Liberal Arts

Courses  Critical Issues Art & Des Hist: 18th C - 1945

Courses  Culture/Conflict/Syncretism in African & African-American Literature | 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

Degree PhD, The Indirect Narrative Method in the Last Six Novels of Geroge Mereditn, 1828-1909, University of Ibadan, Nigeria; BA, English from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria

Olatubosun`s research interests lie in literature in English, particularly comparative studies in African, English, American and African-American literatures within the contexts of theories of fiction and literary discourse. His work is widely published and can be found in English Studies in Africa, NEOHELICON and Proceedings.

Courses  Writing and Inquiry II: Research and Intellectual Traditions

Gary D Sampson

Title Professor of Art+Design History
Department Liberal Arts
Phone 216.421.7369

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Courses  Art & Design History I: Ancient - 18th C. | Critical Issues Art & Des Hist: 18th C - 1945 | Critical Issues Art & Des Hist: 1945-Present | Issues in Design: Theory & Culture of Design | Media Arts & Visual Culture: Installation | Visual Culture and the Manufacture of Meaning

Degree PhD, Art History, University of California, Santa Barbara; MA, Art History, University of California, Santa Barbara; BA, Art and Art History, California State University, Northridge

Gary Sampson teaches art and design history and theory at the Institute. He is also adjunct in art history and occasional SAGES faculty at Case Western Reserve University. His areas of scholarship are in history of photography, urban design and representation, and media arts and visual culture. His publications include Imag(in)ing Race and Place in Colonialist Photography, with Eleanor Hight, Photographs at St. Lawrence University, with Catherine Tedford, and “Landscape and Fluid Imaging of the Emerging City," in Emerging Landscapes: Between Landscape and Representation (forthcoming from Ashgate Press). Prof Sampson also engages in practice-based research in photography and video; one of his ongoing projects investigates city environments, infrastructure, and media.

Courses  Digital Color

Daniel Tranberg

Title Adjunct Faculty
Department Liberal Arts
Phone 216.421.7000

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Courses  Painting Seminar: Contemp Issues in Ptg

Degree MA in Studio Art from Purdue University. Also studied Criticism and Theory in the Graduate School of the University of Illinois, Chicago

Dan Tranberg has published more than 750 articles on art and has exhibited his paintings in more that 40 exhibitions. His writing has appeared in national and international publications, including Art in America, NY Arts, artUS, BOMB, Glass Magazine, and Art on Paper. He was awarded an Ohio Excellence in Journalism award in 2004 and received Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowships in 2002 and 2007.

Courses  Art & Design History I: Ancient - 18th C. | Critical Issues Art & Des Hist: 18th C - 1945

Courses  Creativity & Taoism | Ways of Thought: Confucianism, Taoism, & Zen | Ways of Thought: Hinduism & Buddhism

Degree BA, English Literature from Oberlin College

Allen has worked at The Cleveland Institute of Art since 1977 where he started as a lecturer in Humanities in the Liberal Arts Department. As a lecturer he was an English tutor, a student counselor, the co-coordinator of the Foundation Reinforcement Program, and the mobility coordinator of the Alliance of Independent Colleges of Art and Design. In 1986 he became a professor in the department and in 1989 he became the Dean of Students.