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New faculty at Bennington
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A timeless through line of every Bennington experience is the profound impact the faculty have on a studentβs education. This year Bennington welcomes six new faculty members, whose work is concentrated in disciplines that range from literature to voice, mathematics to language. Each of these teacher-practitioners emerged as finalists following extensive and highly competitive national searches. Accomplished, ambitious, interesting, and diverseβthe College welcomes the following faculty members to our extraordinary community.
BENJAMIN ANASTAS LITERATURE Anastas is the author of the novels An Underachieverβs Diary (Dial Press Trade, 2009), recently re-released in paperback by the Dial Press, and The Faithful Narrative of a Pastorβs Disappearance (FSG, 2002), which was a New York Times notable book. His memoir Too Good to Be True (Little A / New Harvest) was published in October 2012. Other work has appeared in The Paris Review, Harperβs, The New York Times Magazine, Bookforum, The Yale Review, and The Best American Essays 2012. He has taught at Columbia University and is a core faculty member in Benningtonβs Master of Fine Arts in Writing program. MFA, University of Iowa Writerβs Workshop; BA, University of Rochester.
NOΓLLE ROUXEL-CUBBERLY FRENCH Rouxel-Cubberly is back at the Isabelle Kaplan Center for Languages and 3 6 β’ b e n n i n g t o n ma g az i n e
Culture after 12 years at the City University of New York. She served as an assistant professor and acting coordinator of the French Program at the College of Staten Island (CUNY). Involved in the education of French teachers at the Graduate Center, she also developed an internship program for CSI students in a French duallanguage program at PS58, a Brooklyn elementary school. Her most recent publications include a chapter on Claire Denisβs opening sequences as well as articles on film and pedagogy, such as βThe Film Trailer Project: French Films as Textbooks.β Her book Les titres de film (Michel Houdiard, 2011) examines the economics and evolution of French film titles since 1968. Over the last 15 years, she has also worked as a translator and linguistic coach for two U.S. biotech companies. Her current projects include an article, βUniversity and Elementary school students learning (French) togetherβ and the publication of a
19th-century literary correspondence. PhD, CUNYβs Graduate Center.
ROBIN KEMKES PUBLIC POLICY Kemkes teaches public policy, specializing in the political economy of the environment and behavioral and institutional economics. She is interested in the interconnections between social and ecological systems, and her research focuses on community forest governance and rural development in post-socialist states. She has conducted fieldwork in the Republic of Georgia, where she assessed the impact of changing forest policies and commercial development on rural household livelihoods in the Greater Caucasus. She was the recipient of the 2013 Galbraith Prize for outstanding dissertation research from the Department of Economics at the University of Massachusetts. PhD in Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; MS, Community Development