School of the Arts Full-Time Faculty
Professor and Chair -
Gregory Amenoff (b. 1948) is a painter who lives in New York City and Ulster County, New York. He is the recipient of numerous awards from organizations including the American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts and Tiffany Foundation. He has had over fifty one-person exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the United States and Europe.
Associate Professor -
Donald Antrim is the author of three novels, Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World, The Hundred Brothers, and The Verificationist, as well as a memoir, The Afterlife. He contributes fiction and nonfiction to The New Yorker, and his work has appeared in The Paris Review and Harper's. He has had fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Professor -
Arnold Aronson is a theatre historian and has taught at Columbia since 1991. He is the author of Exhibition on the Stage: Reflections on the 2007 Prague Quadrennial (2008); Looking into the Abyss: Essays on Scenography (2005); American Avant-Garde Theatre: A History (2001); Architect of Dreams: The Theatrical Vision of Joseph Urban (2001); American Set Design (1985); and The History and Theory of Environmental Scenography (1981), as well as chapters in several anthologies. In 2007 he served as the first non-Czech General Commissioner of the Prague Quadrennial of Stage Design and Theatre Architecture. Prof. Aronson served as the editor of Theatre Design & Technology from 1978 to 1988.
Assistant Professor -
Born and raised in North Carolina, writer/director Ramin Bahrani’s films, Man Push Cart (2005), Chop Shop (2007), and Goodbye Solo (2008) have premiered and screened at Venice, Cannes, Sundance, Berlin and Toronto Film Festivals.
Assistant Professor -
Nico Baumbach holds a BA from Brown University and a PhD in Literature from Duke University. His research and teaching focus on critical theory, film theory, documentary and the intersection of aesthetic and political philosophy.
Associate Professor, LTAC Director -
Susan Bernofsky’s literary translations include six works of fiction by the great Swiss-German modernist author Robert Walser, as well as novels and poetry by Jenny Erpenbeck, Yoko Tawada, Gregor von Rezzori, Uljana Wolf and others. She chairs the PEN Translation Committee and is co-editor (with Esther Allen) of the forthcoming Columbia University Press anthology In Translation: Translators on Their Work and What It Means.
Assistant Professor -
Andy Bienen received a BA from New York University, an MA from the University of Virginia, and an MFA in Film from Columbia University School of the Arts. He cowrote Boys Don't Cry with Kimberly Peirce ('96SOA), director of the film. Bienen's feature screenplay, Wankers, won the Best Screenplay Award at the 1996 Polo/Ralph Lauren Columbia University Film Festival.
Assistant Professor -
Sanford is an installation, video, and performance artist whose work has been exhibited worldwide, including at the Tate Britain and Tate Modern, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Studio Museum Harlem. He has participated in several national and international artist residencies, and has been a fellow in programs including the Socrates Sculpture Park Residency, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council World Views AIR Program, and the P.S.1 International Studio Program.
Professor -
Bogart is the Artistic Director of SITI Company, which she founded with Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki in 1992. She is the recipient of a Doris Duke Artist Grant, a USA Fellowship, a Rockefeller Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Professor, Poetry Director -
Lucie Brock-Broido received her B.A. and her M.A. from Johns Hopkins University, and her M.F.A. from Columbia University. Her books of poetry include Trouble in Mind (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), recipient of the Massachusetts Book Award; The Master Letters (1995); and A Hunger (1988). In 2008, she edited and published Letters to a Stranger, Poems by Thomas James with Graywolf Press.
Assistant Professor -
Hilary Brougher's most recent film Innocence completed principal photography in the Summer 2012. The film was produced by Killer Films and adapted from Jane Mendelsohn's novel of the same title. It features Kelly Reilly, Linus Roache and Sophie Curtis; and was produced by Killer Films. Her 2007 feature Stephanie Daley starred Tilda Swinton and Amber Tamblyn. The film premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival where Hilary won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award. The film was also awarded Best Director at the Milan International Film Festival.
Associate Professor -
For the past eight years, Chaikelson has been serving as director of the Theatre Management & Producing Concentration. He is a member of the theatre faculty in the School of the Arts and in the undergraduate theatre program at Barnard College.
Professor -
Nicholas Christopher received his B.A. from Harvard College. He is the author of fourteen books: five novels, The Soloist, Veronica, A Trip to the Stars, Franklin Flyer, and The Bestiary; eight books of poetry, On Tour with Rita, A Short History of the Island of Butterflies, Desperate Characters: A Novella in Verse, In the Year of the Comet, 5° & Other Poems, The Creation of the Night Sky, Atomic Field: Two Poems, and Crossing the Equator: New & Selected Poems, 1972-2004; and a nonfiction book, Somewhere in the Night: Film Noir & the American City. He has also edited two anthologies of contemporary American poetry, Under 35 and Walk on the Wild Side: Urban American Poetry Since 1975. His work has been widely translated and published abroad, and he has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, including The New Yorker, Esquire, The New Republic, The Paris Review, The Nation, and The New York Review of Books.
Lecturer -
Sonya Chung’s stories, reviews, & essays have appeared in The Threepenny Review, Crab Orchard Review, Sonora Review, FiveChapters, and BOMB Magazine, among others. She is a recipient of a Pushcart Prize nomination, the Charles Johnson Fiction Award, and the Bronx Council on the Arts Writers’ Fellowship & Residency. She contributes regularly to the literary blog The Millions and has taught fiction at the Gotham Writers Workshop, the College of Mt. Saint Vincent, and New York University.
Assistant Professor -
Stacey D'Erasmo holds a B.A. from Barnard College and an M.A. from New York University in English and American Literature. She was a Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University from 1995-1997. She is the author of the novels Tea, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; A Seahorse Year, which was named a Best Book of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle and Newsday, and won both a Lambda Literary Award and a Ferro-Grumley Award; and The Sky Below. She is the recipient of a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction.
Professor and Chair -
Ira Deutchman has been making, marketing and distributing films since 1975, having worked on over 150 films including some of the most successful independent films of all time. He was one of the founders of Cinecom and later created Fine Line Features—two companies that were created from scratch and in their respective times, helped define the independent film business.
Assistant Professor -
Katherine Dieckmann has made three feature films, beginning with the lyrical fable A Good Baby (2000), starring Henry Thomas and David Strathairn, which was workshopped at the Sundance Institute’s Screenwriting and Directing laboratories. Dieckmann then went on to direct Diggers (2007), a bittersweet comedy-drama starring Paul Rudd, Maura Tierney, Ron Eldard, Lauren Ambrose, Josh Hamilton, Sarah Paulson and Ken Marino. Her most recent feature film as writer-director is Motherhood (2009), a day-in-the-life comedy starring Uma Thurman, Anthony Edwards and Minnie Driver, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2009.
Associate Professor -
Timothy Donnelly is the author of Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit (Grove, 2003) and The Cloud Corporation (Wave, 2010; Picador, 2011), for which he won the 2012 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His poems have been widely anthologized and translated and have appeared in such periodicals as A Public Space, Fence, Harper’s, The Iowa Review, jubilat, Lana Turner, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review and elsewhere.
Professor -
Deborah Eisenberg is a MacArthur Foundation Fellow and the recipient of numerous honors including the 2011 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, a Whiting Writer’s Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Eisenberg has published four collections of stories: Transactions in a Foreign Currency (1986), Under the 82nd Airborne (1992), All Around Atlantis (1997), and Twilight of the Superheroes (2006). Her first two story collections were republished in one volume as The Work (So Far) of Deborah Eisenberg (1997).
Assistant Professor -
Associate Professor Trey Ellis is an Emmy-nominated screenwriter, an American Book Award Winning novelist, and playwright. He has written screenplays for, among others, Columbia Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, HBO and Showtime. Along with the Emmy nomination, his HBO film, The Tuskegee Airmen, also went on to win a Peabody Award and several NAACP Image Awards. His screenplay for the Showtime film Good Fences, which starred Whoopi Goldberg and Danny Glover and was produced by Spike Lee, was shortlisted by PEN West for best teleplay and premiered at the Sundance Film festival.
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Columbia University School of the Arts offers MFA degrees in Film, Theatre Arts, Visual Arts, and Writing, an MA degree in Film Studies, a joint JD/MFA degree in Theatre Management & Producing, and a PhD degree in Theatre History, Literature, and Theory.
Columbia University School of the Arts offers MFA degrees in Film, Theatre Arts, Visual Arts, and Writing, an MA degree in Film Studies, a joint JD/MFA degree in Theatre Management & Producing, and a PhD degree in Theatre History, Literature, and Theory.