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Douglas Kohn, Professor
DEPARTMENT : Liberal Arts Department"I look for readings that are interesting both to me and hopefully to my students. I won't use anything in class that I don't think is well written. In the literature classes, I tend to draw from the literary end of popular fiction. I find something contemporary, then make the connection to a classic. So, for example, if I wanted to teach Oedipus I would find a modern version, then go back to the original."
Read More- Ph.D., Brandeis University, English and American Literature
- B.A., M.A., Masaryk University, English
- Articles published in African American Review and Twentieth-Century Literature
- Poems and translations published in Circumference, Free Your Voice, and The Hollins Critic
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Lori Landay, Professor
DEPARTMENT : Liberal Arts Department"In Language of Film I give students a three-part project. Their first assignment is to write an original screenplay of a scene or short-short film, and write a paper about it. Next they storyboard their screenplay and write a paper about that. In the third assignment, we improvise a scene and shoot some footage, which they edit together on their laptops; then they write a paper about editing. Students learn about how people make choices, and film scoring students gain insight into the directors with whom they have to communicate. It's probably the most exciting thing I've done at Berklee."
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"In addition to wanting my students to consider things from more than one perspective, I'd like them to take away a real sense of how connected they are. They talk a lot about how hard that can be: how fast-paced things are and how even with technology you can stay connected but you're not in the same room. I think a lot of things they experience at Berklee do let them feel a sense of community—and not just the college community, but also Boston and the much larger global community they're interacting with on a regular basis."
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Ed McGrath, Professor
DEPARTMENT : Liberal Arts Department"All of my classes are interactive. And I believe that learning ought to be fun. If therapy is educational, then education should be therapeutic. A social science course is required, but if you have reciprocal respect and make learning fun, then students will want to keep coming back."
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Rekha Menon, Professor
DEPARTMENT : Liberal Arts Department"I've always been interested in the interdisciplinary nature of the arts, and at Berklee I have the opportunity to integrate music, dance, and visual art and teach courses such as Indian Art, Music and Dance, Asian Art, and Global Perspectives in Post-Modern Art. Music doesn't stand alone, but works together with visual art and dance, with its emphasis on breaking down the categorical boundaries between 'distinct' art forms. The interdisciplinary nature of my courses gives students the opportunity to see how art history, music, dance, and philosophy are mutually related."
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Amy Merrill, Associate Professor
DEPARTMENT : Liberal Arts Department"Berklee students are a very diverse group, ranging from students who are very uncomfortable with academic learning to students who really enjoy reading and writing and discussing other things beside music. I've had some wonderful writers. I'm trying to encourage the students to think of themselves as creative learners, with no dichotomy between literature and music."
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Gary Miller, Associate Professor
DEPARTMENT : Liberal Arts Department"You get students from all over the place. Last year we were talking about Occupied France during the war, Vichy France. Do people collaborate, do they resist? I had a student who was French, and his grandfather faced that very question. As I recall, his grandfather was terrified. Once we were talking about the '20s in Germany, where there was hyperinflation. The government was printing ever-larger denominations, like one trillion marks. A student brought in a whole bunch of this money. We were passing it around and looking at it."
Read More- M.A., University of Erlangen - Nurnberg
- A.B.D., Boston University
- Recipient of Boston University Humanities Scholarship and Kress Foundation Fellowship awards
- Former faculty member at Boston University and Northeastern University
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"I have been teaching the Japanese language for more than 10 years. My Berklee students are all really interested in Japanese culture and language. I think most of them want to go to Japan. And another thing is they have Japanese friends here, and they want to be able to communicate to their friends. Every semester I have at least two or three students who have boyfriends or girlfriends who are Japanese. That's the reason they come to the class. They will study for one semester, and then when they have a vacation they will go to Japan and see their girlfriends' and boyfriends' parents. I think it's a good incentive to learn a language!"
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