Bennington College announced the appointment of nine new faculty members for the 2022-23 school year. These include neurodiverse activists and change-makers, multiple trans scholars, women in traditionally underrepresented fields and two former Bennington College students, among others.
“Each new faculty member is a strategic partner who will help shape the Bennington experience for our students,” said Bennington College President Laura Walker. “They bring a diversity of personal experience and ideas to the campus and their work and are perfectly aligned to the Bennington tradition of practice and thought. We are very excited about their arrival this year and look forward to their engagement with the larger college and community.”
New faculty are:
- Meltem Ballan, Computer Science, a technology executive and educator with more than 20 years' experience in industry and academia.
- Terry Boddie, Photography, a photographer and multidisciplinary artist who explores historical and contemporary aspects of memory, migration and globalization through his personal experience as a first-generation immigrant.
- Shawtane Bowen, Drama, a writer, actor and producer.
- Franny Choi, Literature, a poet and essayist who works at the intersections of race, gender, technology, history and the speculative imagination.
- Anais Duplan '14, Literature, a poet, curator and artist.
- Anina Major, Ceramics, a visual artist from the Bahamas.
- Farhad Mirza '12, Digital Arts, an architect and artist.
- Teddy Pozo, Media Studies, a scholar and artist who studies haptic media: touch, intimacy and bodies in video games, media history and virtual worlds.
- Beatriz Sangiago Munoz, Film and Video, an artist whose expanded moving image work is entangled with Boalian theater, cinema and feminist practices.