Arts Faculty Teaching Interests

John Castellano

music performance, business, and technology

Lenora Champagne

performance art; directing; playwriting; creative writing; theatre history; women and performance

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

Lanny Harrison

acting and performance; storytelling; dance; Buddhist and Taoist studies

Maria Hodermarska

creative arts therapies; community-based mental health services; arts in education; group dynamics; improvisation and autobiographical performance

Bert Katz

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

Franc Menusan

Native American history and culture; world music; studio arts; special education

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

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; performing and visual arts; choreography; gender and performance; assemblage art; scores and structures for performance; integrated arts; contemporary avant-garde; writing, esp. arts criticism, autobiography, and creative non-fiction

Sean Scheller

art history; Italian art of the 15th century; museums; publishing; and Anglo-Catholic liturgical history and practice

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