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

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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

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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)

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