Faculty

Cristobal Silva is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University where he teaches colonial and early American literature and culture as well as the history of medicine and of new world epidemics.

Pamela Smith's research interests include Early modern European history and the history of science; attitudes to nature in early modern Europe and the Scientific Revolution; and craft knowledge and historical techniques.

Professor Stille graduated with a B.A. from Yale University and earned an M.S. at Columbia. He has worked as a contributor to The New York Times, La Repubblica, The New Yorker magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, Correspondent, U.S. News & World Report, The Boston Globe, and The Toronto Globe and Mail.

Simon Taylor is completing his dissertation in the Department of History at Columbia University. Entitled The Modern Condition: The Invention of Anxiety, 1840-1970, the dissertation explores the process by which anxiety was transformed from a literary-philosophical trope in the mid-nineteenth century into the medicalized conception we have today.

Mark Wasiuta is faculty at Columbia University's GSAPP and director of exhibitions for the school. Wasiuta was trained as an architect and has broad experience as a designer in professional offices and with individually directed design and research projects. With Marcos Sánchez, he formed a partnership called IHA, the International House of Architecture.

Gareth Williams has taught at Columbia since 1992. His main publications center on Augustan poetry, especially Ovid’s exilic writings; and also on Seneca’s prose writings, including an edition of De Otio and De Breuitate Vitae (Cambridge 2003).

Pauline Yu became president of the American Council of Learned Societies in July 2003, having served as dean of humanities in the College of Letters and Science at the University of California, Los Angeles and professor of East Asian languages and cultures from 1994-2003.