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FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES Haitham Abdullah, Dore Ashton, Derek Bacchus,Marek Bartelik, John Everett Bird, Gail Buckland, Peter Buckley, Ebony Coletu,Gerado Del Cerro,Michael Dorsch, Monica Gisolfi, Anne Griffin, Michelle Hobart, J. Hoberman, Gwen Hyman, Joseph Kaminski, James Kim, Daniel Leonard,Jeff Madrick,Litia Perta, Julia Miele Rodas,Robert Richardson,James Rubin, John Sarich, Gail Satler,Sohnya Sayres, Tyler Schmidt, Kirsten Schultz, Jake Short, Catherine Siemann, Stephanie Sobelle,Maren Stange,Mary Stieber, Brian Swann, Daniel Swift, Molly Tambor, Andrew Weinstein, David Weir, James Wylie. Haitham Abdullah studied art and art history in Baghdad, Paris, Saint Petersberg, and New York. He holds an MA in art history, an MFA in painting and printmaking, and lectures at City College of New York, Fashion Institute of Technology, and the School of Visual Art. Dore Ashton has had a varied experience as art critic, author, and teacher. She is the author of many books: Noguchi East and West, About Rothko, American Art Since 1945, Rosa Bonheur in Her Time (with Denise Browne Hare), A Fable of Modern Art, Yes, But: A Critical Biography of Philip Guston, A Joseph Cornell Album, The New York School: A Cultural Reckoning, Picasso on Art, The Sculpture of Pol Bury, Richard Lindner, A Reading of Modern Art, Modern American Sculpture, Rauschenberg’s Dante, The Unknown Shore, Redon, Moreau, Bresdin, Philip Guston, Poets and the Past, Abstract Art Before Columbus, Teshigahara, The Walls of the Heart, The Black Rainbow: The Work of Fernando de Szyzslo. Though Derek Bacchus has straddled magazine and book publishing for over twenty years, he began his career as a graphic designer with the architectural firm of I. M. Pei & Partners, indulging his passion for both the built world and the printed page. He later became art director at the Italian magazines KOS, and Ferrara, and the American magazines Progressive Architecture and Wine Spectator. He is now design director of Allworth Press, where he designs lots of books for graphic designers, photographers, actors and other creative people. Bacchus received a BFA from Parsons School of Design, and an MFA from Yale University. Bacchus joined the faculty in 1990, where he has taught Information Design, Foundation Year 2DD, and a senior seminar on Alphabets and Books. Bacchus has also taught design history at Parsons, bookbinding at the Pont-Aven School of Art in France, and guest lectured at the School of Visual Arts. Marek Bartelik is an art historian and art critic specializing in 20th century art and theory of art, with a Masters of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in Art History from CUNY Graduate Center. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. He is the author of To Invent a Garden: the Life and Art of Adja Yunkers, The Sculpture of Ursula von Rydingsvard (with Dore Ashton and Matti Megged), Orlan: Refiguration Self-Hybridations, and other works. He is a regular contributor to Artforum. John Bird (AA, De Anza College; BA, MA and MPhil, Columbia) is a doctoral degree candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. His field of inquiry is 16th and 17th century English poetry. Gail Buckland is author of eight books of photographic history, including Fox Talbot and the Invention of Photography, The Magic Image (with Cecil Beaton), and Reality Recorded: Early Documentary Photography, The American Century (with Harold Evans), and Making America. She is former Curator of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain and guest curator at numerous American museums. Peter Buckley was educated as Sussex University in England and S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook. He has taught history at Princeton University and Pratt Institute. He is interested in forms of urban commercial culture and has recently completed a book on New York City’s culture and politics in the first half of the 19th century and part of the recent Cambridge History of the American Theatre. He has become the unofficial historian of The Cooper Union and is at work on a book which surveys the history of education here. He also is a Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities at N.Y.U. Ebony Coletu received her M.A. in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University, and is currently completing her dissertation on the forms of writing required in the midst of crisis. From welfare applications to need-based scholarships and homeless placards, she studies the relationship between social vulnerability, life-writing and institutional philosophies of assistance. She has taught writing and rhetoric at Stanford and lectured widely on the role of writing in society. Broader teaching interests include: comparative ethics, race and humanism, writing across the professions and autobiography. Gerardo del Cerro holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the New School for Social Research in New York. He has taught sociology at the University of Madrid (Spain) and at the New School for Social Research. His research interests include world city theory, the political economy of globalization, and the links between science, technology and society. He has published papers in Spain and the United States, and is turning his doctoral dissertation into a book. In addition to English, Dr. del Cerro is fluent in Spanish (his native language), French and German. A classical music lover, he holds a Masters Degree in Classical Piano. Michael Dorsch received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. His current research is focused on the work of the Realist painter Gustave Courbet. Monica