Ellen Winner Festschrift

Abstract

Not every worthy scholar receives a Festschrift (literally: a celebratory book); circumstances can delay or prevent its appearance. And not every Festschrift lives up to expectation: Such collections can range from clutches of articles that were rejected from journals to sets of articles that mostly rehash the author’s own work, a sort of “mirror,” or “selfie” Festschrift. Happily, this impressive Festschrift lives up to its name and to the occasion. Ellen Winner is a major scholar—arguably, the major scholar—in the experimental psychology and the developmental psychology of the arts. And in these pages, ably edited by her talented proteges Thalia Goldstein and Jennifer Drake, several other leading conceptualizers, experimentalists, and educators (and some writers are all three!) offer both tributes to Ellen and significant contributions in their own right.