University Teaching


Raymond Allen Lutzky, Ph.D., teaches undergraduate and graduate courses at top U.S. universities. He joined University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism as an Adjunct Lecturer in 2021, where he teaches in the digital media management and digital social media master’s programs. Since 2015, he has developed and taught human-computer interaction courses as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at New York University Tandon School of Engineering. He also developed and taught a human-computer interaction research seminar at Cornell Tech, and has guest lectured at Syracuse University S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the State University of Trade and Economics, Kiev, Ukraine.

University Teaching & Research Interests

Human-Computer Interaction

User Experience Design

Digital Audience Strategy

Rhetoric and Communication

Media Management

Courses

Ray’s university teaching experiences encompasses lectures at University of Southern California, New York University, Cornell University, Syracuse University, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

University of Southern California – Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

DMM 505 

summer 2024, 2025; fall 2023, 2024; spring 2024, 2025

DMM 540

summer 2022, 2024, 2025; fall 2023, 2024; spring 2023, 2024, 2025

DSM 510

fall 2021; fall 2022

DMM 545

summer 2025; spring 2025

DMM 525

summer 2024

New York University – Tandon School of Engineering

CS-GY 9223

Important Developments in Human Computer Interaction

spring 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026

CS-UY 4543/CS-GY 6543

fall 2015, 2016, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025; spring 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026

CS-GY 9223

User Experience Research and Behavior

fall 2021

DM-­GY 9103­B

Digital Media Human-Computer Interaction

spring 2017

Guest Lecture, MG-GY 9503

spring 2015

Cornell University – Cornell Tech

Guest Lecture, INFO 6410

spring 2018, fall 2018

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – School of Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences

Graduate Teaching Assistant, ITWS 2210 

spring 2011

Guest Lecture, INFO 6410

spring 2008

Ukraine Global Faculty (UGF)

Ray is also a proud volunteer lecturer for the Ukraine Global Faculty; a non-profit initiative supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and the Ukrainian National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance.