Born and educated in New York, Kathleen B. Jones taught Women’s Studies for 24 years at San Diego State University. In addition to numerous academic works, she has published two memoirs: Living Between Danger and Love (Rutgers University Press, 2000) and the award-winning Diving for Pearls: A Thinking Journey with Hannah Arendt. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in Fiction International, Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood, and The Briar Cliff Review, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. Among her numerous awards, she is a recipient of multiple grants from the National Endowment of the Humanities, writers’ grants to the Vermont Studio Center, and an honorary doctorate from Örebro University, Sweden. She lives in the Bay Area in Fairfield, California.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
The Grief of Others: A Conversation with Filmmaker Patrick Wang
A major independent filmmaker on the challenges of adaptation and the power of grief....
“The Company of Diverse Others”: Encounters with Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir in conversation with enemies, friends, and allies....
Responsibility in Troubling Times: On “Heather Booth: Changing the World”
Kathleen B. Jones speaks to filmmaker Lilly Rivlin about her latest documentary, “Heather Booth: Changing the World.”...
Rwandan Women Rising: A Model for a More Inclusive Democracy?
Kathleen B. Jones review “Rwandan Women Rising” and discusses it with its author, Swanee Hunt....
His Emily Dickinson: The Visual Poetics of Terence Davies’s “A Quiet Passion”
Kathleen B. Jones interviews director Terence Davies and reviews his new film about Emily Dickinson....
Hannah Arendt’s Female Friends
Hannah Arendt and the kinds of friendship....
The World of Yesterday, Today: On Maria Schrader’s “Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe”
Kathleen B. Jones interviews Maria Schrader about her new film, “Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe.”...
The Idea of a Common World: Ada Ushpiz’s "Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt"
All photographs courtesy of Zeitgeist Films and the Hannah Arendt Private Archive. All rights reserved. FOUR YEARS AGO, Margarethe von Trotta’...
Before and After “Eichmann in Jerusalem”: Hannah Arendt and the Human Condition
A Jew who was (and is) called anti-Semitic for her controversial portrait of Eichmann....
