Michele D. Beck, MFA, Parsons School of Design; video artist and performer; work shown at Fundacio Antoni Tapies (Barcelona), the Queens and Bronx museums, and video and film festivals internationally; writes on cultural criticism, most recently for Fundacio La Caixa (Barcelona).

Teresa A. Bell, MA, Columbia U.; MA, NYU; has taught Spanish at all levels at Columbia and Pace U.; teaches adult literacy in NYC; translation work (written and simultaneous) in Spanish, Portuguese, and English; bio-medical translator for Clinical Directors Network.

Dianne Bellino, MFA, U. of Iowa; artist and filmmaker; short films screened at festivals and venues such as SXSW, New York Underground, Ann Arbor, and MTV; her latest film, Slitch, was released on DVD by Drag City; has worked with directors Harmony Korine and the Farrelly Brothers.

Irina Belodedova, MA, NYU; diploma, Kiev State U. (Ukraine); has taught at Harvard U., Norwich U., and Kiev State U.; has taught in the NYU Dept. of Russian & Slavic Studies since 1979.

Jane J. Benardete, PhD, Harvard U.; professor emerita, Hunter College; edited American Realism: A Shape for Fiction, Companions of Our Youth: Women's Studies from the Young Folks Magazines, and Crumbling Idols; articles in Massachusetts Review, Henry James Review, Studies in American Fiction, and Choice.

Carolyn Vellenga Berman, PhD, Brown U.; chair, Dept. of Humanities; author of Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery and articles in Victorian Literature and Culture, Novel, Genre, Marvels and Tales, and Just Below South; former lecturer in comparative literature, Yale U.

Caterina Bertolotto, Laurea, U. of Turin (Italy); has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Montclair State College, Baruch College, and Pratt Inst., where she received a Mellon Grant in 2008; has trained teachers and taught at seminars for teachers of foreign languages; New School Distinguished Teaching Award recipient; has created art installations in the U.S., Europe, and Japan; has worked on theater, dance, and opera productions, including The Lion King on Broadway and The Magic Flute at the Metropolitan Opera of NYC.

Emily Bills, PhD, Inst. of Fine Arts, NYU; modern architectural and urban historian whose research interests include telecommunications, historic preservation, and history of Los Angeles; ACLS and Graham Foundation Award recipient; has taught at NYU, USC, and Woodbury University.

Margaret Boe Birns, MA, Columbia U.; adjunct asst. professor, recipient of SCE Award for teaching excellence, NYU; articles published in the New York Times, The Cunning Craft: Essays on Contemporary Theory and Detective Fiction, Literary Review, Massachusetts Review, Women's Studies, and other publications.

Nicholas Birns, PhD, NYU; editor of Antipodes; author of Understanding Anthony Powell and a new book, Theory After Theory, (forthcoming 2010); co-editor, Companion to Twentieth-Century Australian Literature; has written for Science-Fiction Studies, European Romantic Review, Hollins Critic, Southern Quarterly, The Anglican, Arizona Quarterly, Religion and the Arts, and Review of Contemporary Fiction.

Scott Blakeman, comedian and comedy writer; was co-host of NBC's Funny People and host of Cablevision's A Night at The New School; warm-up comedian for The Late Show with David Letterman; regular political humorist, USA Live; credits include Montreal's Just for Laughs Festival.

Abigail Burnham Bloom, PhD, NYU; managing editor, Victorian Literature and Culture; editor of Personal Moments in the Lives of Victorian Women: Selections from Their Autobiographies; and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers; has published articles on The Pirates of Penzance, Thomas and Jane Carlyle, and other Victorians.

Timothy Bredl, MATESOL, Columbia U. Teachers College; has taught in community-based organizations and ESL/EFL at universities in NYC and Barcelona.

Theresa M. Breland, MA, Columbia U. Teachers College; develops materials for business communication courses; delivers customized on-site corporate training; edits corporate documents; teaches ESL and business writing at Pace U.; has taught ESL at Columbia U. and U. of Miami.

Kurt Brokaw, MS, U. of Wisconsin; former creative supervisor and group creative director, Grey Advertising, Cunningham & Walsh, and Benton & Bowles; creative director, RCA Records; leads film noir series at 92nd Street Y and Society for Ethical Culture; cultural editor, MadAveJournal.com.

Jeremy Brooke, MA, The New School; co-founder and treasurer, Eyepatch Inc., a multimedia company.

Elizabeth V. Brown, MFA, The New School; editor at large for LIT magazine; her fiction and criticism has appeared in Newsday, Publishers Weekly, Now Culture, Rain Taxi, and other publications.

Laurie Halsey Brown, MFA, California Inst. of the Arts; interdisciplinary artist and curator; recent exhibitions include Rotterdam Intl. Film Festival and Exit Art NYC; has created architecturally focused projects in Hollywood, South Carolina, and the Netherlands.

Rainer L. Brueckheimer, MA in music teaching, Brooklyn College; a native of Brazil, has taught German and Portuguese at The New School since 1994; currently a faculty member at Fairleigh Dickinson U. and Westchester Community College.

Tod Bryant, MS, SUNY-Albany; MA, Goucher College; author of The Working Photographer; freelance photographer specializing in location work for advertising, brochures, and annual reports; clients include GE, Xerox, U.S. Olympic Committee, Steinway Music, Keep America Beautiful, and Berlitz.

John Budde, BA, Brooks Inst.; cinematography and lighting designer whose work includes commercials, documentaries, dramatic films, and music videos; PBS/NEA grant recipient; showings at MoMA, Whitney Museum, and international film festivals.

Channing Burt, MA, Columbia U.; adjunct lecturer in ESL, Columbia U.; adjunct lecturer in ESL, NYU; author of “What Is International English?” published in Teachers College, Columbia U. Working Papers in TESOL & Applied Linguistics.