Joseph Salvatore, MFA, The New School; founding editor, LIT, the journal of the New School Writing Program; co-founder, Tongue and Groove reading series; has taught at Parsons and Marblehead Writers' World; work produced and published in Atelier Abroad, H.A.T., Mesh, Omnivore, Open City, and Soundings East.

Hélio San Miguel, PhD in Philosophy, Autonomous U. of Madrid; MFA in Film Direction and Production, NYU; specializes in film analysis and aesthetics, silent cinema, scientific cinema, and film history (Western and Latin American cinemas); co-author of Tierra en trance and The Cinema of Latin America; wrote and directed the short film Blindness, selected by more than 15 film festivals.

Jim Savio, MA, City College of New York; author of the book of short fiction The Fairy Flag & Other Stories; work published in Booklyn Rail and other literary journals, recipient of the Irwin and Alice Stark Short Story Fiction Prize, the Ada Shepherd Award for Creative Writing, and the Goodman Fund Award for Creative Writing.

Mort Scharfman, MFA, Pratt Inst.; playwright and screenwriter; has worked for Warner Bros., Paramount, and Columbia; winner of three Emmy Awards for teleplays and sitcoms; writer and lyricist for the stage; formerly taught at UCLA.

George Schaub, BA, Columbia U.; editorial director of Shutterbug magazine and www.shutterbug.com; has been reporting on digital photography since its inception; author of more than 20 books on photography; work has appeared in the New York Times, Travel & Leisure, Men's Journal, and other trade and technical magazines.

Joel Schlemowitz, BS, Ithaca College; filmmaker; experimental shorts screened at MoMA, Whitney Museum, Anthology Film Archives, and Chicago, Ann Arbor, London, and Sydney film festivals; Moving Images won a silver plaque at Chicago festival and honorable mentions at Thaw 02 and NY Short Film Expo; Reverie was shown on the Sundance Channel.

Candy Schulman, MA, NYU; writer of essays, humor, and general-interest articles published in the New York Times, New York Magazine, Travel & Leisure, Food & Wine, Parents, Child, Glamour, Family Circle, Newsday, Washington Post, and Christian Science Monitor; instructional articles anthologized by Writer's Digest.

Chiz Schultz, created two-hour PBS biography, Paul Robeson: Here I Stand; executive producer of A Soldier's Story (nominated for three Academy Awards) and A Raisin in the Sun with Danny Glover; executive at CBS-TV, Children's Television Workshop, Belafonte Enterprises, and Aaron Spelling Productions.

Earl L. Scott, JD, Columbia U.; practicing attorney; adjunct professor of law, Bronx Community College; former assistant U.S. attorney, Southern District of NY.

Jennifer Scott, MA and doctoral studies, U. of Michigan; conducted field research in the Caribbean and West Africa; research interests include ethnography, identity, dress, material and visual culture, narrative, and gender.

Samuel B. Seigle, AM, Harvard; studied at the American Acad. in Rome; teaches classics as a member of the Literature, Language & Writing faculty, Sarah Lawrence College; formerly president, currently censor of the New York Classical Club.

MM Serra, MA, NYU; executive director of Film-Makers' Cooperative, world's largest archive of independent media; filmmaker, curator, and media program organizer; her latest film, Darling International, was screened at Sundance 2000 and the Berlin Film Festival.

Ann-Louise Shapiro, PhD, Brown U.; author of Breaking the Codes: Female Criminality in Fin-de-Si&egrav;cle Paris and Housing the Poor of Paris; editor of Feminists Revision History and author of an article, “Producing the Past: Making History Inside and Outside the Academy”; consulting editor of History and Theory; formerly dean of The New School.

Susan B. Shapiro, MA, NYU; journalist; has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, The Nation, Los Angeles Times, People, Salon.com, Village Voice, Glamour, and More; edited the anthology Food for the Soul; author of Five Men Who Broke My Heart, Lighting Up, Secrets of a Fix-Up Fanatic, Only as Good as Your Word: Writing Lessons from My Favorite Literary Gurus and a forthcoming novel, Speed.

Alexandra Shelley, MFA, Columbia U. School of the Arts; associate editorial director, Bridge Works Publishing; fiction published in Nimrod and Confrontation; winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize and a Fulbright grant; teaches at Yale U.

Jessie Sholl, MFA, The New School; her stories have appeared in several journals, including Other Voices, CutBank, Lit, and Fiction; co-edited the literary nonfiction anthology Travelers' Tales: Prague and the Czech Republic.

Marina Shron, MFA, NYU; playwright and screenwriter; her screenplay X-tina was selected for the IFP Market Emerging Narrative Screenplay program in 2006; her short film The Silent Love of the Fish aired on PBS and received Best Short Film Award at the Hamptons; current projects include Buddha's Little Finger and Canticles, commissioned by the Princess Grace Foundation and Go East Productions; teaches dramatic writing at The New School and Montclair State U.; recipient of James Thurber, Jerome, and NYFA Fellowships in Playwriting and a 2005–2007 Fulbright Senior Scholar Award for research in Russian and Germany.

Patricia Simko, PhD, NYU; supervisor and training analyst, Training and Research Institute for Self Psychology; psychologist in private practice; former NY State assistant attorney general; author of Promised Lands: Vol. III.

