Courtney Knapp, professor in the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment, was recently featured in the Planner’s Network Disorientation Guide about confronting the carceral state in planning.
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An adaptation of “The Yellow,” a story from The Dark Dark, a short story collection by Professor of Writing Samantha Hunt, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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Rodney Leon, BArch ’92, will serve as a special advisor to the team leading community engagement for the Harlem African Burial Ground.
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Assistant Professor in the School of Information Shruthi Chivukula presented two projects at the 2024 Design Research Society Conference: “Envisioning Transformation Structures to Support Ethical Mediation Practices” and “Quant-Ethico: A Computational Approach to Quantifying and Interpreting Ethical Decision Making.”
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Photographs by Yael Malka, BFA Photography ’12, were featured in The Cut and The New York Times.
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Assistant Chair and Adjunct Associate Professor of Writing Claire Donato was interviewed for the Los Angeles Review of Books. “Marketing in the United States has divorced autofiction from its French roots,” she said. “If anything, I feel identified with the French origins of autofiction, and I’m teaching a course in fall 2024 on autofiction at Pratt Institute that will further explore its French origin.”
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Evan Paul English, MFA Fine Arts ’16, was featured in Hyperallergic’s Fall 2024 New York Art Guide for his show at the Alice Austen House in Staten Island.
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Jean Shin, adjunct professor – CCE of fine arts, was included in the “Dogue” issue of Vogue. Dogs are “a reminder of how we all as a species need fresh water or air or a break,” she told Vogue. “We, as artists, often think of just the work, and in the flow, hours pass and we realize we haven’t moved our bodies or taken a break. Seeing him take pleasure in watching birds or chasing things or smelling—to be aware of our surroundings, to play, those are all things we all need but sacrifice for our work.”
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Anselm Berrigan, adjunct assistant professor – CCE of writing, has been named a current lecturer for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry, “in which contemporary poets explore their thinking on poetry and poetics, and give a series of lectures resulting from these investigations.” Berrigan will give a lecture at the Fireside Room at Hotel Sorrento in Seattle, Washington, on October 10.
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Wen-Chi Hsueh, MS Packaging, Identities, and Systems Design ’24, won Gold in the Graphis New Talent 2024 competition for her project Air Shoes Packaging.