A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Z

Claudia Bader, MA, Pratt Inst.; board-certified art therapist; director of education, Inst. for Expressive Analysis; adj. professor, Pratt Inst. Graduate Art Therapy program; private practice in psychotherapy; creative arts therapist, Manhattan Psychiatric Center.

Edward Baker, BMus, Boston U.; keyboardist, Night Train Blues Band; active club and studio musician; studied arranging/orchestration with Don Sebesky.

William H. Banks, Jr., director of Harlem Writers Guild in NYC; producer/host of Metro Magazine TV program In Our Own Words (WYNE); author of a novel, A Love So Fine; co-authored Father Behind Bars with Arthur Hamilton.

Bea Banu, PhD, CUNY Graduate Center; specializing in philosophy of art, aesthetics, and ethics; co-editor of The Fieldston Reader, an anthology of readings in moral thinking for teenagers; formerly dean of Eugene Lang College, University Liberal Studies and chair of Parsons Liberal Studies at The New School.

Brad Barnes, MFA, NYU; MA, University of Manchester, UK; writer/director of two short films screened at Sundance Film Festival; other shorts exhibited widely at festivals including Woodstock, Clermont-Ferrand, London, Sarajevo and Barcelona; music videos have aired on MTV, CBS, CMT, and GAC; also teaches at the School for Film and Television and Columbia University.

Albert Bassano, wine reviewer for Bloomberg LP terminal; host of monthly radio hour on Bloomberg Money Show; features published in Los Angeles Times, SF Chronicle, and Rocky Mountain News; former specialist in energy affairs.

Cris Beam, MFA, Columbia U.; freelance writer for the public radio show This American Life, and several national magazines; has taught journalism at UC-Santa Cruz and creative writing and composition at Columbia U.

Bruce Beck, MA, Northwestern U.; culinary teacher since 1981; professional baker and product developer; stylist; photographer; author of Produce: A Fruit & Vegetable Lover's Guide and The Official Fulton Fish Market Cookbook.

Michele D. Beck, MFA, Parsons School of Design; video artist and performer; work shown at Fundacio Antoni Tapies (Barcelona), the Queens and Bronx Museums, and at video/film festivals internationally; writes on cultural criticism, most recently for Fundacio La Caxia (Barcelona).

Chris Beha, MFA, The New School; fiction and essays have appeared in The Believer, Tin House, and The New Delta Review, among other publications.

Karen Bell, MFA, RISD; widely exhibited and published photographer; has taught and lectured at FIT, RISD, ICP, and NY Studio Program.

Teresa A. Bell, MA, Columbia U.; MA, NYU; has taught Spanish at all levels at Columbia and Pace U.; teaches adult literacy in NYC; translation work (written and simultaneous) in Spanish, Portuguese, and English; bio-medical translator for Clinical Director's Network.

Jennifer Belle, best-selling author of two novels, Going Down and High Maintenance; stories and essays in the New York Times Magazine, London Independent Magazine, Harper's Bazaar, Ms., Black Book, and several anthologies.

Dianne Bellino, MFA, U. of Iowa; artist and filmmaker; short films screened at festivals and venues such as SXSW, New York Underground, Ann Arbor, MTV; latest film Slitch released on DVD by Drag City; has worked with directors Harmony Korine and the Farrelly Brothers.

Mindy Belloff, MA, NYU; fine artist represented in permanent collections of Victoria & Albert Museum and Natl. Museum of Women in the Arts; solo shows of artist books at Florida Atlantic U. and Rutgers U.; installations at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Sculpture Center, and P.S. 122; MacDowell Fellow; 2003 NEA Residency Book Grant.

Irina Belodedova, diploma, Kiev State U. (USSR); has taught at Harvard U., Norwich U., and Kiev State U.

Taoufik Ben Amor, PhD equiv., U. of Tunis; has taught and designed Arabic language courses at Columbia U. and Brooklyn College; taught at U. of Tunis; was Fulbright Scholar at Center for Research in Translation, SUNY-Binghamton; developed language program for the Peace Corps in Tunisia.

Jane J. Benardete, PhD, Harvard U.; emerita professor, Hunter College; edited American Realism: A Shape for Fiction, Companions of Our Youth: Women's Studies from the Young Folks Magazines, and Crumbling Idols; articles in Massachusetts Review, Henry James Review, Studies in American Fiction, and Choice.

Tisha Bender, PhD, London School of Economics; multimedia instructional designer for SUNY Learning Network; was acting program coordinator, New School Distance Learning; former project director of NYC Dept. of Urban Planning; has lectured at NYU and U. of Wisconsin; articles on distance learning.

Alon Ben-Meir, PhD, Oxford U.; lectures extensively on Middle Eastern and international security affairs; author of The Middle East: Imperatives and Choices, Israel: The Challenge of the Fourth Decade, In Defiance of Time, and A Framework for Arab-Israeli Peace; regular contributor to numerous publications.

John Bennette, curator, lecturer and writer; former discovery editor, Journal of Contemporary Photography.

Caroline Berger, MFA, The New School; her short fiction has appeared most recently in La Petite Zine and Pindeldyboz; co-host of a monthly reading series in Manhattan.

Brett H. Berk, MA, Hunter College; short stories have appeared in Tin House, Other Voices, The Mississippi Review, and Another Chicago Magazine; his first collection, Model House, was short-listed for the Flannery O'Connor Award; has just completed his first novel.

