Staff Contributors
Hillary Chute
Hillary Chute is Distinguished Professor of English and Art + Design at Northeastern University. She is the author or editor of seven books on comics and graphic narratives, and has collaborated with the cartoonists Art Spiegelman and Alison Bechdel. She has written for venues including Artforum, The Atlantic, Bookforum, the Village Voice, the New York Review of Books, and the New York Times Book Review.
Tom Starr
Thomas Starr is professor of graphic and information design at Northeastern University. His work focuses on visual communication that engages civic, social and political discourse, challenging the public perception of issues such as gun violence, domestic violence, reproductive rights, and climate change. His work has been honored by the American Institute of Graphic Arts, Association of American University Presses, Art Directors Club of New York and the Federal Design Council.
Sponsors
Northeastern University’s Department of Art + Design
Whether you are studying design, media art, or game design, the Department of Art + Design seeks to cultivate your talents as a source of original ideas and expressions of an inner life, using classical, current, and emerging media. You are inspired and challenged to create powerful new works. You will gain visual literacy and fluency with professional art, design, and game design practices in the context of a liberal arts education. You can be transformed into a creative force, ready to realize your potential and create cultural value and social benefit.
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Northeastern University’s Department of English
Northeastern University’s Department of English prepares students to enter fields wherever reading, writing, and communicating are valued. The degree, certificate and international exchange programs, and cutting-edge research centers are putting into place the intellectual and institutional infrastructure required to create lasting solutions for social, economic and environmental challenges.
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Northeastern University’s Center for the Arts
The Center for the Arts is a generative hub for interdisciplinary research, exhibitions, and programming in and through the arts. It promotes the academic mission, research, cultural leadership, and artistic and intellectual enrichment of the College and University.
Visit the website of Northeastern University’s Center for the Arts