Member of CAL STATE LA Golden Eagle / Aguila de Oro Mariachi Band. 

INTRODUCTION

I am from Cali (Valle del Cauca), Colombia. Currently I am Full Professor of Spanish where I teach Latin American Theater, Performance Art and Literature. During 2011 I was Research Fellow of theVerflechtungen von Theater Kulturen (Interweaving Performance Cultures). Freie Universität, Berlin. Previously, I was Director of Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies (LALACS) at Gustavus Adolphus College (1999-2006). I also served as advisor for the Independent Study group in Cuba, SPAN, University of Minnesota (1999-2000). I worked as Research Associate with David William Foster (1996-1997), and as Teaching Associate at Arizona State University. Since 2009 I am member of the CSULA Mariachi Band Aguila de Oro (Golden Eagle).

TEACHING INTERESTS

For the last years, at California State University, Los Angeles, I have taught Theater Production in Spanish (Teatro en español), and developed several collaborative projects involving the Music and Theater Departments (see Mariachi Quixote). I have also taught undergraduate and MA courses on Contemporary Latin American Theater and Literature, graduate seminars on Latino and Latin American Performance Art, and on Mexican Popular Cultures from the point of view of theater and performance studies.  I am fortunate in that my academic life has given me the opportunity to balance both teaching and research in my field. At Cal State I love having the opportunity to work with a diverse student population. I try to create a comfortable and humorous atmosphere that promotes communication between cultures, while at the same time promoting a high level of learning. 

RESEARCH

My central line of research and publication has been Mexican and Colombian literature with a focus on theater and performance art. My research has generally focused on the connections between Western tradition and Latin American culture, particularly the need to re-accommodate theoretical frameworks originating in Europe and the US when studying Latin American and US Latino productions. 

With the collaboration of Dr. Paola Marín, I founded the academic electronic journal Karpain 2009, devoted to theatrical dissidences, visual arts, and culture. It publishes articles in Spanish, English, and Portuguese. The journal is a peer-reviewed publication indexed by the MLA International Bibliography, which encompasses Latin American and Iberian performing and visual culture manifestations such as political cabaret, dance, performance art, theater, social theatricalities, graffiti, photography, and film.

During my Fellowship at the Verflechtungen von Theater Kulturen in Berlin (2011) I did a research on Contemporary Mexican Political Cabaret focusing on the diverse processes of interweaving of cultures. My experience at Berlin allowed me to better understand additional perspectives on the Performance Studies field. These include the German scholarly tradition and the viewpoints of so-called Third World scholars who have questioned the intercultural component in the origins of the Performance Studies field in the U.S., principally the fact that performative manifestations from cultures beyond the Anglo-European context are often times stripped of their specifichistorical conditions.   (More information here). 

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

COMPLETE LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Research Fellow (2010-2011)

• Freie Universität, Interweaving Performance Cultures
  Berlín, Germany

Ph.D. Contemporary Mexican Theater, 1997

• Arizona State University
  Tempe, AZ.

Masters Latin American Art and Performance, 1991

• Universidad del Rosario
  Bogotá, Colombia.

B.A. Contemporary Latin American Literature, 1989

• Universidad Javeriana
  Bogotá, Colombia.

Studies of piano, flute and composition, 1979-1984

• Real Conservatorio Superior de Música y Canto
  Madrid, Spain

COURSE LISTING

INTRODUCTION

Connie Utterback began teaching at CSULA in 1991, after teaching for 10 years as an adjunct instructor at UCLA.

TEACHING INTERESTS

Connie Utterback's teaching career is devoted to foundational art courses, with a focus on Color Theory and Perception.

In these courses, students are actively involved in learning the essential visual language and vocabulary of art through direct experiences with the theories, concepts and problem-solving skills necessary to be expressive in any area of art.

It is important that students develop an understandng of the fundamentals of artmaking at the beginning of their study in art, because it becomes the conceptual framework that remains at the center of their on-going artisitic process.  The creative process is enhanced and encouraged when students are able to combine a solid foundation of theoretical knowlege with thier own ideas, imagination and artistic expression.

RESEARCH

Connie Utterback's artwork and professional research is in the field of Fiber Art.  Her work has been included in numerous international and national exhibitions.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

MFA - Art 1981

• UCLA
   

BFA - Art 1969

• Washington University
  St. Louis, MO

Additional Education

• School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1973-75
• California State University, Long Beach, 1977

David Pitt
Professor

Email: dpitt@calstatela.edu

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Research Interests

I work in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language and metaphysics. 

Educational Background

• Ph.D., Philosophy, 1994
  City University of New York, Graduate Center
   
• M.A., Music (Composition), 1985
  Queens College, City University of New York
   
• B.A., Music, 1981
  Haverford College

I used to want to be a composer (I still do, but I've stopped trying). Here are a few of my compositions.

• Five Short Pieces for Piano (1985)
• Sum Scale Invention (1985) (for solo flute)
• Kyrie (1982) (for a capella chorus SATB) (one of these days)
 
 Some Links

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind
• Dave Chalmers's Page
• ANU Centre for Consiousness
• PhilPapers
• Tucson Center for Consciousness Studies
• US Philosophy Departments

“Through a range of projects that emphasize skills sharing and sewing instruction, Lung seeks to provide alternatives to purchasing ready-made clothing manufactured under abusive working conditions. She joins other contemporary fiber artists such as Anne Wilson, Margarita Cabrera, Celia Álvarez Muñoz, Mandy Cano Villalobos, and Zoe Sheehan Saldaña, who use sewing to explore issues of globalization, skill, labor, and economy in the textile industry. Lung’s sewing projects are firmly located within contemporary fiber and social and participatory practices; however, they also belong to a rich historical trajectory of collaborative labor and collective action expressed through sewing.”

