Farryl Last

Farryl Last is the Assistant Director of Academic Programs for the Committee on Global Thought. She manages critical aspects of Global Thought's academic and student outreach programs, including Global Thought Scholars, the Undergraduate Committee on Global Thought, and the MA in Global Thought, and teaches the spring MA elective course City of Ideas: Independent Study in Global New York.

Last is an international educator and writer. Prior to joining the CGT, she worked at CUNY – Hunter College’s Office of Education Abroad, coordinating semester exchange programs while advising students on all aspects of their study abroad experience. She also taught at Hunter, including the undergraduate course Arts through New York City, which sought to introduce students to various art forms produced in and inspired by the city while fostering students’ own creative work. Her experience includes a school year as an English instructor in kindergartens in Mantova, Italy. Last’s poetry explores impressions and (re)creations of the natural world, experienced both in person in situ as well as through myth and art, engaging with while disrupting expectations of form, narrative, and ekphrasis. She earned an MFA in Poetry from Hunter College as well as an MA in International Education and BA in Romance Languages from New York University.