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The MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) and Dean Agustín Rayo recently welcomed six new professors to the MIT community.

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. Her practice engages an interdisciplinary approach to these explorations. Coleman received the Doris Duke Foundation’s Performing Arts Technologies Lab Award. Her work has been supported by Carnegie Mellon University’s STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, Creative Capital, the Jerome Foundation, MacDowell, the MAP Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, Pioneer Works, the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Stanford University’s Mohr Visiting Artist program, and the Surdna Foundation. Coleman was previously a professor at Northeastern University and an associate professor at Arizona State University. She earned an MFA in music composition and integrated media from California Institute of the Arts.

Tung-Hui Hu is an associate professor with tenure in the Comparative Media Studies/Writing program. A poet and a scholar of digital media, he is the author of five books, most recently “Digital Lethargy: Dispatches from an Age of Disconnection” (MIT Press, 2022), “A Prehistory of the Cloud” (MIT Press, 2015), and “Greenhouses, Lighthouses” (Copper Canyon Press, 2013). Hu is interested in how concepts such as race and normal language became measurable, governable objects in the form of datasets. His research on data centers, artificial intelligence, burnout, and visual art has been featured in places such as CBS News, BBC Radio 4, WIRED , and MoMA R&D . He has been awarded fellowships from the American Academy in Rome, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the American Academy in Berlin. Prior to joining MIT, he was a faculty member at the University of Michigan.

Claire Luchette is an assistant professor in the Comparative Media Studies/Writing program. Luchette is the author of the novel “Agatha of Little Neon.” The winner of a Whiting Award and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree, Luchette has received fellowships from the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, the New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, MacDowell, Yaddo, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Their writing appears in Best American Short Stories, Ploughshares, and the Pushcart Prize anthology. Their second novel, “Swans,” and a story collection, “Big Whoop,” are forthcoming.

Shota Momma is an associate professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. Momma is a specialist in psycholinguistics and its interaction with linguistic theory — with a particular focus on the mechanisms of sentence production. Previously, Momma taught as an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He earned a PhD in linguistics from the University of Maryland and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California San Diego.

Lindsey Raymond PhD ’24 is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics, holding an MIT Schwarzman College of Computing shared position with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Her research examines how new technologies shape labor markets and market competition, and how insights from economics can inform algorithm design. She is a Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Early Career Fellow and served as a staff economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers in 2021–22. Before joining MIT, Raymond was a postdoc at Microsoft Research. She earned her PhD from MIT and her BA from Yale University.