TISCH - Key Persons
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- ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR
- Member of the Faculty & Staff
A. Elizabeth Mikesell is a faculty member in the Expository Writing Program, and has been teaching Tisch artists to write about art for the last 12 years. Her own creative work runs the gamut: co-creator of the online work The Saddest Thing I Own; co-author (with the actress Jane Lynch) of the children's book Marlene Marlene, Queen of Mean; and writer of literary essays exploring the convergence of art, personal narrative, and the physical sciences, among many other projects. She has applied for and received numerous grants on her own behalf as well as that of other artists.
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- Administrative Aide II, New Studio on Broadway
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- Dean
- Member of the Leadership Team
- PROFESSOR DEAN, TISCH SCHOOL of the ARTS
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Senior Associate Dean of External Affairs
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Associate Dean of the Center for Research & Study
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- Marketing Communications Administrator
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- Director of Finance and Administration
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Associate Dean of Student Affairs
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- PROFESSOR ( Schedule Permitting )
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Executive Director of Special Programs
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- Props Supervisor, Production Resources Office
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Assistant Dean of Finance
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Assistant Dean of Diversity
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Associate Dean of the Institute of Emerging Media
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Director of Tisch Creative Research
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- PROFESSOR
- Professor, Art & Public Policy and Middle Eastern Studies
Professor Ella Shohat teaches at the departments of Art & Public Policy and Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies at New York University. She has lectured and written extensively on issues having to do with post/colonial and transnational approaches to Cultural studies. On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements: Selected Writings (Pluto Press, 2017; recipient of the Middle East Monitor Palestine Book Award in the "Memoir Category"); Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices (Duke University Press, 2006), Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation (Univ. of Texas Press, 1989; New Updated Edition with a new Postscript Chapter, I.B. Tauris, 2010); Talking Visions: Multicultural Feminism in a Transnational Age (MIT & The New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1998); Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation and Postcolonial Perspectives (co-edited, The University of Minnesota Press, 1997); Between the Middle East and the Americas: The Cultural Politics of Diaspora (co-edited, The University of Michigan Press, 2013; Honorable Mention in the Non-Fiction category for the 2014 Arab American Book Award, The Arab American Museum); And coauthor with Robert Stam of Unthinking Eurocentrism (Routledge, 1994; Katherine Kovacs Singer Best Film Book Award for 1994; 2nd edition with a new Postscript Chapter, 2014); Flagging Patriotism: Crises of Narcissism and Anti-Americanism (Routledge, 2007); Race in Translation: Culture Wars around the Postcolonial Atlantic (NYU Press, 2012); and Multiculturalism, Postcoloniality and Transnational Media (coedited, Rutgers Univ. Press, 2003). She has also coedited several special issues of Social Text: "911-A Public Emergency?" (2002); "Palestine in a Transnational Context" (2003); "Corruption in Corporate Culture" (2003); and "Edward Said: A Memorial Issue" (2006). Her writing has been translated into diverse languages, including: French, Hebrew, Arabic, Portuguese, Spanish, German, Italian, Polish, and Turkish, Shohat has also served on the editorial board of several journals, including: Social Text; Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies; Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism; and Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. She is a recipient of such fellowships as Rockefeller Foundation, Fulbright Lectureship / Research, and the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University, where she also taught at The School of Criticism and Theory.
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- Administrative Director
- Administrative Staff Member
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Co - Associate Dean of Faculty
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- Studio Administrator, New Studio on Broadway
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- Program Manager, Career Development & Alumni Relations
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- Chief of Staff
- Member of the Leadership Team
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- Director, Communications & Strategic Initiatives
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- Director of Graduate Admissions
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- Assistant Director of Faculty Services
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- Academic Advisor, Data Coordinator
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Associate Dean of Operations and Administrative Services
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Co - Associate Dean of Faculty
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- Admissions Program Administrator
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Assistant Dean of Facilities Administration
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- Studio Administrator, Meisner Studio
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Associate Dean of the Kanbar Institute of Film & Television
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- Administrative Staff Member
- Administrative Aide II
- Artist and Writer
Molly Lambe is an artist and writer living in Queens, New York. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art from NYU, where she concentrated in drawing, video and text based work. From 2014-2019, she ran the curatorial project White Toy Box, producing a series of exhibitions, readings and performance events. She has been an Artist in Residence at Hospitalfield in Arboath, Scotland and Arts Letters & Numbers in Averill Park, New York. She is currently an MFA candidate in the Creative Writing Program at NYU.
Molly has previously worked as an arts educator in New York City public schools, libraries and community centers through the organizations More Art, Project Art and Learning through an Expanded Arts Program. As an administrator in the Department of Art and Public Policy, she assists with communications, alumni relations, admissions and day to day operations.
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- Production Coordinator, New Studio on Broadway
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- ASSOCIATE ARTS PROFESSOR Chair
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- Director of Recruitment, at 212 - 998 - 1900
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Assistant Dean of Global Strategic Initiatives
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- ASSOCIATE ARTS PROFESSOR
- Co - Founder and Former President of Riptide Communications
Kathy Engel is a poet, essayist, educator, organizer and cultural worker. She currently serves as Associate Arts Professor in NYU's Tisch School of the Arts' Department of Art and Public Policy, and Master's Program in Arts Politics. Her latest poetry collection, The Lost Brother Alphabet, was published by Get Fresh Books in 2020.
