This Is Who We Are

This Is Who We Are is a series featuring Columbia University School of the Arts’ professors, covering careers, pedagogy, and art-making.

This Is Who We Are is a series featuring Columbia University School of the Arts’ professors, covering careers, pedagogy, and art-making.

This Is Who We Are is a series featuring Columbia School of the Arts’ professors, covering careers, pedagogy, and art-making.

Associate Professor Bogdan Apetri '06 shares his thoughts about the intersection of life experience and filmmaking, the art of cas

We talk with Associate Professor Wendy Walters about the interplay between poetry and nonfiction, the art of concealing knee-deep

Professor Lance Weiler shares his thoughts about the potential and challenges of generative AI, the importance of interdisciplinar

We talk with Professor Brian Kulick about theatre as a gamble, perseverance, and why the director should be the most patient perso

We talk with Professor James Schamus about the film industry as a dream factory in need of regulations, how we’re constantly creat

We talk with Assistant Professor Chloé Cooper Jones about writing as a safe space, the tension within the self, and how writers ca

We talk with Associate Professor of Visual Arts and Director of Sound Art Miya Masaoka about the tension between tradition and inn

We talk with Professor Jaquira Díaz about using the first person plural, writing about your own community, and why you should be w

Here, we talk with Professor Leslie Jamison about empathy on the page, why she sees herself as a bowerbird writer, and how teachin