Liberal Arts

Joyce Kessler

Title Associate Professor of Literature/Chair of Liberal Arts
Department Liberal Arts
Phone 216.421.7371

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Courses  Hybrid Writing | LLC 101 - Writing and Inquiry I: Basic Composition and Contemporary Ideas | Writing and Inquiry II: Research and Intellectual Traditions | Writing and Inquiry III: Narrative Forms | Writing for the Art/Design Career

Degree PhD, American Literature from Case Western Reserve University; MA, Cleveland State University; BA, English Literature from Cleveland State University

Dr. Joyce Kessler is Associate Professor of Literature at the Cleveland Institute of Art. She earned her Ph.D. in American Literature from Case Western Reserve University.

She is the current Chair of Liberal Arts and served as Interim Dean of Faculty from 2005 to 2007. Dr. Kessler teaches courses in women's literature, comparative literature, narrative studies, literature and social history, basic composition, hybrid writing, and advanced expository writing. She has written on the topics of women's studies and stylistics, but her scholarship is focused primarily on the fiction of Willa Cather.

Lane Cooper

Title Associate Professor/Chair of Painting
Department Liberal Arts
Phone 216.421.7357

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Courses  Art & Design History I: Ancient - 18th C. | BFA Statement & Exhibition

Degree BS, University of North Alabama; MA, Art History from The University of Alabama at Birmingham; MFA, Painting from The University of Alabama

Lane Cooper is an artist working through painting, sound, video, text and on occasion performance. Her work has been presented in venues ranging from Birmingham, Alabama to Madrid, Spain. In 2009 she participated in a Residency at The Banff Centre located in Alberta, Canada and in the fall of 2010 she was an Artist-in-Residence at Gallery Aferro in Newark, New Jersey. Where she will be exhibiting as part of the 2011/2012 season. She holds a Masters in Art History with an emphasis in Contemporary Art and an MFA in Painting. She has been teaching since 1989. Since the spring of 2001 she has taught full-time at the Cleveland Institute of Art. Ms. Cooper currently serves as the Head of Painting.

Courses  John Cage: His Life, Work, & Influence

Degree BA, Ithaca College; MFA, Cleveland Institute of Music

BChristopher is an adjunct faculty member in Liberal Arts at The Cleveland Institute of Art. He received his Bachelor of Music in 1992 from Ithaca College. In 1995 he earned his Masters degree from The Cleveland Institute of Music in Composition. He was been a Music mentor with the Cleveland Opera and lecturer at The University of Akron and Cleveland State University. Christopher was the co-founder of Composers in the Shape of a Pear and the co-director of the Modern Arts Coalition of Cleveland.

Courses  American Crafts History | LLC 101 - Writing and Inquiry I: Basic Composition and Contemporary Ideas | Writing and Inquiry II: Research and Intellectual Traditions

Courses  Creative Writing | Fiction Writing | Screenwriting | Screenwriting

Degree PhD, English, Case Western Reserve University. Dissertation: The Brief and Crowded Hour: Studies in Narrative Suspense. M.A., English, Cleveland State University. B.A., English, Douglass College (Rutgers University).

Shelley is a writer of crime fiction whose work has appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Crimewave (UK), The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, Blood on Their Hands, and The Georgia Review. In 2004 she was nominated for a coveted Edgar® Award by Mystery Writers of America. Her book, The Everything Guide to Edgar Allan Poe, was published in 2007, and her academic areas of expertise are nineteenth century American literature and literary modernism.

Courses  Design in Management II: Concep, Meth, Prod | Design Research Methods: Prod Dev & User Ex | Emotion & Aesthetic Expression

Courses  LLC 101 - Writing and Inquiry I: Basic Composition and Contemporary Ideas | Spies | Writing and Inquiry II: Research and Intellectual Traditions

Diana Y. Chou

Title Scholar-in-Residence
Department Liberal Arts
Phone 216.421.7303 | Fax 216.754.3632

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Courses  12 Artists of Post-1950's China | Art of China | Art of East Asia | Asian Art Survey | Cinematic Landscapes of Asia | Museum Studies: Who Owns Art? Issues of Asian Art Collecting

Degree PhD, University of Kansas (Chinese Art History)
Dissertation: A Re-examination of Tang Hou (1250s) and His Huajian (An Examination of Painting)
MA, Northern Illinois University (Japanese Art History)
Thesis: I Fu-Chiu: An Influence of Japanese Nanga Painting Development
BA, Providence College, Taiwan, ROC (Western Literature and languages)
Thesis: Symbolism in The Great Gatsby

Born and raised in Taiwan, ROC, Diana Y. Chou joined The Cleveland Institute of Art in 2009 and has taught Art History: Ancient to the 18th Century, Art of China, Art of East Asia, Museum Studies, Asian Films, and Chines Contemporary Art. Her primary research interests focus on art-collecting cultures and painting taste in China and Japan of the pre-Modern eras; lately she has developed an interest in artistic transformation/adaptation in cross-cultural/cross-national contexts, focusing on the Silk Road.

Honors & Awards (Selected):

• Awarded Participant, The Niagara Foundation/the Center of Islamic Studies of John Carroll University, Intercultural and Interfaith study/field trip, Turkey 2013.
• National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institutes: University of Hawaii 2006
• National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institutes: India 2008.
• Seminar fellowships at the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, Case Western Reserve University 2009.
• Seminar/Worship Fellowship, Study of Islamic Culture, University of Texas-Austin 2009

Professional conferences & public talks (selected):

• SOAS, University of London, UK 2012
• The Department of History of Art, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK 2012
• Nankai University, Tianjin China 2012
• Beijing Normal University, World History Association, China 2011
• The Cultural Bureau, Ministry of Culture, Taiwan, ROC 2012
• West City Market Art Museum, Xi'an, China 2011
• Gallery Talk (China & India), British Museum 2012
• Gallery Talk (Gallery One: India, Japan, & China), Cleveland Museum of Art 2013

Publications (selected):

• http://beyondborders-medievalblog.blogspot.com/2013_03_01_archive.html
• http://mellenpress.com/mellenpress.cfm?aid=5835&pc=10
• http://berkshirepublishing.com/home/product.aspx?projid=65
• http://global.oup.com/academic/product/benezit-dictionary-of-asian-artists-9780199923014?cc=us&lang=en&tab=author

Archeology, Museum, and Conservation:

• National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan
• Mogao Caves, Dunhuang, Gansu, China
• Hadumi Mosque, Gjakove, Kosovo