Robert Hullot-Kentor
Chair, Critical Theory and the Arts, Master of Arts degree program, School of Visual Arts; philosopher

Education: BA, Marlboro College; MA, Goddard College; PhD, University of Massachusetts

Books include: author, Things Beyond Resemblance: Collected Essays on Theodor W. Adorno; Ice Flow: Essay and Commentary on David Salle; Terra Infirma: The House that Mowry Baden Built; editor, Current of Music: Elements of a Radio Theory; editor, translator, Philosophy of New Music; Aesthetic Theory; Kierkegaard: Construction of the Aesthetic

Awards and honors include: DAAD; Orion Visiting Artist, University of Victoria; J. Paul Getty Resident Scholar; J. Paul Getty External Scholar; Mellon Faculty Fellow, Harvard University and Boston University

Babette Babich
philosopher

Education: BA, State University of New York at Stony Brook; MA, PhD, Boston College

Professional experience includes: executive editor, New Nietzsche Studies

Books include: Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Science; Nietzsche, Habermas, and Critical Theory; Words in Blood, like Flowers: Philosophy and Poetry, Music and Eros in Hölderlin, Nietzsche, and Heidegger; La fin de la pensée?: Philosophie analytique contre philosophie continentale; The Hallelujah Effect: Philosophical Reflections on Music, Performance Practice and Technology

Publications include: Art Criticism, Common Knowledge, Culture, Theory & Critique, Diogène. Revue internationale des sciences humaines, The Edinburgh Companion to the Twentieth Century Philosophies, International Journal of the Philosophy of Science, Internationales Jahrbuch für Hermeneutik, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, Nietzsche-Studien, Perfect Sound Forever. online music magazine, Phainomena, Philosophy Today, Radical Philosophy, Revista Voluntas: Estudos sobre Schopenhauer, Revista di estetica, Revue Internationale de Philosophie, Social Epistemology, Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale, Telos

Awards and honors include: Fulbright Fellowships (Tübingen, Berlin, Weimar); Nietzsche Fellowship, Kolleg Friedrich Nietzsche: Residenz Fellowsip, Klassik Stiftung Weimar

Devi Dumbadze
social philosopher, sociologist

Education: BA, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University; MA, Ruhr-University Bochum; PhD expected 2012

Professional experience includes: Visiting scholar, The New School for Social Research; scientific assistant, lecturer, Institute for Media Studies, Ruhr-University Bochum; lecturer, scientific editions coordinator, Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Ilia State University Tbilisi

Books include: co-editor, Critique of Political Philosophy: Society, Contract, State II; Knowledge and Critique: Contemporary Positions; translator, Habermas, Knowledge and Human Interest; Adorno and Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment (Georgian)

Publications include: Festschrift für Burkhard Mojsisch, Tbilisi; Limes: Italian Journal of Geopolitics (Rivista Italiana di Geopolitica); Netgazette (Netgazetti); Jungle World; Journal for Media Research (Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft); Matsne: Series in Philosophy and Psychology; Topos: Journal for Philosophical and Cultural Studies.

Awards and honors include: Open Society Georgia Foundation; Munich Grant, Goethe-Institut; DAAD; Freedom Support Exchange Program, United States Information Agency

Jay B. Frankel
clinical psychologist

Education: BA, Hunter College, CUNY; MA, PhD, St. John’s University; Postdoctoral Certificate, New York University

Professional experience includes: faculty member, Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research; 30 years of private practice in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and clinical supervision; associate editor, Psychoanalytic Dialogues: The International Journal of Relational Perspectives

Conferences include: chair, “Ongoing Conferences on Controversial Psychoanalytic Concepts,” Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research; presenter, International Ferenczi Conference, “Faces of Trauma,” Budapest; New York Freudian Society Scientific Program; “Psychoanalysis and the Politics of Fear,” Institute for the Humanities, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver; “Psychological Enslavement” conference, Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, New York

Journals include: International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Social Work, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Le Coq-héron (French translation), American Journal of Psychoanalysis

Books include: contributor, A New Freudian Synthesis: Clinical Process in the Next Generation; La Catastrofe e i Suoi Simboli (Italian translation)

Bettina Funcke
writer, editor; co-founder, The Leopard Press

Education: M.Phil, PhD, summa cum laude, Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe

Professional experience includes: Head of publications, dOCUMENTA; senior editor, Parkett; associate editor, Dia Art Foundation

Books include: Author, Pop or Populus: Art Between High and Low. Editor, Dia’s Andy; Art Alfred Jensen Concordance; Joan Joanas: The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things; Thomas Shütte: Scenewright; Gloria in Memoria; In Medias Res. Co-editor, Francis Alÿs: Fabiola; The Lightning Field; Robert Smithson: Sprial Jetty; Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary Art

Publications include: Artforum, Bookforum, Texte zur Kunst, Printed Project, Afterall, Continuous Project, Public

