Our Faculty
The faculty at the Gallatin School display an extraordinary range of teaching and research interests. Our faculty include teachers and scholars in area studies, in the fields of social and political thought, the humanities and the arts. Distinct fields, however, do not properly introduce our faculty. As our mission is interdisciplinary in nature, all faculty work together to contribute to the development of our innovative programs. These programs include a wide spectrum of courses and seminars that cross disciplines, non-fiction and creative writing classes, arts workshops and initiatives in community learning and activism.
FULL-TIME FACULTY
Asale Angel-Ajani (asale.ajani@nyu.edu)
B.A. 1993, New School for Social Research; M.A. 1995, Ph.D. 1999, Stanford
As a cultural anthropologist, Asale Angel-Ajani has conducted field research in West Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the United States. Her research and teaching interests include drugs, arms, and human trafficking; globalization; African diaspora studies; critical race and feminist theory; displacement, migration, and immigration; state, political, and gendered violence; and human rights. She is the author of numerous articles and a book on criminality and immigration in Western Europe. Her latest book, Engaged Observer, is a coedited collection with the anthropologist Victoria Sanford. She is the recipient of grants from, among others, the Ford, Rockefeller, and Mellon Foundations.
Sinan Antoon (sinan.antoon@nyu.edu)
B.A. 1990, Baghdad; M.A.A.S. 1995, Georgetown; Ph.D. 2006, Harvard
Sinan Antoon's teaching and research interests lie in premodern Arabo-Islamic culture and contemporary Arab culture and politics. His dissertation, "The Poetics of the Obscene," is the first study of the 10th-century Arab poet Ibn al-Hajjaj. In 2002, he was awarded a Mellon grant to support his research in the Middle East. His Gallatin course offerings include The Body in the Arabic Tradition, Arabic Poetry, The Qur'an, and a freshman seminar on Exile. Professor Antoon's poems and essays (in Arabic and English) have appeared in the Nation, Middle East Report, Al-Ahram Weekly, Banipal, and the Journal of Palestine Studies, among others. He has published a collection of poems, Mawshur Muballal bil-Huroob (A Prism; Wet with Wars), and a novel, I`jam (Diacritics), both of which are forthcoming in English versions. His poetry was anthologized in Iraqi Poetry Today. He has also contributed numerous translations of Arabic poetry into English. His cotranslation of Mahmoud Darwish's poetry was nominated for the PEN Prize for translation in 2004. He returned to his native Baghdad in 2003 as a member of InCounter Productions to film a documentary, About Baghdad, which was about the lives of Iraqis in a post-Saddam-occupied Iraq, which he coproduced and codirected. He is a senior editor for Arab Studies Journal, a member of PEN America, a contributing editor to Banipal, and a member of the editorial committee of Middle East Report.
Nina Cornyetz (nina.cornyetz@nyu.edu)
B.A. 1980, CUNY (Graduate Center); M.A. 1987, Ph.D. 1991, Columbia
Nina Cornyetz's teaching and research interests include critical, literary, and filmic theory; intellectual history; studies of gender and sexuality; and cultural studies, with a specialization in Japan. She has been the recipient of research fellowships from the Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers University (1997-1998); the Japan Foundation (1995-1996); and the Now Foundation, Tokyo, Japan (1990). Among her publications are The Ethics of Aesthetics in Japanese Cinema and Literature: Polygraphic Desire; Dangerous Women, Deadly Words: Phallic Fantasy and Modernity in Three Japanese Writers; "Fetishized Blackness: Hip Hop and Racial Desire in Contemporary Japan" in Social Text; and "Gazing Disinterestedly: Politicized Poetics in "Double Suicide'" in Differences. Her Gallatin courses include a culturally comparative inquiry into Japanese aesthetics and fascism in Aesthetics, Fascism, and Japanese Culture and a study of ethics and cinematography in Hong Kong gangster films and their Japanese and American counterparts in Beyond Good and Evil: Gangsters, Violence, and the Urban Landscape.
Michael D. Dinwiddie (mdd3@nyu.edu)
B.A. 1980, M.F.A. 1983, New York
Michael D. Dinwiddie's teaching interests include cultural studies, African American theatre history, dramatic writing, filmmaking, and ragtime music. A dramatist whose works have been produced in New York, regional, and educational theatre, he has been playwright-in-residence at Michigan State University and St. Louis University and taught writing courses at the College of New Rochelle, Florida A&M University, SUNY Stony Brook, California State University at San Bernardino, and Universidad de Palermo in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He spent a year at Touchstone Pictures as a Walt Disney Fellow and worked as a staff writer on ABC-TV's Hangin' with Mr. Cooper. In 1994 he was a Sundance finalist, and in 1995, he was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Playwriting. A Gallatin graduate, Professor Dinwiddie earned his M.F.A. in dramatic writing from the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. His course offerings include Migration and American Culture; Dramatizing History I and II; Poets in Protest: Footsteps to Hip-Hop; James Reese Europe and American Music; Sissle, Blake, and the Minstrel Tradition; Guerrilla Screenwriting; and the study abroad course Culture, Art, and Politics in 21st-Century Buenos Aires. Professor Dinwiddie received NYU's Distinguished Teaching Award in 2005.
Stephen Duncombe (sd47@nyu.edu)
B.A. 1988, SUNY (Purchase); M.Phil. 1993, Ph.D. 1996, CUNY (Graduate Center)
Stephen Duncombe's interests lie in media and cultural studies. He teaches and writes on the history of the mass media and consumer society and the intersection of culture and politics. He is the author of Notes from Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture and Dream: Re-Imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy, the editor of the Cultural Resistance Reader, and coauthor of The Bobbed Haired Bandit: A True Story of Crime and Celebrity in 1920s New York. He also writes widely on culture and politics for a number of publications. In 1998, he was awarded the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching by the State University of New York, where he taught before coming to New York University. Professor Duncombe has appeared regularly on public radio, performed as a DJ on pirate radio, and been a lifelong political activist. He is currently working on a book about democracy and display in Victorian England.
Sharon Friedman (sf2@nyu.edu)
B.A. 1969, Boston; M.A. 1971, Ph.D. 1977, New York
Sharon Friedman's teaching and research interests are in the areas of literary interpretation, feminist criticism, women dramatists, and critical writing across the curriculum. Her publications include "Feminism as Theme in Twentieth-Century American Drama" in American Studies and "Revisioning the Woman's Part in Paula Vogel's Desdemona" in New Theatre Quarterly. Other essays have appeared in Women and Performance, Contemporary Authors Bibliographical Series: American Dramatists, TDR, Susan Glaspell: Essays on Her Theater and Fiction, and Codifying the National Self: Spectators, Actors, and the American Dramatic Text. She is currently editing a collection of articles on feminist theatrical revisions of classic texts, and she is also coauthor of Writing and Thinking in the Social Sciences. In 1988, she received NYU's Distinguished Teaching Award.
Lisa Goldfarb (lg3@nyu.edu)
B.A. 1976, SUNY (Purchase); M.Phil. 1985, Ph.D. 1991, CUNY (Graduate Center)
Lisa Goldfarb's teaching and research interests are in the fields of comparative literature and writing. She focuses on 19th- and 20th-century European and American poetry and fiction and is particularly interested in the relationship between music and poetry, philosophic questions in literature, and the literature and history of New York City. She teaches a wide range of interdisciplinary seminars including Belief and Skepticism, Sound and Sense, Passion and Reason, Reading Poetry, and Wallace Stevens and the 20th Century. She also teaches a foreign study course, Provence and Mediterranean Culture, which takes students to the city of Nîmes in southern France. She is chair of the Writing Program Committee and teaches both introductory and advanced writing classes. Professor Goldfarb is also a recipient of Gallatin's Adviser of Distinction Award and NYU's Great Teacher Award, and she currently serves as the School's acting associate dean. She has published essays on Paul Valéry and Wallace Stevens in such journals as the Romanic Review, Journal of Modern Literature, Wallace Stevens Journal, and Fulcrum 5: An Annual of Poetry and Aesthetics. She is currently working on a book entitled "The Figure Concealed": Valéryan Music in the Poetry and Poetics of Wallace Stevens.
Jean Graybeal (jean.graybeal@nyu.edu)
B.A. 1972, Drew; M.A.R. 1977, Yale; Ph.D. 1986, Syracuse
Jean Graybeal works in the areas of philosophy and psychology of religion, with special interests in phenomenology, feminist theory, and the question of embodiment. She teaches courses on mysticism, existentialist thought, meanings of the body, and sacred space. She came to Gallatin as associate dean in 1993 and returned to full-time teaching in 1999. Before coming to NYU, she taught at Le Moyne College in Syracuse and California State University in Chico, California. Professor Graybeal is the author of Language and "the Feminine" in Nietzsche and Heidegger and is currently working on a book on embodiment.
Karen Hornick (kah3@nyu.edu)
B.A. 1979, Chicago; M.A. 1981, M.Phil. 1984, Ph.D. 2000, Columbia
Karen Hornick teaches courses that integrate the study of literature, media, philosophy, cultural history, and writing. At Gallatin, she has taught writing seminars and interdisciplinary seminars on gender and feminist theory, modern cultural history, and popular culture theory. Her dissertation analyzed the role of writers in the creation of England's national schooling system during the Victorian period. More recently, she has published articles on the poetics of television. She is currently writing a book about serial narratives and popular aesthetics; its ideas grew out of discussions she has had with students in her culture classes. Professor Hornick serves as a faculty adviser to The Gallatin Review, an annual journal of student writing and artwork.
Kristin Horton (kdh4@nyu.edu)
B.A. 1994, Emory; M.F.A. 2003, Iowa
Kristin Horton's teaching and research interests include directing, Shakespeare, new play development, theater and cross-cultural dialogue, ritual studies, and puppetry. A professional theater director specializing in new work and classical theater, she has recently directed at The Lark Play Development Center, New Dramatists, The Playwright's Center in
Steven Hutkins (ssh1@nyu.edu)
B.A. 1975, Wisconsin; M.A. 1977, Ph.D. 1986, New York
Steven Hutkins received his Ph.D. in English Renaissance literature. His current teaching and research interests focus on the theme of place: the places where we live and travel, the places that have been imagined by writers and philosophers. His courses include A Sense of Place (a study of small towns, suburbs, cities, and natural environments); Voyages of Identity (a course on travel writing and tourism); Travel Fictions (which explores novels and short stories about journeys); American Road Trip (a study of road-trip narratives and their representation of the American landscape and character); and Utopian Visions and Earthly Paradises (an exploration of imaginary places, from Eden to Ecotopia). He has also taught courses on Greek and Renaissance literature, postmodern fiction, and prose style. In 1998, he received NYU's Distinguished Teaching Award.
Bradley Lewis (bl466@nyu.edu)
B.A. 1978, M.D. 1982, Tennessee; Ph.D. 1986, George Washington
Bradley Lewis has dual training in interdisciplinary humanities and medicine (specializing in psychiatry). He writes and teaches at the interface of medicine, humanities, cultural studies of science, and disability studies. He is the cultural studies editor for the Journal of Medical Humanities and is the author of Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New Psychiatry: Birth of Postpsychiatry. His current book project is a narrative study of sadness. He is part of a growing number of academics who bring theoretical humanities to the biosciences. Professor Lewis is particularly interested in work that teases out questions of difference and inclusion (class, race, sexual preference, gender, nation status) in the creation and application of scientific knowledge.
Julie Malnig (julie.malnig@nyu.edu)
B.A. 1977, Douglass College; M.A. 1980, Ph.D. 1987, New York
Julie Malnig is a cultural historian of theatre and dance performance. Her areas of interest include social and popular dance; the history of popular entertainments; performance art; feminist performance and criticism; and performance writing. Among her courses at Gallatin are Writing About Performance; Gender and Performance; Proseminar: Text and Performance (cotaught with Professor Sharon Friedman); and Master's Thesis Seminar: Visual and Performing Arts. She is the author of Dancing Till Dawn: A Century of Exhibition Ballroom Dance (NYU, 1995). Her next book, Ballroom, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake: A Social and Popular Dance Reader, is forthcoming from the University of Illinois Press. Her recent publications, which examine dance in the early 20th century, have focused on social dance and class; media, advertising, and early dance publications; and the intersections of early feminism, the female body, and dance. She has also written about dance and youth culture of the 1950s. Professor Malnig served as editor of Dance Research Journal, an international scholarly publication in dance studies published by the Congress on Research in Dance (CORD), from 1999-2003, and served as the editorial board chair of CORD from 2003-2006. She is also cochair of the Gallatin Interdisciplinary Arts Program.
Eve Meltzer (emeltzer@nyu.edu)
B.A. 1993, Brown; M.A. 1998, Ph.D. 2003, California (Berkeley)
Eve Meltzer is assistant professor of visual studies with research and teaching interests in the areas of contemporary art history, photography, the rhetorics of digitality, material culture, and a range of philosophical and theoretical discourses including psychoanalysis, structuralism, and phenomenology. She received both her M.A. and Ph.D. in rhetoric, and from 2003 to 2006 she was a Stanford Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow in Stanford University's Department of Art and Art History, where she taught and began revising her dissertation for publication as a book. This project, tentatively titled Art After Words, situates the conceptual art movement of the late 1960s and early '70s within structuralist discourse and, more broadly, the fantasy of the world as an information system. Professor Meltzer has published articles and exhibition essays and reviews on the work of Vito Acconci, Jeanne Dunning, Robert Morris, Robert Smithson, Larry Sultan, and Peter Wegner, among others, and her writing has appeared in Oxford Art Journal, Frieze magazine, Cabinet, and fort da. Her course offerings include The Photographic Imaginary; The Thingliness of Thing; and What Was Conceptualism, and Why Won't It Go Away?
M. Bella Mirabella (bella.mirabella@nyu.edu)
B.A. 1970, CUNY (Lehman College); Ph.D. 1979, Rutgers.
Bella Mirabella teaches literary and cultural studies of the Renaissance, as well as the ancient and medieval periods, including women's studies, drama, theatre, and performance. She is the coeditor of Left Politics and the Literary Profession and has written articles on women, performance, and sexual politics in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, including "Mute Rhetorics: Women, Dance, and the Gaze in Renaissance England" and "'Quacking Delilahs': Female Mountebanks in Early Modern England and Italy." Her current work includes a gendered analysis of the handkerchief in early modern Europe, as well as a further exploration of the role of the mountebank performance in granting women agency and a public voice. Since 1987, Professor Mirabella has directed and taught Gallatin's Renaissance Humanities Seminar in Florence, Italy. She has received Gallatin's Adviser of Distinction Award as well as NYU's Great Teacher Award.
Ali Mirsepassi (am128@nyu.edu)
B.A. 1974, Tehran; M.A. 1980, Ph.D. 1985, American
David Thornton Moore (david.moore@nyu.edu)
B.A. 1969, Amherst College; M.S.W. 1971, Pennsylvania; Ed.D. 1977, Harvard
David Thornton Moore, an anthropologist of education and work, studies the process by which people learn outside of classrooms, especially in workplaces. He has done extensive research and writing on experiential learning, internships, and service learning at the high school and college levels. His work has been published in such journals as Harvard Educational Review, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, The Journal of Workplace Learning, Learning Inquiry, and Working Knowledge: Work-Based Learning and Education Reform. With colleagues at
Kimberly Phillips-Fein (kpf2@nyu.edu)
B.A. 1997, Chicago; Ph.D. 2005, Columbia
Kimberly Phillips-Fein is an American historian. She teaches courses in American political, business, and labor history and in the history of economic thought. Her primary areas of research deal with the role of business in the development of the modern conservative movement in the second half of the 20th century and the role of economic ideas in the rise of conservatism. She is working on her first book, tentatively titled The Great Utopia: How American Business Fought the New Deal Order. She has contributed to essay collections published by University of Pennsylvania Press and Routledge and to journals such as Reviews in American History. She is also a contributing editor for Labor: Studies in Working-Class History in the Americas. Professor Phillips-Fein has written widely for publications including the Nation, London Review of Books, New Labor Forum, Baffler, and In These Times, to which she has contributed articles and reviews.
Stacy Pies (sep1@nyu.edu)
B.A. 1979, Yale; M.A. 1984, Ph.D. 1993, CUNY (Graduate Center)
Stacy Pies teaches courses that explore the role of narrative and culture in texts and human relationships, as well as courses exploring poetry and poetics. Her teaching and research interests include poetry of all kinds, world literature, narrative across the disciplines and narrative theory, literary criticism, literature and philosophy, psychoanalysis, and writing on cities and urbanism. Her courses include the writing seminars Life, Stories, Culture and Imagining Cities and the interdisciplinary seminars Narrative Investigations, Metaphor and Meaning, Caliban, and The Philosophic Dialogue. She has helped develop and teach two Gallatin travel courses: Cuba: Revolution, Transformation, and the Genius Loci; and Provence and Mediterranean Culture. She received her doctorate in comparative literature and was a National Graduate Fellow. Her dissertation, "The Poet or the Journalist: Stéphane Mallarmé, John Ashbery and the poëme critique," won the Margaret C. Bryant Dissertation Award. She has presented papers and chaired panels at the MLA, ACLA, Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, and Twentieth-Century Literature conferences, among others. Her essays have appeared in French Forum and Poetry's Poet: Essays on the Poetry, Pedagogy, and Poetics of Allen Grossman. She has published poetry in Conditions magazine and has an article forthcoming in Nineteenth-Century French Studies. Professor Pies received NYU's Distinguished Teaching Award in 2007.
René Francisco Poitevin (rfpoitevin@nyu.edu)
B.A. 1997, California (Berkeley); M.A. 1998, Ph.D. 2005, California (Davis)
A sociologist by training, René Francisco Poitevin holds intellectual interests in the areas of local labor markets, gentrification, race and ethnicity in the United States, and Geographic Information Systems. His courses include Urban Space and Resistance, Mapping for Social Change, Latinos and the Politics Race in the United States, and Gentrification and Its Discontents. He is currently doing research on undocumented Latino workers and the social regulation of local labor markets.
Millery Polyné (millery.polyne@nyu.edu)
B.A. 1996, Morehouse College; M.A. 1997, Ph.D. 2003, Michigan (Ann Arbor)
Millery Polyné's teaching and research interests highlight the history of African American and Afro-Caribbean/Afro-Latino cultural, political, and economic initiatives in the 19th and 20th centuries;
Laurin Raiken (lr2@nyu.edu)
B.A. 1965, Brandeis; M.A. 1972, Adelphi
A sociologist of art and cultural historian, Laurin Raiken is a founding member of the Gallatin faculty and the founder and current chair of the Gallatin Interdisciplinary Arts Program. His teaching and research interests include the sociology and political economy of the arts; arts management and cultural policy; arts, community, and social change; Native American studies; and the relationship between Kabbalah and art. An activist in the art world, Professor Raiken was founder and president of the Foundation for the Community of Artists, and he worked in various government positions in arts and cultural policy. As cochairman of Citizens for Artists Housing, he helped to draft the New York State legislation that created loft living for artists in SoHo and NoHo. He has served as a consultant to the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts; a member of the advisory council of the New York Open Center; an early adviser to the Donald and Shelley Rubin Museum of Art; and senior editor of Art and Artists. Currently he serves on the board of advisers of the Interfaith Center of New York and as Gallatin's liaison for the newly created Gallatin Fellowships funded by the Newington Cropsey Foundation's Academy of Art, where he also serves as a Senior Fellow. Professor Raiken is president of the Leo Bronstein Trust and literary executor and publisher of Leo Bronstein's works in art philosophy. A founder of the New York University Community Service Program and a University Senator, he received NYU's Great Teacher Award in 1983 and in 1992 was named a University Educator of the Year by Vanderbilt University.
George Shulman (gms1@nyu.edu)
B.A. 1973, Amherst College; Ph.D. 1982, California (Berkeley)
George Shulman's interests lie in the fields of political thought and American studies. He teaches and writes on the history of political and social thought in Europe and the United States, as well as on the Greek and Hebrew—or tragic and biblical—traditions. His teaching and writing emphasize the role of narrative in culture and politics. His first book, Radicalism and Reverence: Gerrard Winstanley and the English Revolution, was published by University of California Press. His second book, American Prophecy: Race and Redemption in American Political Culture, which explores the relationship of prophetic narration, American nationalism, and democratic politics, is forthcoming from University of Minnesota Press in the fall of 2008. The book, for which he received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship to work on from 1998 to 1999, focuses on the language that great American critics have used to engage and overcome the racial domination at the center of American history. Professor Shulman is a recipient of the 2003 NYU Distinguished Teaching Award.
Laura M. Slatkin (laura.slatkin@nyu.edu)
B.A. 1968, Harvard; M.A. 1970, Cambridge; Ph.D. 1979, Harvard
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Alycia Smith-Howard (ash4@nyu.edu)
B.A. (hons.) 1989, College of the Holy Cross; M.A. 1990, Ph.D. 1998, The Shakespeare Institute
Alycia Smith-Howard is an assistant professor in the Interdisciplinary Arts Program and artistic director of the Gallatin Arts Festival. Her areas of teaching and research interests include Shakespeare studies, modern drama, performance history, directing, dramaturgy, 19th-century studies, book culture, and bibliography. She received both her M.A. and Ph.D. from the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, and has taught at Mount Holyoke College, Trinity College, and Berea College. She is the author of Studio Shakespeare: The Royal Shakespeare Company at the Other Place (Ashgate, 2006), which was recently nominated for the Theatre Book Award by the Society for Theatre Research (London, UK); coauthor of The Critical Companion to Tennessee Williams (Facts on File, 2005); and editor of Suzan-Lori Parks: A Casebook (Routledge, 2007). Professor Smith-Howard is an accomplished theatre director and the book reviews editor for the New England Theatre Journal. She frequently serves as a Shakespeare specialist and modern drama consultant for major projects and arts organizations such as the National Endowment for the Humanities, and she was selected as a 2006-2007 Folger Fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.
Clyde R. Taylor (ct15@nyu.edu)
B.A. 1953, M.A. 1959, Howard; Ph.D. 1968, Wayne State
Clyde R. Taylor is a cultural historian whose training and experience lie mainly in literary and film studies. His courses look at narratives of cultural self-imagining as they have been fashioned by African and African diaspora societies, as well as the way these narratives intersect with counternarratives of Western civilization. He has curated and programmed film and art exhibitions at several institutions, including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Brooklyn Museum. His writings include Vietnam and Black America as editor, Black Genius as coeditor, and The Mask of Art, for which he received the Josephine Miles-Oakland PEN Award. He also wrote the script for the PBS documentary Midnight Ramble, the Life and Legacy of Oscar Micheaux. He has received several grants and fellowships, including a Fulbright Fellowship, Ford, Rockefeller, and residencies at the Whitney, Bellagio Research Center, and Museum of African Art (D.C.). He has been elected to the National Hall of Fame of Writers of African Descent, and he has received an "Indie" for critical writing on films of minorities, as well as a Callaloo Prize for nonfiction prose. His current writing project involves alternative modernisms in non-European contexts.
John Kuo Wei Tchen (jack.tchen@nyu.edu)
B.A. 1973, Wisconsin (Madison); M.A. 1987, Ph.D. 1992, New York
John Kuo Wei Tchen is a historian and cultural activist. Since 1975, he has been studying interethnic and interracial relations of Asians and Americans, helping to build cultural organizations, and exploring how inquiry in the humanities and society can help deepen the quality of public life and policy. His teaching and research interests include cross-cultural and community studies; New York City history; Asians in the Americas; race, colonialism, and museums; dialogic theory; and radical pedagogy. Professor Tchen is currently the founding director of the A/P/A (Asian/Pacific/American) Studies Program and Institute at New York University. Before coming to NYU, he was director of the Asian/American Center at Queens College of the City University of New York, an associate professor in the Department of Urban Studies at Queens College, and a member of the Ph.D. faculty in sociology at the Graduate Center (CUNY). His most recent book, New York Before Chinatown (1999), is about orientalism and the formation of American identity in 19th-century New York City. He has also authored Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown (1984), which won an American Book Award (Before Columbus Foundation). In 1980, he cofounded the Museum of Chinese in the Americas (New York City), and he works on a range of exhibits, films, radio, and other public humanities projects. In 1991, he was awarded the Charles S. Frankel Prize from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and in 1993, he received the City of New York Mayor's Award of Honor for Arts and Culture. In 1999, he was named one of the "A 100 List" for A magazine's list of the 100 most influential Asian Americans in the past decade.
Alejandro Velasco (av48@nyu.edu)
B.A. 2000, Boston College; M.A. 2002, Duke
Alejandro Velasco is a historian of modern Latin America whose research and teaching interests are in the areas of social movements, urban culture, and democratization. His dissertation, "From Revolution to Massacre: Urban Protest and Popular Politics in Venezuela, 1958-1989," couples archival and ethnographic research to examine how residents of Venezuela's largest public housing community pursued full citizenship during the heyday of Latin America's once-model democracy. Before joining the Gallatin faculty, Professor Velasco taught at Hampshire College, where he was a Five College Fellow, and at Duke University. His teaching record includes interdisciplinary courses on contemporary Latin America, seminars on urban social movements, historical methods courses on 20th-century revolutions, and workshops with primary and secondary school educators. Professor Velasco's research has won major funding support from the Social Science Research Council, the American Historical Association, and the Ford and Mellon Foundations, among others, and he has presented widely at both national and international conferences and symposia.
e. Frances White (f.white@nyu.edu)
B.A. 1971, Wheaton College; M.A. 1973, Ph.D. 1978, Boston
E. Frances White is NYU's vice provost for faculty affairs, having served as dean of the Gallatin School from 1998 to 2005. She has been awarded fellowships from the Danforth Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, among others. She has also been a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar in Sierra Leone and the Gambia. Before coming to NYU, she taught at Fourah Bay College of the University of Sierra Leone and at Hampshire College. Her awards include the Catherine T. and John D. MacArthur Chair in History (1985-1988) and the Letitia Brown Memorial Publication Prize for the best book on black women (1987). Her teaching and research interests include the history of Africa and its diaspora, history of gender and sexuality, and critical race theory. Her books include Sierra Leone's Settler Women Traders, Women in Sub-Saharan Africa, and Dark Continent of Our Bodies. Concerned about the impact of civil unrest in Sierra Leone, she is working on a follow-up to her dissertation research project.
Susanne Wofford
B.A. 1973, Yale College; B.Phil. 1977, Oxford; Ph.D. 1982, Yale
Susanne Wofford is the dean of the Gallatin School. Before coming to Gallatin, Professor Wofford taught at Yale University and the University of Wisconsin (Madison), where she most recently served as director of the Center for the Humanities and as the Mark Eccles Professor of English, having formerly been chair of the Divisional Committee for Arts and Humanities and director of graduate studies in English. She has been a member of the faculty of the Bread Loaf School of English since 1987 and was a visiting professor at both Harvard University and Princeton University. A distinguished scholar of epic poetry and of Renaissance and early modern literature, Professor Wofford is the recipient of many prizes and honors, including the University of Wisconsin Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Teaching; the University of Wisconsin Romnes Fellowship; the Hilldale Award for Collaborative Research, UW-Madison; the Robert Frost Chair at the Bread Loaf School of English; the Isabel MacCaffrey Prize (awarded by the Spenser Society); the William Cline Devane Medal for Distinguished Teaching at Yale University; the Sarai Ribicoff Award for the Encouragement of Teaching in Yale College; and the Yale College-Sidonie Miskimin Clauss Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities. She was also appointed to the Charles B. G. Murphy Chair while at Yale and, as a graduate student, won a Mellon Fellowship, a Whiting Fellowship, a Danforth Fellowship, and a Marshall scholarship. Currently chair of the Modern Language Association's Executive Committee for the Division on the Literature of the English Renaissance, excluding Shakespeare, she has served as the president of the Shakespeare Association of America and serves or has served on the boards of the International Spenser Society, American Comparative Literature Association, and the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes. She is a cofounder and member of the steering committee of the Theater Without Borders International Collaborative. Her research interests include Shakespeare, Spenser, Renaissance and classical epic, comparative European drama, and narrative and literary theory. Her publications include The Choice of Achilles: The Ideology of Figure in the Epic (Stanford University Press, 1992); Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World: The Politics of Community (coeditor) (University of California Press, 1999); Shakespeare: The Late Tragedies (Prentice-Hall, 1995); and Hamlet: Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism (St. Martin's Press, 1994). Her current projects include The Apparent Corpse: Popular and Transnational Bodies on the Shakespearean Stage and Foreign Nationals: Intercultural Literacy and Literary Diaspora in Early Modern Europe.
PART-TIME FACULTY
Maria-Luisa Achino-Loeb (mluisa164@aol.com)
B.A., M.A. 1983, CUNY (Hunter College); Ph.D. 1990, CUNY (Graduate Center)
Professor Achino-Loeb is a cultural anthropologist whose work focuses on the study of ideology and its connection to power and identity. She has developed and taught courses on Silence, Language and Culture, Migration and Identity, and Globalization. Her work has been published in several journals, including American Anthropologist and Theory in Psychology, and in the volume she edited, Silence: The Currency of Power (Berghahn Books, 2006). She has been involved in a concerted effort to bridge the gap between academia and the general public though various venues: as cochair of the Anthropology Section, New York Academy of Sciences (2005-2007), and as organizer and participant in a session titled Bamboozling the Public: Ignorance or Design in the Distortion of Science? (AAA National Meetings, Washington, D.C., 2007). Currently, she cochairs the Columbia University Culture, Power, and Boundaries seminar.
Cynthia Allen (ca5@nyu.edu)
B.A., Wilson College; Ph.D. /A.B.D. Florida State
Cynthia Allen's teaching interests concern contemporary theatre and film, the history of graphic novels, and how the role of digital new media impacts all aspects of culture and society, including ongoing technological trends in new media, computer and video games, new media art installations, computer animation, and special effects in films. For more than seven years Allen was the program coordinator for NYU's Center for Advanced Technology. Currently, she is president of Lightning New Media, Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving arts archives on the Internet-professional theatre, opera, rare book and manuscripts, film, Jewish heritage, and photography collections. For more than 25 years, she has been involved with all aspects of film production-from producer to director-and continues to produce and direct programming for the web. Some of the filmmakers she has worked with include Joel and Ethan Coen, Sergio Leone, and Martin Scorsese. In addition, she is currently the website director, editor, and a voting member for the Outer Critics Circle (OCC), the New York theatre critics' organization.
Rebecca Amato (becky.amato@nyu.edu)
B.S. 1996, Northwestern; M.A. 2000, New York
Rebecca Amato is a Ph.D. candidate in U.S. History at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York. With research interests converging around urban history, gender, and visual culture, her dissertation examines the phenomenon of "slumming" in New York during the closing decades of the 19th century. Amato has also worked with the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, the Brooklyn Historical Society, the New-York Historical Society, and the American Social History Project to produce exhibits and teaching materials on the history of New York. She holds a B.S. in Radio, Television, and Film from Northwestern University.
Jaime Arredondo (jaime@jaimearredondo.com)
B.A. 1980, Dallas; M.F.A. 1989, Yale
Jaime Arredondo's interests include painting and Mesoamerican art, culture, and religion. He has taught at NYU, the Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, and The New School. Arrendondo is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Ford Foundation Fellowship, the Mid-Atlantic Foundation Fellowship, and the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. In addition, he has had many solo and group shows in galleries and museums throughout the United States. Born and raised in Dallas, Texas he is the son of a primarily Native American father of Mexican heritage, and a Tejana mother. He has traveled extensively throughout Mexico and Central America studying the ruins and cultures of that region. At Gallatin, he teaches a course entitled Of Fire and Blood: Art-Making and Mythology of Mexico. Arredondo received his B.A. in Art from the University of Dallas and his M.F.A. in Painting from Yale University.
Efrain Azmitia (efrain.azmitia@nyu.edu)
B.A. 1968, Washington (St. Louis); M.A. 1978, Cambridge; Ph.D. 1973, Rockefeller
Efrain Azmitia has held teaching and research positions at the National Institute of Mental Health in Washington, D.C.; the National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London, England; the Department of Anatomy at Cambridge University; the Mount Sinai School of Medicine; the Weizmann Institute, Rehovet, Israel; Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Long Island, NY; and Ecole Practique de Hautes Etudes, La Salpetriere Hospital, Paris, France. He has been a full professor at NYU since 1983 in the Department of Biology, a fellow at the Center for Neural Science, and adjunct professor in the Department of Psychiatry at NYU Medical Center. His current research interests focus on serotonin axons in the human brain and their involvement in the neuropathology in Down syndrome, autism, and dementia. Azmitia has more than 200 journal publications, he has delivered more than 200 lectures, and his research findings have been cited more than 8,000 times. He has edited three books, and most recently coauthored Changing Views of Cajal's Neuron (Elsevier, 2002). He is the recipient of numerous awards, such as the National Institutes of Health K05 Senior Scientist Award and the Irma T. Hirschl Career Scientist Award, as well as honors including the David Lester Memorial Lecture and Grass Foundation Lecture. Azmitia received his B.A. cum laude in Biology, his M.A. in Neuroanatomy, and his Ph.D. in Neuroscience. Over the past 40 years, he has supervised fifteen Ph.D. students while teaching at various universities. Currently at NYU, he teaches courses entitled Neuroplasticity and Brain Development and The Brain: A User's Guide.
Elliott Barowitz (eb19@nyu.edu)
B.F.A. 1960, Rhode Island School of Design; M.F.A. 1965, Cincinnati
Elliott Barowitz is Professor Emeritus, Drexel University, where he taught art and contemporary art history. His current teaching interests include modernism and postmodernism as seen in painting, sculpture, photography, film, architecture, TV, and popular culture. He has an abiding interest in Dada and early American Modernism. Barowitz is a visual artist who has exhibited in more than 100 venues in museums, galleries, and universities in the U.S., Canada, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Bulgaria, and Thailand. He has been working on a video documentary, Conversations with 1954 Graduates of Passaic High School, shown at the Gallatin Film Festival. He was a board member of the Foundation for the Community of Artists, where he served as president, board chair, and executive editor of its publication Artworkers News (a.k.a. Art & Artists). This publication is now at NYU's Fales Library. Barowitz has presented papers at academic conferences and appeared as a panelist and speaker at forums. He has long been an artist activist, with interests in artists' rights, housing, discrimination, and censorship. He is a former member of the Artist Certification Committee, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and is currently a public member of the New York City Loft Board.
Cris Beam (beamc@earthlink.net)
B.A. 1994, California (Santa Cruz); M.F.A. 2005, Columbia
As a nonfiction writer, Cris Beam's writing, research, and teaching interests include juvenile justice, foster care, gender communities, gay and lesbian issues, urban poverty, prison writing, memoir writing, and literary journalism. She wrote Transparent: Love, Family and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers (Harcourt, 2007) and has written for several national magazines as well as the public radio program "This American Life." In addition to Gallatin, Cris currently teaches creative writing at Columbia University, The New School, and Bayview Women's Correctional Facility in New York. She is currently working on a book about foster care in the U.S.
Ellen Blaney (eqb1728@nyu.edu)
19th- and 20th-century literature; the novel; feminist theory and gender studies; creative and expository writing
Victoria Blythe (vqb3460@nyu.edu)
English literature; law and literature; critical theory; genre studies; the journal
Martha Bowers (mb155@nyu.edu)
B.A. 1976, Sarah Lawrence College
Martha Bowers focuses on the use of the performing arts for social change. Her areas of special interest include intercultural communications through the arts, dance as a medium for youth development and tolerance education, site-specific performance, and community arts. She has taught at numerous colleges and universities, is the recipient of Chancellor Rudolf Crew's Caring Community Award (1999) for work with recently immigrated teens and a 2002 BAXten Arts & Artists in Progress Award for her work in arts education. Her essays on site-specific, community-based performance have been published online with the Community Arts Network; in Choreographic Encounters (Vol. 1), the journal of the Institute for Choreography and Dance; and in a forthcoming book on site-specific dance edited by Melanie Kloetzel and Carolyn Pavlik. She has received numerous commissions as well as choreographic fellowships from The Foundation for Performance Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New Jersey Council on the Arts, as well as six consecutive grant awards from the New York Foundation's Artist in the School Community program. She is the executive director of Dance Theatre Etcetera and the project manager for the Dance for Tolerance global initiative.
Eric Brettschneider (ebrettschneider@uwnyc.org)
B.A. 1968, Colgate; M.A. 1971, New School; J.D. 1979, Hofstra
Eric Brettschneider's interests center on child welfare, community building, and social welfare policy. He is a former city and state social service official who created the Child Protective Training Academy, advocated for the avoidance of sibling separation in foster care, and was instrumental in starting minority-controlled child welfare agencies. He served as executive director of Agenda for Children Tomorrow for 18 years, and is currently the interim senior vice president at the United Way of New York City. His publications include contributions to Making a Leadership Change (1988) and the textbook Education and Psychology (WMC Brown Company Publishers, 1977), as well as "Bottom Up Planning in a Top Down World" in Devolution (Fordham University Press, 2001). He is a member of the New York State Governor's Children's Cabinet Advisory Committee; cochair of the Citizen Review Panel for New York City; chair esperanza of the board of New Yorkers for Children; a trustee of the Viola Bernard Foundation; a trustee on the board of The Fostering Connection; and founding president of Jumpstart, New York. Brettschneider serves on the Chief Administrative Judge's Task Force on Interpreters in the Courts. He is the recipient of Harvard Law School's Wasserstein Public Interest Fellowship and NYU's Outstanding Teaching Award.
Guillermo Brown (gb73@nyu.edu)
Music and sound; jazz performance/history; electronic music; American popular culture; African diasporic culture; interdisciplinary performance; percussion
Susan Brownmiller (sbrownmiller@gmail.com)
Susan Brownmiller's books include Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape (1975), Femininity (1984), Waverly Place, a novel (1989), Seeing Vietnam: Encounters of the Road and Heart (1994), and In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution (1999). She started her writing career at The Village Voice in the 1960s and has contributed articles, book reviews, and travel pieces to a wide range of popular publications. She was a civil rights volunteer in Mississippi in 1964 and a feminist activist from the late 1960s through the 1980s. Against Our Will, translated into 20 languages including Slovenian and Chinese, was named one of 100 "Books of the Century" by The New York Public Library. The "Susan Brownmiller Archive" was acquired by the Schlesinger Library, Harvard, in 2001 and is now fully catalogued and available to scholars.
Carin Calabrese (clc12@nyu.edu)
B.A. 1991, St. John's College (Annapolis); M.A. 1998
Carin Calabrese is a scholar of ancient Greek and Roman literature and culture whose research and teaching focus on the depiction of cultural and political domination and resistance in both ancient and modern literature. Currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Chicago, Calabrese's dissertation, "Euripides' Tragedies of Resistance: Troades, Hecuba, Andromache" explores how the plays' women characters, captives and slaves, successfully make use of what little agency is available to them. Before coming to Gallatin, Carin taught Greek and Latin language and literature at both the University of Chicago and Northwestern University. She has presented her work at a variety of national and international conferences and symposia. Her interests include Greek drama, Greek and Roman poetry, the history of theater, feminist theory, and literary theory.
Christopher Cartmill (cartmill@christophercartmill.com)
Asian theater and theatrical literature; performance theory and practice; Native American culture and ritual; 18th- and 19th-century literature, culture and politics; art history; world folklore and mythology; religion in public discourse
Bill Caspary (caspary@aol.com)
Modern social and political thought; democratic theory; political psychology; philosophy of science; peace studies
John Castellano (johnc@thecoll.com)
Music performance, business, and technology
Manu Chander (msc345@nyu.edu)
B.A. 1999, Wesleyan; M.F.A. 2001, Michigan; M.A. 2003, Brown
Manu Samriti Chander's teaching interests include postcolonial and multicultural literatures in English, as well as British Romanticism, which is also the focus of his doctoral work. His dissertation, "Romantic Universalism: Aesthetics, Alterity, and the Making of Literature in Britain," considers 19th-century English, Scottish, and Indian poetry and painting through the lens of postcolonial theory. He is the recipient of a Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr., Research Grant from the Keats-Shelley Association of America and the Academy of American Poets Prize, among other honors. He has published reviews in New Formations and American Book Review, and his essay "Contention and Contestation: Aesthetic Culture in Kant and Bourdieu" is forthcoming in a special issue of Romantic Circles focusing on philosophy and culture.
Myla Churchill (myteeafrodytee@yahoo.com)
Dramatic writing; musical theatre; visual media; film and video production
Laura Ciolkowski (lec5@nyu.edu)
B.A. 1988, Columbia; M.A. 1990, Ph.D. 1994 Brown
Laura Ciolkowski's teaching and research interests include feminist theory and cultural studies, 19th- and 20th-century literature and culture, travel literature, gender and the body, genealogies of feminism, and feminist activism. Her scholarly work has been published in a range of journals, including: Twentieth Century Literature, Studies in the Novel, Genders, and Novel: A Forum on Fiction and Victorian Literature and Culture. In addition to her scholarly research, Laura is a writer and book critic whose articles and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker magazine, the Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and the San Francisco Chronicle. She is also a lecturer in English at Barnard College and on the faculty of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWaG) at Columbia University.
Gene Cittadino (ec15@nyu.edu)
B.A. 1968, Knox; M.S. 1974, Michigan State; M.A. 1977, Ph.D. 1981, Wisconsin
Gene Cittadino's main teaching and research interests lie in understanding and interpreting the historical and present role of scientific knowledge in our culture. He was trained broadly in the history of science, philosophy, history, and the sciences, especially ecology and evolutionary biology. Before coming to NYU he taught or held research positions at Harvard, Brandeis, California-Berkeley, Wisconsin, MIT, and SUNY-Potsdam. He is the author of Nature as the Laboratory, a study of the influence of Darwinism and colonialism on early ecological research in Germany, and he is completing Seeing Nature Whole, a history of ecology. He has received fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, MIT, and the National Science Foundation, including his current two-year NSF grant to study resource policy and the use of environmental scientists as experts in an early 20th-century legal dispute over valuable oil land. Over the past several years he has been involved in workshops, symposia, and conferences aimed at understanding the interaction of science and cultural values in the shaping of environmental policy.
Pedro Cristiani (pcristiani@fibertel.com.ar)
M.F.A. 1996, Universidad del Cine, Argentina
Pedro Cristiani broke into the filmmaking scene as screenwriter of the fantasy feature Moebius (Argentina, 1996), which received Best Screenplay at the Huelva Film Festival (Spain) and Miami Film Festival, as well as the FIPRESCI Award at the 1997 Vienna Film Festival. Moebius was part of the Sundance Film Festival, the Berlin Forum, the San Sebastián Film Festival, the Lincoln Center Film Society screenings, and the MoMA. Over the following years, Cristiani has collected a body of work as creator, story editor, and showrunner of three prime-time original TV series: The Sign, 1997; H@cker, 2001; and Public Hospital, 2003. He has also served as an advertising executive producer and an independent story consultant for both film and television. He wrote and directed his own TV movie in 2005. Recently, Cristiani has served as writer and executive editor for the New Zealand-Spanish-Argentine coproduction of No Adults Admitted, six feature thrillers slated to start production in 2008, and is currently writing the feature Lazarus, with distribution rights already secured by Filmax (Spain). Cristiani's teaching interests include fiction screenwriting and directing, universal mythology in audiovisual storytelling, and filmmaking tools as part of the narrative paradigm.
Susan Daitch (sed372@aol.com)
B.S. 1977, Barnard College
Susan Daitch is the author of two novels: L.C., a Lannan Foundation selection that earned an NEA Heritage Award; and The Colorist; as well as a collection of short fiction, Storytown. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, Tinhouse, McSweeney's, Bomb, The Village Voice, The Norton Anthology of Postmodern Literature, and others. Her work was the subject of The Review of Contemporary Fiction, History Made, History Imagined: Contemporary Literature, Poesis, and the Past, David W. Price, and A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction, Linda Hutcheon. She attended The Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and was a Cantor Fellow at Yaddo. Her novels have been published in England and Germany.
C. Daniel Dawson (cddawson@mindspring.com)
C. Daniel Dawson has lectured at the House of World Cultures-Berlin, the Kit Tropenmuseum-Amsterdam, the University of California-Berkeley, University of Texas-Austin, University of Wisconsin-Madison, The New School for Social Research, Columbia University, Princeton University, and the Federal University of Bahia and Rio de Janeiro-Brazil. Professor Dawson has also taught seminars on African Spirituality in the Americas at the University of Iowa, NYU, and Yale University. He has a research focus on the African diaspora and its culture. In addition, Dawson has worked as a photographer, filmmaker, curator, arts administrator, and consultant. He served as curator of photography, film and video at the Studio Museum in Harlem (NYC), director of special projects at the Caribbean Cultural Center (NYC), and curatorial consultant and director of education at the Museum for African Art (NYC). As a photographer, he has shown his work in more than 30 exhibitions. He has also curated more than 40 exhibitions, including Harlem Heyday: The Photographs of James Van Der Zee and The Sound I Saw: The Jazz Photographs of Roy DeCarava. Dawson has been associated with many prize-winning films, including Head and Heart by James Mannas and Capoeiras of Brazil by Warrington Hudlin.
Laura DeNardis (laura.denardis@yale.edu)
B.A. 1988, Dartmouth College; M.Eng. 1989, Cornell; Ph.D. 2006, Virginia Tech
Laura DeNardis is a resident fellow at Yale Law School in the Information Society Project. Her research addresses the political and legal implications of information and communication technologies with a concentration in digital media interoperability, information security, Internet governance, and Internet technical standardization. She is the author of Information Technology in Theory (Thomson, 2007), cowritten with Pelin Aksoy, and recently published a lengthy chapter, "The History of Internet Security" in the edited volume A History of Information Security (Elsevier, 2007). Laura has previously taught information technology in the School of Information Technology and Engineering at George Mason University. Her Ph.D. is in Science and Technology Studies and her doctoral dissertation was entitled "IPv6: Politics of the Next Generation Internet."
Maura Donnelly (mdonnelly2@yahoo.com)
Adult literacy and English for speakers of other languages; writing
Imani Douglas (imani2073@aol.com)
Theatre; aesthetic education; women/African American women in drama; television and film writing
Kathy Engel (ellajaja@aol.com)
B.A. 1977, Sarah Lawrence College
Kathy Engel's teaching interests are at the intersection between community, social engagement, art, and imagination, as well as all aspects of creating effective efforts for social change and breaking boundaries in thought and action to open public space for new dialogue for a just society. She is interested in language and images that reveal, open up uncharted territories, or explore in new ways what motivates people to become "change agents." This includes the emotional dimension that art can explore, expanding what are generally considered political strategies. Engel has been a fellow at the Blue Mountain Center and The MacDowell Colony, and will be a resident at the Gaea Foundation Sea Change Cottage in 2008. Book publications include Ruth's Skirts (IKON, 2007), a book of poems and prose; and We Begin Here: Poems for Palestine and Lebanon (Interlink Books, 2007), coedited with Kamal Boullata. Her work also appears in a number of anthologies, including: A Memory, a Monologue, A Rant, and A Prayer, edited by Eve Ensler; E-Racing Racism, coedited by Ellen Goldner and Safiya Henderson-Holmes, and Women On War, edited by Daniella Gioseffi. Engel authored a chapter on "Women and Leadership" in the Leadership Encyclopedia, and has received a leadership award from the women's human rights organization MADRE.
Gregory Erickson (gregterickson@aol.com)
B.M. 1994, Minnesota; M.A. 1996, Hunter College; Ph.D. 2004, CUNY (Graduate Center)
Gregory Erickson is the author of The Absence of God in Modernist Literature (Palgrave Macmillan) and coauthor of Religion and Popular Culture: Rescripting the Sacred (McFarland) as well as numerous articles and reviews. In 2007, he was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to study James Joyce in Dublin, Ireland. Erickson's research and teaching interests include Modernist literature, music and literature, religion, and popular culture. He is also a professional trombonist and music educator and has recorded solo works with Albany Records. Erickson received his B.M. in music from the University of Minnesota, his M.A. in English from Hunter College, and his Ph.D. in English from The City University of New York.
June Foley (jaf3@nyu.edu)
B.A. 1974, Montclair State; M.A. 1990, Ph.D. 1995, New York
June Foley's teaching and research interests are Victorian Studies, especially the novel; the Modernist novel, fiction writing, memoir writing, and writing for young readers; and English (especially writing) for Speakers of Other Languages. Her dissertation, on Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell, combines biography, psychological criticism, and comparative analysis of texts, within an historical context. She has published essays on Dickens, Gaskell, and Charlotte Bronte. In addition to teaching at Gallatin since 1994, Foley has been the School's first Writing Program director since 2002. For the Writing Program's Literacy Project, she teaches a writing class to Chinese immigrants at the University Settlement Society and has edited books of their writing, funded by grants from the NYU Center for Teaching Excellence and the NYU Office of Community Service; she is founder of and adviser to The Literacy Review, an annual book edited by Gallatin students that collects the best writing by adults in Basic Education, GED, and ESOL classes throughout NYC; and she is founder and organizer of the annual Literacy Review Workshops for Teachers of Writing to Adults. She was named Gallatin's Adviser of Distinction in 1999 and won the Gallatin Student Choice Award for Excellence in Public Service in 2003.
Edmund Fong (fongyimun@aol.com)
Contemporary political, psychoanalytic, and feminist theory; critical race theory; cultural studies; Frankfurt School; American politics and history; and theories of multiculturalism and globalization
Emily Fragos (e.fragos@att.net)
B.A. 1972, Syracuse; M.A. 1975, Paris-La Sorbonne; M.F.A. 1995, Columbia
Emily Fragos is an award-winning, widely published poet who teaches poetry writing at NYU and Columbia. She has also taught Shakespeare studies, poetry, and world literature at Fordham University and the College of Mount Saint Vincent. Fragos is the author of the book of poetry Little Savage (Grove/Atlantic, 2004). Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, The New Yorker, Poetry, The American Poetry Review, Paris Review, Threepenny Review, Yale Review, Boston Review, Cimarron Review, and numerous other journals. She is the editor of two poetry anthologies from Everyman's Pocket Library/Knopf: The Great Cat and The Dance. Fragos has also written about dance for Pointe, Bomb, and Playbill magazines. She is the recipient of the David Craig Austin Poetry Prize.
Nathaniel Frank (nf15@nyu.edu)
B.A. 1993, Northwestern; M.A. 1995, Ph.D. 2002, Brown
In addition to teaching at NYU and formerly at The New School, Nathaniel Frank is currently senior research fellow at the Michael D. Palm Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His teaching and research interests include cultural history, political theory, contemporary politics, and sexuality. He is recognized as one of the nation's top experts on gays in the military and other gay rights topics, and his publications have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, Slate, Los Angeles Times, The Huffington Post, Newsday, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Lingua Franca, and others. He has been interviewed for national television and radio programs, including ABC's Good Morning America, the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, CNN's Anderson Cooper 360, CBS News on Logo, the BBC, and MSNBC's Abrams Report. Professor Frank's research and opinions have been cited on the Congressional floor, in syndicated columns, in the blogosphere, New York Post, The Advocate, National Review Online, the AP, and other venues, including university syllabi and media roundups. He is currently writing a book on "don't ask, don't tell," to be published by St. Martin's Press.
Lise Friedman (lef770@nyc.rr.com)
B.A., 1977, Wisconsin (Madison)
Lise Friedman's teaching interests include the visual and performing arts. Her Gallatin arts workshops involve the examination and design of a wide variety of publications and visual media. She is the author of two Children's Book-of-the-Month Club selections, First Lessons in Ballet and Break a Leg! The Kids Guide to Acting and Stagecraft; Alvin Ailey Dance Moves! A Dance-Based Approach to Movement and Exercise; and coauthor of Letters to Juliet. Prior to coming to NYU she was a member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, editor of the award-winning quarterly Dance Ink, the dance writer for Microsoft's New York Sidewalk, editorial director of Access Press, Inc., and the editor of several books, including Poor Dancer's Almanac: Managing Life and Work in the Performing Arts and People Who Dance. She received Gallatin's Adviser of Distinction Award in 2007 and is working on a book about growing up.
Cori L. Gabbard (megschlegel@yahoo.com)
B.A. 1996, Wellesley; M.A. 2003, City College of New York
Cori L. Gabbard is currently a doctoral student in English literature at The City University of New York Graduate Center, where she is specializing in medieval and 20th-century British literature. Her particular interests within these fields include Celtic mythology, women's writing, and post-1945 prose and poetry; Angela Carter and Philip Larkin are two of her favorite writers, and she has completed research on Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas and David Jones' In Parenthesis. Her publications include the poem "Freudian" in The Neovictorian/Cochlea and a review of Dick Allen's The Day Before in the American Book Review. Gabbard was a semifinalist in the "Discovery"/The Nation poetry contest in both 2003 and 2005.
D. B. Gilles (dbg3@nyu.edu)
HB Playwrights Foundation, 1975
D. B. Gilles's teaching interests revolve around comedy writing, screenwriting, and playwriting. He has taught at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in both the Department of Dramatic Writing and the undergraduate Department of Film and Television. Gilles began his career as a playwright and scholarship student at the HB Playwrights Foundation, where he studied with Herbert Berghof. While at the Foundation he found his niche as a comedy writer. Four of his plays have been published by Dramatists Play Service: Men's Singles, The Legendary Stardust Boys, Cash Flow, and The Girl Who Loved the Beatles, a one-act, two-character play that has become a standard audition piece for actors. He is the author of three books: The Screenwriter Within (Crown, 2000), the George Bush parody W. The First Hundred Days: A White House Journal (Andrews McMeel, 2001), and The Portable Film School (St. Martin's Press, 2005). His screenwriting credits include the screen adaptation of the play Spinning Into Butter, starring Sarah Jessica Parker. Gilles has worked in television creating two pilots for CBS: The Late Bloomer and Man of the House. He has been published in The New York Times Sunday Arts and Leisure section ("The Cat Therapist and Other Sitcoms Not to Be"). His essay, "How Old Is Too Old to Be a Screenwriter," appears in the anthology Ask The Pros: Screenwriting, and his self-help piece for screenwriters, "The Short Attention Span Screenwriter," is a popular Internet download. Gilles is a member of The Writers Guild of America and The Dramatists Guild.
Barry Goldsmith (profbgoldsmith@aol.com)
History of comedy; comedic writing; comedy and the media
Donna Goodman (djgstudio@aol.com)
Art; architecture; philosophy; film; visionary theories; technology; urban and environmental studies
Judith Greenberg (judithira@yahoo.com)
B.A. 1988, Dartmouth College; Ph.D. 1996, Yale
Judith Greenberg's research and teaching interests focus on questions of memory and trauma studies, especially through a feminist lens. She holds a degree in comparative literature and her courses are informed by psychoanalysis, film studies, Holocaust studies, and her years teaching in French departments. She is the editor of Trauma at Home: After 9/11 and author of a variety of chapters and articles related to trauma and its representations, including "Trauma and Transmission: Echoes of the Missing in Dora Bruder" (Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature), "Surviving Charlotte Delbo's Auschwitz and After: How to Arrive and Depart," (in the MLA publication Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust), "Paths of Resistance: French Women Working from the Inside," (in Experience and Expression: Women, Nazis and the Holocaust) and "The Trauma of Echo and the Echo of Trauma," (in American Imago). She has also taught and written about Virginia Woolf, including publications in Woolf Studies Annual and Virginia Woolf: Turning the Centuries. Greenberg received Gallatin's Jewish studies grant in 2007 for a manuscript on which she is currently working, Cypora's Shadow, which takes a cousin's memoir written in a Polish ghetto during the final days before the ghetto's liquidation and then explores the trans-generational transmission of trauma, particularly from mothers to daughters.
Lanny Harrison (lannyh@earthlink.net)
B.A. 1965, Sarah Lawrence College
Lanny Harrison began her career in the New York Pantomime Theater in 1966. She has played character roles in off-Broadway musicals and films and, for the past 25 years, has written and performed one-woman shows, touring America and Europe. She is currently at work on Isba, a new solo show, and is a member of Pablo Vela's Cocktail Cabaret. Harrison has collaborated with the late musician Collin Walcott and with Steve Clorfeine, Lily Pink, and Meredith Monk. She has been a member of The House, Monk's company, since 1969. Harrison has been on the visiting faculty of Naropa University and teaches theater and movement at The Shambhala Institute in Nova Scotia, the West Kortright Centre in upstate New York, the Shambhala Meditation Center of New York, and the Gallatin School. She is also a certified meditation instructor in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.
Scott Hightower (shightower@nyc.rr.com)
B.A. 1973, Texas (Austin); M.Ed. 1977, Antioch College; M.F.A. 1994, Columbia
Besides being the author of three collections of award-winning poetry, Scott Hightower has had his poems and reviews appear regularly in journals throughout the country. He is a contributing editor at The Journal and Barrow Street, and routinely reviews for Coldfront Magazine. He has received a residency from Valparaiso, Mojácar, Spain; the 2004 Copper Canyon Press Hayden Carruth Award for New and Emerging Poets; an Academy of American Poets University Prize (while attending Columbia); and multiple Pushcart Prize nominations. His fundamental interest is the practice of writing intrinsic to all genres: literary journalism, poetry, creative nonfiction, fiction; and its pedagogy.
Maria Hodermarska (mh51@nyu.edu)
B.F.A. 1983, M.A. 1989, New York
Maria Hodermarska is a licensed creative arts therapist (LCAT), a registered drama therapist (RDT), and a credentialed alcoholism and substance abuse counselor (CASAC). Her work spans both the creative and applied psychological uses of the theater arts, most often within community-based mental health programs and alcohol/substance abuse treatment programs serving unserved or underserved populations. Hodermarska has been an adjunct assistant clinical professor in the graduate program in Drama Therapy at NYU's Steinhardt School since 1995. She is a faculty member of the Institute for Drama Therapy in New York City, and the former education chairperson for the board of directors of the National Association for Drama Therapy. She coauthored a chapter in Healing the Inner City Child, Creative Arts Therapies with At-risk Youth (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2007). Hodermarska has presented and consulted nationally to various organizations, including: the American Association of Mental Retardation (AAMR), Duke University School of Medicine, the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, Cuyahoga County Developmental Services Office, and the Maryland Chapter of AAMR. She has presented at Grand Rounds for many major area hospitals, and lectured at NYU's School of Social Work and Union Theological Seminary.
Emily Hoffman (radiomvp@aol.com)
Radio news and feature reporting; interviewing; literature; theatre; and survivor studies
Justin Holt (holtj01@newschool.edu)
B.A. 1997, Evergreen State College; M.A. 2002, Ph.D. 2007, New School for Social Research
Justin Holt is a philosopher whose research interests include ethics and political philosophy. He teaches courses on the history of ethical thought, applied ethics, comparative political philosophy, problems of distribution, nature and practical philosophy, German Idealism, and theories of the welfare state. He is currently working on his first book, which is on materialism and ethics. Holt has published an article on Hegel's theory of forgiveness in the collection Being Amongst Others, he has written reviews, and he is on the editorial board of the journal Science and Society.
Melanie Hulse (mh106@nyu.edu)
B.A. 1976, Fordham; M.F.A. 1999, Sarah Lawrence College
An editor by training, Melanie Hulse's teaching interests emphasize writing as a discipline for the clear and graceful expression of idiosyncratic thought. Her courses explore writing technique, ethical issues in writing, and creative nonfiction using examples drawn from fiction, narrative nonfiction, drama, essay, and poetry. She has been published by Reader's Digest and Kensington. Her essay, "Wrongful Death," published in The Threepenny Review, was cited as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2001. She is currently working on an essay collection and on a novel set in the 1920s and 1960s.
Nettie Jones (npj1@nyu.edu)
B.S. 1963, Wayne State; M.Ed. 1972, Marygrove College
Nettie Jones is a writer whose teaching interests include 20th- and 21st-century fact, fiction, and fictionalized writing, and creative cross-cultural cruising. Prior to coming to the Gallatin School in 1998, she taught at Boricua College, Montclair State University, Essex County College, The City University of New York's Medgar Evers College, Michigan Technological University, and Wayne State University. Jones has published two novels, Fish Tales (Random House, 1983) and Mischief Makers (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1989); contributed an article, "Anita at the Battle of the Bush: Thomas on the Hill, Dark Town Strutters Ball," to African-American Women Speak Out on Anita Hill - Clarence Thomas (Wayne State University Press, 1995); and wrote the script for the video Abubakaris' Quest (Detroit Board of Education, 1992). Many reviews and interviews by and about Jones have appeared in media such as Contemporary Literary Criticism, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Village Voice, The Washington Post, and Ms. magazine. Jones has received a Yaddo Fellowship from the New York Council on the Arts (1984), a Centrum Award (1995), a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Award (1989), a Carnegie Award (1995), Michigan Technological University's Visionary Award (1999), two Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs awards (1987 & 1989), and the Gallatin School's Student Choice Award (2003). Jones was named one of "Ten Best New Fiction Writers of 1984" by The New York Times.
Lauren Kaminsky (lauren.kaminsky@nyu.edu)
B.A. 2000, Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
Lauren Kaminsky is a historian of Modern Europe whose research and teaching interests include Russian and Eastern European studies; gender and sexuality studies; comparative cultural studies; reproductive rights and population politics; socialism and utopia; and law and morality. She received a Fulbright-Hays award to conduct archival research in Moscow for her dissertation, "Soviet Family Values," which explores legal culture and morality through the lens of family life in the Stalin-era Soviet Union. Before coming to Gallatin, Kaminsky taught in the History Department at NYU. In addition to her scholarly work, she writes popular literary and film criticism. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Modern European History at NYU.
Bertram Katz (bert.katz@nyu.edu)
B.F.A. 1956, SUNY (College of Ceramics at Alfred University); M.A. 1959, CUNY (Hunter)
Bert Katz is an exhibiting painter and photographer. He is included in numerous international collections and museums, including those of President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy and the Museé Picasso in Paris. Additional interests and research are in the history of art, particularly the training of artists in the French Academy, 17th through 19th centuries. While completing his master's degree, Katz studied with the important abstract expressionist Robert Motherwell. Following his studies, and after painting during an extended stay in France-with the help of art historian Jean Adhemar, researching the late paintings of Daumier-Katz returned to the states and taught studio art at The Ohio State University, Columbus. While at Ohio State, with a matching grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council, he organized "The First International Conference on the Visual and Performing Arts in Higher Education." This well-attended, week-long conference included important figures such as Robert Smithson, Harold Rosenberg, Robert Wilson, and Viola Farber, among others. Katz has also served as director of the Great Lakes Colleges Association New York Arts Program and taught at the Parsons School of Design.
Dave King (davekingwriter@gmail.com)
B.F.A. 1980, The Cooper Union; M.F.A. 2000, Columbia
A former painter and filmmaker, Dave King is the author of the novel The Ha-Ha, named one of the best books of 2005 by The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Several foreign language editions are in print, and a film is currently in development from Warner Brothers Pictures. Professor King's poetry has appeared in The Paris Review, among other venues, and his criticism in The Village Voice. An essay, "BOOM," most recently appeared in Nuovi Argomenti, in a translation by the Italian poet Massimo Gezzi. Professor King's interests center on art, language, and the imagination, with a special curiosity about work that reinvents form, crosses genres, or bridges apparently disparate modes of the creative process; he is interested in translation for related reasons. Among other awards, King is a Fellow in Literature of the American Academy in Rome.
Scott Korb (smkorb@gmail.com)
B.A. 1996, Wisconsin (Madison); M.A. 2000, Union Theological Seminary; M.A. 2002, Columbia
Scott Korb is a writer and documentary editor whose interests range from religious belief and its popular expressions, to food and culture, to studies of race and gender within a 19th-century American context. Korb has published essays in Harper's, Gastronomica, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Baltimore Sun. His latest book, The Faith Between Us (Bloomsbury, 2007), coauthored with Peter Bebergal, is a series of personal essays that explores the possibility of living faithfully without belief, while nevertheless considering the meaning of God. He is also associate editor of the Harriet Jacobs Family Papers (UNC Press, 2008), the first and possibly only papers collection that will ever exist of a woman held in slavery.
John Lang (john.lang@nyu.edu)
B.A. 1984, Iowa; M.A. 1993, New York
John Lang's research interests are in communication studies and the history of adolescence. His teaching has included courses that examine interpersonal relationship processes, friendship and romantic relationships, and media studies. Prior to his arrival at Gallatin, Lang codirected a summer exchange course for several years in NYU's Department of Media, Culture and Communication, along with the University of Amsterdam (UvA), which brought together students from NYU and UvA to work on research projects that analyzed and compared media practices in Europe and the United States. At Gallatin, John teaches an interdisciplinary seminar related to his dissertation, which is a study of the rites and rituals that mark the transition from adolescence to adulthood as represented in American film, 1950s to the present.
Antonio Lauria-Perricelli (al71@nyu.edu)
B.A. 1959, New York; M.A. 1964, Washington (St. Louis); Ph.D. 1989, New School for Social Research
Antonio Lauria-Perricelli's teaching and research interests include power, class, culture, state, empire, everyday life, militarism, and the Caribbean and Latin America. He has taught on the graduate faculty at The New School for Social Research, at the University of Puerto Rico, and at Washington University. His administrative and research roles have included serving as director for The City University of New York and University of Puerto Rico's Academic Exchange Program, as consultant in educational planning and social research for the Department of Education in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and as general secretary for the Puerto Rico Ecumenical Institute for Social Action. He has written on Puerto Rican society, culture, and contemporary history; nations and nationalism; social planning; and migration and empire.
Jennifer Lemberg (jl258@nyu.edu)
Late 19th- and 20th-century American literature; gender; trauma; Holocaust studies; American Indian literature; ethnic literature
Patricia Lennox (pl35@nyu.edu)
B.A., Clarion College; M.A., CUNY (Hunter); Ph.D. 1996, CUNY (Graduate Center)
Patricia Lennox's teaching and research interests include myths, fables, and fairy tales; Shakespeare; early modern female writers; fashion; classic literature; film history; and theater. Her Gallatin courses have included Writing Seminar II: Myths and Fables in Popular Culture; Writing Seminar I: Making the Modern, which focuses on various art and literary movements between 1895 and 1925; Early Modern Women Writers: 1500-1700; and Frankenstein. She has also codirected a Gallatin study abroad course, Shakespeare in Text and Performance, in England. Lennox has supervised independent studies and tutorials on topics such as myths and fairy tales, various Shakespeare themes, and fashion-she once worked as Diana Vreeland's assistant at the Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute, and she has an ongoing interest in the types of writing generated by the topic of fashion. Lennox has lived for extended periods in England, Spain, India, and Morocco. Her published writing includes theater reviews and articles, often about Shakespeare and performance, in academic journals and anthologies, and her dissertation was on "Shakespeare's Mothers on Film." She has served as a guest lecturer at various conferences, most recently at a Shakespeare theater festival in Gadansk, Poland, and the "Shakespeare Fest" sponsored by the Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies at the University of Maryland.
Andrew Libby (al260@nyu.edu)
B.A. 1985, Texas (Austin); M.A. 2004, CUNY (Graduate Center)
Andrew Libby is currently completing a Ph.D. in comparative literature at The City University of New York Graduate Center. His research concentrates on Romantic poetry and poetics and draws together his interests in philosophy, critical theory, social theory, and pedagogy. His teaching integrates these core interests with investigations of how difference and operations of exclusion participate in and texture the identities we form, individually and collectively. He has taught courses on the novel, American literature, contemporary urban literature, and Romantic poetry. His Gallatin courses include Writing the Self and Language and the Political. He was a CUNY Writing Fellow and the recipient of a research fellowship for study in Germany from the German Academic Exchange Service. He has presented conference papers on such topics as nonverbal communication and the ethics of speaking for others in Ovid's Philomela episode, the relation between Rilke's drama and his fascination with dolls, and Jack Kerouac's Romantic poetics of spontaneity. His current work, his dissertation, examines the relation of public and private language in Keats, Hölderlin, and Dickinson.
Justin Lorts (justin.lorts@nyu.edu)
B.A. 1998, California (Berkeley)
Justin Lorts is a historian of the 20th-century United States whose research and teaching interests include African American history, popular culture, and the civil rights movement. His dissertation, "Black Humor, Black Protest: Civil Rights, Stereotype, and the Cultural Politics of African American Comedy," examines the relationship between civil rights politics and humor during the post-World War II era. Before coming to Gallatin, he taught in the departments of History and American Studies at Rutgers University, where he is currently a Ph.D. candidate in History.
Patrick McCreery (patrick.mccreery@nyu.edu)
B.S. 1989, Miami; M.A. 1997, New York
Patrick McCreery's teaching and research interests lie in the areas of sexual politics, family life, and social space-particularly in the United States of the last 60 years. At Gallatin, he has taught interdisciplinary seminars that focus on the politics of childhood, artistic representations of HIV-AIDS, and the relationship between urban space and sexual identity. His dissertation, "Miami Vice: Anita Bryant and the Discourses of Child Innocence and Homosexual Predation," examines Bryant's 1977 anti-gay campaign as a case study that illuminates the political efficacy of child-centered rhetoric. Professor McCreery has published essays in journals such as GLQ, New Labor Forum, Radical History Review, and Social Text. He is coeditor of the anthology Out at Work: Building a Gay-Labor Alliance. McCreery is also a recipient of Gallatin's Adviser of Distinction Award.
Clair McPherson (cwmcp@optonline.net)
Early Middle Ages; Late Antiquity; Old English and Icelandic literatures; ancient and medieval philosophy; art; Greek philosophy; comparative religion; Judeo-Christian and Classical traditions
Keith Miller (keith2miller@yahoo.com)
B.F.A. 1988, SUNY (Purchase); M.F.A. 2001, Stony Brook
Keith Miller is an artist, writer, and filmmaker. His teaching is focused on the intersection of theory and practice when looking at, thinking about, and making art and visual culture. The ongoing relevance of the many forms of realism and surrealism are central to this approach. Miller's current interests center on contemporary art and film. His paintings have been shown in New York, Atlanta, and Mexico, and he is currently represented by Trinity Gallery in Atlanta. He has been the curator and director of the SAC Gallery at Stony Brook University since 2002. His writing has been published in Art/Text, ArtPapers, and Art Criticism, among others.
Sara Murphy (sem2@nyu.edu)
Comparative studies in 19th- and 20th-century literature and culture; women's writing; gender theory; psychoanalysis; literature and political theory
Meera Nair (meeran77@hotmail.com)
Fiction and non-fiction writing; Asian American and postcolonial literature; South Asian history and politics
Lou Nordstrom (mitsunen@hotmail.com)
B.A. 1964, Columbia College; M.A. 1968, Ph.D. 1973, Columbia
Lou Nordstrom's teaching interests include comparative philosophy, Buddhism, Zen Buddhism, and Asian religions. His awards and honors include: Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude; Fulbright Fellowship; Woodrow Wilson Fellowship; Irwin Edman Fellowship; Chamberlain Fellowship; and the Kinne Humanities Prize. In 1998, Nordstrom received the title of sensei and became a Zen Buddhist teacher. He has taught at Baruch College, Hunter College, Yale University, Wesleyan University, Columbia University, Marymount College, Iona College, and New York University.
Elizabeth R. OuYang, Esq. (lizouyang@aol.com)
B.A. 1982, Michigan; J.D. 1986, Northeastern
Elizabeth R. OuYang has been a civil rights attorney for the past 20 years. In 2000, she was appointed by President Clinton to serve as a special assistant to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. At the New York Community Trust, she is a consultant for the Fund for New Citizens. She teaches Law and Community Activism at Gallatin and Constitution and Communities of Color at NYU's Department of Social and Cultural Analysis (College of Arts and Science). OuYang also teaches a comparative constitutional course at Columbia University's Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race. She has litigated, advocated, and educated the community and students in the areas of voting rights, immigration, combating hate crimes and police brutality, and race, sex, and disability discrimination. OuYang's cases have been reported in The New York Times and featured in the documentaries Whose Children Are These?, Enemy Aliens, and Point of Attack. In 2004, she received an Outstanding Teaching Award from NYU's College of Arts and Science. In 2007, she received the Unsung Hero Award from the national Organization of Chinese Americans.
Nicole Parisier (nicole.parisier@nyu.edu)
19th- and 20th-century American literature; art and cultural history; contemporary fiction; autobiography
Ed Park (edwpark@gmail.com)
B.A. 1992, Yale; M.F.A. 1995, Columbia
Ed Park teaches creative writing. He is a founding coeditor of The Believer magazine, a contributing editor for Modern Painters, and an associate editor at poetryfoundation.org. He was a senior editor at The Village Voice, where he was also a film reviewer and the editor of the Voice Literary Supplement. His articles and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, Salon, Cinema Scope, The Boston Globe, and the Los Angeles Times Book Review, where he writes a monthly column on science fiction. His debut novel, Personal Days, will be published by Random House in May.
