Faculty

Faculty

Suleika Jaouad is a graduate of Princeton University and Emmy Award winner for a New York Time Column: “Life Interrupted.” During the most recent pandemic she started: “The Isolation Journals“. Her book “Between Two Kingdom” is schedule to come out of press soon.

Suleika has also been involved in many keynote speeches. She has been a movie consultant on stories relating to cancer affecting young adults. She travels around the country teaching writing workshops and she regularly speaks at high schools, universities, hospitals, corporations, fundraisers and professional events. She has been featured on NPR’s Talk of The Nation and All Things Considered, NBC’s Weekend Today Show, Ken Burns’ PBS documentary The Emperor of All Maladies, CBS News, The Paris Review, The Norton Field Guide to Writing, Vogue, Into The Gloss, The Los Angeles Times and Darling Magazine, among others. Currently, Suleika splits her time between New York City and Vermont where she is currently working on her first book. Background: Suleika’s career aspirations as a war correspondent were cut short when, at age 22, less than a year after graduating from college, she was diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndrome and acute myeloid leukemia. After three years of chemotherapy, a life-saving clinical trial, and a bone marrow transplant, she is now in remission. She began writing the Life, Interrupted column from the bone marrow transplant unit at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and has since become a fierce advocate for those living with cancer and other chronic illnesses.

Professor Hedi A. Jaouad Retired professor of Literature at Skidmore College 

for 30 years. Professor Jaouad has published many books and articles. His most recent books are: Browningmania, America’s Love for Robert Browning, Brownings’ Shadow at Yaddo, Limitless Undying Love: The Ballad of John and Yoko and the Brownings

Anne Francey’s observation of the natural world has always been the point of departure in her clay work, evolving into a constant oscillation between representation and abstraction, organic shapes and geometric order, what’s being shown and what’s being hidden. Whether starting from a flower, a twig, an insect or a moss. Francey simplifies and flattens their shapes, blurring their visual identity in order to reveal a hidden meaning. Of her work, the artist states, “Could these abstracted forms of insects and plants, hardened for ever in the fired clay, become imprints of the past one day, like fossils of a bygone era?” Anne Francey currently resides in Saratoga Springs, New York. MFA in Visual Art, Hunter College New York City. Cont

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