McGraw Center Faculty Discussion: What is Class Time For?

Katherine Stanton

Director, McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning; Associate Dean, Office of the Dean of the College

Princeton University

Kate has worked at the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning for many years. She received her Ph.D. in Literatures in English from Rutgers University and taught in the Rutgers Writing Program. She served as Assistant Director of the McGraw Center from 2003 to 2007, before leaving to spend ten years at Harvard in different administrative roles in academic affairs and faculty affairs. She also taught regularly in Harvard’s Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program. Since returning to Princeton, Kate has been instrumental in implementing multiple enhancements to McGraw’s Teaching Initiatives and Programs for Faculty.

Zahid Chaudhary

Associate Professor, Department of English

Princeton University

Ph.D. Cornell University.  Zahid R. Chaudhary specializes in postcolonial studies, visual culture, and critical theory. His first book, Afterimage of Empire: Photography in Nineteenth-Century India,(link is external) provides a historical and philosophical account of early photography in India, analyzing how aesthetic experiments in colonial photographic practice shed light on the changing nature of perception and notions of truth, memory, and embodiment. He is currently at work on two books: Unruly Truth: Libidinal Politics and Crises of Authority analyzes contemporary shifts in the collective de-prioritizing of evidence and truth that attends a simultaneously increasing cultural emphasis on a politics of exposure; Impunity: Notes on a Global Tendency analyzes juridical, economic, political, and aesthetic aspects of the practices of impunity from the Cold War to the present, from postcolonial states to the United States. The book considers documentary film, contemporary art, development projects, and architecture. He has also published articles in differences, Boundary 2, October, Social Text, Cultural Critique, South Asia, and Camera Obscura.  Some of his course titles include Difficult Art, Bollywood Cinema, Revolution (grad), Psychoanalysis and Postcolonialism (grad),  Mimesis (grad) Introduction to Theory, Reading Literature: Fiction, Urban Fictions, Magical Realism, and Violence and the Modern.