Roshelle Berliner, BFA, Parsons; production design credits include In the Bedroom, Emmett's Mark, La Ciudad, Mambo Café, The Upright Citizen's Brigade for Comedy Central, Reading Rainbow for PBS, and Paramour for AMC; commercial work for Jordache Jeans, Oreo Cookies, and the Discovery Channel.

Carolyn Vellenga Berman, PhD, Brown U.; author of Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery and articles in Novel, Genre, and Marvels and Tales; lecturer in comparative literature at Yale.

Caterina Bertolotto, Laurea, U. of Turin (Italy); has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Montclair State College, and Pratt Inst.

Jay Bianchi, MMus, U. of Miami; pop/rock producer and jazz pianist; has performed throughout the U.S. and Britain with his own group and with Grammy winner Nigel Kennedy and EMI artist David Heath.

Emily Bills, PhD, NYU Institute of Fine Arts; modern art historian specializing in the history of architecture and urban planning, telecommunications, and urban history of Los Angeles; ACLS Award recipient; has taught at NYU, Pratt Inst., and Colorado College.

David Bindman, MA, Wesleyan U.; tenor saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, and composer; leads his own ensemble and co-leads the Brooklyn Sax Quartet; has performed with Talking Drums, royal hartigan, Wadada Leo Smith, and Fred Ho, among others.

Margaret Boe Birns, MA, Columbia U.; adj. asst. professor, NYU; recipient of SCE Award for teaching excellence; articles published in New York Times, The Cunning Craft: Essays on Contemporary Theory & Detective Fiction, Literary Review, Massachusetts Review, Women's Studies, etc.

Nicholas Birns, PhD, NYU; editor, Antipodes; author of Understanding Anthony Powell; co-editor of Companion to 20th-Century Australian Literature; has written for Studies, European Romantic Review, Southern Quarterly, Arizona Quarterly, Religion and the Arts, and Review of Contemporary Fiction; has lectured in Sweden, the UK, and Australia.

Scott Blakeman, comedian and comedy writer; was co-host of NBC's Funny People and host of Cablevision's A Night at The New School; warm-up comedian for The Late Show with David Letterman; regular political humorist, USA Live; credits include Montreal's Just for Laughs Festival.

Abigail Burnham Bloom, PhD, NYU; managing editor, Victorian Literature and Culture; editor of Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers; co-editor of Anne Thackeray Ritchie: Journals and Letters; articles published on Thomas and Jane Carlyle and other Victorian writers; currently working on a book on Victorian novels and their movie adaptations.

Jenny Boully, MA, Hollins U.; MFA, U. of Notre Dame; author of The Body: An Essay; work anthologized in The Next American Essay, The Best American Poetry, and Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present; contributing editor for the magazine Maisonneuve, for which she also writes the column "Moveable Type."

Philip Bradford, former owner of New York City coffee shop and coffee bar; currently consultant to start-up coffee bars; leads walking tours of Manhattan neighborhoods.

Theresa M. Breland, MA, Columbia U. Teachers College; develops materials for business communication courses; delivers customized on-site corporate training; edits corporate documents; teaches ESL and business writing at Pace U.; has taught ESL at Columbia U. and U. of Miami.

Miriam Brickman, executive chef for a major advertising firm; noted cuisine authority and cooking instructor; studied at Le Cordon Bleu (Paris).

Kurt Brokaw, MS, U. of Wisconsin; former creative supervisor and group creative director, Grey Advertising, Cunningham & Walsch, Benton & Bowles; creative director, RCA records; cultural editor, MadAveJournal.com; teaching film noir series at 92nd Street Y.

Jeremy Brooke, MA, The New School; co-founder and treasurer, Eyepatch Inc., a multimedia company.

Elizabeth V. Brown, MFA, The New School, editor-at-large for LIT magazine; fiction and criticism has appeared in Newsday, Publishers Weekly, Now Culture, and Rain Taxi, among other publications.

Tod Bryant, MS, SUNY-Albany; author of The Working Photographer; freelance photographer specializing in location work for advertising, brochures, and annual reports; clients include GE, Xerox, Revlon, U.S. Olympic Committees, and Berlitz.

John Budde, BA, Brooks Inst.; cinematography and lighting designer, work includes commercials, documentaries, dramatic films, and music videos; PBS/NEA grant recipient; showings at MoMA, Whitney Museum, and international film festivals.

Elizabeth Burke, BA, Guilford College; co-founder/co-director, Clementine Gallery.

Kevin F. Burke, MA, NYU; vocalist, composer, and record producer; has worked with Jon Hendricks, Wynton Marsalis, Bobby McFerrin, Al Jarreau, Count Basie Orchestra, Manhattan Transfer, and Marc Cohn; has appeared on CBS Sunday Morning, NPR Live from Lincoln Center, and WBGO Jazz Brunch; castmember of Reminiscing in Tempo.

Michael Burke, MFA, NYU; feature film The Mudge Boy premiered at 2003 Sundance Film Festival and won the Outfest 2003 Grand Jury Award; other awards include 2000 Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award, Sundance Special Jury Award, 1999 NYU First Prize Wasserman Award, Richard Vague Production Grant; selected for 2000 Sundance Institute Writers and Filmmakers Lab; serves on selection advisory committee for Sundance Institute; teaches at NYU.