Carole Frances Lung, Subversive Stitches Across Time: The Suffragette Movement, Labor Activism and Contemporary Social Change, By Lisa Vinebaum, Assistant Professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, presented at The Textile Society of America Bi-Annual Symposium at UCLA, 2014

Carole Frances Lung is an artist, soft guerilla activist, and scholar living in Long Beach, CA. Through her alter ego Frau Fiber, Carole utilizes a hybrid of playful activism, cultural criticism, research and spirit
ed crafting of one of a kind garment production performances She investigates the human cost of mass production and consumption, addressing issues of value and time through the thoroughly hand-made construction and salvaging of garments. Her performances have been exhibited at Jane Addams Hull House Museum, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Craft Portland, Sullivan Galleries, SAIC, Chicago IL, Ben Maltz Gallery, OTIS College of Art and Design, LA CA, Catherine Smith Gallery, Appalachian State University Boone NC and the Ghetto Biennale Port Au Prince Haiti. Publications include: Chicago Arts News, American Craft Council: Shaping the Future of Craft, Art in America, and Art Papers. She has lectured at Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Feminism and Co series, Craftivsim; Creativity and Ingenuity Symposium, at Haystack Mountain School of Craft, in Deer Isle, Maine and at the Textile Society of America symposium in Washington DC. She has been awarded: Kohler Arts and Industry Residency, Craft Creativity and Design Center Grant, CSULA creative leave 2014, creative mini grant 2014, 2013, nominated for the Louis Comfort Tiffany award, At the Edge Gallery 400 award and Fred A. Hillbruner Artist Book Fellowship. Carole currently maintains the Institute for Labor Generosity Workers and Uniforms, Frau Fiber’s headquarters and experimental factory in downtown Long Beach.

Dr. Abbas Daneshvari

Professor of Art History
Chair, Department of Art (2009-2013)
California State University, Los Angeles

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. UCLA-Art History
M.A.  University of Massachusetts, Amherst
B.S.   California State University, Hayward

TEACHING HISTORY:

Professor of Art History, California State University, Los Angeles (1982-Present)
Fulbright Scholar, Cairo, Egypt (1981-1982)
Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley (1979-1981)

PUBLICATIONS:

BOOKS:

2017         Abbas Daneshvari, editor, Essays on Contemporary Iranian Photography, Mazda, Costa Mesa.

2016         Abbas Daneshvari, The Sculptures of Parviz Tanavoli, M. Publishers, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, January 2016.

2014       Abbas Daneshvari, Amazingly Original: Contemporary Iranian Art at Crossroads, New Art, Mazda Publishers.

2011       Abbas  Daneshvari    Of Serpents and Dragons in Islamic Art, An Iconographical Study, Persian Heritage Series / Mazda Publishers.

2006       Abbas Daneshvari,  editor,  A Survey of Persian Art, vol. XVII, Ashiya  Publishers/Mazda.                                                                                         

2005       Abbas Daneshvari and Jay Gluck, editors.  A Survey of Persian Art, vol. XVIII,  Ashiya Publishers/ Mazda .

1986        Abbas Daneshvari   Animal Symbolism in Warqa wa Gulshah, Oxford  University  Press.

1986        Abbas Daneshvari   Medieval Tomb Towers of Iran: An Iconographical Study, Undena/Mazda.

1982        Abbas Daneshvari, editor. Essays in Islamic Art and Architecture in Honor of   Professor Katharina Otto-Dorn. Undena Publications.    

BOOKS FORTHCOMING (completed manuscripts submitted to publishers):

2017         Abbas Daneshvari, Transformations in the Image of the Shepherd Sun-King in Early Islamic Art, forthcoming, University of Edinburgh Press.

EXHIBITION CATALOGUES AND MONOGRAPHS: 

2015         Sabzi

2011         Abbas Daneshvari, “The Continuum,” Catalogue Essay for Luis Bermudez’s Exhibition of Myth, Place and Identity, At the Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts in Ojai. Ojai, November 20^th, 2010- January 16^th, 2011.

2011         Abbas Daneshvari, “The End of Purity,” Catalogue Essay for  Mahmood Sabzi’s Exhibition of The End of Purity at Tarrahan Azad Gallery, Tehran, September of 2011. Reprinted in Art Tomorrow, V. 6, Winter of 2012.

2011,       Abbas Daneshvari,“The Pales and Forts of Mystery,” Catalogue Essay for Sadegh Tirafkan’s Exhibition of 0611, at  the  Etemad Gallery. Dubai, Nov. 2011.

2011        Abbas Daneshvari, “Always in Our Thoughts,” Catalogue Essay for Sadegh Tirafkan’s Always in Our Thoughts at the Los Angeles County’s Museum of Art’s Exhibition of TheGift of Sultans. Also available at www.Tirafkan.com

2011       Abbas Daneshvari,  “The Triumph of Dance,” Catalogue Essay for Setareh Feylizadeh Exhibition of Setareh’s Retrospective at Dehli’s New Gallery, Dehli, India.

2002       Cecilia Miguez

1999       Abbas Daneshvari, The Vigil of a Winter’s Moon: The Paintings of Babak Emanuel, Delju Art Publications.

1998       Abbas Daneshvari, The Paintings of Mahmud Sabzi, Collectors Editions.

1998       Abbas Daneshvari      Hessam Abrishami: A Retrospective, Collectors Editions.

1998       Abbas Daneshvari     The Sakazaki Collection of Stewart Moskowitz Paintings.1989-1996. 

1989      Abbas Daneshvari      The Incadescence of Terror: The Paintings of Akbar Behkalam,  Mazda.

1987      Abbas Daneshvari       The Mezotint Montages of Michael Pedroni, California State University, Los Angeles.

1986      Abbas Daneshvari      Llyn Foulkes, Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

1985      Abbas Daneshvari      The David Nellis Collection, Loma Linda University.

1977      Abbas Daneshvari      Islamic Art at the Malone Gallery, Loyola Marymount University

ARTICLES:

2017         Abbas Daneshvari, “The Iconography of the Chahr-Taq in Medieval Islamic Archtecture,” edited by Rober Hillenbrand, University of Edinburgh Press, forthcoming.

2016        Abbas Daneshvari,  “Altruism and the Art of Koorosh Shishegaran” edited H. Keshmirsekan, Saqi Publishers, London.

2015        Abbas Daneshvari, “Metaphor and Allegory in Tanavoli’s Art: The Artist as the Unifying Principle in a Fragmented Universe,” The Art of Tanavoli, Dubai, 2016.

2014       Abbas Daneshvari, “Deconstruction and the Contemporary Arts of Iran,” in Regional vis-à-vis Global Discourses, Contemporary Art from the Middle East, Proceedings of a Conference at School of Orientl and African Studies, University of London, July 2013, edited by Hamid Keshmirshekan, I. B. Tauris, London, 2014.

2014       Abbas Daneshvari, “Gardens of Iran and Iraq in the Ninth and the Tenth Centuries,”   Festschrift in Honour of Shahryar Adle, Forthcoming.

2014       Abbas Daneshvari, “Joseph Beuys and Nietzsche’s Overman,” submitted to Colloquim on Modernism,  , held at California State University, Los Angeles, 2015.

2011      Abbas Daneshvari, “Parviz Tanavoli: Of Existential Purity and Sophistication,” Art Tomorrow, V. 5, Summer of 2011, pp. 179-186.

2011     Abbas Daneshvari, “Koroush Shishegaran: Dionysian Energies,” Art Tomorrow, V. 3, Winter of 2011, pp. 166-178

2010     Abbas Daneshvari, “Massoud Arabshahi: Life in Forms,” Art Tomorrow, V. 1, Spring of 2010, pp. 174-181.

2007     Abbas Daneshvari, “From Mashu to Qaf,” Studies In Honor of Geza Fehervari, edited by Barbara Brend and Patti Baker, London.

2005      Abbas Daneshvari      “Cup, branch, bird and Fish: The Image of the Ruler in Early Islam,” Studies in Honor of Robert Hillenbrand, edited by Bernard  O’Kane, University of Edinburgh, 2004.

2005     Abbas Daneshvari, “Inscriptions on Persian Pottery,” A Survey of Persian Art, vol. XVIII, ed. Abbas Daneshvari, Mazda/Ashiya Publishers.

1998     Abbas Daneshvari       “Simulations and Dissimulations in Postmodern Architecture, The Case of Los Angeles: Chaos and the  Mythopoeic Mind,” Cities, October 98. London.

1997      Abbas Daneshvari     “Ardabil,” Dictionary of Art.

1997      Abbas Daneshvari     “Ardistan,” Dictionary of Art.

1997      Abbas Daneshvari     “Kirman,” Dictionary of Art.

1997      Abbas Daneshvari      “Tehran I: History and Culture,” Dictionary of Art.

1997      Abbas Daneshvari      “Tehran II: The Arts,” Dictionary of Art.

1997      Abbas Daneshvari      “Varamin,” Dictionary of Art.

1997      Abbas Daneshvari      “ Nayin,” Dictionary of Art.

1997      Abbas Daneshvari      “Woodwork in Iran and Central Asia before 1250,” Dictionary of Art.

1997     Abbas Daneshvari       “Gunbad-i Qabus,” Dictionary of Art.

1994     Abbas Daneshvari       “The Iconography of the Dragon in the Cult of the Saints in  Islam,” Manifestations of Sainthood in Islam. G. Smith, editor. Isis Press, Istanbul.

1994     Abbas Daneshvari       “Symbolism of the Peacock in Medieval Islamic Art,” The Art  of the Seljuqs in Iran and Anatolia, Robert Hillenbrand, editor. Mazda.

1992     Abbas Daneshvari       “Borj, ” Encyclopedia Iranica. Columbia University.

1982     Abbas Daneshvari       “Symbolism of the Rabbit in the Manuscript of Warqa wa  Gulshah.” Essays  in Islamic Art and Architecture,  Abbas Daneshvari, editor. Undena.

BOOK REVIEWS:

1986     Abbas Daneshvari         “A Review of Muqarnas,” Int. Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 18/3

1980     Abbas Daneshvari         “A Review of A. Welch’s Paintings for the Shah,” JAOS.

BOOKS PUBLISHED UNDER MY EDITORSHIP (Editor in Chief of Islamic Art and Architecture at Mazda Publishers)

2000     Hani Hamza                 The Northern Cemetery of Cairo, Mazda/American University of Cairo.

2004     Robert Mason,             Shine Like the Sun,  Lustre-Painted and Associated Pottery from the Medieval Middle East, Royal Ontario Museum/Mazda.

2004     Eva Baer                       The Human Figure in Islamic Art. Mazda.

1999      Stephen Blake, Half the World: The Social Architecture of Safavid Iran, Royal Ontario Museum/Mazda.

1996     Lisa Golombek, Tamerlane’s Tableware: Ceramic Arts of 15th and 16^th Century Iran, Royal Ontario Museum/ Mazda.

1994     Robert Hillenbrand, The Art of the Seljuqs in Iran and Anatolia, Mazda.

1989     Rachel Milestein, Miniature Painting in Ottoman Baghdad, Mazda.

1987     Bernard O’Kane, Timurid Architecture in Khurassan,  Getty/Mazda

Lectures (since 2004, only major institutions are cited):

2017    UCLA, “Metaphysical Subversions in Contemporary Iranian Art.”

2016     St. Andrews University, St. Andrews, Scotland, “The Iconography of the Chahr-Taq in Medieval Muslim Architecture.”

2013     Brunei Gallery, SOAS, University of London, “Deconstruction and the Contemporary Arts of Iran.”

2012     Kunst University, Linz Austria, “Deconstruction and the Contemporary Arts of Iran.”

2010      August 2010, University of Tehran, Department of Music and Ethnomusicology, “Music in the Art of the Great Seljuks of Iran.”

2010      December 9^th, Intelligence Squared, “Animal Rights and Veganism,” Heather Mills, Peter Singer and Abbas Daneshvari debated three Professors of Oxford University on the issues related to animal rights and a vegan diet. Chelsea Town Hall, London

2009      July 1^st, Moghaddam Museum of Art, Tehran, “How to Identify Seljuk and Il-Khanid Potteries.”

2008     June 30^th, Tehran Archeological Museum, “Identifying and Dating Medieval  Islamic Potteries.”

2004      December 2^nd,  University of London, SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), “The Dragons of Islamic Art and Literature,” Brunei Gallery Auditorium.

2004     December 3^rd, University of London, SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), “The Astro-Cosmological Dragon,” Brunei Gallery Auditorium.

2004     December 6^th, University of London, SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), “The Ruler in Cosmic Setting,” Brunei Gallery Auditorium.

2004     December 7^th, University of London, SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), “Dragons in the Cult of the Saints,” Brunei Gallery Auditorium.

Luis Bermudez (b. 1953) investigates the mythic and ceremonial in sculptural works that bridge the ancient and contemporary through landscape and symbolism. For over two decades, he has explored a wide variety of forms, including the vessel, architectural elements, installation work, and the large-scale abstract architectonic ceramic sculptures he is best known for. It has been observed that his sculpture often communicates a generic pre-Columbian presence, which he attributes to genetic memory. Both conscious and unconscious memories are often incorporated in his work.

