Faculty Expertise

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

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

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

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

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

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

color theory, creation of ceramic art works with drawn and painted surfaces for exhibition, exhibition planning and negotiation, glaze chemistry testing and development, high and low fire technology using gas and electric kilns, ornamentation and pattern, studio practice, utilitarian ceramics, wheel throwing and hand building technologies

architectural drafting, costume design, costume history, figure drawing, historical clothing reconstruction, material culture studies, pattern drafting and draping, scenic painting, Set Design

9/11 literature, African American literature and literary theory, African-American studies, American studies, 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

aerodynamics, biomechanics, functional morphology, science communication