Faculty Spotlights

Join us for this online faculty-led series where colleagues highlight a certain classroom practice, use of a technological platform, pedagogical approach, or research on classroom/studio practice they’ve found invaluable and especially relevant for cross-departmental sharing. Each Spotlight takes place virtually and includes about 20 minutes of sharing with plenty of time for questions, answers, and conversation in the rest of our hour together. 

Scroll to the bottom of this page to see recordings and resources from past Faculty Spotlights!

Do you have a tool or methodology that you’d like to share with your colleagues? Reach out to us at ctl@pratt.edu about hosting a Spotlight! 

Check back for Fall 2026 Spotlights!

Faculty Spotlight: Making the Mundane Meaningful 🗓

Classroom management involves many mundane tasks: taking attendance, communicating with absent students, and so on. These duties are often undertaken in a routine way, in between the primary activities of teaching and learning in the classroom or studio. Join us as we hear from two Pratt faculty members—Dominica Giglio (HMS) and Micki Spiller (Foundation)—whose teaching practices transform these mundane classroom management tasks into meaningful and engaging activities embedded within the larger context of teaching and learning.

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Previous Faculty Spotlights: Recordings and Resources

Analia Segal, Hablar Habitar: towards a new pedagogical blueprint 🗓

CTL 2025 Faculty Fellow Analia Segal from Fine Arts (SoA) talks through her project, “Hablar Habitar : towards a new pedagogical blueprint.” Analia discusses her desire to “see my research as an invitation to shift our focus toward relational and situational pedagogies—to reimagine the architecture of educational connections.”

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October 28, 2025

Donna Bilak: Re-making Making 🗓

In this recording, CTL 2025 Faculty Fellow Donna Bilak from Jewelry (SoA) walks us through her project, “Re-making Making.” Donna hopes that this project will launch her toward developing an experimental studio-seminar that undertakes in- depth material analyses of everyday things to teach methods and multi-disciplinary collaboration through archival, physical, and digital research.

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October 6, 2025

Kim Bobier: The Body and/as Technology 🗓

In this recording, Kim Bobier (SLAS) discusses her CTL Faculty Fellows project, “The Body and/as Technology: A Gateway to Transdisciplinary Course Development.” Over the course of her project, Kim has been thinking through transdisciplinary curricula around the body and/as technology in an effort to engage colleagues and scale existing models of collaboration.

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August 26, 2025

Resources: Socially Engaged Reading with Perusall and Hypothes.is

View the recording, resources, and notes from a faculty spotlight presentation where Lara Allen (HMS) and Amanda Matles (SSCS) show and tell about two socially engaged reading platforms, Perusall and Hypothes.is. They discuss how instructors can integrate these tools to support peer instruction, reading assignment accountability, flipped classrooms, and active learning.

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April 30, 2025

Chelsea Limbird: Space Time (Listening) Memory

Chelsea Limbird’s 2024 CTL Faculty Fellowship project explores the role of the human body in the creative process and investigates approaches where observation, experience and analysis of the body’s physical and sensorial presences yield representation in a range of media, scales and formats.

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January 17, 2025

Sophia Sobers: Fostering Play in Art + Technology

Sobers’ 2024 CTL Faculty Fellows project, Fostering Play in Art + Technology, is about investigating ways to encourage play and exploration within the context of technical learning in DDA’s Art + Technology and Interactive Arts programs in order to make learning potentially technically challenging platforms accessible and inclusive, thus lowering potential barriers to entry.

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January 17, 2025

Shayla Lawz: The Power of Politics in Art

Shayla Lawz proposes in her 2024 CTL Faculty Fellowship research that all art does not have to engage with the social/political landscape of the world, yet all art has the power to. In this work, she focuses on understanding more about how students view their power to spark political and social conversations through their art. She takes on this research with the goal of creating new courses and supporting already existing courses across SLAS that allow students to engage their creative practices with a social lens.

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January 17, 2025

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