Since the early 1980s, Bermudez has used ceramics and mixed media to explore and communicate elemental phenomena and forces as metaphors for life. Many of his works have focused on the cycle of life and death, through visual imagery of presence and absence depicted as positive and negative space. Bermudez uses the medium of ceramics for its innate earthly qualities, which resonate with his own optimism in communicating the power of the natural world in relation to the human experience.

 “I come to my work, impelled to give tangible presence to the episodes in my life of peculiar intensity -- the ones that announce their transcendence, and touch the common core of human experience.” – Luis Bermudez

Dr. Anderson received his PhD in Art History at the University of California, Santa Barbara.  His specialty is in Renaissance and Baroque art and he holds a minor in Medieval Art and Architecture.  He teaches courses in Ancient Greco-Roman, Early Christian-Byzantine, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and Neoclassical art.  His research interests focus on the organization of artists, architects, and artisans within professional guild and confraternity systems on monumental commissions during the Renaissance and Baroque periods.  Dr. Anderson is a Fulbright scholar and Samuel H. Kress Foundation fellow.  His book, Collaboration in the Renaissance: The Lateran Nave Ceiling and Fabbrica of the Cathedral of Rome under Pope Pius IV, Vatican City: Lateran Archival Series (Tabularium Lateranense, vol. III), is in press.  An enthusiastic supporter of international education, Dr. Anderson has studied and carried out research abroad at the Universities of Rome, Siena, and Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany) as well as teaching in Rome for a number of American universities.

Maria Karafilis (Ph.D., 1999, University of Maryland, College Park) is Professor of English at California State University, Los Angeles, where she also has served as the Joseph A. Bailey II, M.D., Endowed Chair in American Communities and Director of the CSULA/NEH American Communities Program. She teaches courses in American literature and her research focuses on legal and literary narratives of belonging and citizenship. Her research has appeared in journals including Poe Studies, American Literary Realism, ATQ, and Arizona Quarterly as well as a number of edited collections. She also edited Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s historical novel The Linwoods for reissue.

Recent courses taught include

• Literary Geographies: Space and Place in 19^th-Century US Literatures
• American Periodical Literatures
• American Democracy in Hawthorne and Melville
• Literatures of Slavery and Abolition
• Violence, History, and Memory
• “The Indian Question”: Indigeneity in the Long Nineteenth Century
• Research Methods in Literary Studies

Office Hours (Spring 2017)

Tuesday, 3:00pm-4:00pm
and by appointment

(Go to faculty profile)

Important Resources

"How faculty members and administrators can help immigrant students" (Inside Higher Ed) -- A short essay offering a wide range of strategies and sensitivities that those in higher education can employ to support undocument immigrants and their families

Undocumented Students and Families: The Facts (Association of California School Admnistrators) -- This document focuses on K12 schools but offers a good overview of the rights and responsibilities of students and school staff

Immigrant and Refugee Children: A Guide for Educators and School Support Staff (American Federation of Teachers) -- This document also focuses on K12 schools but offers more details and resources for students, families, and educators

Know Your Rights (National Immigration Law Center) -- This brief document clearly outlines the rights of undocumented immigrants and provides links to resources

Research Interests

British Romanticism; British Literature of the 19th Century; nationalism; digital humanities; environmental humanities and ecocriticism

Selected Publications

Teaching

Producer/director/educator Bridget Murnane is known for her creative media treatments of dance, as well as  experimental and narrative projects. Her films have screened in over sixty international festivals and received numerous awards including two CINE Eagles. Her first feature, Odile and Yvette at the Edge of The World, premiered at the prestigious Edinburgh Film Festival and received special recognition from the Film Advisory Board and the Brussels Diamond Film Festival. The PBS series, New Television and The Territory, have presented her work, as well as the cable channel, Classic Arts Showcase. Bridget was the Associate Producer of Mia, a dancer's journey, broadcast on PBS and winner of the 2015 Los Angeles Emmy Award for Arts, Culture and History.  Bridget is a Professor of Television, Film and Media Studies at California State University Los Angeles.

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Suzanne E. Regan, Ph.D.

California State University Los Angeles

sregan@calstatela.edu

323-343-4206

Professor of Television Film and Media Studies

Teaching Specializations: Media History, Criticism, Gender Representation

Administrative Experience:

Host, 71st Annual University Film and Video Association Conference, California State University, Los Angeles, Summer 2017

Adviser to the University Times, CSULA Campus Newspaper

Chair, Department of Music, Theatre and Dance, California State University, Los Angeles  2010-2013.  Responsible for budgeting, scheduling, and staffing of a Department of serving graduate and undergraduate students. 

TVFM Project Manager for the TV Film and Media Studies Center, a $7,000,000 design and development project for CSULA, that renovation a building to incorporate a 30 thousand square foot, two story sound stage, editing and sound recording and design facilities, screening and conference rooms designed to support advanced production and graduate classes for the MA and MFA in Film, Theater and Television.  Worked with architects, planners, contractor and colleagues from across campus departments from initial concept, through design and completion.

Chair, Department of TV, Film and Media Studies, California State University, Los Angeles  2010-2013.  Responsible for budgeting, scheduling, and staffing of a Department of serving 800 graduate and undergraduate students.  Acting Chair, Department of Communication Studies, 2009-2010. Responsible for the budgeting, scheduling and staffing of a Department combining speech and media communication programs.  Member Department Transition Team, charged with developing two new Departments in Communication and TVF.

Co-Producer, along with Melinda Levin and Karla Berry of “The Rivers Project” a multinational collaborative documentary project which addresses environmental issues shares by major river systems.  Recipient of over 1$20,000 by Grants from CILECT, AVID, Panasonic and UFVA. 2007-2008.  River Film premiered at CILECT Congress in Beijing, November 2008.  Received multiple festival invitations and awards.

Co-Director of the TV Film and Theater MFA, 2010-12   Responsible for recruitment, admission and program development for the Masters of Fine Art in TV, Film and Theater, with specializations in performance, production and dramatic writing. Worked with colleagues from theater and dance to develop the new collaborative MFA. Director of Graduate Studies, Telecom/Film MA, Department of Communication Studies, 2006-2007, 2001-2004, responsible for recruitment, admissions and maintenance of progress records for graduate students, act as liaison to College of Arts and Letter Graduate Faculty Committee, lead Department Graduate Faculty in the development of program and policies, coordinate comprehensive exams, primary graduate student adviser.

