Faculty Expertise

design and technology for the performing arts, photography, scenic and lighting design for theater, visual art

ceramic facility development and organization, creation of ceramic art works with drawn and painted surfaces for exhibition, exhibition planning and negotiation, glaze chemistry testing and development, ornamentation and pattern, Photoshop, portfolio development, soda firing technology, studio practice, studio practice, studio set up and organization, surface design as applied to three-dimensional objects, two-dimensional design in drawing and painting, visual history of ceramics and decorative Chinese and Japanese arts, visual history of ceramics and decorative Hispano-Moresque arts, visual history of ceramics and decorative Iznik and Greek arts

art and culture, collaboration, contemporary performance practices, dance, performance and live art, performing arts as individual and cultural expression

artist educators, arts education, assessment and standards in k-12, creativity studies, curriculum, drawing and painting, instructional design, studio art, teacher education, teacher leadership

audiovisual art, digital and electronic music, experimental film, experimental music, feminist science and technology studies, media histories, media studies, sound art, sound studies, video art

acting, acting on film, arts education, collaboration, contemporary American drama, directing, Fitzmaurice Voicework, improvisation, Michael Chekhov Technique, performing arts as individual and cultural expression, public speaking, Shakespeare, stage combat, theater and film, voice and speech training for actors

Computer Science Education Research, Computing Education, embedded systems, Novice Programmer Behavior, Open Hardware, Parallel Programming, Robotics, Sensing

art and popular culture, art practice, artist and curator, contemporary art, contemporary art practice, contemporary international art, curating and curatorial practice, issues pertaining to museums and academic museums, museums

college access and persistence, community and parent engagement, community organizing, education organizing, education reform, educational equity, higher education, portraiture, race and class in rural communities, rural communities and schools, rural education

African American literature and literary theory, African-American studies, American studies, and the humanities, commodity culture and consumerism, creative writing, critical race studies, critical race theory, cultural studies, film studies, histories and theories of privacy in law, histories and theories of privacy in literature and culture, histories of U.S. race and ethnicity, law, legal studies, LGBTQ politics, literary analysis, literature, literature and law, media studies, media studies, nationalism, Nineteenth-Century American Literature, photography, poetry, post-racialism, privacy, privacy law, queer studies, racial passing, representations of disability and illness, theories of the public sphere, Twentieth-Century American Literature, U.S. literature and culture 1865 to the present, visual culture, women and gender studies