Susan Yelavich is Professor Emerita, Design Studies, Parsons School of Design, New School. She is the author of numerous articles and books, including Thinking Design through Literature (2019), Design as Future-Making (2014), Contemporary World Interiors (2007), and The Edge of the Millennium (1993). She is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome (2004) and the Bogliasco Foundation (2018). Her writings on design and related subjects can be found at Assaying: susanyelavich.com.