Ilana Walder-Biesanz
Biographic Data
| ID | 5069699 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ilana Walder-Biesanz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ilana |
| FAMILY NAME | Walder-Biesanz |
| SIGNATURE | WALDER-BIESANZ I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Writing Pastoral Drama as a Woman and an Actor
This essay examines Italian Renaissance actress-playwright Isabella Andreini’s pastoral play La Mirtilla, exploring how Andreini uses and re-works her model, Torquato Tasso’s Aminta. Specifically, it analyzes how her acting experience enabled her to write more dramatically effective scenes around themes from Tasso’s pastoral and how she uses those scenes to convey proto-feminist messages absent in Aminta. It compares her Mirtilla to other early w…
Variation in narrative identity is associated with trajectories of mental health over several years
This article presents 2 longitudinal studies designed to assess the relationship between variability in narrative identity and trajectories of mental health over several years. In Study 1, core scenes from 89 late-mid-life adults' life stories were assessed for several narrative themes. Participants' mental health and physical health were assessed concurrently with the narratives and annually for the subsequent 4 years. Concurrent analyses indica…
Variation in narrative identity is associated with trajectories of mental health over several years
This article presents 2 longitudinal studies designed to assess the relationship between variability in narrative identity and trajectories of mental health over several years. In Study 1, core scenes from 89 late-mid-life adults' life stories were assessed for several narrative themes. Participants' mental health and physical health were assessed concurrently with the narratives and annually for the subsequent 4 years. Concurrent analyses indica…
Variation in narrative identity is associated with trajectories of mental health over several years
This article presents 2 longitudinal studies designed to assess the relationship between variability in narrative identity and trajectories of mental health over several years. In Study 1, core scenes from 89 late-mid-life adults' life stories were assessed for several narrative themes. Participants' mental health and physical health were assessed concurrently with the narratives and annually for the subsequent 4 years. Concurrent analyses indica…
Writing Pastoral Drama as a Woman and an Actor
This essay examines Italian Renaissance actress-playwright Isabella Andreini’s pastoral play La Mirtilla, exploring how Andreini uses and re-works her model, Torquato Tasso’s Aminta. Specifically, it analyzes how her acting experience enabled her to write more dramatically effective scenes around themes from Tasso’s pastoral and how she uses those scenes to convey proto-feminist messages absent in Aminta. It compares her Mirtilla to other early w…
Sociology (2 works) · Agency (philosophy) (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Clinical Psychology (1 work) · Context (archaeology (1 work) · Developmental psychology (1 work) · Drama (1 work) · Empathy and Medical Education (1 work) · Exploratory research (1 work)