Faculty Spotlight: Claire Donato

Faculty Spotlight: Claire Donato

We hope you can join us for this semester’s Faculty Spotlights!

Please join us virtually on April 5th from 1:30-2:30 pm for a Faculty Spotlight presentation by Claire Donato. The presentation will include about 20 minutes of sharing with plenty of time for questions, answers, and conversation in the rest of our hour together.

Claire Donato (Adjunct Associate Professor, Writing Program; Distinguished Teacher Award 2020) will discuss the pedagogical significance of deep listening and the implementation of periods of shared silence in her Poetry & Psychoanalysis and The Oceanic Feeling courses. This conversation will be informed by Donato’s ongoing Zen meditation practice, which was supported in 2020 by a Pratt Research Seed Grant. Donato will be joined by several of her students.

RVSP for this event here.

Click here to learn about our other upcoming Faculty Spotlights!

Upcoming events at the CTL:

Imagining a University for the Common Good: Higher Education and Its Values Reading Group
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This reading group, starting in early March, invites faculty to engage deeply with urgent questions about the purpose and future of higher education in times of intersecting global crises through critical engagement with the book Transforming Universities in the Midst of Global Crisis: A University for the Common Good.
Creative Accommodations: Spring 2026
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The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), in collaboration with the Learning/Access Center (L/AC), will offer the Creative Accommodations self-paced series again this Spring semester, punctuated with online synchronous Zoom conversations. The goal of this series is to support faculty as they respond effectively and appropriately to students with accommodations.
Interactive Conversations
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The CTL welcomes all faculty to attend our interactive conversation series this Spring around topics that YOU propose: anything you are curious about, anything you want to discuss with colleagues or things that come up throughout the semester.

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