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A roundup of ideas and projects from around the Institute

  • 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.”

  • 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.”

  • 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.

  • Sara Cedar Miller, MFA Photography ‘83, is retiring after 40 years as the Central Park historian and photographer. “It has never been an ordinary job—because, of course, the Park is extraordinary,” she told the West Side Rag.