Archives: Faculty

Janet Gilmore is a video artist and freelance video editor working for PBS; Little, Brown and Company; and several ad agencies in Boston. She has exhibited at the San Francisco Cinémathèque; Centro Cultural Santo Domingo, Mexico City; Collective for Living Cinema, NYC; Artist Space, NYC; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and San Francisco Art Institute … Read more

Max Grinnell has been fascinated by the question “What makes a city?” since he was young. Over the past fifteen years his writings on cities have appeared in the Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, the Guardian, the Chicago Tribune, Travel + Leisure, and other publications. He has taught urban studies and writing at MassArt since 2008. … Read more

Chico Colvard is an award winning documentary film maker, whose works have shown and been broadcast internationally. Chico’s films include Family Affair (2010), which premiered in competition at Sundance, and Black Memorabilia, a feature length documentary that examines the culture around the collectibles and antiques that serve as reminders of America’s racial past and present. … Read more

Michael Pak is a historian who specializes in intellectual and cultural history. He has a PhD from Harvard and now lives in Korea, where he is Associate Professor and Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology). He is currently working on several book projects. … Read more

Karla Odenwald has a PhD from the City University of New York, an ABD from Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, and an MA and BA from Queens College, NY. She teaches philosophy, writing, and, literature at MassArt, Suffolk University, Northeastern University.

Paul Andre Bempéchat holds a DMA (Piano/Musicology) from Boston University, a Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies (M.Phil.) (Musicology and Comparative Literature) from Université de Paris Sorbonne, an MMus (Piano) from the Juilliard School, NY, and an MMus (Piano) and BMus (Piano) from the Manhattan School of Music. He has taught extensively throughout North America and Europe at … Read more

Kitty Kumar is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University with a passion for biologically inspired applications in practical physics, including advanced designs in ultrathin silicon photovoltaics, and in 3d printed, functionally graded, robotic grippers. Kitty holds a BSc in Engineering Science from Govt. College for Women, Punjab, India; an MSc in Optics and Electronics from … Read more

Saúl Nava is a biologist, Professor of Biology and Life Sciences and Chair of the newly created Department of Integrative Sciences and Biological Arts at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.  His research focuses on the ecology and evolution of animal behavior, communication, and vision.  He conducts field work studying lizard behavior and ecology and … Read more

Lin Haire-Sargeant is Assistant Professor of Writing at MassArt and is also a playwright and involved with theater. Plays produced include: Silence, Into the House, Dead, Swallowing the Spider, Green Pastures, and the Doppelganger Effect. She was co-founder and artistic director of the Outloud Theater (1992-1997); co-curator: Blue Moon Poets and Playwrights (1993-1997); co-founder, revolving … Read more

Elaine Mawhinney is professor emerita of English, dance, and creative arts at Northern Essex Community College. Since 2004 she has designed and presented online courses in Western literature and exploring the arts. She received an AB from Emmanuel College, an MA from Northeastern University, and an MM in music from the University of Massachusetts. In … Read more