Gisolfi is a doctoral candidate in United States History at Columbia University. Her dissertation, titled "From Cotton Farmers to Poultry Growers: The Rise of Industrial Agriculture in North Georgia, 1914-1975" examines the shift from small farming to industrial corporate agriculture in the American South. Anne Griffin teaches both the core curriculum and advanced electives in political science. Her publications include Quebec: The Challenge of Independence, published in 1984, which examines the roots of the independence movement in Quebec during the 1960s and >70s, and Forging a Women’s Health Research Agenda: Issues for the 1990s, published in 1994 by the New York Academy of Sciences. She has also had experience in New York City politics, having served for five years on Manhattan's Community Planning Board Eight, and as Chair of its committee on revision of the City Charter for two. Dr. Griffin holds degrees from Wellesley College and from New York University, where she taught before coming to Cooper Union. Michelle Hobart received her laurea in Medieval History and Archaeology from the University of Siena, Italy. She is an archaeologist and was the medievalist for the excavation of the post Roman settlement of the colony of Cosa, Italy, sponsored by the American Academy in Rome (1990-1997). She has published a number of articles on pottery, settlements, churches, and early medieval urban planning. Hobart earned an M.A. at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, and is presently completing her Ph.D. at the Institute of Fine Arts, N.Y.U. J. Hoberman has taught cinema history at Cooper Union since 1990. He received his B.A. at the State University of New York (Binghamton) and his M.F.A. from Columbia University. Senior film critic for The Village Voice, he has published widely. His pieces have been collected in Vulgar Modernism and The Magic Hour; he is the author of Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds, The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism,and The Dream Life: Movies, Media, and the Myth of the Sixties. He also co-curated the recent exhibit “Entertaining America” at the Jewish Museum. Gwen Hyman writes on gender and the body in 19th- and 20th-century English and American texts. Her dissertation, Making a Man: Gentlemanly Appetites in the 19th- Century Novel, is currently under review for publication, as is her essay, “A Cold Thrill: Appetites for Addiction in Dracula and The Woman in White.” She has published on 19th- century foodways and on contemporary culinaria. Her current project is focused on addiction in 19th- century novels. She has taught at Columbia, N.Y.U. and F.I.T., and is the Director of the Center for Writing and Language Arts at the Cooper Union. Joseph S. Kaminski is an ethnomusicologist who researched Asante ivory trumpet music in Ghana. He is writing his Ph.D. dissertation at Kent State University and holds an MA in ethnomusicology from Hunter College and an MM in music performance from Manhattan School of Music. His international career in trumpet led him to his academic study of music cultures of the world, initially in Asia and then in Africa. He has published for the Historic Brass Society and presented research at conferences at the City University of New York Graduate School, Yale University, the University of Colorado, Eastman School of Music, Indiana University, and the University of Cologne. His lectures at Cooper Union, Long Island University, and Wagner College, and he freelances as a trumpeter in New York. James Kim is a doctoral candidate in Political Science at Columbia University. His primary research interests include comparative democratic institutions, politics of executive decrees, and quantitative methods. He has taught at both Hunter College and Brooklyn College, and worked as a summer research associate for the RAND Corporation’s Pittsburgh office. He holds a B.S. and M.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University, and an M.A. and M.Phil. in Political Science from Columbia University. Daniel Leonard’s interests include the relationship between philosophy and literature, the history of early modern science, and the literary representation of the senses. He is currently completing his Ph.D. at Columbia University in the French Department. His dessertation focuses on Descartes’ and Condillac’s use of mythological fables, sculpture and painting to explore the relation between sense experience and metaphysics. He received his BA from the University of California at Davis, and has studied in France and Russia. Other preoccupations include photography, cinema and herpetology. Jeff Madrick is an economics columnist for The New York Times and editor of Challenge Magazine. He is the author of several books including Taking America (Bantam) and The End of Affluence (Random House), both of which were New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Taking America was also chosen by Business Week as one of the best books of the year. His most recent book is Why Economies Grow (Basic Books). He is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, and has written for many other publications besides the business, op-ed, and magazine sections of the New York Times, including The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Institutional Investor, The Nation, American Prospect, The Boston Globe and Newsday. He has appeared frequently on Charlie Rose, The Lehrer News Hour, CNN, CNBC, CBS, and NPR. He was formerly finance editor of Business Week Magazine and an NBC News reporter and commentator. His awards include an Emmy and a Page One Award. He is an adjunct Professor of Humanities at The Cooper Union and at New School University. He was educated at New York University and Harvard University, and is a former Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard. Litia Perta is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley. Her work focuses on strategies of self-disclosure and pays particular attention to forms of erasure, effacement and disguise. She participated in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and has worked as a curator for a performance based project in Brooklyn. Julia Miele Rodas holds a Ph.D. in literature from the CUNY Graduate Center. She specializes in utopian fiction, Disability Studies, and Victorian literature. Her work has appeared in the Oxford Readers’ Companion to Trollope, Dickens Studies Annual, the Princeton University Library Chronicle, and Explicator. Ms. Rodas has been teaching literature, humanities, and writing for about ten years, including courses that investigate a range of literary, theoretical, and cultural sources to consider the nature and role of medicine and technology and to question the boundaries and definition of the human. She is currently on the Literature faculty at Sarah Lawrence College. Robert Richardson is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Philosophy at the Pennsylvania State University. His primary research concerns the nature of intentionality and meaning. He is interested particularly in what the relation between formal and natural languages with regard to meaning can reveal about the nature of intentionality. These interests orient his teaching, which includes the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of mathematics, and the philosophy of logic, as well as epistemology and metaphysics more generally. These interests combine as well with his interest in the history of philosophy, especially as it bears on the primary topics of his research. James Rubin was educated at Yale (B.A.), the Sorbonne in Paris, and Harvard (Ph.D.) He has taught at Harvard, Boston University, Princeton, and is currently Professor at Stony Brook, State University of New York. His specialty is the history of French painting, in which his interests are interdisciplinary, with special attention to the social history of art, theory and criticism. He has published over two dozen articles and essays on subjects ranging from the eighteenth century to the present. He is author of eight books, Eighteenth-Century French Life Drawing (1977), Realism and Social Vision in Courbet and Proudhon (1981), Eugene Delacroix's “Dantebarke” (1987), Manet’s Silence and the Poetics of Bouquets (1994), Courbet (1997), Impressionism (1999), Nadar (2001), and Impressionist Cats and Dogs: Pets in the Painting of Modern Life (2003). He continues to serve on the International Committee of the College Art Association and represents the CAA (which recently received NGO status) at the United Nations. He travels frequently, speaks fluent French, and lives in New York City. John Sarich is an economist
with the New York City Council, Finance Division, where he does policy
analysis and economic forecasting. He holds a Ph.D. from the New School for
Social Research. Gail Satler Gail Satler is Professor
of Sociology and Teaching Fellow of New College at Hofstra University. Her research focuses on the
intersections between urban, architectural, sociological, and aesthetic
theory. Writings include a book
on Frank Lloyd Wright (1999) and a forthcoming book on recent architectural
and sociological trends in Chicago for which she has received grants from the
American Institute of Architects, the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation and the
Graham Foundation. Other
publications explore New York City restaurants and the global economy. In addition to teaching, Satler has
worked as an architectural consultant for Bertrand Goldberg Associates in
Chicago, and was a Visiting Scholar and research director for a project on 14th
Street, Manhattan, at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture,
Urban Planning and Preservation funded by SOM. Sohnya Sayres is Associate Professor of Humanities at the Cooper Union. She writes and lectures on contemporary cultural issues, ecology, technology, and the environment. She also writes fiction and poetry. She is a founding editor of the journal Social Text. Her books include Susan Sontag: the Elegiac Modernist and, as co-editor, the anthology The 60’s Without Apologies. One of her present projects includes a study of the cultural history of the 1970s. Tyler T. Schmidt is completing a Ph.D. in English at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, with a co-concentration in Africana Studies and Lesbian and Gay/Queer Studies. His dissertation examines integration in the lives and literature of American writers in the 1940s and early 1950s. Mr. Schmidt has taught in the English and Black Studies departments at Lehman College and in the English Department at Baruch College, CUNY and is currently a Writing Fellow at Lehman. His research interests include 20th century American poetics, interracial cultural studies, and African American writers of the 1940s and 50s. Kirsten Schultz completed her Ph.D. in Latin American History at New York University in 1998, with a dissertation on politics and culture in early nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro. She is the author of Tropical Versailles: Monarchy, Empire and the Portuguese Royal Court in Rio de Janeiro, 1820-1821 (forthcoming). She has taught at New York University and Columbia University, where she spent a year at the Society of Fellows in the Humanities. Her current research interests include urban culture and republicanism in eighteenth and early nineteenth century Brazil and Brazilian representations of slavery. Jake Short