Arts Faculty Teaching Interests

Cynthia Allen

digital new media; electronic arts; interactive multimedia; virtual museum of digital archives on the Internet

Ann Axtmann

performance studies (dance, movement, transcultural); movement analysis; Native American and Latino/a Studies; cultural studies and the body; interdisciplinary arts

John Castellano

music performance, business, and technology

Myla Churchill

dramatic writing; musical theatre; visual media; film and video production

Terence Culver

community learning and community studies; public art; studio and interdisciplinary arts; multimedia technology; urban development; the history of philanthropy and non-profit organizations

Imani Douglas

theatre; aesthetic education; women/African American women in drama; television and film writing

Lise Friedman

performing and visual arts; translating performance experience into words and images; photography; graphic design; writing

Donna Goodman

art; architecture; philosophy; film; visionary theories; technology; urban and environmental studies; green design

Alec Harrington

theory and performance of tragedy; theory and performance of Shakespeare; acting; directing; comparative literature

Bert Katz

studio art; photography; contemporary art thought; histories of visual art and artist’s training

Robin Powell

dance; performance; mind/body integration/body therapies; health and fitness; psychology; clinical social work

Bill Rayner

music; compostition, improvisation, performance, guitar studies, recording technology

Rebecca Ross

information visualization; interface design; typography; maps

Barnaby Ruhe

visual art; art criticism; art history; art and anthropology; art and psychology; shamanism; history of warfare and revolution

Leslie Satin

dance and performance; choreography; gender and performance; writing; autobiography; assemblage art; scores and structures for performance; integrated arts

Judith Sloan

theatre; solo performance; oral history, humor and social satire; conflict resolution; immigration and the changing face of America; documentary arts; audio art, radio and multimedia expressive arts; community projects and dialogue across race, religion, ethnicity, class

Alycia Smith-Howard

Shakespeare studies; performance studies, directing, dramaturgy, acting; feminist theatre aesthetics and practice; gender and sexuality studies; modern American drama; adaptation and intercultural Theatre practice; film studies; 19th- and 20th-century drama, literature and culture; literature and drama of the American South

Yale Strom

filmmaking; writing; composing; photography; music performance; playwriting

Rosilyn Wilder

expressive arts therapies (RDT); arts in education; world theatre; improvisation; group dynamics; arts administration