Curricula Vitae in UPS Fine Arts & