Liberal Arts

Matthew Duveneck
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Matthew Duveneck joins New England Conservatory's liberal arts department starting with the 2017/2018 academic year, with a focus on math and science. Previously, he worked as a post-doctoral fellow...

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The broad range of Liberal Arts course offerings in literature, history, philosophy, politics, cultural studies, social sciences, environmental studies, film, and foreign languages provides students...

Jacob Vance
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Jacob Vance is a member of the Graduate Languages Department at NEC and is French staff for NEC's Foreign Language Center. He holds a B.A. in English Literature and Western Society and Culture, an M.A...

Ruth Lepson
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Ruth Lepson has been poet-in-residence at NEC for 25 years. She has collaborated with musicians here, and her latest book of poems, Ask Anyone (from Pressed Wafer), comes with settings of some of the...

James Klein
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James Klein graduated from Kenyon College summa cum laude with highest honors in English literature and the philosophy of history. As recipient of the American Association of Colleges Oxford...

Patrick Keppel
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Patrick Keppel is chair of New England Conservatory's Liberal Arts and Graduate Languages departments and director of the NEC Writing & Learning Center. He has developed a two-semester course of actor...

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Jill Gatlin began teaching at NEC in 2008, after completing her PhD and teaching in the Department of English, the Program on the Environment, the Interdisciplinary Writing Program, and the...