The School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has appointed three scholars to its faculty.
Grisha Coleman is a full professor in the Music and Theater Arts Section. Her research explores tensions between our physiological, technological, and ecological systems; human movement, our machines, and the places we inhabit. Professor Coleman has taught at Northeastern University in Boston and Arizona State University. A graduate of Wesleyan University in Connecticut, Professor Coleman earned a master of fine arts degree in music composition and integrated media from the California Institute of the Arts.
Claire Luchette is an assistant professor in the comparative media studies/writing program. Luchette is the author of the novel Agatha of Little Neon (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2021). A second novel, Swans, and a story collection, Big Whoop, are forthcoming. Luchette is a winner of a Whiting Award and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree. A 2024–25 Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University, Luchette is a graduate of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and holds a master of fine arts degree from the University of Oregon.



