Faculty Expertise

artist educators, arts education, assessment and standards in k-12, creativity studies, curriculum, drawing and painting, instruction, practice based visual and performing arts, practice-based curriculum and instruction, studio art, studio praxis, teacher education, teacher leadership, teacher leadership and development, visual ar

art, art and popular culture, art history, drawing, modern and contemporary art, painting, printmaking, studio art, visual art

art and visual and material culture, art of Mughal India, art of the crusader states, Byzantine art and the West, iconography of the Virgin Mary, Italian medieval and renaissance history, Italian medieval manuscripts, liturgy of the Latin medieval church, medieval Mediterranean basin, medieval studies

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

18th century English landscape gardens, 18th century European intellectual history, art and visual culture of the 18th and 19th centuries, history of gardens and landscape architecture, history of gardens and landscape architecture, romantic landscape painting

Asian art history, Daoist ceremonial paintings, East Asian ceramic, Thich Quang Duc’s self-immolation and his impact, Vietnamese Buddhist sculpture

abstraction, collage, color theory, design, drawing, painting, visual perception

attention, cognitive psychology, human memory, psycholinguistics, psychological models of word reading, visual perception

20th century German literature and film, discourses of masculinity in German literature, film studies, German film after 1945, German studies, humor, images of German-Polish relationships in literature film and visual arts, laughter and comedy in literature film and visual arts, laughter and comedy's relation to violence, literature in the Weimar Republic (1919-1933), media

18th-century studies, access, anti-racism, culture- and theory-making in unexalted contexts, feminist/queer/trans sports and movement studies, gender, pleasures, politics and practices of teaching, queer, resources, sexualities, sexuality and migration studies, sexuality studies, sports studies, trans, trans and queer studies, visual and popular culture studies, writing