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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, a biography

focused on the artist’s rights of seclusion and personal

identity politics.

Kathleen Hopkins

AssociAte Professor

B.A., University of Colorado, Boulder; M.A., California

State University; Kathleen Hopkins, Associate

Professor,is a former Director of Intensive English,

Chair of the Department of English and Humanities

and the first Director of the Writing for Publication,

Performance, and Media program. She has served as

Faculty Trustee to the Pratt Board of Directors.

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.

Dexter Jeffries

Adjunct instructor

B.A., Queens College, City University of New; M.A., City

College of New York; Ph.D., City University of New York,

Graduate Center; Dexter Jeffries was born and raised

in New York City. In between his academic studies he

was a taxi driver and served in a United States Army

combat engineer battalion in West Germany. Jeffries

came to Pratt in 1993, and in 1996, in conjunction with

the Media Arts department, he produced and directed

the documentary film, What’s Jazz? In 2003, Kensington

Press published his autobiographical memoir, Triple

Exposure: Black, Jewish and Red in the 1950s. Jeffries

lives in Brooklyn.

Sean Kelly

Visiting instructor

B.A., Loyola College University of Montreal

David D. Kim

Visiting instructor

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 Professor

Ira 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).

Jennifer Miller

AssociAte Professor

Circus Amok founder and artistic director Jennifer Miller

has been working with alternative circus forms, theater,

and dance, and for over twenty years. Her work with

Circus Amok was awarded a “Bessie” in 1995 and an

OBIE in 2000. Circus Amok is the subject of a French

documentary film, Un Cirque a New York 2002 and

Brazilian documentary, Juggling Politics 2004 She has

taught at Cal Arts, NYU, and UCLA.

Tracie Morris

AssociAte Professor

Ph.D., New York University; M.F.A., Hunter College,

City University of New York; Tracie Morris is an

interdisciplinary poet who has worked extensively

as a sound artist, writer and multimedia performer.

Her installations have been presented at the Whitney

Biennial and the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning.

She holds an M.F.A. in poetry from Hunter College and a

Ph.D. in Performance Studies from New York University.

Negar Mottahedeh

Professor

Cecilia Muhlstein

Visiting instructor; tutor

Cecilia Muhlstein was born in Texas, but grew up in Los

Angeles. Her work and interests reside in fiction, critical

theory, art, and eco-poetics. Her current work can

be found in the pages of NYArts magazine and in the

archives of Safe-T-Gallery.

Mendi Lewis Obadike

AssistAnt Professor Ph.d., duke uniVersity.

Robert Obrecht

Adjunct AssistAnt Professor

B.A., Sarah Lawrence Coll; TESOL Certificate, Columbia

University Teachers College; Obrecht was born in New

York City in 1951. His compositions have premiered in

New York at Lincoln Center’s State Theater and Alice

Tully Hall, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Merkin

Hall and LaMama E.T.C., among others. He has scored

exhibition videos for the Museum of Modern Art, the

Museum of Natural History, the Jewish Museum and

the Queens Museum of Science. His theme song for

the Disney/Henson “Bear in the Big Blue House” is

broadcast worldwide. Obrecht has been teaching at

Pratt since 1988.

Rosemary Grebin Palms

AssociAte Professor

B.A., College of St. Teresa (MN), English; M.A., University

of Texas—Austin, English; Ph.D., University of Texas—

Austin, American Literature; Rosemary Grebin Palms

was born in Minnesota; she has been a New Yorker

since 1970 and on the Pratt faculty since 1973.