Julie Mazzarella Geredien

Julie Mazzarella Geredien, M.F.A. ’95, an educator, performing artist, and independent scholar has completed her first book, Arrows Tipped with Flowers: Threshold Theory for Transformative Learning, published by University of Illinois Press in their series, Transformations: Womanism, Feminism, Indigenous Studies. Investigating the role of desire and life drives in comprehension, each of the book’s five parts explores a stage in the transformative learning journey, from creative chaos, through troublesomeness to “threshold confidence.” Ms. Geredien integrates wide-ranging source material from theater arts, Indigenous theory, myth, Sacred Writings, and music, to reveal the process realities through which those “learning at the threshold” become able to author new social forms. The book will be of interest to educators, psychologists, critical theorists, and artists, as well as anyone working to transform structural violence or curious about the relational worldview.