Cornell University
ARTH 2500 History of Photography
Teaching Assistant to Prof. Andrew Moisey
M-W 11:40am – 12:55pm
Section handled 201 R 1:25-2:15pm

Provides a lecture survey of the history of photography over a course of two centuries. Starting with its invention in the 1830s, covers the subject topically and chronologically. During the nineteenth century, focus is on technical developments and on the complex relations that situate photography in relation to painting, portraiture, urban life, war, anthropology and ethnology, exploration and travel, and science and industry. Over the course of the twentieth century, photography is enriched by new developments: its use as a modernist and experimental art form, in social documentary and photojournalism, in propaganda, in advertising and fashion. In recent decades, photography has assumed a centrality in the practice of conceptual postmodern art, and is currently undergoing a major transformation in the age of digital media.

Cornell University
ARTH 2805 Material Worlds
Teaching Assistant to Profs. Kaja McGowan & An-Yi Pan
T-Th 11:40am – 12:55pm
Section handled 201 R 1:25-2:15pm and 202 F 1:25-2:15pm

Trade in and to Asia proved to be a key force in creating our modern “globalized” world. The Indian Ocean and the China Seas converged on Southeast Asia, where a cosmopolitan array of ships from every shore plied their trade, set sail, and returned with the monsoon winds. People, goods, and ideas also traveled on camelback across the undulating contours of the Gobi Desert, connecting India, the Near East and Central Asia with China, Korea, and Japan. This course introduces students to the raw ingredients of things in motion, poised interactively in time and space, as material worlds collide. Wood, bamboo, bronze, clay, earthenware, ink, spices, textiles and tea – students will navigate sites of encounter at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum from pre modern to the present.

Cornell University
ARTH 2600 Introduction to Modern Western Art: Materials, Media, and the End of Masterpieces
Teaching Assistant to Prof. Kelly Presutti
M-W 11:40am – 12:55pm
Sections handled 201 F 10:10 – 11:00am, 202 F 11:10-12:15

This course offers a broad introduction to some of the artistic practices that have come to be known as “modern” in Europe and the United States. Beginning with the upheavals of the French Revolution and carrying through to the turmoil of two world wars, we will survey the role of both fine art and visual culture in a period of great political, social, and technological change. The very definition of art was revolutionized in this moment, as an emphasis on materials and experiments with new media like photography and cinema took precedence over the production of highly-skilled masterpieces. Particular attention will be given to exchanges between western representation and that of other cultures. Topics covered include revolutionary propaganda; romantic unreason; caricature and political critique; the changing pace of the modern city; architecture in the machine age; the place of women in modernity; and the impact of new technology on spectatorship. Students should leave the course with increased familiarity with key art movements in the modern era and the skills to analyze and appreciate art and visual culture from any period. 

Cornell University
ARTH 2805 Material Worlds
Teaching Assistant to Profs. Kaja McGowan & An-Yi Pan
T-Th 11:40am – 12:55pm
Section handled 201 F 10:10 – 11:00am

Trade in and to Asia proved to be a key force in creating our modern “globalized” world. The Indian Ocean and the China Seas converged on Southeast Asia, where a cosmopolitan array of ships from every shore plied their trade, set sail, and returned with the monsoon winds. People, goods, and ideas also traveled on camelback across the undulating contours of the Gobi Desert, connecting India, the Near East and Central Asia with China, Korea, and Japan. This course introduces students to the raw ingredients of things in motion, poised interactively in time and space, as material worlds collide. Wood, bamboo, bronze, clay, earthenware, ink, spices, textiles and tea – students will navigate sites of encounter at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum from pre modern to the present.

Cornell University

ARTH 1100 Art Histories
Teaching Assistant to Prof. Cynthia Robinson
T-Th 2:55-4:10
Section handled 204 M 11:10 – 12:00am

Topic for Fall 2023: Ornament

This course introduces students to the History of Art as a global and interdisciplinary field. Team-taught by a selection of professors from the department, in collaboration with members of the staff and faculty of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, its primary aim is to familiarize students with the most significant geographical areas, epochs and works of art, as well as with methods employed in their study and analysis. The course will be organized around a changing selection of themes central to the history of art. The theme for fall 2023 is “Ornament,” departing from a broad understanding of just what constitutes a work of art. In addition to painting, sculpture, and architecture, we will consider a range of objects of material culture, from ceramics to metalwork to the human body itself, paying particular attention to intersections of aesthetics and utility, and the attitudes of various cultures, from antiquity to the present, toward adornment and its interpretation.