For over 40 years Kathy has worked in many of the major social justice, peace, and human rights movements in the U.S. and in partnership with international groups. She has co-founded numerous organizations, including MADRE (1983), an international women's human rights group, which she directed for five years. She also co-founded the Hayground School; East End Women in Black; Kickass Artists, Poets for Ayiti; and, with the poet Alexis De Veaux, Lyrical Democracies and The Center for Poetic Healing.
Projects that Kathy was instrumental in creating include: No More Witch Hunts, a national day of resistance (June 19, 1981); talkingnicaragua (1983), a dramatization about U.S. policy in Nicaragua; and Moving Towards Home (1982), the first poetry reading in the U.S. with U.S., Lebanese, Palestinian and Israeli poets, sponsored by PEN America and supporting Unicef's work with children in Lebanon. Moving Towards Home was followed by readings hosted by Congressman John Conyers in the Rayburn House Office building, Washington, D.C, and the Arab American Cultural Center, Detroit, and the creation of a chapbook and then anthology in 2006. Other projects include: Stand with Sisters for Economic Dignity (2002), which was dubbed by Washington D.C. press as "the Vagina Monologues of economic justice;" Who I Will Be, a performance piece with formerly incarcerated women; Imagining Peace, following the attacks on the World Trade Center and impending U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq; Re-Plant Haiti, a performance at Carnegie Hall in support of environmental and agricultural recovery following the floods in Gonaive, Haiti; a multi-faceted campaign working with Amnesty International, the NAACP Death Penalty Project and others that led to a last minute stay of execution for Death Row inmate Shaka Sankofa; work with the Center for Constitutional Rights against racist police brutality and killings; and a campaign in support of HIV positive Haitian refugees held at Guantanamo Bay.
Kathy is co-founder and former president of Riptide Communications, a consulting firm set up in 1989 to service social change organizations. She was key cultural coordinator for the historic 1982 March for Disarmament and Human Needs in NYC at the time of the Second UN Special Session on Disarmament.
Kathy's poems, essays, and reviews have been published and anthologized widely. Books include Ruth's Skirts (IKON, 2007); The Kitchen, in collaboration with artist German Perez (Yaboa Press, 2011); and We Begin Here: Poems for Palestine and Lebanon, co-edited with Kamal Boullata (Interlink Books, 2007). Kathy's poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including the recent Borderlines: Poems of Migration (Penguin Random House, 2020); Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology (University of Georgia Press, 2018); and What Saves Us (Curbstone Books/Northwestern University Press, 2019). Her lyrical essay Where I Live was widely circulated internationally following initial publication in The East Hampton Star. The video work Whowillkneel4you? (2018) appears on The Root and Youtube, featuring a chorus of artists reading Kathy's poem, "To Kneel."
Kathy has presented her writing in numerous workshops, talks, and readings. In 2019 she collaborated with Refilwe Nkomo and Maia Marie in leading A Retreat in Collaborative Poetics at Lalela: A Place of Listening, in South Africa. She's been a featured poet and speaker at numerous festivals and conferences including the Split This Rock Poetry Festival, the Hobart Women Writers Festival, the 2017 and 2018 Freedom Forums at Stony Brook University. In 2014 Kathy performed in a production of her elegiac suite of poems, The Lost Brother Alphabet, with choreographer/dancer Suchi Brandman at the Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica, CA. In 2018, she coordinated a public art installation engaging with the Ghost Fishing anthology in NYU's Kimmel Windows. Kathy has been a resident at the Macdowell Colony, Blue Mountain Center, the Gaia Sea Change Residency and the Hedgebrook Women Writers Residency. She is currently working on a new poetry collection, and a memoir about her life as a poet, organizer and cultural worker, entitled Marvelous Dissonance.
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- Academic Advisor, Registration Coordinator
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- Director of Admissions & Recruitment
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Associate Dean of the Institute of Performing Arts
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- Administrative Aide, Experimental Theatre Wing
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- Student Services Director, Academic Advisor
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Associate Arts Professor
- Senior Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives
- SENIOR ASSOCIATE DEAN for STRATEGIC INITIATIVES ASSOCIATE ARTS PROFESSOR
Dr. Antonio is an Associate Arts Professor in the Department of Art and Public Policy, the Interim Chair of the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, and the Senior Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives. She is the recipient of a 2020 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Faculty Award and has twice previously served as chair of the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music including as the inaugural chair in 2003/4. She also served as chair of the Graduate Film Program in 2001/2 and the Interim Chair of the Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing from 2015 - 2015.
Dr. Antonio is the author of Contemporary African American Cinema, 2001, and co-author of the upcoming Dramatic Effects with a Movie Camera. Her other works include: Identity, Originality, Multiculturalism and Accountability in 21st Century Art; a feature essay for the inaugural issue of Black Camera: The Urban-Rural Binary in Black American Film and Culture, Indiana University Press 2009; New Black Cinema: When Self-Empowerment Becomes Assimilation, Bertz Verlang, 2006; and Matriarchs, Rebels, Adventurers, and Survivors: Renditions of Black Womanhood in Contemporary African American Cinema, Sight & Sound, Supplement, July 2005; as well as several blogs for Huffington Post and America.gov: Do Hollywood Films Truly Reflect Life in America.
You can also learn about cultures around the global network university. You have the opportunity to study away at NYU's other campuses in Abu Dhabi, Shanghai, or at the other global academic centers in Accra, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Florence, London, Madrid, Paris, Prague, Sydney, Tel Aviv, and Washington, D.C.
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- Administrative Aide II, New Studio on Broadway