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.... and shopping, and is slowly adapting
to the cool climate up in the San Francisco Bay Area (Warning:
if you go into her office, wear a sweatband due to sultry
temperate the space heater is set to!).
 Candace
Groskreutz joined the Center for British Studies
last January after working in publishing at both HarperSanFrancisco
and at a literary agency in London for a total of eight
years. Having studied Journalism at Berkeley, Candace
has also worked with international students at Mills
College and with Summer Sessions at UCB before joining
IES. With two kids, a dog, and a contractor husband,
Candace’s
days are filled with concerns ranging from welcoming the
latest Cambridge scholar to making sure that the Halloween
costumes satisfy her kids’ creative standards. Like
all our staff, Candace helps envision, plan, and execute
a busy schedule of events on the UK and Ireland, for instance
a well-attended conference on Scottish Romanticism earlier
this year.
 Title
VI Coordinator and Assistant to the Associate Director
Noga Wizansky comes to IES from
a teaching position at California College of the Arts.
Holding an MA in Design and an interdisciplinary PhD in
History of the Visual Arts from UC Berkeley focusing on
visual art and cultural criticism in Germany during the
Weimar period. After a childhood spent living in the US
and Israel, Noga now spends her private time painting and
writing on the themes of migration and memory, and raising
her daughter. At IES Noga helps envision and set up conferences,
researches and compiles our required reports for the Department
of Education, and engages in outreach projects on European
topics to K-14 educators.
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