Arts Faculty Teaching Interests
Cynthia Allen
digital new media; electronic arts; interactive multimedia; virtual museum of digital archives on the Internet
Martha Bowers
social dialogue through the arts; community arts practices and youth development; cross-cultural arts projects; dance; social choreography; arts and urban renewal
John Castellano
music performance, business, and technology
Myla Churchill
dramatic writing; musical theatre; visual media; film and video production
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
Maria Hodermarska
creative arts therapies; community-based mental health services; arts in education; group dynamics; improvisation and autobiographical performance
Emily Hoffman
radio news and feature reporting; interviewing; literature; theatre; survivor studies
Kristin Horton
directing, new play development, Shakespeare in performance, W. B. Yeats, Caryl Churchill, religion and theater, process drama, puppetry, theater for social change, and cross-cultural dialogue
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
Kathryn Posin
dance and choreography; ethnology; dance fusion forms; anthropology; performance technique, placement
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; contemporary avant-garde; arts criticism, autobiography, and creative nonfiction
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
Selma Thompson
screenwriting; playwriting; adaptation; script analysis and development; business issues for writers; cinema studies; New York City culture
Greg Wyatt
sculpture studio studies; craftsmanship and its relationship to mastery, creativity and three-dimensional design theory; historical artistic influences upon public art monuments; art history and philosophy