Appointee of the California State Board of Education to the Visual and Performing Arts Curriculum Framework and Criteria Committee, providing content expertise in the development of the 2002 K-12 Visual and Performing Arts Framework used as basis for curriculum development in the arts for the California Public Schools, 2002.  Framework Published 2004. 

Appointee of the California State Board of Education to the Instructional Resources Evaluation Panel, recommending preferred texts in the area of Visual and Performing Arts for state-wide K-12 adoption, 1997-98.

President, University Film and Video Association, 2002-2004.  The University Film and Video Association, founded in 1948 is one of the two major academic associations dealing with Media research and Study in North America. The UFVA is also the North American branch of CILECT, the International Congress of Schools of Cinema and Television.  Immediate Past President (Board Position) 2004-2006.  President –elect, (Board Position) University Film and Video Association, 2001-2002.

    Editor, Journal of Film and Video, 1997-2002.

    In its 68th year of publication, one of the two blind peer-reviewed journals in the field of film and

    video research and education published in the United States.  One of the oldest film studies journals

    still in publication with an international readership and place in the major Film Study Centers and

    University Libraries worldwide.

Delegate, Women and Leadership Symposium, Oxford University, Oxford, England, Spring 2005.

Head of U.S. Delegation to CILECT (International Congress of Schools of Film and Television, Helsinki Finland, Spring 2004.  Responsible for leading the U.S. Delegation, coordinating the U.S. Media Initiatives, and securing the U.S. vote when a country by country vote was required.

Planning Committee, Theory for Practice Project, CILECT (International Congress of the Schools of Film and Television) 2002-2004.  The Project involves setting up five international meetings to deal with the theoretical issues around teaching film and television production.

Department of Communication Studies Associate Chair.  Work in concert with Chair on faculty and staff recruitment, student development and fiscal planning.  Associate Chair for Broadcasting, Director of Broadcasting.  Responsible for program development, managing schedules, internship program, financial planning and policy and procedures for the Broadcasting major.

Evaluation and Tenure Committees, Budget Committees, Student Policy and Administrative Review.  WASC Accreditation:  Student Satisfaction Subcommittee. 

Secretary, University Film and Video Association, 1983-84, Board of Directors, 1985-1986, and 1997-1998.

Program Chair, University Film and Video Association's 39th Conference,

          "Hollywood in Transition,” Summer 1985.

   Publications:

    "Bad Teacher, Bad Judgement, Bad Intentins, or Abuse?" chapter, Suzanne Regan, Screen Lessons: What We Have Learned From Teachers On Television and In The Movies, editors: Mary M. Dalton and Laura R. Linder,

     Peter Lang, 2017.

    A Gendered Gaze: Media Perceptions of Self and Sexuality, content contributor and editor by Suzanne Regan, Cognella, 2016.

 “Embedded Theories of Violence,” published proceeding of the Beyond Theory Conference, Cardiff, Wales, November 2003.

Contributor to "Guide to Faculty Advancement: Annual Evaluation, Promotion, and Tenure, by Peter Bukalski, University Film and Video Association Monograph No. 7, Summer 2000.

“Women Behind the Camera: Conversations with Camerawomen” review of book by Alexis Krasilovsky, Journal of Film and Video, Summer 1998, pp.58-60.

"Teaching Visual Analysis Using CAV Interactive Videodisc Technology, in The Electronic Classroom: a Handbook for Education in the Electronic Environment, edited by Erwin Boschmann, Meckler, 1995.

Contributor to "Guide for Nontenured Faculty Members: Annual Evaluation, Promotion, and Tenure, edited by Peter Bukalski, University Film and Video Association Monograph No. 6, Fall 1993.

"Sunny Side of Life," film review,   Southern Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 2,  Winter  1988, pp. 110-111.

"The History of Network Television in the United States:  Beginnings to 1960"  AFI Course File,  University Film and Video Association Monograph No. 5,  January 1986, pp. 44-48.

Film and Video Production:

Co-Producer, along with Melinda Levin and Karla Berry of “The Rivers Project” a multinational collaborative documentary project which addresses environmental issues shares by major river systems.  Recipient of over 1$20,000 by Grants from CILECT, AVID, Panasonic and UFVA. 2007-2008.  River Film premiered at CILECT Congress in Beijing, November 2008.  Received multiple festival invitations and awards.

Executive Producer, copy editor, Interactive DVD Issue, Journal of Film and Video 54:1, Spring 2002

Executive Producer, copy editor,  Interactive CD-ROM Issue Editor, Journal of Film and Video, 52:3, Fall 2000.

Executive Producer, Journal of Film and Video, 51:2, CD-ROM issue, Summer 1999.

Creative Consultant, Producer and Editor, "Fountain Valley District Track Meet, 1983” Cablecast June, July 1983, Fountain Valley, California.  Public access community cable project discussed in Community Television Review, Winter 1984.

Creative Consultant, Producer, "KBS (Kid's Broadcasting System) News" a public access project of the Fountain Valley School District, Cablecast July, August 1982, Fountain Valley, California, discussed in Community Television Review, Winter 1984.

Director, Writer, Cinematographer and Editor of Summer in the Parks, a 16mm color film produced for the Portland (Maine) Parks and Recreation Department, 1974.

Academic Experience:

Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Television Film and Media Studies Program,

California State University, Los Angeles, 1978-present.

Educational Background:

University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Ph.D. in Mass Communication, 

    Dissertation: The Utilization of the Film Medium by American Art Museums, 1981

University of California at Los Angeles, MA in Film-Critical Studies,

    Thesis: Fantasy in Children's Films, 1974

Center for Understanding Media, Summer Institute, New York City, 1973

Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts, BA, 1971, with honors

Teaching Areas:

Graduate and Undergraduate Courses

Film and Television History, Theory and Criticism

Gender and Meida

New Media Technologies

Screenwriting, Video and Film Production

Related Professional Experience:

Delegate to the November 2008 Conference of CILECT. (International Congress of Schools of Cinema and Television), Report on the Global Rivers Project, premiere of the Rivers Film.

