Arts Faculty Teaching Interests
Jaime Arrendondo
visual art; Mesoamerican and Latino studies; art history; art and anthropology; mythology
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
Keith Miller
modern and contemporary art; Realism; figurative painting; narrative cinema; video art; filmmaking
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; energy medicine
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
Ben Steinfeld
acting, directing, theatre history, music, Shakespeare, 20th-century American drama, and musical theatre
Selma Thompson
screenwriting; playwriting; adaptation; script analysis and development; business issues for writers; cinema studies; and New York City culture