New College of the Humanities announces new academic teaching staffPhilosophy, English and Economics academics are the latest to be appointed to lecturing posts ahead of first undergraduate intakeProfessor Rebecca Goldstein, Dr Daniel Swift and Dr Eric Golson are the latest
academics to join the growing teaching staff at New College of the Humanities
ahead of its first undergraduate intake in September 2012.
The College has also appointed Matthew Batstone as convenor for Professional
Skills, which is a part of the Diploma that all NCH students will study towards,
alongside their degree course.
Soon after the launch of the first-class, independent university college in June
2011, three subject convenors – Dr Suzannah Lipscomb (History), Dr Naomi
Goulder (Philosophy) and Professor Ken Gemes (Diploma Subjects) – joined;
alongside NCH’s eminent Professoriate.
Professor Rebecca Goldstein will join the Philosophy Faculty as a Visiting Professor.
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is both a philosopher and a novelist. She
received her Ph.D. in philosophy from Princeton University and has taught
philosophy at Barnard College, Rutgers, and Trinity College in Hartford,
Connecticut, including courses on philosophy of science, the seventeenth-
century rationalists, and philosophical themes in the modern novel. She has also
taught writing in the Master of Fine Arts program at Columbia University.
Her recent books include the award-winning Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade
Jew who Gave Us Modernity(2006) and Thirty-Six Arguments for the Existence of
God: A Work of Fiction (2010).
Professor Goldstein was named a MacArthur Fellow (popularly known as the "genius
award") in 1996, and elected to The American Academy of Arts and Sciences in
2005. She has held numerous fellowships, including those from the Guggenheim
Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and the
Santa Fe Institute. She was recently designated both Humanist of the Year by
The American Humanist Association and Free-thought Heroine by the Freedom
from Religion Foundation.
Dr Daniel Swift will join the College as a senior lecturer in English. He gained a BA
with first class honours from Oxford University and a Ph.D. from Columbia
University in New York.
He is the author of Bomber County (Hamish Hamilton, 2010) and Shakespeare's
Common Prayers (Oxford University Press, 2012), and his essays, reviews, and
profiles have appeared in The New York Times, Financial Times, The Telegraph,
the New Statesman, and Harper's. Since 2007, he has been teaching at
Skidmore College in New York, and his teaching interests include Shakespeare
and early modern drama, 16th and 17th century poetry, and 20th century war
poetry. He is currently at work on a project about Ezra Pound.
Dr Eric Golson has been appointed as a lecturer in Economics. His main areas of
research include the Economics of Warfare and Neutrality. Eric will be lecturing
in Economics and Political Economy at NCH.
Before taking up his position at New College of the Humanities, Eric was an
Economic History Society Anniversary Fellow, a Junior Research Fellow at Oxford
University and a Guest Lecturer/Teaching Fellow at the London School of
Economics.
Eric believes students and teaching come first: he is only the second faculty
member at LSE to have been awarded two LSE Teaching Awards, including one
given annually to the top five LSE teachers. He holds a Post-Graduate Certificate
in Higher Education and has worked for LSE’s Teaching and Learning Centre on
innovative new programmes to improve the learning outcomes for students.
He received his Ph.D from the London School of Economics in 2011, having
previously gained his Masters and Bachelors from the University of Chicago.
Dr Eric Golson said, "I could not be more excited to be joining the NCH team. It
has the best combination of innovative teaching methods and faculty
available. I'm looking forward to meeting prospective students and to the
launch in September."
It is also announced today that Matthew Batstone has been appointed
Convenor for Professional Skills at New College of the Humanities. Matthew will
be responsible for defining the curriculum and delivering lectures in Professional
Skills. He is also a co-founder and a Non-Executive Director at the College.
All students at New College of the Humanities will undertake Professional Skills
courses throughout their three years at the College. These form part of the
Diploma of the New College of the Humanities which is taken in addition to the
main degree subject. The Diploma also includes four contextual modules
chosen from another humanities subject as well as the core Diploma modules
which are Logical and Critical Thinking, Science Literacy and Applied Ethics.
Matthew Batstone was educated at Cambridge University where he earned his
BA in English, and at INSEAD where he earned an MBA with Distinction.
Matthew began his career at the advertising agency J Walter Thompson. He
then started and sold a product placement agency before moving to Carlton
Communications (now part of the broadcaster ITV), where he launched
Carlton's internet and interactive TV businesses. Matthew was on the
management board at The Economist Group, where he was responsible for
marketing, strategy and corporate development. Matthew has also worked
and invested in a number of businesses, including iAnnounce, the European
leader in online personal classifieds.
Matthew has been involved in devising and delivering a wide variety of training
and development programmes throughout his business career.
Professor AC Grayling, Master of New College of the Humanities, said: “We are
delighted to welcome new members of academic staff to New College of the
Humanities. Their appointment demonstrates our commitment to excellence in
teaching and research, and our dedication to ensuring that the academic
experience our students receive is second-to-none.
We will be announcing further appointments to the teaching staff in the coming
months.”
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central London offering a new model of higher education for the humanities in the UK.
NCH students will have one of the best staff-student ratios in UK higher education with
one to one tutorials, and will be taught by Professors and tutors who are international
experts in their fields.
It will accept its first intake of students in September 2012 and will initially prepare
students for undergraduate degrees in: Law LLB, Economics BSc, History BA, Philosophy
BA and English BA.
The College will be centrally located in the university district of London, Bloomsbury, and
students will have access to many of the resources of the University of London: the
exceptional library in Senate House, the University of London Union, sports activities as
well as the opportunity to learn or improve language skills.
The applications process for NCH is independent of UCAS and applications can be
made in addition to the five UCAS choices. Enquiries and applications can be made
via the website www.NCHum.org
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