EUGENE LANG COLLEGE
Jonathan Veitch has been appointed dean of Eugene Lang College for the term January 1, 2004 through June 30, 2005.
Mr. Veitch has been on the faculty of New School University since 1996, and served as the chair of humanities at The New School, chair of the cultural studies program at Eugene Lang College and co-director of the University Partnership Program. He also has served on the Graduate Faculty’s committee on liberal studies and as associate provost of the University. Prior to coming to the New School, he was assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Mr. Veitch is a scholar of modern American literature and culture, and his work as a literary critic identifies him as an important voice on the contemporary critical scene. He is the author of
American Superrealism: Nathanael West and the Politics of Representation in the 1930s and the forthcoming
Colossus in Ruins: Mythic Geographies and Lost Histories in the American Provinces. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from Harvard University and a B.A. with honors from Stanford University.
Colette Brooks joins Eugene Lang College as a core half-time faculty member in theater and writing. She previously was director of the dramaturgy and playwriting program at New York University and was an instructor in creative nonfiction at The New School and New School Online University. She is the author of
In the City: Random Acts of Awareness. She holds an M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama and a B.A. from Reed College.
Juan de Castro was appointed to the faculty in the literature concentration at Eugene Lang College. Mr. de Castro’s first book is titled
Mestizo Nations: Culture, Race, and Conformity in Latin American Literature. He has been teaching since 1997 and received a teaching award for excellence in the classroom from the California Institute of Technology. Mr. de Castro was educated at California State University, Los Angeles (B.A.), and the University of Southern California (M.A. and Ph.D.).
Paul Kottman was appointed assistant professor in the undergraduate humanities program at New School University and faculty member in literature at Eugene Lang College. He is a Renaissance scholar with a deep interest in Shakespeare and political theory. Mr. Kottman was educated at the University of California, San Diego (B.A.) and the University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D.).
Minelle Mahtani joins Eugene Lang College as a visiting faculty member in cultural studies and media. She received her Ph.D. from University College London and was awarded an Izaak Walton Killam postdoctoral fellowship at the University of British Columbia. Ms. Mahtani has published in the area of “mixed race” identity, media and minority relations and feminist geography. She was a national television news producer with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for five years.
David Morgan joins Eugene Lang College as a full-time faculty member in physics. For the past year, Mr. Morgan has had a visiting appointment at Eugene Lang College. Prior to coming to the college, he taught at the Ross School, an experimental laboratory school in East Hampton. Mr. Morgan holds a Ph.D. in theoretical physics, an M.S. in physics from the College of William and Mary and a B.S. from Towson State University.
Simonetta Moro was appointed a faculty member in the arts in context concentration at Eugene Lang College. Ms. Moro is currently a visiting lecturer in fine arts at the University of Central Lancashire in the United Kingdom, and is teaching at the Cornell-in-Rome program of Cornell University. In 1999, she received a Fulbright fellowship in visual arts from the American Academy in Rome. She was educated at the University of Central Lancashire (Ph.D.), the Winchester School of Art, the University of Southampton (M.A.) and the Academy of Fine Arts, Bologna (B.F.A., cum laude).
Ivan Raykoff was appointed a faculty member in the arts in context concentration at Eugene Lang College. Mr. Raykoff’s research focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century European and American music, including popular music and film music. He is currently a lecturer at Whitman College in Walla Walla. Mr. Raykoff was educated at the University of California at San Diego (Ph.D., M.A.) and the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester (B.A.).
Scott Salmon joins Eugene Lang College as a full-time faculty member in urban studies. Prior to joining New School University, he was an associate professor of geography at Miami University. He has had significant teaching experience in urban geography, planning, governance and change; postmodernism; global economics; and the history of geographic thought. He holds a Ph.D. from Syracuse University and an M.A. and a B.A. from Massey University in New Zealand.
Bhawani Venkataraman joins Eugene Lang College as a full-time faculty member in chemistry and chemical education. Prior to joining Lang, she was a senior staff associate in the department of chemistry at Columbia University. She is interested in bridging chemistry with environmental science and biology and in incorporating literature, the humanities and fine arts into the chemistry curriculum. She holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. from Columbia University and a B.S. from St. Xavier’s College in Bombay.
McKenzie Wark was appointed a full-time faculty member in cultural studies at Eugene Lang College. His areas of interest include the globalization of media, popular culture and identity and difference. He is the author of
Celebrities, Culture and Cyberspace. He taught for 10 years as a tenured associate professor at Macquarie University, Australia, and at SUNY-Binghamton and SUNY-Albany. He holds a Ph.D. from Murdoch University, an M.A. from the University of Technology in Sydney and a B.A. from Macquarie University.
Jennifer Wilson was appointed a faculty member in science, technology and society at Eugene Lang College. She comes to the College from Delaware Valley College, where as an associate professor of mathematics, she has created three interdisciplinary colloquia for the honors program, co-authored a plan for a campus-wide interdisciplinary program and facilitated the development of several interdisciplinary courses. Ms. Wilson was educated at Princeton University (Ph.D. and M.A.) and the University of British Columbia (B.S. with honors).
