Ann Kirschner, English
University Dean of Macaulay Honors College
ann.kirschner@mhc.cuny.edu
212-729-2925
Ann Kirschner began her career as a lecturer in Victorian literature at Princeton University, where she earned a PhD in English. Her career as an entrepreneur in media and technology included the creation of satellite and internet businesses for the National Football League and Columbia University’s online education company, Fathom. A frequent contributor to conferences and publications, Ann Kirschner was named one of New York Magazine’s “Millennium New Yorkers” and honored as a distinguished graduate of Princeton University and the State University of New York at Buffalo. She serves on the Board of Directors of Apollo, Public Agenda, the Jewish Women’s Archive, Open University of Israel, the Jefferson Scholars Foundation Advisory Council at University of Virginia, the Princeton University Graduate School Leadership Council, and the Princeton University English Department Advisory Council.
Ann Kirschner is the author of SALA’S GIFT (Simon and Schuster/Free Press, 2006), the story of her mother’s wartime rescue of letters from Nazi labor camps, published also in German, Polish, Italian, French, and Chinese editions. The original letters are in the permanent collection of the New York Public Library, and are the subject of a traveling exhibit in the United States and Europe, a theatrical play by Arlene Hutton, and a documentary film by Murray Nossel. Her next book Tombstone to Hollywood: The Adventures of Mrs. Wyatt Earp, will be published by Harper Collins/Smithsonian.
She is also a graduate of University of Virginia and State University of New York at Buffalo. She lives in New York with her husband, Dr. Harold Weinberg, and is the mother of Elisabeth, Caroline, and Peter.
