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