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2016 Faculty & Fellows

Emily AbendrothEmily Abendroth is a poet, teacher and anti-prison activist living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her creative work often uses interventionist and documentary poetic strategies as exploratory tools for the investigation and “making strange” of otherwise all too familiar socio-political dynamics, relationships and intimacies. Her pieces are often published in limited edition, handcrafted chapbooks by small and micropresses such as Albion Press, Belladonna, Horse Less Press, Little Red Leaves, and Zumbar. She has been awarded residencies at the MacDowell Colony, the Millay Colony and the Headlands Center for the Arts, and was named a 2013 Pew Fellow in Poetry. Her poetry book ]Exclosures[ is available from Ahsahta Press. She is an active organizer with Decarcerate PA (a grassroots campaign working to end mass incarceration in Pennsylvania) and is co-founder of Address This! (an education and empowerment project that provides innovative, social justice correspondence courses to individuals incarcerated in Pennsylvania).

Melissa Catanese and Ed PanarMelissa Catanese & Ed Panar (Faculty)
Melissa Catanese lives in Pittsburgh and is founder of Spaces Corners, an artist-run photobook shop and project space. She most recently exhibited in Secondhand at Pier 24 Photography in San Francisco and in The Photographer’s Playspace at the Aperture Foundation in New York. She has been editing from a vast collection of over 20,000 photographs belonging to collector Peter J. Cohen for some years, and in 2012 she authored the celebrated photobook Dive Dark Dream Slow (The Ice Plant, 2012).

Ed Panar is a photographer and bookmaker currently residing in the forested hills and hollows of Pittsburgh. He has published numerous photobooks including: Nothing Changes if Nothing Changes (Spaces Corners & The Ice Plant, 2013), Salad Days (Gottlund Verlag, 2011), Animals That Saw Me (The Ice Plant, 2011), Same Difference (Gottlund Verlag, 2010), and Golden Palms (J&L Books, 2007). His photographs and books have been exhibited internationally at venues including: The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Nofound Photofair, Paris, The New York Photography Festival and the Cleveland Museum of Art.

In 2014, Catanese and Panar were artists-in-residence at the Carnegie Museum of Art where they programmed The Sandbox: At Play With The Photobook. Together in 2016, they served as The Georgette and Richard Koopman Distinguished Chair in the Visual Arts at the Hartford Art School.

Brunco CeschelBruno Ceschel (Faculty) is a writer, curator and lecturer at the University of the Arts London. He is the founder of Self Publish, Be Happy (SPBH), an organization that supports and promotes the work of emerging photographers. SPBH has organised events at a number of institutions around the world, including The Photographer’s Gallery, ICA London, The Serpentine Galleries, C/O Berlin, Aperture Foundation and Kunsthal Charlottenborg amongst others. Most recently, SPBH has published books by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Cristina De Middel, Mariah Robertson and Lorenzo Vitturi. 

Ceschel writes regularly for a number of publications including FOAM, The British Journal of Photography and Aperture Magazine and has guest-edited issues of Photography and Culture, Ojo de Pez and The PhotoBook Review.

 

Tony CokesTony Cokes is a post-conceptualist whose practice foregrounds social critique. He makes video, installation, and other works that reframe appropriated materials to reflect upon capitalism, subjectivity, knowledge and pleasure. Sound always functions in his practice as a crucial, intertextual element, complicating minimal visuals. Cokes' works have appeared in exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Centre Georges Pompidou, ZKM, Karlsruhe, REDCAT, Los Angeles, and La Cinémathèque Française, Paris. His projects have been supported by grants and fellowships from The Rockefeller Foundation, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Creative Capital Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, and residencies from The Getty Research Institute and the Yaddo Colony. Cokes is a Professor in Media Production and former Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University.

C.S. GiscombeC. S. Giscombe's books of poems include Ohio Railroads (Omnidawn, 2014), Prairie Style (Dalkey Archive Press, 2008), Giscome Road (Dalkey Archive Press, 1998), and Here (Dalkey Archive Press, 1994). Border Towns, a collection of essays on poetry, color, television and beyond, is forthcoming from Dalkey Archive in 2016. Giscombe is also the author of Into and Out of Dislocation (North Point Press, 2000), a travelogue-memoir in prose. Giscombe graduated with degrees in English from University at Albany and Cornell University. At Cornell, he edited Epoch magazine. His honors and awards include the Stephen Henderson Award in Poetry, the American Book Award, and the Carl Sandburg Prize, as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fund for Poetry, the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars, and the Canadian Embassy. Giscombe has taught at Cornell University, Syracuse University, and Penn State. He currently teaches poetry at the University of California, Berkeley.

Renee GladmanRenee Gladman (Faculty) is an artist and writer preoccupied with lines, crossings, thresholds, geographies, and syntaxes as they play out in the interstices of poetry and fiction. She is the author of nine works of prose and one collection of poetry. Her recent titles include Calamities (Wave Books, forthcoming 2016), the Ravicka novels Event Factory (2010), The Ravickians (2011), and Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge (2013), all published by Danielle Dutton’s Dorothy Project, and a short crime novel Morelia forthcoming from Solid Objects Press. Her own publishing ventures comprise the zine Clamour (1996-1999), Leroy Chapbook series (1999-2003), and the perfect-bound press Leon Works (since 2005). Born in Atlanta, GA, in 1971, Gladman studied Philosophy at Vassar College and Poetics at New College of California. She has taught at several U.S. universities, most extensively as a professor of creative writing at Brown University. In 2014-2015, she was a fellow at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, where she worked on Prose Architectures, an interdisciplinary project exploring the continuum between sentences and drawings. She lives in Providence, RI, with poet-ceramicist, Danielle Vogel.

Amy MoschavakisAnna Moschovakis is a writer, translator, and editor based in the Catskill mountains and in Brooklyn. She is a longstanding member of the publishing collective Ugly Duckling Presse and recently co-founded BUSHEL, a new mixed-use storefront space in Delhi, NY.
Elana SchlenkerElana Schlenker (Faculty) is an art director and graphic designer. Through her independent studio practice she creates visual identities, books and publications, interactive projects, and environmental graphics.

Elana has received the Art Directors Club Young Gun award (2015) and been named to Print magazine’s annual New Visual Artist list (2013), a distinction recognizing the top twenty creative talents under age thirty. She was also selected for the Center for Architecture’s Graphic Design Shortlist (2015). Prior to the establishment of her studio practice, Elana worked as an art director at Condé Nast and senior designer at Princeton Architectural Press.

Elana publishes Gratuitous Type, an occasional pamphlet of typographic smut, and is the creator of Less Than 100, a traveling pop up shop for gender wage parity. Elana serves on the Board of Directors of the Silver Eye Center for Photography.