• Faculty

  • Chantal Meng

    Part-Time Faculty

    Email
    mengc@newschool.edu

    Download vCard

    Chantal Meng

    Profile

    Chantal Meng is a visual artist and researcher who completed her PhD at Goldsmiths University of London, where she was the recipient of the Stuart Hall PhD Scholarship. Chantal was awarded a Doc.Mobility Fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation in 2020 and a Fulbright in 2015. She holds an MA in Photography + Urban Cultures with distinction from Goldsmiths (Department of Sociology).

    Prior to her academic career, Chantal co-founded the design studio POL and the art space Grand Palais in Bern, Switzerland. She also initiated Night Drawing, a research project investigating the relationship between darkness and light in the urban night. Currently, Chantal is a visiting scholar in the Department of Anthropology at the New School for Social Research (NSSR) in New York.

    Recent Publications

    Meng, Chantal. 2024. “Light at Night: What Is the Matter with Darkness?” https://doi.org/10.25602/GOLD.00036046.
    Meng, Chantal. 2022. “Night Drawing: Re-writing Darkness in the Nocturnal Land/Cityscape.” Ethnologies 44 (1): 153. https://doi.org/10.7202/1096061ar.

     

    Research Interests

    Urban, Visual Culture; Media Ecology; Atmosphere (Architecture + Spatial Design);
    Night (Light, Darkness, Shadow); Practice-Based Research (Photography + Drawing)

  • Take The Next Step

Submit your application

Undergraduates

To apply to any of our undergraduate programs (except the Bachelor's Program for Adults and Transfer Students and Parsons Associate of Applied Science programs) complete and submit the Common App online.

Undergraduate Adult Learners

To apply to any of our Bachelor's Program for Adults and Transfer Students and Parsons Associate of Applied Science programs, complete and submit the New School Online Application.

Graduates

To apply to any of our Master's, Doctoral, Professional Studies Diploma, and Graduate Certificate programs, complete and submit the New School Online Application.