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Jonathan Beller
Professor
B.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., Duke University;
Interests: Media Theory, Marxism, Critical Race Theory,
Cinema, Media Archaeology, Decolonization, Aesthetics
and Politics, Feminism, Third Cinema, Philippine Culture
and Politics.
Youmna Chlala
Visiting instructor
Steven Doloff
Professor, lecturer in intensiVe english
B.A., State University of New York, Stony Brook; Steven
was named a Pratt Institute Distinguished Professor
(2001–2002) and received the Institute’s Student
Government Association Faculty Excellence Award
in 1990.
Amy Guggenheim
Adjunct AssociAte Professor
Amy Guggenheim is a filmmaker and writer. Her work
in theater and film has been presented internationally
with support from the New York State Council on the
Arts, the American Embassy, Fulbright Foundation,
Mellon Fund, and others. Her work has been published
in American Letters and Commentary, and in the Italian
literary journal Storie.
Christian Hawkey
AssociAte Professor
Professor Hawkey is the author of three award-winning
books of poetry, including The Book of Funnels (Wave
Books, 2004), which won the 2006 Kate Tufts Discovery
Award, HourHour (Delirium Press, 2005), and Citizen
Of (Wave Books, 2007). His poems have appeared in
Conjunctions, Volt, Denver Quarterly, Tin House, Crowd,
BOMB, Chicago Review, and Best American Poetry. He
has received awards from the Academy of American
Poets and the Poetry Fund.Jeffrey Hogrefe
Adjunct AssistAnt Professor
B.A., UC Berkeley; Jeffrey Hogrefe is an author,
architectural critic, and coordinator of Pratt School of
Architecture’s Writing Program: Language/Making. He
is a studio critic at Parsons the New School for Design,
Cooper Union, and Columbia; a contributor to Harper’s,
the New Yorker, Smithsonian, New York Observer,
Washington Post and Vanity Fair; and the author of
O’Keeffe: The Life of An American Legend.Samantha Hunt
AssociAte Professor
M.F.A., Warren Wilson Coll; Samantha Hunt is the author
of two books, The Seas—for which she was awarded
a National Book Foundation award for writers under
35—and The Invention of Everything Else, a novel
about the life of Nikola Tesla. Her stories have appeared
in the New Yorker, McSweeney’s, A Public Space,
Cabinet, Seed Magazine and on the radio program This
American Life.Rachel Levitsky
Adjunct AssistAnt Professor
Professor Levitsky’s first full-length volume, Under the
Sun, was published by Futurepoem books in 2003. She
is the founder and co-director of Belladonna*, an event
and publication series of feminist avant-garde poetics.
She is also the author of five chapbooks of poetry,
Dearly (a+bend, 1999), Dearly 356, Cartographies of
Error (Leroy, 1999), The Adventures of Yaya and Grace
(PotesPoets, 1999), 2(1×1) Portraits (Baksun, 1998), and
a series of poetry plays.Ellen Levy
Visiting AssociAte ProfessorIra Livingston
chAir, huMAnities And MediA studies
Ph.D., Stanford University; Ira Livingston’s primary field
is cultural theory. He is the author of Between Science
and Literature: An Introduction to Autopoetics (2006)
and Arrow of Chaos: Romanticism and Postmodernity
(1997), and coeditor of Posthuman Bodies (1995, with
Judith Halberstam) and Poetry and Cultural Studies: A
Reader (2009, with Maria Damon).