Faculty

Jessica Blaustein

Part-Time Lecturer

PhD, Program in Literature at Duke University

Research, teaching, and editorial activities span architecture, literature, and visual and material cultural studies. She most recently led the New York Prize Fellowship program for advanced research and experimental practice in public architecture at Van Alen Institute, and she is a commissioning editor for the Alphabet City series. She has published on the spatial politics of citizenship, theories of embodiment and subjectivity, and the cultural history of privatization, and her awards include fellowships and grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Smithsonian Institution Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, and the Getty Research Institute. Blaustein previously taught across the humanities and the arts at the University of Pennsylvania, as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, and Duke University.

Courses Taught

Urban Media Lab: Strangers 

Urban Media Lab: Waste