Faculty

Pianist and harpsichordist Magdalena Stern-Baczewska is the Director of the Music Performance Program at the Department of Music, Columbia University.

Michael Taussig's most recent publications include Beauty and the Beast (2012) and The Corn Wolf (2015).

Ann D. Thornton is the Columbia University Librarian and Vice Provost. Thornton comes to Columbia after almost two decades at the New York Public Libraries, where she was the Andrew W. Mellon Director.

Professor Van Dyck writes and teaches on Modern Greek literature and culture, gender, diaspora and translation. She received her D.Phil in Modern Greek Literature from the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, Oxford, 1990. She is the author of Kassandra and the Censors: Greek Poetry since 1967 (Cornell, 1998; in translation Agra 2002) and The Rehearsal of Misunderstanding: Three Collections by Contemporary Greek Women Poets (Wesleyan 1998) and editor of The Scattered Papers of Penelope: New and Selected Poems by Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke (Anvil, 2008; Graywolf, 2009)

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.

James Zetzel is the Anthon Professor of the Latin Language and Literature at Columbia University, where he has held a teaching appointment since 1986.