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  • Molly Davy

    Part-time Lecturer

    Email
    molly.davy@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    A - 66 West 12th Street

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    Molly Davy

    Profile

    Molly Davy is a writer, researcher, curator, and educator from Minneapolis, Minnesota and based in New York City. Since 2020, she has taught courses in Visual Culture and Design Research methodologies in the School of Design Strategies (SDS) and the School of Art, Design History and Theory (ADHT) at Parsons. 

    She served as Associate Director of Operations in the School of Design Strategies at Parsons from 2022–2026. From 2018–2022, she was the Program Administrator for the History of Design and Curatorial Studies MA, a collaborative program between the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum and Parsons.

    Molly's creative and scholarly work explores the intersections of memory, place, and preservation, with a focus on how stories—both personal and collective—are embedded in landscapes and objects. This includes work with the historic Camera Obscura in Greenport, New York. Through writing, research, and curation, her practice emphasizes care, discovery, and public engagement.

     

    Degrees Held

    B.A. St. Catherine University
    M.A. New York University 

    Research Interests

    mail art and the USPS, printed matter and the politics of the archive, media-based epistolaries, the videography of Nelson Sullivan, visual science and the camera obscura, etymologies and language evolution, eBay as a site for image research, and the afterlives of retired objects in material culture.

    Awards And Honors

    2025 Spark Award

    Current Courses

    ARS: Fashion
    PLFS 3500, Spring 2026

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