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Liberal Arts Faculty
Degree PhD candidate (ABD), History of Art, The Ohio State University
MA, Anthropology, The Ohio State University
BA, Anthropology and History of Art, The Ohio State University
BA, History, The Ohio State University
He teaches Art and Design History I, Art and Design History II, Asian Art Survey, India: Culture & Society, and Art of East Asia. His research interests are ancient religions, ritual performances of the ancient Mediterranean basin, and the history of early photography and its use in archaeology. He is a published author, a professional photographer, and a professional archaeologist, who has been involved with the excavations of several sites in Ohio, Cyprus and Italy.
He is also the Curator of the Visual Resources Collection, Oberlin College Libraries, Oberlin College.
Title Assistant Professor | Coordinator, Writing + Learning Center
Department Liberal Arts
Phone 216.421.7000
Degree MFA, University of Iowa
BA, University of Iowa
Alyssa Perry is a writer and editor. Her recent writing has appeared with Annulet: A Journal of Poetics, The Canary, Cleveland Review of Books, Denver Quarterly, the Experimental Sound Studio, Fence, Poetry Northwest, River Styx, West Branch Wired, and Yalobusha Review. She is a recipient of a Truman Capote Fellowship from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and was a recent artist-in-residence at the Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago.
She is an editor at Rescue Press, a literary publisher of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid, and experimental texts. Her editorial experience spans academic, literary, and professional fields.
Whitney Porter
Title Adjunct Faculty, Liberal Arts
Department Liberal Arts
Phone 216-421.7000
Title Associate Professor
Department Liberal Arts
Phone 216.421.7000
Degree MFA, University of Alabama
Richardson is author of the short story collection, It Had Been Planned and There Were Guides, which won the FC2 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize and was longlisted for the PEN American Center/ Robert W. Bingham Award. Jessica’s work has been featured or honored at The Short Form, Zoetrope, Short Fiction, the National Society of Arts and Letters, and her novel won the 2022 Grindstone International Novel Prize. Stories have appeared in the Commuter at Electric Lit, Gulf Coast, Masters Review, Slice Magazine, and in an immersive online exhibit at Neon Door among other places. She received her MFA from the University of Alabama and has taught Creative Writing there, at Rutgers in her home state of New Jersey, and at Coastal Carolina University.
Degree PhD, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
MFA, Goldsmith College, London
BFA, Nottingham University
Gemma Sharpe is an art historian specializing in modern and contemporary art from South Asia, Cold War histories of art, and museum and exhibition studies.
Her in-progress book, Modernist Agencies: Art and Cold War Politics in Pakistan examines how artists in Pakistan and pre-1971 Bangladesh critically engaged with nationalism and institutions of the state in Asia and internationally during the postcolonial decades.
Her work has been supported by the Asian Cultural Council, Modernist Studies Association, American Institute of Pakistan Studies, Paul Mellon Centre for the Study of British Art, among others. Sharpe was awarded a Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Art, (2022-23) and was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Graduate Center, City University of New York (2019-21). Her scholarship has appeared in Art History and ARTMargins along with numerous magazines and exhibition catalogs internationally.
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