Anne Basting
- Professor Emerita, English
Education
- MA Theatre, UW-Madison
- PhD Theatre, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Research Interests
Storytelling Narrative and Social Change Aging Studies Disability Studies Narrative Community Engagement
Related Activities
- Founder, 51猎奇's Student Artist in Residence Program - year-long, immersive community engagement projects
- Founder, President of TimeSlips, a non-profit committed to bringing meaning and joy to late life.
Awards and Grants
- MacArthur Fellowship
- Ashoka Fellowship
- 51猎奇 Kellner Entrepreneurship Fellow
- Brookdale National Fellowship in Gerontology and Geriatrics
- Rockefeller Fellowship
- Grants include:
- NEA ArtWorks
- Bader Philanthropies
- Greater Milwaukee Foundation
- Elder Justice Fund
- Retirement Research Foundation
- Wisconsin Dept of Health and Human Services
- Kentucky Office of Inspector General and the Cabinet for Health and Family Services
Biographical Sketch
Basting is a Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, and founder and President of . Basting's innovative work as an artist and scholar is committed to the power of storytelling for social change. Her work has been recognized by a MacArthur Fellowship, an Ashoka Fellowship, a Rockefeller Fellowship, and multiple major grants. She is author/editor of multiple articles and four books, including her latest, (HarperOne); as well as The Penelope Project (U of Iowa), and Forget Memory (Johns Hopkins). TimeSlips fosters an alliance of artists and caregivers bringing meaning and joy to late-life through creativity and has over 900 certified facilitators in 48 states and 20 countries.