On behalf of the School of Media Studies here at The New School, we’d like to welcome our new faculty member, Fabiola Hanna, who joins us this semester as Assistant Professor of Emerging Media. Fabiola will be teaching Media Practices: Design and Designing Methods for
On November 26, SMS Faculty Neyda Martinez (producer, Decade of Fire) was a guest on WBAI’s radio program “Untitled,” hosted by Malika Lee Whitney with TNS alum Vivian Vazquez-Irizarry, co-director of Decade of Fire and Rosalba Rolon founding director of Pregones/PRTT theater and lead creative writer/director of TORCHED! Hear the interview
DAVID LIEBERMAN, Associate Professor, just wrote an article for Strategy+Business about the booming demand for pop music classics. He explains why we’re seeing so many sales of catalogs by legendary songwriters including Bob Dylan, Prince, Stevie Nicks, and Paul Simon. Buyers feel comfortable investing because streaming has all
Love and The City, two films by VLADAN NIKOLIC, Dean of the School of Media Studies, will screen October 25-27 at the first Festival of American Independent Cinema in Serbia, Lake Dance. He will also be in conversation with festival programmer Nikolaj Nikitin.
Part Time Faculty Member OSCAR FRASSER worked as a Cinematographer on “Cuba in Africa,” documentary film that has won 7 awards and 23 nominations in Europe and Africa. The film will be screened at FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DU FILM PANAFRICAIN DE CANNES on October 19, 2021. Cuba in Africa
SMS Faculty MELISSA FRIEDLING presented the paper, “Touching Teaching: Animating Care and Conjuring Closeness in Contactless Times” at the University Film and Video Association annual meeting in July 2021. She also reflected on the incredible work of students in her spring 2021 School of Media Studies course, Animating Resistance: The Subversive Art of Experimental