Meet Our Faculty
Maria Negroni, Spanish
BA Universidad de Buenos Aires; MA, PhD, Columbia University; at SLC since 1999
“I am always struck by the fact that students keep in touch with us long after they have graduated, sharing their career and life developments.”
Poet
- La Boca del Infierno, 2010; forthcoming by Action Books in 2013
- Cantar la nada, 2011
- Arte y Fuga, 2008
- El viaje de la noche, 1994/Night Journey (Princeton University Press), winner, Argentine National Book Award
- Islandia, 1994/Islandia (Station Hill Press), PEN Award NY 2001
Essayist
- Pequeno Mundo Ilustrado/Lexicon for a Small World, 2011 (a treatise on aesthetics)
- Galeria Fantastica, 2009 (winner, Siglo XXI International Prize for Essay Writing)
- El Testigo Lucido: La Obra de Sombra de Alejandra Pizarnik, 2003
- Museo Negro, 1999
- Ciudad Gótica, 1994 (winner, Argentine National Book Award)
Novelist
- La Anunciación, 2007
- El Sueño de Ursula, 1998
Jamee Moudud, Economics
BS, M Eng, Cornell University; MA, PhD, The New School for Social Research; at SLC since 2000
"In the seminar, students are encouraged to take responsibility for what they read, rather than be passive recipients of the professor’s knowledge."
Economic Interests
- Macrodynamics and fiscal policy
- Business competition and the implications for development policy
- Sir Roy Harrod's contributions to growth and policy
- The role of the state in the development process
- Nonlinear econometrics in the study of public investment and tax rates in the US and abroad
Publications
- Alternative Theories of Competition: Challenges to the Orthodoxy, 2012 (co-editor)
- Strategic Competition, Dynamics, and the Role of the State, 2010
- Papers on the developmental state and expansionary fiscal policies in Harrod’s growth framework, International Journal of Political Economy, 2008-09
Judith Rodenbeck, Art History
BA, Yale University; BFA, Massachusetts College of Art; PhD, Columbia University; at SLC since 2000
"Part of our job in a student’s first year is to develop a rounded sense of that student’s intellectual interests, motivations, and style, precisely in order to give them the best and most honest advice possible."
Special Interests
- Modern and contemporary art
- Intersections between modernist literature, philosophy, and visual and time-based arts
- Art and technology
- Neo-avant-garde artists of the ’50s and ’60s
Foundation Support
- Noble Foundation
- Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation
- Henry Luce Foundation
Publications
- Radical Prototypes: Allan Kaprow and the Invention of Happenings (author)
- Experiments in the Everyday: Allan Kaprow and Robert Watts—Events, Objects, Documents (co-author)
- Art Journal (editor-in-chief ex officio)
- Artforum, Grey Room, Modern Painters, The Art Book (author, articles and reviews)