Name: Amy Papaelias
Academic Rank: Associate Professor
Department: Art Department
Expertise Keywords: Critical Making, Digital Humanities Design, Interaction Design, Scholarship Design, Typography, Web design
Available For: interviews, essays, speaking
Expertise: Teaching graphic design at the undergraduate level since 2005. Presentations about my research and design pedagogy include: Type@Cooper West, San Francisco, the Type Directors Club, TypeCon, the AIGA Design Educators Conferences, Theorizing the Web, among others. I have written about typography and design for Typographica.org, The Recorder, Type Network, and Type magazine. Co-editor of Visible Language 49.3 (with Jessica Barness, Kent State University) special issue "Critical Making: Design and the Digital Humanities." Served on the organizing committee for the national design education conference, "Converge: Disciplinarities and Digital Scholarship", 2017 (USC). Co-founder of Alphabettes.org, a network to support and promote women in type, typography, and the lettering arts. More info: http://amypapaelias.com/
Currrent Research: Typography on the web
Design of scholarly publications
Emoji tech and color fonts
Women in type design and typography
Contact Information
Office Phone: 845-257-2785
E-mail Address: papaelia@newpaltz.edu
Other Information
Positions held at New Paltz prior to current position:
Assistant Professor of Graphic Design
Positions held prior to joining SUNY New Paltz:
Assistant Professor of Graphic Design, University of Bridgeport
Education
| Colleges/ Universities Attended |
Dates Attended |
Degree Conferred |
Year Conferred |
Major Subject |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SUNY New Paltz | 2003-2005 | MFA | 2005 | Intermedia Design |
| McGill University | 1997-2001 | BA | 2001 | English Cultural Studies |
Awards/Grants/Honors
2017 Design Incubation Communication Design Education Award in Published Research
Organizational Memberships
AIGA Upstate New York, member of the education sub committee
Greenhouse Studios (UConn) Advisory Board, 2016-2018
Beyond Citation (CUNY) Advisory Board, 2016-2018
Publications
Book chapter: "Making Things and Drawing Boundaries" (University of Minnesota Press, 2017), co-authored with Aaron Knochel (Penn State).
Journal special issue co-editor: "Critical Making: Design and the Digital Humanities", Visible Language, 49.3 (2015).
