Viken Berberian received his Msc from the London School of Economics and Msc from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. He teaches persuasive writing, capstone projects, expository writing, business journalism, data journalism, creative nonfiction, and the graphic novel. His work has appeared in the New York Times, The Nation, the Financial Times, BOMB, Granta, Foreign Affairs, Le Monde Diplomatique, Inculte (Editions Inculte, France) and the New York Review of Books. Viken is the author of the novels, The Cyclist (Simon & Schuster, 2002), and Das Kapital: a novel of love & money markets (Simon & Schuster, 2007), and with Yann Kebbi, of the graphic novel, The Structure is Rotten, Comrade (Fantagraphics, 2019; Actes Sud, France, 2017; Edition Moderne, Switzerland, 2020, in German). He is a recipient of the university's 2024 Teaching Excellence Award and is a Villa Albertine laureate (2024-2025).