Katya Isayev
SCAD Language Studio professor
Education
- M.A., TESOL, Hunter College of the City University of New York
- M.A., history of art, McGill University
- B.A., liberal studies, Armstrong Atlantic State University
Credentials
- Part-time professor, Fall 2019–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
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English as a New Language department chair, 2015–18
High school English teacher, 2013–18, Morris Academy for Collaborative Studies, Bronx, NY
- English language immersion instructor, 2011–12, Lanpus Kids English, Seoul, South Korea
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Teaching assistant, 2009–10
Research assistant, 2009, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
- Curatorial intern, 2005–07, Jepson Center for the Arts, Savannah, GA
Awards, recognitions, and honors
- Segal AmeriCorps Education Award, 2014
- Media@mcgill travel grant, 2009
- McGill McCall MacBain Fellowship, 2008
- McGill Provost Fellowship, 2008
- First place printmaking, Armstrong Atlantic State University Art Exhibit, 2007
- Second place mixed media, Armstrong Atlantic State University Art Exhibit, 2007
- Anne Schmidt Award, AASU, 2007
Publications and presentations
Publications
- Our Journeys, Our Identities: Immigration Stories from the South Bronx. New York: Student Press Initiative (SPI), 2015.
- "Decolonizing the Banjo: Cultural Memory and a (Re)representation of Slave Performance 1700s–1863," The Future Is Now: A New Look at African Diaspora Studies. Ed. Vanessa K. Valdés. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2012.
Conferences and exhibitions
- "Halmoni Reprise," mixed media artwork with Paige M. Blair, Liberating Herstories, Café Anthracite, Seoul, South Korea, Dec. 10–16, 2011.
- "Slave Music in the American South: Colonial Constructs and Resistive Identity in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture.” Paper presented at “Let Spirit Speak!" Cultural Journeys through the African Diaspora conference, The City College of New York, NY, April 22–24, 2010.
- Attendant, Decolonizing Knowledge: Postcolonial Studies, Decolonial Horizons, Tarragona, Spain, July 9–19, 2009.