 Delegate to the October 2006 Madrid, Spain Conference of CILECT (International Congress of Schools

    of Cinema and Television).

Delegate to the April 2002 Melbourne (Australia) Conference of CILECT. (International Congress of Schools of Cinema and Television)

On Line Teaching, LA Times TimesLink, On Line News Service, Family and Education Section, Inaugural Course, "Children's Media," November, 1994.

Member, Commission on Instructional Technology, 1987-1990 Chancellor's task force to incorporate computing and media technology into the California State University System's classroom instruction.

Reviewer, Wadsworth Press, Cole Publishing, film and television texts, 1987-1991.

Guest Lecturer, Universities of  Beograd and Zagreb (Yugoslavia), Faculties of Dramatic Arts, lectured on American television history and contemporary programming issues, April 1987, also lectured on the above topics at the Olympic Museum, Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, April 1987.

Facilitator for the "Professors Survival Guide" Workshops given at the Society for Cinema Studies Conference, New Orleans, April 1986, University Film Video Association Conference, August 1986 and the Broadcast Education Association Conference, Dallas, Texas, March 1987.

Delegate to the November1986 Paris (France) Conference of CILECT (International Congress of Schools of Cinema and Television) and to the July 1987 CILECT. sponsored Karlovy Vary (Czechoslovakia) Student Film and Video Festival.

West Coast Regional Coordinator, National Video Festival Student Competition, Spring1986.

Judge, The American Video Conference Awards, 1987-1989.

Judge, Pre-selection Committees, Datsun FOCUS Screenwriting Competition, 1980-1986.

Toured Israel, Egypt and Jordan for the U.S.I.A. Arts American Program and the Motion Picture Academy with student Academy Award winning films, October 1984.

Co-author, along with Caren Deming, Ph.D. "Proposal to Develop BFA/MFA Degree Programs in FILM/VIDEO/SOUND in the California State University System" 

Principal author of the revised BA Program in Broadcasting, California State University, Los Angeles, 1983.

Panel Chair: Various regional, national and international panels, 1978-present.

    Grants:

Producer along with Melinda Levin and Karla Berry of “The Rivers Project” a multinational collaborative documentary project which addresses environmental issues shares by major river systems.  Funded by Grants from CILECT, AVID, Panasonic and UFVA.

American Communities Grant, CSULA College of Arts and Letters, for research on media representation of the LA River, 2007-2008.

CSULA Instructional Technology Initiative Implementation Award, Rethinking and Retooling for the Electronic Classroom: (BCST 328) History of Broadcasting and Film, utilizing digital imagery, CD-ROM and World Wide Web, 1997.

CSULA Instructional Technology Lottery Grants, Computer Technology

Classroom for Teaching Communications and Broadcasting Telecommunications Based

Courses, with Beryl Bellman, 1994-1995.

Roybal Institute for Applied Gerontology, Research Development Grant, with Beryl Bellman, to develop a proposal for computer communication interface for elder learners, Spring 1993.

Digital Equipment Corporation, with Beryl Bellman and Bestnet faculty, 1991-92, Equipment Donation Grant for Technology research and dissemination.

Canadian Embassy Faculty Enrichment Grant to develop a course in Canadian Media and Culture.  1990. 

Winter 1990 Creative Leave (Program Change Proposal) from CSULA, to develop discipline based teaching applications for videodisc interactivity and computer communications.

1989/90 Discipline Based Training Program Grant, from CSULA, to develop a training seminar for colleagues on interactive videodisc and computer communications.

CSULA Instructional Technology Grants, 1988-89, 1989-90, to develop interactive computer and videodisk instruction facilities for broadcasting classes.

Papers Presented:

---over 70 papers in television history and criticism, faculty development, and in the areas of new media technologies, international media and cultural institutions presented at national and international media conferences:

Honors:

Lifetime Achievement Award, University Film and Video Association, 2009

Grand Marshal, California State University Los Angeles 2009 Honors Convocation and Commencement

CSULA Distinguished Woman Award 2005

Faculty Honorary Member, Golden Key National Honor Society, 1992

International Who's Who of Professional and Business Women, 1987

Outstanding Young Women in America, 1981, 1982

Graduate Fellowship, UCLA, 1972-73

Simmons Honor Society, 1970-71

Sarah Oren Jewett Scholarship, Simmons College, 1970-71

Simmons College Scholarship, 1967-71

UPCOMING COURSES

Spring 2017

English 5600    Seminar: The New Critics and Us

PUBLICATIONS

  Book: 

• Idle Threats: Men and the Limits of Productivity in Nineteenth-Century America, New York University Press, America and the Long Nineteenth Century series, 2012.

  Other Publications:

•  "The Liquidity Preference:  Money and Metaphor in Nineteenth-Century American Literature,"49th Parallel: An Interdisciplinary Journal of North American Studies (forthcoming, 2017).

•  "Beyond Education in Sickness:  A Biopolitical Marcuse and Some Prospects for University Self-Administration,"Theory & Event (forthcoming, 2017).

•  "Holy City Adrift:  Thomas McGrath's Los Angeles" (co-authored with Salvador Ayala, Amanda Kong, and Gabriela Valenzuela), North Dakota Quarterly 83:4 (Fall 2016).

•  “Committed Art,” in German Aesthetics:  Fundamental Concepts from Baumgarten to Adorno, ed. J.D. Mininger and Jason Peck,  Bloomsbury Press, 2016.

•  "The Life of a Dangerous Time:  Thomas McGrath and the Potential of Poetry,"Journal for the Study of Radicalism 9:3 (Fall 2015).

     •  “The Wreck of The Corsair:  Nineteenth-Century Publishing and Piratical Enterprise,” in Pirates and Mutineers in Nineteenth-Century Literature, ed. Grace Moore (Ashgate, 2011), pp. 79-94.

•  “Hollywood Panoramatics:  Nathanael West’s Baroque Modernity,"Literature Interpretation Theory 21:3 (July- September 2010), pp. 145-162.

•  “Money, Mobility, and the Idle Speculation of Nathaniel Parker Willis,"ATQ 22:4 (December 2008), pp. 559-575.

•  “The Bartleby Industry and Bartleby’s Idleness," ESQ 53.2 (2007), pp. 184-21

•  “Transmission, Temporality, Autonomy:  What Praxis Means in the Novels of Kenneth Fearing,” (co-written with Dr. David Jenemann, Univ. of Vermont) in The Novel and the American Left, ed. Janet G. Casey, University Of Iowa Press, 2004, pp. 172-194.

Book Reviews, Exhibition Catalogs, Etc.:

     • Adam Cvijanovic: New Paintings, Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis (2008).

     • McKnight Foundation-Minneapolis College of Arts and Design Fellows Exhibition, Minneapolis (2004).

     • “Robert Seguin – Around Quitting Time: Work and Middle-Class Fantasy in American Fiction,"Cultural Critique 56 (Winter 2004), pp. 212-218.

     • “Michel Foucault – Fearless Speech," Auslegung:  A Journal of Philosophy 26.1 (Winter-Spring 2003), pp. 77-80.

     • Twins, Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis (2002).

     • “Theodor Adorno – Critical Models," Auslegung:  A Journal of Philosophy 24.2 (Spring-Summer 2001), pp. 215-218.

COURSES

Courses taught at CSULA:

           • ENGL 5600, Seminar:  The New Critics and Us

           • ENGL 5001:  Theoretical Foundations of Literary Studies

           • ENGL 3600:  Readings in American Literature

           • ENGL 2900:  English Tutorial: "Bartleby"

• ENGL 570, Seminar:  Melville’s Selves

• ENGL 570, Seminar:  The Literary Institution and Sites of Reading in American Culture

• ENGL 570, Seminar:  Poe and Print Culture

• ENGL 541, Seminar:  Money and Meaning:  Studies in Economic Criticism

• ENGL 541, Seminar:  The Marxist Tradition in Literary Analysis

• ENGL 510, Historical Criticism:  The American Renaissance and Beyond

• ENGL 501: Theoretical Foundations of Literary Studies

• ENGL 492, Senior Seminar:  Bodies of Work – Dickinson and Whitman

• ENGL 492, Senior Seminar:  Poe, Poetics, and Property                        

• ENGL 492, Senior Seminar:  Fictions of Finance: American Literature and Culture of the Gilded Age 

• ENGL 492, Senior Seminar:  Problems and Problematics in Poe

• ENGL 475A: American Novel: Nineteenth Century

• ENGL 475C: American Novel Since 1945

• ENGL 472: American Literature, 1860-1914

• ENGL 471: American Literature, Beginnings to 1860

• ENGL 452: Reading Culture

• ENGL 260: Women and Literature

• ENGL 250: Understanding Literature

EDUCATION

Ph.D.     2004                 University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Program in Comparative Studies in Discourse in Society 

(Minor field:  Comparative Literature)

M.A.      1997                  University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Program in Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society

B.A.       1991                 University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Majors in Middle Eastern Studies, Political Science

Panelist, World Saxophone Congress, Strasbourg, France, July, 2015.

       American composer John M. Kennedy produces an eclectic group of work, ranging from mixed ensemble and solo pieces to multi-media compositions. He is a recent recipient of a Fulbright Scholar Award, supporting his invitation from the University of Malta to teach music composition and seminars on American music in the spring of 2017. Recent compositional highlights include premieres by the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble in Moscow; performances at the Malta International Music Festival and Competition in Valletta; the 2012 World Saxophone Congress, St. Andrews, Scotland, the 2013 Thailand International Composition Festival in Bangkok and “Yer-“ for solo flute in Tokyo. In 2014 he collaborated with director Tanya Kane-Parry and baritone Nicholas Isherwood on the premiere of a musical adaptation of Jean Paul Sartre’s “The Wall” in Los Angeles.  His commissions include the Olympia Youth Orchestra, the Baldwin-Wallace College Wind Ensemble and the Northern Ohio Youth Orchestra. Kennedy’s work has been featured in performances worldwide including his orchestral work “Portrait...” during the 1989 Salzburg Festival at the Mozarteum, and new music festivals in Bangkok, Thailand, Kwang-ju, Korea, and Daegu, Korea. Early recognition for his work includes the Charles Ives Prize from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and a Young Composer Award from ASCAP. His work receives continuing recognition with grants from Meet the Composer, Inc., annual Standard Panel Awards from ASCAP since 1991 and Subito grants from the American Composers Forum, Los Angeles. Since 1994 he has taught music composition and directed the New Music Ensemble at California State University, Los Angeles, where he is Professor of Music and has the distinction of receiving the Outstanding Professor Award for 2013.

Video of my good friend William Street performing my Smoke and Mirrors: Symbia II for solo alto saxophone at the World Saxophone Congress, St. Andrews, Scotland, July, 2012. Bill is the ultimate expert on this piece and has performed the work on three continents.
https://youtu.be/kuCmUPrqX10

INTRODUCTION

After almost 34 years at CSULA, I shall soon become emeritus.

TEACHING INTERESTS

I mostly teach ancient philosophy, mostly Plato or Aristotle, and often focussing on scientific issues in 5th and 4th cent. BCE philosophy.  I occasionally teach a course in the history of the philosophy of science, which focuses on ancient astronomy and mathematics.  This course uses lots of graphics to illustrate Greek mathematics and astronomy, much on my website, and spread sheets to illustrate Babylonian astronomy.  I also teach topics courses in the history of mathematics.  For these I have written a sexagesimal calculator for Excel and the contents of a website on ancient mathematics.
I enjoy teaching logic, as well as introductory metaphysics and epistemology.

RESEARCH

My principal areas of interest at present include ancient Greek philosophy (especially Aristotle and Plato), ancient Greek mathematics, ancient astronomy (especially Eudoxus). These focus on the relation between philosophical issues in ancient treatments of scientific problems and how ancient philosophers responded to those issues.  Current projects involve the presentational style of Aristotle's Physics, the text of Aristotle's Physics, Aristotelian logic, decision theorems in Aristotle, conceptions of number in the 4th and 3rd century B.C.E, treatments of quantitative relations in Greek mathematics, infinitary arguments in Greek mathematics, the relation between first principles in Aristotle and Greek mathematics, sources for Eudoxus, 4th cent. B.C.E. conceptions of astronomy, the treatment of centers of weight in Archimedes'Plane Equilibria, Democritean atomism and decomposition in Greek mathematics, Plato's analogy of the Divided Line, and sceptical themes in the Phaedo and Phaedrus, the so-called generation of numbers in the Parmenides, Posidonius on incormporeals. I continue to develop interesting ways of presenting ancient mathematics and astronommy, for which visit Vignettes of Ancient Mathematics (when it is back up).

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

WEB ARTICLES

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Ph.D. Philosophy 1986

• Stanford University

B.A. Philosophy

• St. John's College, Cambridge, England

A.B. Classics and Philosophy

• Cornell University

Music Faculty

James Ford, III

I've been at Cal State LA since 2007. My BA is from Vassar College (1995), and my PhD is from Stony Brook University (2003). I specialize in Phenomenology and Husserl Scholarship, with research interests in Modern Philosophy and Philosophy of Mind. I regularly teach PHIL 1520 Human Values, PHIL 4450 Existentialism, and PHIL 4460 Phenomenology; as well as related graduate-level courses. I am also the faculty advisor to Philosophy in Practice, our department's student-run journal. 

For more detailed information, including publications, talks, etc., see my CV below:

Curriculum Vitae

INTRODUCTION

My teaching in the classroom is directed at improving student skills of close and insightful reading and sound critical writing. My hope is that students may better understand and appreciate the indispensible richness of a literary tradition that will return the calls of its readers through acts of the imagination.

TEACHING INTERESTS

I enjoy teaching at all levels, from freshman composition to graduate seminars. My primary field is British literature from the Restoration through the eighteenth century. My graduate seminars have focused on major authors, such as Pope, Swift, and Johnson, on genres, such as the eighteenth century novel, Augustan poetry, and satire, and on other topics, such as the development of aesthetics in the eighteenth century, eighteenth-century literary uses of history, and rhetorics of literary criticism.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Much of my research has been in the areas of Augustan poetry and satire, but the entire domain of Restoration and eighteenth-century literature holds my fascination.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Ph.D., A.M. (English and American Literature and Language) 
 Harvard University

B.A. (English and Philosophy) 
 California State University, Los Angeles

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PUBLICATIONS

[Editor and contributor] A Companion to Satire: Ancient and Modern. Oxford; Malden MA; and Carlton, Victoria (Australia): Blackwell Publishing, 2007. < companion_to_satire_-_introduction.pdf>

"'The Soldier Tells His Wounds': A Memoir." Viet Nam War Generation Journal 1.4 (April 2002): 86-96.

"'Serious and merry by turns': The Pope-Swift Miscellanies." From letter to publication, SVEC (Studies in Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century) 2001:10. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2001. 287-295.

"Chance Images (Being Refractions on the Vietnam War)." Viet Nam War Generation Journal 1.1 (April 2001): 3-23.

"The End of Tragedy: Arthur Miller's 'A View from the Bridge.'"Revista Literaria Iberoamericana 2 (Winter 1998): 10-21.

Literate Culture: Pope's Rhetorical Art. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1992.

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Dionne Espinoza, Ph.D. is Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies & Liberal Studies. Her research and teaching interests include Chicana/Latina and women of color feminist history and social movement activism; oral herstory and archival methods; and intersectional feminist theories and methodology. She is currently revising her book manuscript Bronze Womanhood: Chicana Activism in the Chicano Movement in the Southwest and has co-edited (with Maylei Blackwell and Maria Cotera) Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Women’s Activism and Feminism in the Movimiento Era (forthcoming).  She also co-edited (with Lorena Oropeza) the award-winning Enriqueta Vasquez and the Chicano Movement: Writings from El Grito del Norte (Houston: Arte Publico Press.) 

Espinoza was raised in the San Gabriel Valley cities of Alhambra and El Monte. She received her B.A. at UC Berkeley and her M.A./Ph.D .at Cornell University in English. In these programs her studies focused on comparative race/ethnicity studies, postcolonial theory, and women of color feminisms. She  joined Cal State LA  as a faculty member in Chicano Studies  (2002-2007) and then held a joint appointment in Chicana (o) and Latina (o) Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (2007-2017). She was the founding Director of the Program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (2014-2017) and past Director of the Center for the Study of Genders and Sexualities (2004-2008).  As Director of CSGS she co-founded the Annual Student Research Conference, “Gender, Sexuality, and Power" in 2005.

INTRODUCTION

Dr. Mika Cho is art educator, researcher, educational consultant, visual artist and currently the director of the Cal State LA Fine Arts Gallery. Her research interests are in art-related and educational issues, which she shares through publications and extensive conference presentations internationally and nationally.  As an artist, she shows her paintings in various galleries, museums and web sites.

TEACHING INTERESTS

It is essential for art educators to be both informed in the practice of making art and its history, critical theories and philosophies, as well as to possess a command of teaching methodologies, instructional strategies, methods of assessment and educational policy.

My teaching is centered on the impact of visual representation in culture, and on art as a way of seeing the world at large and understanding it historically. The focus of my methodology has been the use of the art object and its underlying concepts as a vehicle for developing critical and creative thinking skills for students.  I am interested in how students articulate, manipulate, and digest information through contextual analysis and from diverse perspectives.  My mission and responsibility as an art educator is to empower students by assisting them to acquire the investigative tools for developing their own concepts in what they learn.  I am committed to the creation of an educated and thoughtful public by developing my students’ critical and creative skills.

Teachers must always aspire to bring a solid foundation of research and methodology to the classroom experience. As both a research scholar and a professional artist I seek to provide comprehensive instruction that includes: art history, art principles, materials and techniques, pedagogy, theory, and practice. To maintain my currency in art I attend lectures, symposia, conferences and exhibitions; in addition to reading theory and history. All of these elements are essential to my teaching.

ARTIST STATEMENT

As an artist, I believe that it is important to eschew making works in a vacuum. I propose to answer the question of how my own artwork relates to the viewers and in what ways are my works in accord with the art world. Most of my works contain references to the abstract, open-ended and the processing (layering, adding and subtracting).  But most of all, they are visual metaphor of human emotions.  I do not represent or embellish nature.  I am interested in sensations evoked with colors and ideas.  Painting, like other forms of arts, is the most important tool for communicating.  I am creating visual metaphor in abstract manners through color and texture.

RESEARCH

I have avidly pursued research in art-related and educational issues such as art and culture, portfolio assessment in teaching and learning in art, professional development in art, learning style preferences of diverse students and professional visual artists, and aesthetics in historical context through publications and extensive conference presentations internationally and nationally. 

Curriculum Vita
http://www.mikacho.com