Awards and honors include: Rubenstein Fellowship, Whitney Museum of American Art. Residencies include: Centre National de l’Estampe et de l’Art Imprimé; Le Couvent des Récollets; Kolleg Friedrich Nietzsche

Tom Huhn
Chair, Art History Department and BFA Visual & Critical Studies Department, School of Visual Arts; coordinator, Honors Program, School of Visual Arts; philosopher; critic

Education: AB, Sarah Lawrence; MA, PhD, Boston University

Books include: Imitation and Society: The Persistence of Mimesis in the Aesthetics of Burke, Hogarth, and Kant; The Cambridge Companion to Adorno; The Semblance of Subjectivity: Essays in Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory; co-author, The Wake of Art: Criticism, Philosophy, and the Ends of Taste

Publications include: Art in America, New German Critique, Art & Text, Oxford Art Journal, British Journal of Aesthetics, Art Criticism, Telos, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Oxford Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Art Book

Curatorial works include: “Between Picture and Viewer: The Image in Contemporary Painting,” Visual Arts Gallery; “Ornament and Landscape,” Apex Gallery; “Still Missing: Beauty Absent Social Life,” Visual Arts Museum and Westport Arts Center, CT

Group exhibition: Triple Candie

Awards and honors include: Getty Scholar; Fulbright Scholar; First Prize, American Society for Aesthetics Essay Contest; New York State Council for the Humanities

Jay Sanders
curator, Whitney Museum of American Art

Education: BA, Reed College; MA, Portland State University

Curatorial projects include: 2012 Whitney Biennial; “ITWAN,” International Project Space, Birmingham, U.K.; “Looking Back: The Third White Columns Annual,” White Columns; “Allen Ruppersberg,” “Gelitin: Blind Sculpture,” Greene Naftali Gallery. Co-curator, “Gutja Hai Surn Been Lop Sop,” William Gallery; “Charlemagne Palestine: Running Outburst,” Electronic Arts Intermix; “Entertainment,” Greene Naftali Gallery; “Incohative Listening + Centerless Portrayal,” Sculpture Center; “Repeat Redux,” Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria

Publications include: Artforum, Art in America, BOMB, Brooklyn Rail, Parkett, Triple Canopy, Spike Art Quarterly. Co-editor, Whitney Biennial 2012, Poetry Plastique

Antonio Y. Vázquez-Arroyo
political scientist

Education: BA, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras; PhD, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Conference presentations include: “Power, Freedom, and Political Forms,” Freedom and Democracy in an Imperial Context: Dialogues with James Tully, University of Victoria; “Unseen Catastrophes: Capitalism and Colonialism as Non-Events,” Political Theory Seminar, The New School forSocial Research; La dialéctica de la catástrofe y la “catástrofización” de la política,” Rutas de Poder, Universidad de los Andes

Books include: Scenes of Responsibility: Responding to Power and Suffering in a Post-Political Age (manuscript in progress)

Publications include: Telos, Political Theory, Theory & Event, Polity, New Political Science, Radical Philosophy, Antropolítica

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Jacob Blumenfeld
social philosopher

Education: BA, with honors, Vassar College; MA, The New School for Social Research

Conference presentations include: New School Graduate Student Philosophy Conference; Hannah Arendt and Reiner Schürmann Symposium in Political Philosophy; University of Minnesota; CUNY Graduate Center

Awards and honors include: Dean’s Prize, The New School for Social Research; Philip Nochlin Prize, Vassar College

John Clegg
economist, sociologist

Education: BA, with honors, MA with honors, University of Sussex; MS, The New School for Social Research

Professional experience includes: Editorial assistant, Pluto Press; researcher, Berlin- Brandenburg Academy of Science; editorial assistant, Social Research

Conference presentations include: Marx and Philosophy Society, Joe McCarney Memorial Conference, London Knowledge Lab; Annual Institute on Culture and Society Conference, Portland State University; Postwar Economy and Culture Conference, University of California, Berkeley; Historical Materialism Conference, SOAS, University of London

Awards and honors include: Dean’s Prize, The New School for Social Research

Jeremy Cohan
sociologist

Education: BA, with honors, University of Chicago; Education Certificate, Pace University

Professional experience includes: Instructor, teaching assistant, New York University; Graduate Student Association Elected Representative, Department of Sociology, New York University

Conference presentations include: “Lukacs’ Abyss,” Institute of Culture and Society, University of Illinois at Chicago; “Foucault’s Detours,” Cultural Studies Association Annual Convention; “Lukacs: Professor or Politician?,” Leftforum Conference; “Why We Should Care about Class,” Economic and Political Sociology Workshop, New York University; “What Marx Really Thought About Class,” Marx and Philosophy Society Annual Conference

Awards and honors include: Henry McCracken Fellowship, New York University