Ateneo de Manila
ARTM101.05
ART HISTORY: 20TH CENTURY TO GLOBAL CONTEMPORARY ART,
MTH 1530-1700

This course surveys visual art from the 20th century to the present. Emphasis is given to works, figures, movements, and ideas that created new trajectories for art-making within specific social and historical contexts. While attention is devoted on art movements and practitioners within the purview of Western art history, discussions can expand on how they are reframed and enacted in multiple strands of modernism. FOCUS: With the advent of Abstract-Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism, the center of the avant-garde shifted from Europe to New York; then, in what is sometimes identified as Marshall Plan Modernism, the New York school was exported to Paris, sponsored by the International Section of The Museum of Modern Art, and the USIS.

Art App 10 A and C
Art Appreciation
MTh 800-930 and 1100-1230

This course provides an approach to art appreciation that integrates both personal context and various critical frameworks into opportunities for participation in the discourses centered on art and society. Through interactions with historical and contemporary art practices, students will gain insight into ongoing treatments of art across diverse cultures. This culminates in one’s humanistic understanding and response.

Ateneo de Manila
CRWR 170 A
Creative Writing: Poetics
TTh 0930-1100

This seminar course seeks to train creative writers to think about the theoretical foundations of their work and expose them to forms of writing that put poetic and narrative techniques at the service of self-critical writing.

ARTM 130 Writings by Artists
TTh 1230-1400
The course will focus on the intellectual work of 20th century Filipino visual artists.

Art App 10- Art Appreciation
MWF 1200-1400 and 1400-1600

Columbia University

ENGLGU4628 U.S. Latinx Literature
Teaching Assistant to Dr. Frances Negron-Muntaner (Until February 2, 2022)
TTh 1440-1555
No sections handled

The course will focus on Latinx literature in the United States from the turn of the twentieth century to the present with the objective of providing a historical, literary, and theoretical context for this production. It will examine a wide range of genres, including poetry, memoir, essays, and fiction, with special emphasis on works by Cubans, Dominicans, Mexican-Americans and Puerto Ricans. Among the authors that the course will study are Richard Rodríguez, Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherríe Moraga, Piri Thomas, Esmeralda Santiago, Julia Alvarez, Cristina García, Junot Diaz, John Leguizamo, and Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Ateneo De Manila

ARTM101.05
ART HISTORY: 20TH CENTURY TO GLOBAL CONTEMPORARY ART,
T-TH 1700-1830

This course surveys visual art from the 20th century to the present. Emphasis is given to works, figures, movements, and ideas that created new trajectories for art-making within specific social and historical contexts. While attention is devoted on art movements and practitioners within the purview of Western art history, discussions can expand on how they are reframed and enacted in multiple strands of modernism. FOCUS: With the advent of Abstract-Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism, the center of the avant-garde shifted from Europe to New York; then, in what is sometimes identified as Marshall Plan Modernism, the New York school was exported to Paris, sponsored by the International Section of The Museum of Modern Art, and the USIS.

Art App 10 NN and FF
Art Appreciation
TTh 1200-1400 and 1400-1600

This course provides an approach to art appreciation that integrates both personal context and various critical frameworks into opportunities for participation in the discourses centered on art and society. Through interactions with historical and contemporary art practices, students will gain insight into ongoing treatments of art across diverse cultures. This culminates in one’s humanistic understanding and response.

Columbia University

CSER1010 Introduction to Comparative Ethnic Studies
Teaching Assistant to Dr. Bahia Munem
MW 1010-1125 (402 Chandler)
Sections handled: Th 1100-1200, and 1300-1400

What is race and ethnicity? How do constructions of race and ethnicity continue to exert powerful effects in society and over individual lives (politically, socially, and economically) in the United States? This course addresses these questions and provides an introduction to the historical and contemporary ideas and manifestations of “ethnic studies” as a field of study—its subject matters, its methodologies and theories, its literatures, and its practitioners and institutional settings.