David Paskin (dpaskin@dc37.net)
Public sector labor relations; union organizing; social history of workers, technology and tools; New York City history; labor fiction
Kathryn Posin (pozndance@aol.com)
B.A. 1965, Bennington College; M.A. 1994, New York
Kathryn Posin studied composition with Louis Horst, Anna Sokolow, Merce Cunningham, and Hanya Holm. She has choreographed works for Ballet West; Netherlands Dans Theater I and II; Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and Ailey II; the Eliot Feld Ballet; the Ohio, Kansas City, Sacramento, Cincinnati, and Hartford Ballets; Balletmet; Repertory Dance Theatre of Utah; and the Extemporary Dance Company of London. She was the first international choreographer to stage a work for Cloudgate Dance Theater of Taiwan. Posin is a recipient of American Dance Festival's Doris Humphrey Fellowship. Meet the Composer commissioned her work for the Milwaukee Ballet, Stepping Stones, which has since been performed by five ballet companies. Meet the Composer also awarded her a commission for the Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble. Posin's Galena Summit was voted Choreography of the Year by The Boston Globe, and her Four World Songs won first place in the Sarasota Ballet's 1996 Choreographic Competition. Her Scheherazade, a box-office hit for the Milwaukee Ballet, was also staged for the Louisville and Sacramento Ballets and Nevada Ballet Theatre. In theater, she choreographed the hit rock musical Salvation with Bette Midler and Richard Gere as well as The Cherry Orchard with Meryl Streep and Raul Julia, directed by Andrei Serban at Lincoln Center. She coached Jennifer Jason Leigh in Al Pacino's production of Salome. For her own company, The Kathryn Posin Dance Company, she has choreographed more than 50 works. In 1999 Posin conceived and designed the Joffrey/New School B.F.A. in Dance and was named founding chair. She writes frequently for Dance Magazine.
Robin Powell (r_powell@verizon.net)
Dance; performance; mind/body integration/body therapies; health and fitness; psychology; clinical social work
Vince Prudente (vinceprudente@optonline.net)
Music; jazz improvisation, performance, composition, and arranging
William S. Rayner (wsr1@nyu.edu)
B.A. 1979, Emerson College; M.A. 1982, Long Island (C.W. Post); Ph.D. 1997, New York
Bill Rayner's teaching and research interests include music composition, songwriting, film scoring, music technology, music business, guitar studies, and jazz performance. He received his doctorate in music composition and wrote his dissertation on Stravinsky's Canticum Sacrum, which is a model for the synthesis of disparate musical styles to create pathways to expression. Rayner's music blends traditional styles with twelve-tone music, jazz, rock, electronics and the spoken word. He has published several recordings of his music and leads various ensembles performing original works and jazz. His diverse musical interests are reflected in both the venues in which he has played-CBGB's, Carnegie Hall, The Javits Center, the Ephesus Church in Harlem-and the artists with whom he has performed: Meatloaf, Keith Haring, the Temptations, Philip Glass, and Herbie Hancock. Rayner is currently scoring a short film.
Mark Read (akawildman@gmail.com)
B.A. 1992, Hamilton College; M.A. 2001, New School
Mark Read's teaching interests center around the role of media-specifically video or television-in and on social change movements. He is interested in both how social activists have, and can, utilize emergent video technology, and what strategies activists have developed for engaging with the mainstream media. Read is also a documentary filmmaker, television producer, and editor. His sometimes controversial, always political documentary films have appeared in numerous festivals, including Tribeca, Human Rights Watch, Rooftop Films, and the Vermont Film Festival. His work has also been broadcast nationally on WorldLink TV and Freespeech TV. His most recent work, Dance of Death, appeared in the 2006 Whitney Biennial.
Steve Rinehart (sjr7@nyu.edu)
B.A. 1984, Hawaii; M.F.A. 1988, Iowa (Iowa Writers' Workshop)
Steve Rinehart is a software executive, screenwriter, carpenter, and fiction writer. He is the author of the short story collection Kick in the Head and the novel Built in a Day. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Harper's, The New York Times, More, GQ, Story, Ploughshares, The Georgia Review, and elsewhere, and his work has been anthologized in several books, including The KGB Bar Reader, Sleepaway, Bastard on the Couch, Money Changes Everything, and Over the Hill and Between the Sheets. He is the recipient of a 1995 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. Rinehart is currently working on a collection of essays.
Lee Robbins (lr33@nyu.edu)
B.A. 1969, St. Louis; M.S.W. 1972, Washington (St. Louis); M.A. 1980, Columbia; Ph.D. 1993, The Union Institute
Lee Robbins's teaching and research interests are in the history and culture of depth psychology, particularly as it applies to the tradition of C. G. Jung and early Buddhist thought and practice. She teaches a wide variety of interdisciplinary seminars that focus on topics such as alchemy, post modern religious thought, and the history of the idea of the unconscious. Her paper, "Healing with the Alchemical Imagination in the Undergraduate Classroom," (Routledge, 2008) grew out her alchemy seminar at Gallatin. She is also working on a book entitled Archetypal Parenting: Towards a Poetics of Personal History. Robbins lectures nationally and internationally and has been a Jungian psychotherapist for 30 years.
Pat Rock (pr3@nyu.edu)
Shakespeare; medieval and Renaissance studies; Greek philosophy and literature
Barnaby Ruhe (barnabyruhe@aol.com)
Visual art; art criticism; art history; art and anthropology; art and psychology; shamanism; history of warfare and revolution
Antonio Rutigliano (tagmemics@hotmail.com)
Greek, Roman and medieval literature; semiotics; romance languages; transformation of desire; liminality; Dante, Virgil, and Boethius; French and Italian cinema; medieval and Renaissance art, philosophy, and history
Phil Sanders (ps@thing.net)
Certificate in Painting 1976, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; B.F.A. 1979, Guilford; M.A. 1991, New York
Philip Sanders is a digital/interactive artist, theorist, educator, and curator. His creative and research interests include digital art and media; the relationship between traditional, time-based, digital, and interactive arts; and the interaction of art, artist, audience, and the creation of meaning. His first interactive computer installation was in 1979, and his work has been exhibited with ACM SIGGRAPH, ISEA, Boston CyberArts, California Museum of Science, Kitchen, Alternate Media Center, Armageddon, Digital Salon, Cork Gallery at Lincoln Center, and Knitting Factory. He was cofounder and curator of RYO, an East Village experimental art and technology gallery, from 1984 to 1992 and organizer for the New York City site of International Painting Interactive 1992, in which 100 artists shared an Internet workspace from 14 sites worldwide. Sanders has been a presenter and panel chair at College Art Association, SIGGRAPH, and Images du Futur. He has taught digital art and interactive multimedia at the School of Visual Arts, Seton Hall University, the Gallatin School and the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU, and the College of New Jersey, where he is associate professor of art and interactive multimedia and cofounder of the interactive multimedia major.
Leslie Satin (leslie.satin@nyu.edu)
B.A. 1973, SUNY (Buffalo); M.A. 1989, Ph.D. 1997, New York
Leslie Satin's research and teaching interests include: dance, performance, integrated arts, and the arts avant-garde of the 19th through 21st centuries; gender and performing/visual arts; autobiography; performance writing; and creative nonfiction. Satin comes to her scholarly work through her professional experience as a choreographer and dancer as well as her graduate work in NYU's Department of Performance Studies. Her dances and interdisciplinary collaborations with other visual and performing artists have been presented at many venues in New York City and elsewhere. Satin, who also teaches at Bard College, taught for many years at SUNY-Empire State College, and has taught at schools and studios in the U.S., Europe, and South America. She was a longtime member of the editorial board of Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, for which she coedited a special issue, "Performing Autobiography." Her writing has appeared in Re-Inventing Dance in the 1960s: Everything Was Possible, Performing Arts Journal, Dance Research Journal, Theatre Journal, Dancing Times (U.K.), Gesto (Brazil), Moving Words: Dance Criticism in Transition, and other publications.
Sean Scheller (sscheller@cpg.org)
B.A. 1984, Temple
Sean Scheller is an art historian with research and experience in publishing, liturgical history, artifacts, and practices. He has spent his life enthralled with museums and with reverence for the works housed in them. As an undergraduate art history student, he studied with Marcia B. Hall, a specialist in Italian Renaissance art. His graduate work, a fellowship in Art History at Temple University that included a specialization in early 15th-century Italian art, brought him to study in Rome. His graduate thesis was entitled "A Study of Hand Gestures in the Annunciation Scenes of Fra Filippo Lippi." Scheller's teaching and scholarly interests include art history; Italian art of the 15th century; museums; publishing; and Anglo-Catholic liturgical history and practice. He has taught at Temple University, Arthur Murray Dance Studio, and NYU. He came to Gallatin as a guest lecturer to lead specialized class tours through the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and has continued to teach on this topic through the course On Display: Museums and Visual Culture in New York, which leads students through the "museum capital of the world" and investigates the historical, philosophical, theoretical, and practical aspects of the collection and exhibition of art and artifacts in museums. Scheller also holds administrative roles at NYC's Church of Saint Luke in the Fields and Church Publishing Incorporated.
Christopher Schlottmann (cps236@nyu.edu)
B.A. 2002, Haverford College; M.Ed. 2003, Harvard
Christopher Schlottmann's research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of environmental studies, educational theory, and applied ethics. He has taught environmental ethics, education, and risk courses, and has studied the implementation of environmental studies programs in higher education. His current research emphasis concerns how educators can best prepare students to respond to the challenges posed by high-risk, probabilistic, cumulative, multi-scale, and long-term ethical dilemmas such as climate change. He was a recipient of the Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship for Research Related to Education. His most recent publication is "Educational Ethics and the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development: Considering Trade-Offs," in Theory and Research in Education. Schlottmann is a Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy of Education at NYU's Steinhardt School.
Andrea Scott (ams41@nyu.edu)
B.A. 1997, Mills College; M.A. 2000, Chicago
Andrea Scott's teaching and research interests include literary modernism, contemporary poetry, cold war cultural studies, and comparative literature. She is currently completing a dissertation "Lyric Diplomacy: Cold War Poetry in the United States and West Germany, 1945-1955," which investigates the transatlantic engagement of poets in institutions of cultural diplomacy. She received an Andrew W. Mellon fellowship for her project and institutional research support from the Franke Institute for the Humanities at the University of Chicago. In the summ