Carol Becker
Carol Becker is Professor of the Arts and Dean Emerita of Columbia University School of the Arts. She received her PhD in English and American Literature from the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of numerous articles and several books including: The Invisible Drama: Women and the Anxiety of Change; The Subversive Imagination: Artists, Society and Social Responsibility; Zones of Contention: Essays on Art, Institutions, Gender, and Anxiety; Surpassing the Spectacle: Global Transformations and the Changing Politics of Art; Thinking in Place: Art, Action, and Cultural Production; the memoirs, Losing Helen and George's Daughter. Her forthcoming books: A Time of Radical Imagining: California 1968-1978 (Routledge). She travels widely, often lecturing on art, artists, and their place in society. Her other writing can be found at http://caroldbecker.com. She works closely with the World Economic Forum’s program on art, culture, and leadership.
News
Dean Emerita and Professor of the Arts Carol Becker is releasing her new book, George’s Daughter, with publisher Spuyten Duyvil in February/March 2025.
Dear fellow members of the Columbia community, I write to share that Carol Becker, Dean of our School of the Arts, plans to step down at the end of this academic year.
Dean Carol Becker gave The Dean’s Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons last month, to a live audience at Vagelos College, and an online audience of hundreds.
The School of the Arts dean will speak about Thomas Merton and Ernesto Cardenal, both writers, priests, and revolutionaries who attended Columbia.
Los Angelos Review of Books presents a symposium reflecting on 9/11, curated and introduced by Brad Evans, featuring an essay by Dean Carol Becker.
A federal program, like the WPA, can create new narratives for an evolving society more equitable and inclusive than those of the past or present.
School of the Arts Dean Carol Becker explores the idea of experimental preservation with Jorge Otero-Pailos and Sam Van Aken.
The pandemic has made us recognize the interconnectivity of art, nature and humanity.