2005-2006 New School Bachelor’s Program Advisors

Bea Banu, University Faculty and Bachelor’s Program Advisor, banub@newschool.edu

Dr. Banu earned her Ph.D. in philosophy from City University Graduate Center in New York. She has taught at Hunter College, Brooklyn College, New York University and Parsons School of Design. She is the co-editor of a book which uses literature to introduce young students to the problems of ethics. After 25 years of teaching, she turned her attention to administration. Here at The New School she has been chair of Parsons Liberal Studies and Associate Provost of the University. Before rejoining the faculty in 2004, she was Dean of Eugene Lang College. Dr. Banu’s interests in the visual arts and modernism distracted her from the study of ethics, which still holds a fascination for her, and focused her attention on the study of philosophy of art and aesthetics. She teaches courses in philosophy of art and aesthetics, ethics, and general philosophy.

Caroline Berger, Assistant Director, Bachelor’s Program, and Advisor, bergerc@newschool.edu

Ms. Berger earned her M.F.A. in creative writing with a concentration in fiction from The New School, and has a B.A. in English literature and writing from Hiram College. Her short prose has appeared most recently in La Petite Zine, Pindeldyboz and Barrow Street. She co-curates the Sunday Salon, a monthly reading series in Brooklyn. Ms. Berger teaches creative and expository writing at The New School.

Patricia Carlin, Core Faculty Advisor, carlinp@newschool.edu

Patricia Carlin received her Ph.D. in literature from Princeton University, where she specialized in Shakespeare studies, and poetry and poetics. She teaches literature and poetry writing, and has received the New School Distinguished University Teaching Award. She has also taught at Princeton and Vassar. Her book publications include Original Green, a poetry collection, and Shakespeare's Mortal Men, a study of the plays in their cultural context; and her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. Recent awards include fellowships at The MacDowell Colony and the Virgina Center for the Creative Arts, and two Pushcart Prize nominations. She co-edits the poetry journal Barrow

Street, and is a co-founder of Barrow Street Press.

Celesti Colds Fechter, Ph.D., Faculty Advisor, coldscf@newschool.edu

Celesti Colds Fechter received her Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research, where she is currently Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs. Dr. Colds Fechter is a psychologist with a background in social cognition with an emphasis on implicit or unconscious associations and subtle forms of biased behavior as measured by the Implicit Association Test (IAT), which demonstrates conscious-unconscious divergence. Her current areas of research focus on the link between implicit attitudes and differential judgments of similarly qualified employment candidates and on the differences in conscious and unconscious self-image and group identification among continental Africans, first- and second-generation Black Diaspora immigrants in America, and African-American Blacks.

Julia Foulkes, Core Faculty Advisor, foulkesj@newschool.edu [ON LEAVE 05-06]

Julia Foulkes received a Ph.D. in history from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, with a focus on 20th century U.S. cultural history, and she has been at The New School since 1999 teaching and developing curricula in history and urban studies. Her book, Modern Bodies: Dance and American Modernism from Martha Graham to Alvin Ailey (2002), received an Honorable Mention for the Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize from the American Studies Association and was chosen as an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice. She has served as an advisor for the PBS documentary "Free to

Dance" (2001) and been a recipient of two postdoctoral fellowships. As a Scholar-in-Residence at the Rockefeller Archive Center in Summer 2005, she conducted research on the development of Lincoln Center in Manhattan for a forthcoming project on the intertwining of arts and urbanization in the post-WW2 period. This academic year (2005-06), Foulkes is a Fulbright Senior Scholar, affiliated with University of Potsdam, near Berlin, Germany.

Isabelle Frank, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs, Director of the Bachelor’s Program,

franki@newschool.edu

Dr. Frank has been Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs and Director of the Bachelor's Program since 2001. Prior to this she was Associate Director for Academic Programs at Northwestern’s School of Continuing Studies, and Program Officer at the American Council of Learned Societies. Trained as an art historian, Dr. Frank was an Assistant Professor at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts for five years and also worked at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. Ms. Frank earned a Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance Art from Harvard University and a B.A. in Art and Archaeology from Princeton University. She is the author of various articles and editor of The Theory of Decorative Art: An Anthology of European and American Writings (1750-1940) (2000) and Die Rhetorik des Ornaments (2001).