Fiore Sireci, PhD, Edinburgh U.; Fulbright scholar; author of Regarding Art and Life, a biography of Mary Tebbetts Wolfe; research interests include Mary Wollstonecraft, Enlightenment print culture, and 18th-century British and American intellectual history.

Andrew F. Smith, MA, U. of California, Riverside; author of many books, including Eating History: 30 Turning Points in the History of American Cuisine, The Tomato in America, The Turkey, Encyclopedia of Junk Food and Fast Food, Real American Food (with Burt Wolf), and Hamburger: A Global History; series editor of Reaktion Books' Edible series; editor in chief of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America and The Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink.

Jacqueline B. Smith, MA, Columbia U. Teachers College; co-author of Wordflo: Your Personal English Organizer; freelance materials writer for Scholastic and Scotts-Foresman; adjunct professor, SVA.

Laura S. Smith, MA, MPhil, Columbia U.; Fulbright Scholar; Charlotte Newcombe Dissertation Fellow; has traveled and studied extensively in South Asia; currently conducting dissertation research on the Madhyamaka philosophy of Tibetan Buddhism; working on a translation from Tibetan of Ocean of Reason.

Maya Montañez Smukler, MA, UCLA; BS, Boston U.; film producer and filmmaker's advocate; has worked for American Film Inst. Directing Workshop for Women, Women Make Movies, and Fuse music TV network; producer of the Don't Knock the Rock Film & Music Festival.

Suzanne Snider, MFA, Columbia U.; writer and educator; recipient of fellowships at Yaddo, MacDowell Colony, and Ucross Foundation Center; has contributed essays to artists' monographs (Danica Phelps' Everyday Life and Clare Rojas' Hope Springs Eternal); also contributor to The Believer, Nextbook, Tokion, Legal Affairs, Anathema, Oklahoma Review, and literary journals.

Fran Snyder, PhD candidate in Midrash, Jewish Theological Seminary of America; teaches Hebrew Bible and rabbinic literature at Eugene Lang College.

Avron Soyer, MA, Cornell U.; painter; student of Isaac Soyer and Stefan Hirsch; many solo and group shows; represented in several collections.

Katia Spiegelman Lief, MFA, CCNY; author of Soul Catcher and Peculiar Politics; the pseudonymous author, as Kate Pepper, of best-selling suspense novels; has taught fiction writing at The New School since 1995.

Warren E. Spielberg, PhD, Adelphi U.; postdoctoral work at NYU; research centers on male development, African-American males, and trauma; post-9/11 consultant to NY Fire Dept.; APA Practitioner of the Year, 2003; consultant, Peace Now Dialogue Project, involving Israeli and Palestinian youth; three-time recipient of New School Distinguished Teaching Award.

Michele Spirn, MFA, The New School; award-winning author of more than 40 children's books, including the Know-Nothing series, The Bridges in London, a retelling of the Nutcracker, All Washed Up, Racing Against the Light, and a biography of Olympic gold medalist Jackie Joyner-Kersee.

Geri Stengel, BS, Queens College; president of Ventureneer and Stengel Solutions, serving nonprofits, social enterprises, and values-based businesses; VC, Governance Matters; VP, Physicians Online; former board member, National Assn. of Women Business Owners-NYC; cofounder, Women's Leadership Exchange.

Mark Stolzenberg, BA, Brooklyn College; actor; star of Luggage of the Gods; principal in Tom Selleck's Her Alibi; stand-in for Robin Williams in The Fisher King; regular cast member of The Robert Klein Television Show; principal in MTV videos and commercials; currently producing a feature film.

Karsten Struhl, MA, U. of Miami; ABD, NYU: has taught at The New School for more than 30 years; also teaches at John Jay College of Criminal Justice-CUNY and Adelphi U.; co-edited Philosophy Now, Ethics in Perspective, and, more recently, The Philosophical Quest: A Cross-Cultural Reader; has published articles in various journals and anthologies on topics including human nature, war and terrorism, democracy, and global ethics.

Paula Stuttman, MFA, NYU; fine artist; has exhibited at Naked Duck, HOTdog, Trans Hudson, Site Simpatico, Rosenberg Gallery, Washington Square East, Loyola U., 1935 Gallery, 11th Hour Gallery, Centro de Difusión del IPBA, and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; lecturer, Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and The Jewish Museum.

Herbert L. Sussman, PhD, Harvard U.; author of Victorian Masculinities: Manhood and Masculine Poetics in Early Victorian Literature and Victorians and the Machine: The Literary Response to Technology; has taught at Northeastern U. and UC-Berkeley.

Kathleen Sweeney, MA in Interdisciplinary Arts, San Francisco State U.; BA in French Literature (cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Prix Librairie de France), NYU; media artist and writer; teaches media studies at The New School; her collaborative screenplay The Lodestar was short-listed for the 2009 Screenwriter's Lab at Sundance; serves on the advisory board of Girls Write Now, a nonprofit that pairs promising inner-city girls with publisher-writers in year-long mentorships; recently published Maiden USA: Girl Icons Come of Age, a chronicle of teenage girls in popular culture; editing a series of books on environmental activism and media literacy for girls.