Faculty Interest Groups (FIGs) are interdisciplinary groups of BMCC faculty and staff members coming together to explore a common research, creative, or teaching interest. FIGs are coordinated by one or more faculty members, who maintain a group email list and organize meetings and events. FIG meetings and events are shared with the BMCC community on the CoLab events calendar and through the CoLab weekly newsletter.
All BMCC faculty and staff are invited to join an existing FIG or propose a new FIG. To propose a new FIG, complete this form and CoLab staff will be in touch with next steps.
Active FIGs
Click on the “v” next to the name for a description of the FIG. Please reach out to the FIG coordinator(s) for additional information.
L’chaim: Jewish Life at BMCC
Brings together faculty and staff members from across the college to network and work toward creating Jewish visibility and representation in the wider BMCC community.
Coordinators:
Jenna Hirsch (Mathematics)
Tuvi Voorhees (ALL)
Screenwriting
Faculty and staff screenwriters – want to meet over Zoom to workshop screenplays in a supportive, creative group? We will gather once a month and read each other’s pages with the goal of finishing screenplays (short or feature )and teleplays (short or half hour or one hour) – live action or animation. Whether it’s your second or sixtieth screenplay – join us!
Coordinator:
NaRhee Ahn (Media Arts & Technology)
Mental Health Focused Instruction
Discuss novel resources and empirical findings associated with mental health, cognitive, and social interventions to improve course learning outcomes.
Coordinators:
Eugenia Cawley (English)
Jamie Joseph (Social Sciences)
Queer Communities at BMCC
Conversations around representation, visibility, and social action within the queer communities.
Coordinator:
Brian Kelley (ALL)
Children & Youth Studies
Faculty from a variety of disciplines whose work and research keep the child, children, and childhood as their central focus, providing critical thought and insight while locating them in different contexts, fields, and ideologies.
Coordinator:
Tali Noimann (English)
Nonviolence in Theory and Practice
Share scholarship, creativity, contemplative practice, and activism regarding current political issues as they relate to curriculum.
Coordinator:
Florence Homolka (English)
FIG Archive
These FIGs are no longer active. Email us as FacultyCollaboratory@bmcc.cuny.edu if you’re interested in coordinating one of these FIGs!
Music Production
For music instrumentalists, composers, and producers engaged or interested in the practice of creating recorded music (or podcasts).
Comics Studies
This FIG brings together members of the BMCC community who are committed to the academic and creative study of sequential art narrative.
Philosophy
Read, discuss, and present works in all traditions and sub-disciplines of philosophy and collaborate on philosophy projects.
