Professor Yelavich awarded a 2018 Bogliasco Fellowship

Published on: December 11th, 2017

Susan Yelavich, Associate Professor of Design Studies, has been awarded a month’s residency at the Bogliasco Foundation in Bogliasco, Italy, located outside of the city of Genoa. (See: https://www.bfny.org/en/fellows/upcoming-fellows)

While she is there in February 2018, Yelavich will be working on the final chapter of her book Thinking Design through Literature (Routledge, 2019). She joins a distinguished group of 32 artists, composers, musicians, performers, writers, and scholars of the humanities and literature, who have made significant contributions to the arts and humanities. During her absence, Jilly Traganou will serve as Acting Director of the MA Design Studies program.

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Caroline Dionne, Program Director

Program Update

Parsons is not currently admitting new students to this master’s degree program. Parsons is now offering a Graduate Minor in Design Studies that is designed to complement the MA History of Design and Curatorial Studies and other graduate programs across the university in design, liberal arts, and social research.