Amazon.com, viewed on 29 February 2012 Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (I was born and raised in Toronto's downtown immigrant neighborhood in the immediate postwar years. My mother came to Canada in 1929 and my father in 1934, both of them from Poland. Today, I am University Professor and Professor of Performance Studies at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. I have been living on the Bowery since 1974 with my husband, Max Gimblett, who is an artist) http://www.amazon.com