completed his Ph.D. in Modern European History at Columbia University in 2004. He specializes in the cultural and social history of nineteenth - and twentieth-century Germany and continental Europe, and modern European imperialism. He is currently completing a book on the social and cultural history of imperialism in Germany. Catherine Siemann is a doctoral candidate at Columbia University, currently completing her dissertation on images of the legal system in the nineteenth-century novel. She has an M.A. and M.Phil. from Columbia, and a J.D. from New York University School of Law. Her research interests include Victorian fiction and culture, the novel, law and literature, First Amendment issues, and contemporary popular culture. Stefanie Sobelle received her B.A. at Stanford University and her M.A. at Columbia University, where she is currently a Ph.D. candidate in English and Comparative Literature. She has taught courses in both Modernism and Postmodernism at Cooper Union, Barnard College, Sarah Lawrence College, and Columbia University. She writes primarily on American and European experimental fiction and poetry, with a particular interest in the pan-art movements of the historical avant-garde. Her current project examines the architecture in and of postmodern novels. Maren Stange was educated at Harvard University and at Boston University, where she received her Ph.D. in American Studies. She writes frequently on modern American culture. Recent publications include Bronzeville: Black Chicago in Pictures, “Photographs Taken in Everyday Life: Ebony’s Photojournalistic Discourse,” and Symbols of Ideal Life: Social Documentary Photography in America, 1890-1950. She was a Fulbright Senior Fellow in Germany, and has held fellowships from the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts and the American Council of Learned Societies. Mary Stieber received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology from Princeton University. She also holds an M.A. in Art History from the University of Pittsburgh and a B.F.A. in Painting from Carnegie Mellon University. She has published articles on both Greek art and literature. She is the author of The Poetics of Appearance in the Attic Korai. Her current book project is Euripides and the Language of Craft. Brian Swann was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge (B.A., M.A.) and Princeton (Ph.D.) He is author of a number of books of poetry, fiction, children's books and poetry in translation. He has published in hundreds of journals from The New Yorker and Paris Review to Partisan Review and New Republic, and has also edited books and journals and published many essays. His books include Autumn Road (poetry, Ohio State University Press), Snow House (poetry, Pleiades Press/ Louisiana State University Press), The Plot of the Mice (fiction, Capra Press), tr., Collected Poems of Primo Levi (Faber and Faber), On the Translation of Native American Literatures (Smithsonian Institution Press) , Coming to Light: Contemporary Translations of the Native Literatures of North America (Random House), and Wearing the Morning Star: Versions of Native American Song- Poems (Random House), Algonquian Spirit: Contemporary Translations of the Algonquian Literatures of North America (University of Nebraska Press). Daniel Swift is completing a Ph.D. on Shakespeare and the Book of Common Prayer at Columbia University. His writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Times Literary Supplement in London, Bookforum and The Nation. Molly Tambor is a doctoral candidate in History at Columbia University, specializing in women’s history, gender studies, and political history in the 19th and 20th centuries with a particular focus on Italy. She has taught at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Columbia University, and Barnard College. She studied in Italy at the University of Florence and was a Rome Prize fellow at the American Academy of Rome. She holds an A.B. and M.A. from Smith College in Italian Studies, and a M.A. and M.Phil in Modern Western European History from Columbia. Her chapter on the Legge Merlin debates on deregulating prostitution in Italy will be published in Women in Italy, 1946-1960_, forthcoming from Palgrave. Andrew Weinstein earned degrees at Brown (B.A.), the University of Pennsylvania (M.A. in art history), and New York University (M.A. in creative writing). Currently, he is writing his Ph.D. dissertation on contemporary representations of the Holocaust in American art at the Institute of Fine Arts, N.Y.U. He has taught art history at the Fashion Institute of Technology (S.U.N.Y.) and English at N.Y.U. and the Borough of Manhattan Community College. He has contributed art-historical essays to anthologies published by Humanity Books, Rutgers and Oxford, and his criticism and fiction have appeared in American Book Review, Bloomsbury Review, Boulevard, Philadelphia Inquirer, Studies in Short Fiction, zingmagazine and other publications. David Weir received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from New York University. He has taught there and at The New School University. Since 1986 he has been teaching at Cooper Union. He is the author of Decadence and the Making of Modernism (University of Massachusetts Press, 1995), James Joyce and the Art of Mediation (University of Michigan Press, 1996), Anarchy and Culture (University of Massachusetts Press, 1997), and Brahma in the West: William Blake and the Oriental Renaissance (State University of New York Press, 2003). James Wylie began his career as a columnist on a Mexico City newspaper. He has written several novels, among them The Homestead Grays, which was a Book of the Month Club selection and widely translated. |