Lyceum Facilitators
With a graduate degree in English from Georgetown University and a peripatetic career spanning three decades and including work as a writer, editor, teacher, director, dramaturge, artist, entrepreneur, and now a licensed tour guide, Anne Armentrout loves playing with words and inspiring others to do so. She is also excited about sharing her enthusiasm for all things New Orleans, both in reality and on film.
FRANCESCA CARAMAGNO - francara@att.net - (504) 894-0019Francesca Caramagno is a Ph.D. in Transpersonal Psychology, M.A. in Counseling, B.A. in Speech/Language and A.A. in Liberal Arts (Poetry). I have been a counselor in public schools for 15 years and currently am doing Speech and Language Therapy with elementary age children. Poems hold a special place in my heart because they fuse words, music and painting. When you can't make sense of the world in any other way. poetry rushes in to conquer that abyss.
STEPHANIE & TOM CARTON - h2no@yahoo.com - (504) 299-9880
Stephanie and Tom Carton are both teachers in the New Orleans area. They have traveled extensively and have both spent time living in Asia. Their love for cooking comes from those travel experiences and family background. Tom's family owned an Italian restaurant in Pittsburgh for over fifty years.
DREW CHASTAIN - drew_chastain@hotmail.com - (504) 599-3091
Drew Chastain received his doctorate in philosophy from Tulane University, and teaches there now, as well as at other New Orleans universities, including Loyola and Southern. He is heavily involved with the Lyceum Project as administrator and facilitator, and co-facilitates the biweekly philosophy café and the weekly film series. He is also a facilitator for ERACE, a New Orleans organization committed to the elimination of racism. His recent interests includes exploration of metaphor, the history of philosophy, and models and practice of self.
MIKE FEIGIN - mikefeigin@bellsouth.net - (504) 430-3443Michael Feigin has been working sporadically for years on his novel. He is a recent California transplant who is enthralled by the creative energy in New Orleans. Mike has taken many writing courses through the years. In addition, he has a 20 year background in Quality Management and has facilitated many "Quality Circles."
JUSTIN GRICUS - jgricus@hotmail.com - (504) 598-3677Justin Gricus is a graduate in Anthropology from Emory University where he studied the anthropology of sports. He is currently completing a graduate program in education at Loyola University. He is also a vindicated Red Sox fan.
GUY HENTOUMONT - guyheno@cox.net - 504.897.3354
TERENCE HOYT - thoyt@tulane.edu - (504) 410-9408
Terence Hoyt earned a BA and MA in Economics at Fordham University in New York. After several years teaching at the high school level in Brooklyn, he returned to graduate school and earned a PhD in Philosophy from Tulane University in New Orleans. His primary area of interest is moral and political philosophy. Terence has lived in France and Germany one year each. He now lives in New Orleans and teaches in the Philosophy Department at Loyola University.
SANDRA KARP - srkphd@bellsouth.net - (504) 821-7728
Sandra R. Karp was educated at Case-Western Reserve (B.A.), Brown University (M.A.), and Tulane University (Ph.D.). She has taught history and humanities at the Community College of Philadelphia, Drexel University, and Temple University. She has returned to New Orleans where she has an indexing business.
GISELA KIRBERG - giselakirberg@bellsouth.net - (504) 899-6188
Gisela Kirberg holds a diploma from the Psychosynthesis and Education Trust in London; as well as an honors degree in German literature and a state certificate as literary translator from the Kultusministerium Wiesbaden in Germany. Besides having translated 20 novels from English to German, she works as a Psychosynthesis counselor with private clients, facilitates an ongoing Jungian Dream Group and a Psychosynthesis Therapy Group.
ERIC LAWS - info@sevendevilsparlor.com - (504) 304-8245
Eric Laws is a composer and performer on both piano and guitar, and has produced numerous recordings, solo and in collaboration. Since childhood, Eric's main love and focus has always been music. Wanting to focus more on his own artistic labors, Eric decided that he would try his hand at running a shop, Seven Devils Imagination Parlor, along with his Second.Circle Productions business. His goal is to promote the awareness of local New Orleans artists with the shop and on the Internet.
DAVID O'DONAGHUE - druben2@hotmail.com - (504) 862-9786
David O'Donaghue, Psy.D is a clinical psychologist and the director of the Lyceum Learning Collective. He has a doctorate in clinical psychology and five years of doctoral studies in philosophy and cultural studies. He has taught on the core faculty of Antioch University and at the University of South Carolina and addressed special topics in philosophy, psychology and creativity at the University of Moscow; the Danish Pedagogical University; Simon Frazer University, Vancouver, BC; University of New Mexico. David has also published and presented papers at numerous conferences on the interface of cultural, philosophical and historical forms and personal experience.
Douglas S. Pool, M.D. is a child and adult psychiatrist and an adult psychoanalyst. He is on the faculty of the New Orleans Psychoanalytic Center and on the Clinical Faculty of LSU Medical School, Department of Psychiatry. He is in private practice in Metairie.
JASON SPARAPANI - jayspar@excite.com - (504) 522.2389
Jason Sparapani is an editor at Tulane University School of Medicine. Having lived and worked in Asia for nearly 7 years, Jason developed an interest in the history and preparation of local cuisines. And as a newspaper reporter in Seoul, Korea, he was assigned to review restaurants in and around the capital city. From a large Italian American family who instilled in him culinary basics at an early age, Jason enjoys experimentation in the kitchen and encourages discussion about good eating.
ROBIN STEWART - tyronefielding@hotmail.com - (504) 270-6289Robin Stewart, a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Kentucky, holds a B.A. in both Philosophy and English Literature. While studying for a year in England, an afternoon stroll along the Thames offered him his first glimpse of the Globe Theatre and probably altered the trajectory of his life. For the past year he has been clerking at a New Orleans law firm. Though a relative novitiate to the Lyceum and the City of New Orleans, he is very sad to be leaving them both in the coming fall to start his doctoral work at the University of California, Irvine.