Emerson College professor and filmmaker Robert Todd had been suspended from teaching before he was found dead in a Boston park in August
A beloved Emerson College professor and filmmaker who was found dead in a Boston park last month had been suspended without pay from teaching following a months-long investigation, it was revealed this week.
Robert Todd, 54, associate chair of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson, where he had taught for 18 years, was reported missing on August 16.
This week Emerson President Lee Pelton confirmed that Todd was suspended for the semester following an allegation of sexual harassment in December 2017 which was followed by an external investigation.
He was found dead on August 18, two days after he was last seen alive entering Franklin Park in Boston, where his body was later found, reported Boston Globe.
Todd, 54, was reported missing on August 16, as this poster indicates
He was last seen alive entering Franklin Park, where his lifeless body was later found
'Robert brought extraordinary talents and an incredible vision and dedication to his art and his teaching where he sought to inspire the next generation of filmmakers at Emerson,' Pelton said in a message to the college community at the time.
On Tuesday, the head of the school revealed that Todd, who was married to fellow artist Tessa Day, had been suspended for the fall 2018 semester stemming from the findings of an independent investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct.
Pelton explained in his statement to the faculty that he decided to shed 'clarifying light' on the matter after learning of 'unsubstantiated hearsay or rumors' swirling around the Emerson community.
In December 2017, an Emerson staff member made a complaint against Todd, accusing him of violating the school's sexual misconduct policy.
Emerson hired an outside investigator, who concluded that the married professor had engaged in sexual harassment involving multiple 'linked incidents,' according to Pelton.
Todd, a prolific director of dozens of short films, was accused in December 2017 of sexually harassing an Emerson staffer
Besides the suspension, Todd was required to work with a professional coach to 'help him understand the impact of his behaviors'.
Pelton said: 'These extraordinary circumstances, the very public nature of Professor Todd’s death, the promulgation of falsehoods, and the continuing circulation of rumors and speculations, compelled me to speak to you today in order to provide an accurate and true accounting.'
Todd was described as a lyrical and avant-garde filmmaker and a sound and visual artist who had created nearly 170 short-to-medium length films since 1993, with his longest film - the 2011 Master Plan - clocking in at 61 minutes.
Todd worked on award-winning media programs and taught film production at Boston College, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Art Institute of Boston; University of Massachusetts; and the Boston Film and Video Foundation, according to his Emerson obituary.
Todd is survived by his wife, fellow artist and Emerson graduate student Tessa Day (right)
The Harvard Film Archive, which screened his work, remembered Todd on their Facebook page as 'an enormously prolific, multi-talented artist who was experimental at heart but worked in all genres and kind of film as well as music and visual art.'
Emerson graduate Carson Lund, who now works as a film writer and cinematographer in Los Angeles, wrote of Todd on Twitter that he 'never had a teacher so idiosyncratic. He’s the reason many of my peers & I still shoot film.'
Todd's widow, Tessa Day, is a graduate student at Emerson.
A celebration of life for Todd will be held on September 22 in Ashby, Massachusetts.
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Emerson College professor and filmmaker Robert Todd had been suspended from teaching before he was found dead in a Boston park in August
A beloved Emerson College professor and filmmaker who was found dead in a Boston park last month had been suspended without pay from teaching following ...
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