Voices of Immigration

…2021, www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/proclamation-ending-discriminatory-bans-on-entry-to-the-united-states/. Vohra, Anchal. “Biden Rescinds Trump’s Muslim Ban, Pledges to Accept More Refugees.” ORF, https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/biden-rescinds-trumps-muslim-ban-pledges-to-accept-more-refugees/ “Migrant encounters at U.S.-Mexico border are at a 21-year high” https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/08/13/migrant-encounters-at-u-s-mexico-border-are-at-a-21-year-high/ “What Is the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Immigrants and Their Children?” OECD, 19 Oct. 2020, https://www.oecd.org/coronavirus/policy-responses/what-is-the-impact-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-on-immigrants-and-their-children-e7cbb7de/#:~:text=Due%20to%20a%20range%20of,infection%20than%20the%20native%2Dborn. “The Impact of Covid-19 on…

Alumni

2019 English and Digital Studies Major Brigida Costantino, 2020 English and Digital Studies Major, Writing and Communications Minor Austin Cuttino, 2020 Art and Digital Studies Major Scout Jacobs, 2020 Art Major, Digital Studies Minor Alexis Jimenez, 2020 Computer Science Major, Digital Studies Minor Christopher Kitchen, 2020 Sociology and Digital Studies…

2019-2020 Fellows

Shay Lawz is a poet and interdisciplinary artist from Jersey City, NJ. She works at the intersection of text and performance and has presented work at Brown University, RISD, AS220, and Pratt Institute. Her writing appears or is forthcoming in Aster(ix), Winter Tangerine, and McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, among others. She…

Spring 2020 Courses

…time of need? What does this all mean for our aliveness? In this course students will focus on how digital media and language art mediate the body. If a cellphone is an extension of the self, as proposed by the extended mind hypothesis, what does that make us? What is…

2018-2019 Fellows

Natalie Mesnard   Natalie Mesnard is a writer and game designer currently teaching in the Pratt Institute Game Design & Interactive Media program. Literary publication credits include poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, appearing or forthcoming in places such as Blackbird, Kenyon Review Online, The Gettysburg Review, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere….