Award Winners – American Academy of Arts and Letters|website=artsandletters.org|language=en-US|access-date=June 11, 2017}}</ref>
+*2017 – Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://artsandletters.org/pressrelease/2017-literature-award-winners/|title=2017 Literature Award Winners – American Academy of Arts and Letters|website=artsandletters.org|language=en-US|access-date=June 11, 2017|archive-date=July 21, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170721132534/http://artsandletters.org/pressrelease/2017-literature-award-winners/|url-status=live}}</ref>
-*2017 – Fellow, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers<ref>{{cite web|title=The New York Public Library's Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers Announces 2017-2018 Fellows |url=https://www.nypl.org/press/press-release/april-20-2017/new-york-public-librarys-dorothy-and-lewis-b-cullman-center |access-date=June 11, 2017 |publisher=The New York Public Library |website=nypl.org}}</ref>
+*2017 – Fellow, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers<ref>{{cite web |title=The New York Public Library's Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers Announces 2017–2018 Fellows |url=https://www.nypl.org/press/press-release/april-20-2017/new-york-public-librarys-dorothy-and-lewis-b-cullman-center |access-date=June 11, 2017 |publisher=The New York Public Library |website=nypl.org |archive-date=October 17, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211017065935/https://www.nypl.org/press/press-release/april-20-2017/new-york-public-librarys-dorothy-and-lewis-b-cullman-center |url-status=live }}</ref>
-*2012 – Holtzbrinck [[Berlin Prize]] Fellow, [[American Academy in Berlin]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.americanacademy.de/fellows-distinguished-visitors/alumni/fellows/|title=Past Fellows – American Academy|work=American Academy|access-date=June 11, 2017|language=en-US}}</ref>
+*2012 – Holtzbrinck [[Berlin Prize]] Fellow, [[American Academy in Berlin]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.americanacademy.de/fellows-distinguished-visitors/alumni/fellows/|title=Past Fellows – American Academy|work=American Academy|access-date=June 11, 2017|language=en-US|archive-date=June 12, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170612025037/http://www.americanacademy.de/fellows-distinguished-visitors/alumni/fellows/|url-status=live}}</ref>
-*2009 – [[Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing]], the [[National Book Critics Circle]]
+*2009 – [[Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing]], the [[National Book Critics Circle]]<ref>{{cite web |title=The National Book Critics Circle Awards {{!}} 2009 Winners & Finalists |url=https://www.bookcritics.org/past-awards/2009/ |website=[[National Book Critics Circle]] |access-date=January 12, 2024}}</ref>
-*2007 – Award in Literature, American Academy of Arts and Letters<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.americanacademy.de/person/joan-acocella/|title=Joan Acocella – American Academy|work=American Academy|access-date=June 11, 2017|language=en-US}}</ref>
+*2007 – Award in Literature, American Academy of Arts and Letters<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.americanacademy.de/person/joan-acocella/|title=Joan Acocella – American Academy|work=American Academy|access-date=June 11, 2017|language=en-US|archive-date=June 10, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170610025950/http://www.americanacademy.de/person/joan-acocella/|url-status=live}}</ref>
-*2002–20?? – Fellow, New York Institute for the Humanities<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://nyihumanities.org/joan-acocella/|title=Joan Acocella|website=New York Institute for the Humanities|language=en-US|access-date=June 11, 2017}}</ref>
+*2002–20?? – Fellow, New York Institute for the Humanities<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://nyihumanities.org/joan-acocella/|title=Joan Acocella|website=New York Institute for the Humanities|language=en-US|access-date=June 11, 2017|archive-date=October 17, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211017074420/http://nyihumanities.org/joan-acocella/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
 *1993–1994 – Fellow, Guggenheim Foundation.<ref name="ny" />
+==Publications==
+* {{cite book |author=Acocella, Joan |title=Creating hysteria : women and multiple personality disorder |date=1999 |location=San Francisco |publisher=Jossey-Bass |isbn=9780787947941 |ref=no }}
+* {{cite book |author=Acocella, Joan |author-mask=1 |title=Willa Cather and the politics of criticism |date=2000 |publisher=University of Nebraska Press |isbn=9780375712951 |ref=no }}
+* {{cite book |author=Hartzell, Jessie MacKinnon |others=Edited with a biographical essay by Joan Acocella |title=Mission to Siam : the memoirs of Jessie MacKinnon Hartzell |date=2001 |location=Honolulu |publisher=University of Hawai'i Press |isbn=9780824822538 |ref=no }}
+* {{cite book |author=Acocella, Joan |title=Mark Morris |date=2004 |publisher=Wesleyan |isbn=9780374524180 |ref=no }}
+* {{cite book |editor=Acocella, Joan |editor-mask=1 |title=The diary of Vaslav Nijinsky |date=2006 |publisher=University of Illinois Press |isbn=9780788197772 |ref=no }}
+* {{cite book |author=Acocella, Joan |author-mask=1 |title=28 artists & 2 saints |date=2007 |publisher=Pantheon |isbn=9780307389275 |ref=no }}
+* {{cite book |last=Acocella |first=Joan |title=The Bloodied Nightgown and Other Essays |date=2024-02-20 |publisher=Farrar, Straus & Giroux |isbn=978-0-374-60809-5}}<ref name="m865">{{cite web |last=Biggs |first=Joanna |date=2024-02-21 |title=Book Review: 'The Bloodied Nightgown,' by Joan Acocella |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/21/books/review/joan-acocella-the-bloodied-nightgown.html |access-date=2024-09-17 |website=The New York Times}}</ref><ref name="c518">{{cite web |last=Arrowsmith |first=Charles |date=2024-02-26 |title='The Bloodied Nightgown' is a monument to Joan Acocella's savage wit and unsentimental generosity |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-02-26/joan-acocella-bloodied-nightgown-review-appreciation |access-date=2024-09-17 |website=Los Angeles Times}}</ref>
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