Spring 2026 Faculty Fellows Focus on Multimodal and Process-based Learning
Two faculty fellows working on experiential, skill and process-based learning, from writing to woodworking, join the Teaching & Learning Lab in Spring 2026.
Hugo Nakashima-Brown
Critic, Experimental and Foundation Studies
Hugo Nakashima-Brown is a teaching artist, designer and woodworker with a background in painting and furniture making. He holds a BFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design and a degree in cabinet and furniture making from the North Bennet St. School. His multidisciplinary experience spans woodworking, design, curation and production studio management, allowing him to blend diverse perspectives into his craft. Hugo's current pedagogical interests involve traditional methods of hand training leading to cognitive learning, and how movements such as Educational Sloyd can be understood outside of the traditional framing of traveling solely from England to New England. See full bio.
Hugo offers faculty workshops and office hours at the Teaching & Learning Lab (301 ProvWash) on: Traditional Industrial Arts Education, Hand Training & Cognitive Learning, Foundations-Level Studio Pedagogy, Assignment Design, Student Engagement Through Making, Assessment in Studio-Based Learning, Tool Pedagogy for Novice Instructors, Process-Based Learning, Non-Western Craft Histories, Global Folk & Design Histories, Sustainable Design, Historical Models for Contemporary Fabrication.
Susan Solomon
Lecturer, Literary Arts and Studies
Susan L. Solomon has been teaching college students across the humanities curriculum for over 20 years. She holds degrees in comparative literature, English, and German from Brown University and the University of Connecticut, Storrs. Her publications include articles on literary modernism and transmediation as well as scholarly editorial and German-to-English translation projects. Her approaches to teaching and learning and faculty consultation have been shaped by her experiences as a Connecticut Writing Project Summer Institute Fellow and her earning of graduate certificates in reflective teaching, student-centered and backwards course design, and instructional consulting from the Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning at Brown University. See full bio.
Susan offers faculty workshops and office hours at the Teaching & Learning Lab (301 ProvWash) on: backwards course design; experiential, skill, and process-based learning outcomes; learning outcome aligned assessment; writing pedagogies; multilingual learning.
T&LL
March 3, 2026