Susan Yelavich is professor emerita, design studies at Parsons School of Design, The New School. A fellow of the American Academy of Rome (2004) and the Bogliasco Foundation (2018), she is a member of the Scientific Committee for Design at Politecnico di Milano and the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw's FAIR Design conferences. Her contributions to design scholarship span over four decades, including 15 years at Parsons and 25 years at Cooper Hewitt Museum. She is the author of Thinking Design through Literature (Routledge, 2019), Design as Future-Making (Bloomsbury, 2014), and Contemporary World Interiors (Phaidon, 2007).