Terri Gordon, Core Faculty Advisor, gordont@newschool.edu

Terri Gordon has been teaching at The New School since 1998. She has also taught at Barnard College and Columbia University. She received her Ph.D. in French and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, where she specialized in French, German and British literature of the modernist period. She has published on the cabaret, post-war film, and performance art in the Third Reich, and her translation of Jean Genet’s Elle was adapted for an off-Broadway production in the summer of 2002. She received the New School Distinguished University Teaching Award in 2003 and teaches interdisciplinary courses in the areas of ethics and literature, gender studies, urban studies, and the aesthetics of the body.

Margarita Gutman, Core Faculty Advisor, gutmanm@newschool.edu

Ms. Gutman received her degree in architecture from the University of Buenos Aires, and went on to teach architectural and urban history at Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo de la Universidad de Buenos Aires between 1973 and 1995. Most recently, she has been a Visiting Fellow of the International Center for Advanced Studies Project on Cities and Urban Knowledges at NYU, Director of International Programs at the Facultad de Arquitectura Diseño y Urbanismo de la Universidad (Buenos Aires), and a Senior Fellow at The Vera List Center of Art and Politics at The New School. Ms. Gutman focuses her scholarly work on architecture, urban history and the politics of culture, editing numerous books, including the prize-winning Buenos Aires 1910: Memoria del Porvenir (1999).

Rachel Heiman, Core Faculty Advisor & Coordinator for Prior Learning, heimanr@newschool.edu

Dr. Heiman received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. She has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Zimbabwe and New Jersey. Her current research focuses on middle class anxieties, youth culture, and suburban life. She is presently working on her first book, Rugged Entitlement: Driving After Class in a Suburban New Jersey Town, which is under contract with the University of California Press. She has published articles on the category of “Generation X”, the class politics of sport-utility vehicles, and the possibilities for a culturally grounded social psychology. Her work has been supported through grants from the Spencer Foundation and the National Science Foundation.

Herritt, Linda, Chair, Visual and Performing Arts, herrittl@newschool.edu

Linda Herritt received her MFA from the University of Montana. She is an installation artist with exhibitions at Pierogi, The Drawing Center, Ace Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, Art & Idea, and Galeria OMR (Mexico City). Ms. Herritt's awards include a Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program Residency, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award, a Rockefeller U.S./Mexico Fund for Culture Grant, and an NEA Sculpture Fellowship.

Annie J. Howell, Asst Chair of Media Studies, howella@newschool.edu

Ms. Howell received her M.F.A. in film from New York University. She is the writer and director of five short films and two documentaries and has exhibited films internationally on the film festival circuit, including screenings at SXSW, Clermont-Ferrand and SilverDOCS. Her films have been screened on the Sundance Channel, PBS and the Independent Film Channel. Her recent work, a feature-length screenplay in development with Etcetera Films, was the recipient of a 2005 Screenwriters' Colony fellowship. Before coming to The New School, Professor Howell taught at Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies and the Duke Program in Film and Video.

Noah Isenberg , Chair of Humanities & Core Faculty Advisor, isenbern@newschool.edu

Dr. Isenberg received his Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley. He is the author of Between Redemption and Doom: The Strains of German-Jewish Modernism (Nebraska, 1999), the editor and translator of Arnold Zweig's work of 1920 The Face of East European Jewry (California, 2004), and is at work on a book-length study of Austrian-born filmmaker Edgar G. Ulmer (California, in progress) and a companion to Weimar cinema (Columbia, in progress). His writing has appeared in such scholarly and mainstream publications as Cinema Journal, New German Critique, Salmagundi, Partisan Review, The New Republic, The Nation, Dissent, and The New York Times Book Review. Among his primary interests are: contemporary European literature and cinema, film history and criticism, modern intellectual and cultural history. He formerly held the position of associate professor and chair of German studies at Wesleyan University.

Xiaochun Jin, Core Faculty Advisor, jinx@newschool.edu

Dr. Jin has taught theories of personality, abnormal psychology, and fundamentals of psychology at The New School since 2001. He received his MSW from Yeshiva University and Ph.D. in Psychology from Adelphi University. A recipient of several research grants including an award from the National Institutes of Health, Professor Jin is currently researching attachment behavior, domestic violence, and Asian mental health. In addition, he has also worked for several years as a primary psychotherapist and a social worker supervisor.

Deborah Landau, Assistant Chair of the Writing Program and Core Faculty Advisor, landaud@newschool.edu

Deborah Landau has taught literature and creative writing at The New School since 1995. She was educated at Stanford, Columbia, and Brown, where she was a Javits Fellow and earned a Ph.D. in English and American Literature. She has also taught at Brown, Antioch, and NYU, and teaches a summer poetry workshop in Assisi, Italy. Her first collection of poems, Orchidelirium, a National Poetry Series finalist, won the 2003 Anhinga Prize for Poetry and was shortlisted for the Foreword Book of the Year Award. Her poems and articles have appeared in numerous journals, including Columbia, Grand Street, The Antioch Review, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Daily, and American Literature, and she has received two Pushcart Prize nominations. She co-curates the KGB Poetry Reading Series.

Michelle Materre, Core Faculty Advisor, materrem@newschool.edu

Ms. Materre’s professional background spans more than 25 years experience in the independent film and television industry as producer, writer, arts administrator, outreach consultant, distribution/marketing specialist and teacher. As a founding partner and Vice of KJM3 Entertainment Group, Inc., she was responsible for the successful theatrical release of Daughters of the Dust, the highly acclaimed film by Julie Dash, among many other titles. In addition to her teaching duties at The New School, Ms. Materre an adjunct professor at New York University and Brooklyn College. Former positions include: Executive Director of International Film Seminars; Marketing Director of Educational Video Center; and Associate Director of Women Make Movies, a national film and video distributor of independent work by women artists. She is currently an independent media consultant, advising filmmakers and organizations on fundraising, distribution, marketing, outreach, programming and production issues. Filmmakers she has worked with include: Julie Dash, Charles Burnett, Thomas Allen Harris, Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing, Bill Lichtenstein, Shola Lynch and Orlando Bagwell. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of New York Women in Film and Television, is on the advisory board of Reel New York, the independent film series on Channel Thirteen/WNET.

Vladan Nikolic, Core Faculty Advisor, nikolicv@newschool.edu

Mr. Nikolic, who has an M.A. in Media Studies from The New School, has been teaching here since 1994. He has also taught film production and digital filmmaking at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia and at New York University. An award-winning filmmaker and TV director, Mr. Nikolic has worked as writer/director, producer and editor on feature films, documentaries, commercials and music videos. His films include CUT, The End of The Millenium, Serendipity, and the feature films Burn, Going Under, and Love, which premiered at the 2005 Tribeca and Venice Film Festivals, and won special mention at the Cinema tout Ecran Film festival in Geneva, Switzerland.

Timothy R. Quigley, Associate Director, Bachelor’s Program, and Advisor; quigleyt@newschool.edu

Dr. Quigley came to The New School in summer 1996. He is both a scholar and an artist, and earned both an M.F.A. in Art and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was previously Acting Director of the B.A. Program. Before coming to The New School, Dr. Quigley taught at UW-Madison, Wayne State University, New York University, and the School of Visual Arts in New York City. His scholarly work has been published in Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Canadian Philosophical Review, Philosophy Today, and the anthology Art and Representation. He teaches a range of interdisciplinary courses in Modern and Continental Philosophy and Contemporary Visual Studies.

Martin Roberts, Core Faculty Advisor, robertsm@newschool.edu

Dr. Roberts received a Ph.D. in French literature from Cambridge University, and has been teaching at the New School since 1997. He has also taught at NYU, MIT and Harvard University. His research interests center on media and cultural studies, with a focus on globalization and popular culture. His publications include articles on ethnography and surrealism, world music, and the global documentary film Baraka. More recent publications focus on the role of media in the formation of national and transnational identities, including chapters for a recent anthology on cinema and nationalism and a forthcoming collection on the Danish Dogme95 group. His current project focuses on globalization and subcultures.

