Hunter College - Notable Faculty

Notable Faculty

• Meena Alexander, poet
• Peter Carey (novelist) an internationally renowned novelist, who has won the Booker Prize twice.
• LaWanda Cox, historian of slavery and reconstruction
• Roy DeCarava, photographer, cofounder in 1963, of the Kamoinge Workshop in New York City. Distinguished Professor of Arts at Hunter
• Emil Draitser author
• Nathan Englander, (novelist) is the author of For the Relief of Unbearable Urges (Knopf, 1999) and The Ministry of Special Cases (Random House, 2007). He is the recipient of the PEN/Faulkner Malamud Award.
• Norman Finkelstein, American political scientist and author
• Helen Frankenthaler, artist
• Godfrey Gumbs, physicist
• H. Wiley Hitchcock, musicologist
• Eva Hoffman, (writer) is a Polish writer whose books include Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language and After Such Knowledge: Memory, History and the Legacy of the Holocaust.
• Tina Howe, American playwright
• Bo Lawergren, physicist and musicologist
• Robert Motherwell, artist
• Jan Heller Levi, American poet
• Colum McCann, novelist
• Leonard Peikoff, Ayn Rand's intellectual heir and founder of the Ayn Rand Institute, taught philosophy at Hunter College for approximately ten years.
• Paul Ramirez Jonas, artist
• Blake Schwarzenbach, singer/guitarist of Jawbreaker and Jets to Brazil, currently teaches creative writing classes at Hunter.
• Tom Sleigh, (poet) is the author of six volumes of poetry, and is the recipient of numerous literary awards including, most recently, the 2008 Kingsley Tufts Award worth $100,000
• Tony Smith (sculptor)
• Leo Steinberg, American Art Historian
• John Kennedy Toole, late professor and author of the posthumously published Pulitzer Prize winning novel A Confederacy of Dunces
• Blanche Colton Williams, professor of English literature and head of the English department