B.A., Wesleyan University; M.A., Smith College. Trained at American Conservatory Theater. Taught at Vassar College (Powerhouse Theater), Smith College, New School University, Ramapo College, Metropolitan Opera Guild. Artistic director and cofounder, Voice & Vision Theatre Company. Directed productions at Voice & Vision, New York Theatre Workshop, New York Stage & Film Company, Manhattan Class Company, HERE, Wheelock Family Theatre, others. (2000– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Theater.

Since 1994, Hamza Walker has served as Director of Education for The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago - a non-collecting museum devoted to contemporary art. Prior to his position at The Society, he worked as a Public Art Coordinator for The Department of Cultural Affairs. He has written articles and reviews for such publications as Trans, New Art Examiner, Parkett and Artforum. For several years before its closing, he served on the board of Randolph Street Gallery and is currently on the boards of Noon, an annual publication of short fiction, and Lampo, a non-profit presenter of new and experimental music. He has served on numerous panels, locally, nationally and internationally and is the recipient of the 1999 Norton Curatorial Grant. Instructor, Painting and Drawing (2004). BA, Art History, University of Chicago. Concurrent position: Director of Education, The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago. Panelist/Juror: University of Minnesota; Illinois Arts Council; California College of Arts and Crafts; Emily Hall Tremain Foundation; The Arts Council; Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis. Publications: New Art Examiner; Art Muscle; Dialogue; Parkett, and catalogue and brochure essays for Rebecca Morris; Jo Hormuth; Michael Lash; Jno Cook, and Small Things. Award: Peter Norton Curator's Grant.

A.B., M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University. Areas of interest: music composition, piano performance, musicology. Compositions performed in New York, Boston, and western Massachusetts. Active as a chamber music pianist; performs on harpsichord and organ with the Berkshire Bach Society. Writings about Charles Ives published in Musical Quarterly and Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Music; articles about Brahms published in The Compleat Brahms. Music faculty, Simon’s Rock College of Bard (1973– ).

B.A., Colgate University; M.A., University of Virginia. Chief curator and director of exhibitions, International Center of Photography. Former curator, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; former senior editor, Art in America. Noted writer and editor. Publications include Art Matters: How the Culture Wars Changed America; Land Art; Constructing Masculinity; Rock My Religion: Writings and Art Projects by Dan Graham, 1965–1990; Democracy: A Project by Group Material; Blasted Allegories: Writings by Contemporary Artists; Art after Modernism: Rethinking Representation. Contributor to publications including Artforum, Art in America, Aperture, Washington Post, New York Times, Village Voice. Taught at Yale University, Williams College, New York University, City University of New York.

B.A., Washington University; M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University. Teaching interests include modern American novel, 20th-century American and African American literature, critical race theory, racial sentimentalism. Recipient, Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, Honorable Mention (2004); Columbia University Dissertation Writing Fellowship (2003–04); Andrew Mellon Dissertation Grant (2003). Has lectured at Columbia on “Literature Humanities.” (2007– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature.