Committees

• Ph.D. Art History (African Art): Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY
• M.A. Art History (The Arts of Africa, Oceania & the Americas): University of East Anglia, (UEA) Norwich, England
• B.A. Hons., Fine Art, Theatre, & Education: University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), Tanzania
• Certificate in Fine Art & Education, Butimba Teachers’ College, Tanzania
• Teachers’ Certificate, Korogwe Teachers’ College, Tanzania

A teacher by profession, Fadhili Mshana began teaching at Georgia College in 2002. Previously he taught at a primary school, a teacher training college, and at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. Research interests include indigenous, modern, and contemporary art history and visual cultures of Africa, particularly Tanzania. Current research concerns Western Christian mission art patronage of African artists. 

Fadhili Mshana’s work has received numerous fellowships and awards including a Fulbright Scholarship for his dissertation research among the coastal peoples of Tanzania. He is the author two books namely, African Artists under Mission Patronage: Focus on Tanzania, Lexington Books, 2023, and The Art of the Zaramo: Identity, Tradition, and Social Change in Tanzania, Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, 2016. Mshana is also the author of journal articles and book chapters on Tanzania art, including in the ground-breaking exhibition and book with the same name, Shangaa: Art of Tanzania. A practicing visual artist, his work has featured in group shows in Tanzania, Cuba, Denmark, and the United States.

Courses taught at Georgia College are African Art and Islam, African Art History, Art Criticism: From Plato and Kant to Post-Modernism, Art of the African Diaspora, Contemporary African Art, Life and Death in Ancient Egypt, From Renaissance to Modern World, The Ancient & Medieval Worlds, Fine and Applied Arts in Civilizations, Teaching Multiculturalism thru Art: K-12, and Understanding Visual Art. He has also taught on faculty-led summer study abroad program in Paris.

Ph.D., Zoology/Ecology, Evol. Biology/Behavior, Michigan State University

Aquatic Ecology, algal ecology, diatom taxonomy

Ph.D., Nuclear Astrophysics, Yale University

Nuclear Astrophysics
Stellar Helium Burning
Solar Neutrino Production

Ph.D., Speech Communication, Southern Illinois University
 

Dr. Scott Dillard received his B.A. in Speech Communication from Blackburn College and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Speech Communication from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Dr. Dillard’s specialty is in performance studies. He has published articles in journals such as Text and Performance Quarterly and Storytelling, Self, and Society. He is the co-author with his colleague Dr. Janet Hoffmann of the textbook The Speaker’s Voice. Dr. Dillard is also a performer who has created a number of one-person shows, acted in local theatre, and done voice over work.

Ph.D, Folklore, Indiana University

Dr. Mary Magoulick teaches folklore, Native American literature, myth, popular culture and women's and gender studies, all with multicultural focus. She writes on the interrelationships between literature/texts and culture and has published in The Journal of American Folklore, The Journal of Folklore Research, The Journal of Popular Culture, and more. Her book, The Goddess Myth in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture: A Feminist Critique was published by the University Press of Mississippi in 2022. She enjoys traveling (over 30 countries so far) and contemplating cross-cultural connections and culturally-based approaches to studying human artistic expressions. She has done fieldwork with Nishnaabe people, served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Senegal, studied in France, taught in Sweden, Italy, England, Ireland, for Semester at Sea (going around the world), and in Croatia, the last on a Fulbright.

• Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
• Role-playing Simulations
• Student Development and Global Citizenship
• Global Governance 
• Global Civic Literacy 

Political Geography, Geography of Health, Geography of Middle East and North Africa

PhD, Mathematics, University of Georgia

Pianist Owen Lovell has appeared as a soloist and critically acclaimed chamber musician in twenty U.S. states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, Canada, Mexico, Switzerland, and the Netherlands.  Commercial releases include tracks with rock musician Kip Winger (2008, Frontiers Records) and ASCAP award–winning composer Randall Bauer (2016, Albany Records). Owen has performed in live broadcasts on Wisconsin Public Radio and Austin, Texas NPR affiliate, KUT–FM. He has worked with many prizewinning composers, most notably Lowell Liebermann, Michael Torke, Samuel Adler, Joan Tower, Dan Welcher, Eric Ewazen, David Maslanka, Denis Smalley, and Roberto Sierra. Owen maintains professional two–piano and violin and piano collaborations, delighting audiences in settings ranging from rural community churches to the Kennedy Center.

Dr. Lovell earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in piano performance from the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University, and holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin. His principal instructors included Boris Slutsky, Dr. Betty Mallard, Gregory Allen, and Julian Martin. Owen is an MTNA Nationally Certified Teacher of Music, serving actively on the executive board of its state and local affiliates, and is frequently in demand as a clinician and adjudicator throughout the United States.

Appointed in the fall of 2016, Dr. Lovell is an Associate Professor of Music and coordinates the keyboard area and Bobcat Keys after school program at Georgia College, the state’s designated public liberal arts university.  Additionally, he is a piano technician and the piano review editor for Larry Fine’s Acoustic and Digital Piano Buyer (www.pianobuyer.com and printed semiannually), the standard consumer reference for piano shoppers. He previously served on the keyboard faculties of the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, the University of Texas - San Antonio, and Texas State University.  Visit his YouTube channel for more information and links to recordings.

Love, Pleasure, Friendship and the Good Life; Philosophy, Art and the Art of Living; Philosophy of Law; Ethics; and Social and Political Philosophy

Dr. Winchester has published books on Nietzsche, Cross cultural understanding of art and his most recent work, Ethics in an Age of Savage Inequalities (Lexington Press).  He is currently working on a book on the good life.

B.A., Christopher Newport University

M.S., Ph.D., Texas Christian University

Learning

PSYC 2060 -- Drugs and the Brain

PSYC 2700 -- Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences

PSYC 3100 -- Learning

MFA, Theatre Design, Virginia Tech

Beate M. Czogalla is delighted to be a part of the Department of Theatre at Georgia College as the Assistant Professor in Theatre Design since the Fall of 2000. She has a BA and MA degree in Theatre from Giessen University (Germany) and an MFA degree in Scenography and Lighting Design from Virginia Tech. Her credits at GC include A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Glass Menagerie, The Wild Duck, Quilters, The Beggar's Opera, On The Verge, Our Town, Julius Caesar, The Dining Room, You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown, The Taming Of The Shrew, An Evening of Pinter, Pippin and The Illusion. 

Ms. Czogalla has designed internationally with credits at theatres in Giessen, Frankfurt, Bad Hersfeld and Stuttgart, Germany; Wroclaw and Warsaw, Poland; Lige, Belgium; Chepstow, Wales, Great Britain; Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, and in the United States, and she is a founding member of the monumental Canadian outdoor theatre production, And Wolf Shall Inherit The Moon, mounted in Haliburton, Ontario every August. Since the Fall of 2000 she has worked as a Scenographer and Lighting Designer at The Warehouse Theatre in Greenville, South Carolina, and at 7 Stages in Atlanta, and since the summer of 2002 she has designed three shows per year for the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival in Allentown/ Center Valley, Pennsylvania. 

She was the Resident Lighting Designer for the New Harmony Theatre from 1990 until 1997. Prior to that she worked at Actors Theatre in Louisville, Kentucky, The Road Company in Johnson City, Tennessee, and Playhouse 460 and the Studio Theatre in Blacksburg, Virginia. She has done concert and architectural lighting design and consulting for a variety of clients and has served as the Lighting Supervisor for the Lincoln Amphitheatre at Lincoln State Park, Indiana, from 1995 until 2000. As an active member of NASA's Teacher in Space/ Space Education Program she serves as a community volunteer conducting workshops for children and adults of all ages, and in late 2000 she was appointed as a Solar System Ambassador by JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory/ NASA), a position she plans to hold for many more years. She is also a certified Advanced Open Water Diver and a passionate hiker and kite builder. 

Ed.D. Technology Education, West Virginia University 

M.A. Secondary Education, West Virginia University 

M.A. Spanish, West Virginia University 

B.A. Education in Foreign Languages, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Colombia 

Research and interests: Instructional Technologies, Virtual Exchanges, Computer Assisted Language Learning, Second Language Acquisition, Role-playing Simulations 

Languages Spoken: Spanish, English 

Regional Areas of Expertise: Latin America, Colombia 

"My favorite part of WLC is to offer students the opportunity to increase their intercultural communication and intercultural knowledge through different virtual exchanges such as in-class Teletandem projects, Teletandem Club and TalkAbroad."

• MA degree in Type and Media, The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK), The Netherlands
• Postgraduate Certificate in Typeface Design, The Cooper Union, New York
• MFA in Studio Art, University of Nevada Las Vegas
• BFA (Cum Laude), Concentration in Graphic Design, Painting and Drawing, University of Nevada Las Vegas
• AA, (with Distinction), Truckee Meadows Community College
• Diploma of Vocational in Business Office Technology, Sierra Nevada Job Corps Center 

http://anbassadesign.com/

Abraham Abebe was born and grew up in Ethiopia. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Art, Graphic Design at the Georgia College & State University. He came to Georgia College with the opportunity to develop two new curricula for the BA in Art with Graphic Design Concentration and Graphic Design Minor, which included the development and approval of seven new courses. Both programs were designed to better prepare students with the skills, creativity, and imagination. The curricula emphasize on design theory, history, and research to provide students direct and applicable methods to redefine design problems, adopt emerging technologies, and embrace design thinking to advance diversity.

Abraham has previously taught Graphic Design, Design Fundamentals and Drawing courses at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. He also oversaw the Design Fundamentals III (Digital) class while teaching at UNLV. His ongoing research interest is centered around library signage, wayfinding system, security printing design (specifically developing currency and passport), and multiscript type development (focusing on Ethiopic and Latin writing systems). Most of his Ge’ez (Ethiopic) typefaces are being used by number of Ethiopian televisions, electronic medias, and print medias such as ARTS TV, Haleta TV, Awtar TV, Minber TV, Andafta Media, Zehabesha Media, Donkey Tube, Nahom Records, and Feteh (ፍትሕ) Magazine (the leading Ethiopian Amharic weekly publication). Abraham’s typefaces are being used in number of tv series and feature films such as Eregnaye (እረኛዬ) (the popular Ethiopian TV drama that has been aired on ARTS TV and streamed on YouTube). Sene ena Segno (ሰኔ እና ሰኞ) (drama series being aired on Fana Television), Min Litazez (ምን ልታዘዝ) (comedy series being aired on YouTube), and Doka (ዶቃ) (feature film released in theaters). His Ethiopic typefaces also used on the music albums titled “VI” by Rophnan, and “Lewit: ለውጥ” by Samon.

As a studio artist, Abraham exhibits regularly both in the USA and abroad. His paintings, drawings, and installations have been featured in 11 solo and more than 50 group exhibitions.
 
Abraham is the author of an experimental typography book, “Professor Fuzo: Poems and Short Stories”, published in 2018, and a book of poetry, “Eggmel”, published in 2012. Both books were written in his native language Amharic.

Abraham holds an MA degree in Type and Media from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK), The Netherlands, Postgraduate Certificate in Typeface Design from the Cooper Union, New York, Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art and Bachelor of Fine Arts (Cum Laude) with concentration in Graphic Design, Painting and Drawing from the University of Nevada Las Vegas, Associate of Art Degree with Distinction from Truckee Meadows Community College as well as Diploma of Vocational in Business Office Technology from Sierra Nevada Job Corps Center.

Ph.D., Plant Biology, Ohio State University

Plant systematics, paleobotany

Ph.D., Astrophysics, University of Geneva

High-Energy Astrophysics
Black Holes and Neutron Stars
Stellar and Galactic Evolution

Ph.D., Speech Communication, University of Washington

Janet Hoffmann, (B.A. Florida State University, M.A. San Jose State University, Ph.D University of Washington) teaches Public Deliberation, Public Speaking, Public Achievement, Persuasion, Parliamentary Debate, Classical Communication Theory, Small Group Communication, Interpersonal Communication, and Instructional Communication. Selected as a Georgia Governor’s Teaching Fellow, serves as Coordinator of Georgia College’s American Democracy Project, hosts the campus Times Talk weekly current events discussion series, and is a National Issues Forum Institute Network Partner. Awards include the 2014 Georgia College Irene Rose Community Service Award, inaugural Georgia College ENGAGE Fellow, and the 2018 University Distinguished Service Award.

Ph.D., English, University of California, Los Angeles

Dr. Julian Knox earned his Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Los Angeles. His teaching and research interests include British and World Romanticism, literature and visual culture, Romanticism and popular music, theories and practices of translation, life-writing, and philosophies of time. He has published articles in the journals European Romantic Review, The Wordsworth Circle, The Coleridge Bulletin, Grave Notes, and The New German Review, and has contributed chapters to The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Transnational England: Home and Abroad, 1780-1860. His latest article, "Ashes Against the Grain: Black Metal and the Grim Rebirth of Romanticism," appears in the collection Rock and Romanticism.

• Education Policy
• Nonprofit Sector
• Race and Class in Education
• Community Based Service Learning
• Program Evaluation

Modern Europe, Russia and Soviet Union, Central Europe

PhD, Mathematics, New Mexico State University
 

https://simplice-tchamna.gcsu.edu

David Harned Johnson is a composer and violinist currently teaching at Georgia College. He has previously taught at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas, the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington and Mercer University’s Townsend School of Music in Macon, where he was chair of theory and composition as well as concertmaster of the Macon Symphony Orchestra.

Born and raised in California’s High Desert, he completed a Bachelor of Music degree in violin performance and composition at the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California. At Yale University, he earned an Masters of Music degree in composition, and went on to receive a Doctor of Music Arts degree in composition from Indiana University.

Johnson’s original works for orchestra have been performed by the Macon Symphony Orchestra, the University of Arizona Philharmonic, the Lake Union Civic Orchestra in Seattle, the Claremont Young Musicians Orchestra, the Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestra, and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Honduras. Johnson’s original chamber music has been performed at many national conferences, including the National Flute Association, the North American Saxophone Alliance, and the International Double Reed Society.

Website: www.davidhjohnson.com

Environmental Ethics; Animal Ethics; Liberation Theology; Religion, Science and the Natural World; Christianity and the Environment; Historical Jesus

Dr. Causey is a lecturer and teaches courses in the core curriculum as well as in Christian thought and ethics.  His main research interests are in animal ethics, environmental ethics, and food ethics. He is a member of the Sustainability Council.  

B.A., University Of California San Diego

M.S., Ph.D., University of Georgia

MFA, Dance, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

Amelia Pelton has been a choreographer and dance instructor for more than 20 years. She holds a BFA in dance from the University of Southern Mississippi, where she was named Most Outstanding Dance Major, and a MFA in dance from the Florida State University, where she was a finalist for the Most Outstanding Dance Major Award. At USM Amelia was Lt. Captain of the Dixie Darlings, the precision dance team. At FSU she was awarded a full teaching assistantship in ballet and tap dance. She wrote and implemented the dance program at Wallace College in Dothan, Alabama, a program that was adopted by the state of Alabama for it's junior college system. In Dothan she served as assistant director of the Southeast Alabama Dance Company. Her choreography was performed by that company in the Southeastern Regional Ballet Association's annual concert. Amelia developed and implemented the dance minor program at Georgia College and has directed the university's Community Dance Program since it began in 1995. 

Amelia was named to Outstanding Young Women of America. She has been active in community theatre in numerous locations for many years, having choreographed, danced, and starred in such musicals as: Oklahoma, Funny Girl, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, South Pacific, Mame, Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, Annie, The Music Man, Anything Goes, and numerous children's musicals. Amelia is also the director of the liturgical dance group at First United Methodist. She has three children. 

Ph.D. French. (Minor: Spanish Peninsular Women Writers, and U.S. Latino Writers,) The Florida State University 

D.E.A. (Postgraduate Diploma) Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France 

M.S.  Modern Language Education, Florida International University 

B.A. French, Florida International University 

Research: French Renaissance Poetry, U.S. Latino Literature, Diaspora Studies, Critical Disability Theory 

Languages Spoken: English, French, Spanish 

"As a department, we are always looking for ways to improve our curriculum to make it more relevant. I enjoy our consistent growth and development, our thematically innovative courses, and the curricular flexibility we are able to offer our students."

• PhD in Visual and Cultural Studies, University of Rochester
• M.A. in Visual and Cultural Studies, University of Rochester
• M.A. in Cultural Studies, Javeriana University (Bogota, Colombia)
• B.A. in Visual Art Education, University of Antioquia (Medellin, Colombia)

https://independent.academia.edu/YepesRuben

Ruben Dario Yepes Muñoz received his PhD in Colombian contemporary art and film from the University of Rochester in 2017. His dissertation, which addresses the mediation of the Colombian armed conflict in visual art and film, was published in 2018. Between 2017 and 2021, he taught in the Cultural Studies Department at Javeriana University in Bogota, Colombia.

Ruben’s research addresses modern and contemporary art and visual culture in Colombia and Latin America. Current research focuses on the art produced in Latin America in response to the Covid-19 crisis and the genealogy of Latin American Visual Studies.

Ruben is the author of three books: Afectando el conflicto: Mediaciones de la guerra colombiana en el arte y el cine contemporáneo (2018), María José Arjona: Lo que puede un cuerpo (2015) and La política del arte: Cuatro casos de arte contemporáneo en Colombia (2012). He is also the author of a number of peer-reviewed articles and book chapters published in Argentina, Canada, Colombia, Mexico, and the United States.

Ruben has received several important fellowships, grants and awards, including the National Prize for Scholarly Essay in Art History (2017, Colombia), a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2016), a Grant for Research on Colombian Art from the Colombian Ministry of Culture (2015) and a Fulbright Scholarship (2012).

At GCSU, Ruben teaches or has taught courses such as Latin American Art & Film, Contemporary Art, Visual Culture: Critical Perspectives, Gender and Visual Culture and Understanding Visual Art.

Ph.D., Botany, Miami University, OH

Forest, wetland, and landscape ecology, and GIS and remote sensing

Ph.D., Chemistry, University of Colorado at Denver

Organic Chemistry - Aromatic Halides
Biochemistry - Protein Structure and Function

Ph.D., Communication Studies, University of Nebraska

Dr. Jamie Downing teaches the fundamentals of public speaking and small group communication.

Dr. Chika Unigwe earned her Ph.D. from the Universiteit Leiden, Holland, and her M.A. from Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium.

Dr. Unigwe's novels include On Black Sister Street (Random House, 2011) and Night Dancer (Jonathan Cape, 2012). Her debut collection of short stories, Better Never than Late (Cassava Republic),  was published in 2019. Widely anthologized, she has also placed work in different journals including the New York Times, Guernica, Kenyon Review, the UK Guardian, Aeon, Wasafiri, Transition and Agni.

Ph.D, English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Dr. Jennifer Flaherty received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a Professor of Shakespeare studies, and her research emphasizes appropriation and global Shakespeare. Her work has been published in journals such as Borrowers and Lenders, Comparative Drama, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, and Topic. She has also contributed chapters to the volumes The Horse as Cultural Icon and Shakespeare and Millennial Fiction. Dr. Flaherty regularly teaches courses in Renaissance literature, dramatic literature, film studies, adaptation, Milton, and Shakespeare for the Literature program. She also teaches courses for Women's Studies, GC1Y and GC2Y, and the Georgia College Honors College.

• Policy Studies with focus on Criminal Justice Policy and Program
• Penology and Corrections
• Organized Crime
• Transnational Crime
• International Criminal Court (ICC)

• Bureaucratic Role Perception and Representation
• Political Behavior and Public Opinion

Asian History

PhD, Mathematics, University of Chicago

Dana Gorzelany-Mostak is an Associate Professor of Music at Georgia College. A musicologist by profession, she teaches various music history courses, including Music History I & II, American Music, Studies in World Music, and American Music and Politics, as well as conducts Women’s Ensemble and Music Theatre Scenes. Her research on music and American presidential campaigns appears in Music & Politics, the Journal of the Society for American Music, and the Journal of Popular Music Studies. Her work on America’s Got Talent star Jackie Evancho appears in the edited volume Voicing Girlhood in Popular Music: Performance, Authority, Authenticity (Routledge) and in the journal American Music. In 2018 Gorzelany-Mostak won an Award of Excellence from the Broadcast Education Association for “Songs in the Key of President C: Music on the Campaign Trail,” a digital lecture funded by a grant from the Society for American Music. Gorzelany-Mostak is the founder of Trax on the Trail, a website and research project that tracks and catalogues the soundscapes of US presidential elections. At present, Gorzelany-Mostak is working with Jennifer Flory (Professor of Music, Georgia College) to create a recording of 19th-century campaign songs as part of the project "Songs of Political Persuasion: Hearing Music on the US Presidential Campaign Trail, 1840–1918." In addition to writing essays for several public musicology websites, Gorzelany-Mostak has provided her expert opinion for news outlets such as the BBC, The Guardian, Variety, Pacific Standard, Inverse, and The Boston Herald. Her forthcoming book, Tracks on the Trail: Popular Music, Race, and the US Presidency, analyzes the official and unofficial musical activity surrounding 21st-century presidential campaigns, shedding light on how the racialization of sound intersects with other markers of difference and ultimately shapes the public discourse surrounding candidates, popular music, and the meanings attached to race in the 21st century (University of Michigan Press, 2023).

Love, Pleasure, Friendship and the Good Life; Philosophy, Art and the Art of Living; Philosophy of Law; Ethics; and Social and Political Philosophy

Dr. Winchester has published books on Nietzsche, Cross cultural understanding of art and his most recent work, Ethics in an Age of Savage Inequalities (Lexington Press).  He is currently working on a book on the good life.

B.A., Murray State University

M.S., Ph.D., University of Georgia

Postdoctoral Fellowship, MD Anderson Cancer Center

Social Psychology and Wellness (SPaW) Lab, Undergraduate Research Lab

Mindfulness and meditation

Self-regulation and health behaviors

Positive Psychology

PSYC 2700 -- Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences

PSYC 2800 -- Research Methods in Psychology

PSYC 3500 -- Social Psychology

PSYC 4920 -- Senior Seminar in Positive Psychology

MFA, Costume Design & Technology, University of Southern Mississippi

http://www.ericgriffis.com

Eric received his BA in Theatre from Southern Arkansas University (Magnolia, AR) and his MFA in Costume Design & Technology from the University of Southern Mississippi (Hattiesburg, MS). 

At SAU, Eric designed costumes for a number of productions including Buried Child, How I Learned to Drive, and See How They Run. Following his undergraduate work, Eric was the Associate Youth Director for the Jefferson Davis Parrish Arts Council's (Jennings, LA) youth theatre program and designed costumes and other technical aspects for their productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream and A Bad Year for Tomatoes. In his time at USM, Eric designed costumes for Early One Evening at the Rainbow Bar & Grille,Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Much Ado About Nothing (women's costumes), Moon Over Buffalo, and Fefu & Her Friends. In 2006, Eric assisted Costume Designer Peggy Stamper and her Assistant/husband Fred Lloyd as an Extras Costumer on the ABC/ESPN film Ruffian. Following that, Eric worked in the Wardrobe Department at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival for the 2007- 2008 season. For GC, Eric has designed costumes for Eurydice, Yours, Anne, The Rover, The Smiles, RENT, and The 1940's Radio Hour. Other recent designs include South Pacific at the New London Barn Playhouse and the Southeastern premiere of Good Boys and True at Actor's Express. 

Eric's areas of research include 20th century costumes, the symbolism of color, and digital costume rendering. 

Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of Oregon 

M.A. Comparative Literature, University of Oregon 

Staatsexamen für das Lehramt an Gymnasien (graduate degree), French Language, Literature and Linguistics; English Language, Literature and Linguistics, Universität Regensburg, Germany 

Research and teaching interests: New Materialist/Posthumanist Philosophy, the Climate Crisis/Ecocriticism, Theatre and Performance, Theories and History of Fascism and Sovereignty 

Languages Spoken: English, French, German. Reading proficiency: Spanish, Italian 

Regional Areas of Expertise: global/cosmic  

Academic Website 

"My favorite course is currently a virtual exchange course (MGLG 4950) on the Climate Crisis that is co-taught (in English) with students and faculty from the University of Jena, Germany and is open not only to WLC majors and minors, but to GC students from all fields. Make new friends and travel to Germany this coming summer from the safety of your laptop!"