Sanjay Ruparelia, Core Faculty Advisor, ruparels@newschool.edu

Sanjay Ruparelia has recently joined the Political Science Department at the Graduate Faculty and the Bachelor's Program at the New School. His areas of research and teaching span comparative politics, political economy of development and modern South Asia, with a strong interest in philosophies of explanation in the social sciences. His present work concerns the dynamics of economic liberalization, militant Hindu nationalism and the rise of historically subordinate groups in contemporary Indian democracy. Mr. Ruparelia received his B.A. in Political Science from McGill University and M.Phil in Sociology and Politics of Development from Cambridge University, where he is a doctoral candidate. Prior to joining the New School, he served as Assistant Director of the Southern Asian Institute, and Lecturer in the School of International and Public Affairs, at Columbia University.

Joe Salvatore, Core Faculty Advisor, salvatoj@newschool.edu

Mr. Salvatore has an M.F.A. in fiction writing from The New School and has an M.A. in English from Salem State College. He is the founding editor of LIT, the journal of The New School's Writing Program. Mr. Salvatore has been teaching literature and composition at The New School since 1998, and his excellence as an instructor recently earned him The New School's Award for Teaching Excellence in 2002. His drama, poetry, fiction and non-fiction have been produced and published in Atelier Abroad, H.A.T., Mesh, The New School Observer, Omnivore, Open City, Pleiades Arts North, Post Road, Red Skies, and Soundings East; as well as being anthologized in the collection 110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11th (NYU Press).

Jurgen von Mahs, Core Faculty Advisor, FreiherR@newschool.edu

Dr. von Mahs joined the New School in 2005. He received a Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Policy from the University of Southampton, United Kingdom. His research and teaching interests include poverty and homelessness, comparative social policy analyses, globalization processes, social control and the criminalization of the poor, social movements, and ethnography. Dr. von Mahs has been awarded grants from the German Marshall Fund, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, and the Fulbright Commission. Prior to coming to the New School he taught at Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

Aleksandra Wagner, Core Faculty Advisor, wagnera1@newschool.edu

Ms. Wagner, presently a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at City University of New York Graduate Center and a member-in-training at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, completed her B.A. in musicology and B.A. in comparative literature and philosophy at the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Her interests, and her dissertation theme, focus on the connections between sociology and psychoanalysis, particularly in the realms of method (ethnography, biography, case study) and social history. Before coming to The New School, she taught sociology at the College of Staten Island and Hunter College (CUNY). She is a member of Editorial Staff of the Psychoanalytic Review, member of the Editorial Board of the Discourse of Sociological Practice, and a practicing psychotherapist.

Gina Luria Walker, Chair, Department of Social Sciences, walkerg@newschool.edu

Dr. Walker received her Ph.D. in 18th century Literature at New York University. Her research focuses on Enlightenment feminisms, women's intellectual history, and writing in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She is the author of The Idea of Being Free: A Mary Hays Reader (2005) ; "Mary Hays: An Enlightened Quest" in Women, Gender and Enlightenment (2005), "'Can Man Be Free/And Woman Be A Slave?' Teaching Eighteenth- and Nineteenth Century Women Writers in Intersecting Communities" in Teaching British Women Writers 1750-1900 (2005); and coauthor of "Gender and Genre: Women in British Romantic Literature". Professor Walker has also edited The Feminist Controversy in England 1788-1810 and co-edited Memoirs of the Author of "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman". Her current projects are Mary Hays (1759-1843: The Growth of a Woman's Mind (forthcoming, 2006) and Rational Passions: British Women's Scholarship 1702-1868 (forthcoming, 2007). Before coming to The New School she was Director of Women's Studies at Northwestern University.

Tracyann Williams, Core Faculty Advisor, williamt@newschool.edu

Ms. Williams is a Ph.D. candidate in English at The Graduate Center/CUNY, where she is also pursuing a certificate in Women’s Studies. She has been teaching at The New School since 1998, offering courses in literature, gender studies, and cultural studies. She also taught Composition and Literature at LaGuardia College/CUNY for several years. She has received numerous awards and recognition including the Distinguished University Teaching Award from The New School in 2004 and a Helena Rubenstein Foundation fellowship. Her current research focuses on mixed race women in modern fictions.