November 2026: Faculty and Staff Accomplishments

Professor Annie Bourneuf and Professor Jan Tichý will both speak on a panel at the UNESCO Library in Paris on November 16. The talk will accompany the exhibition Lucia Moholy: Photography as Transmission.

Professor, Adj. Eileen Favorite’s short fiction, “The Ghost Village,” was published by Michigan State University’s Short Edition.

Associate Professor, Adj. Nathanaël translated Caribbean poet Monchoachi's foundational work, Nostrom, in a trilingual volume published by Ccinia. Her poem, "Someone Screams across the Open Ocean,” was translated in Periodicity. She also provided the French translation for Benny Nemer's Quelques corps favorables.

Professor William J. O’Brien’s exhibition The Rest of Us is on view at Mount Mary University’s Marian Art Gallery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, through December 4. He’ll be giving an artist lecture to accompany the show on November 11.

Professor David Raskin had the poem "The Imperfect Is Our Paradise” published in Allium Journal.

Associate Professor, Adj. Andrew Scarpelli was named an Outstanding Instructor at the Biodesign Challenge Summit 2026. He also featured in the Chicago Tribune article “The overwhelming problem of plastic,” about conservation efforts in the Great Lakes.

Professor, Adj. Sonja Thomsen presented a workshop, “Whose eyes do you see through? Locating Hazel Larsen Archer and her ways of seeing,” as part of the ReVIEWING Black Mountain College conference in Asheville, North Carolina. She also presented a screening and conversation drawn from Two Schools, a multi-channel film in development centered on photographers Hazel Larsen Archer and Lucia Moholy, as part of her residency at the Cloud House.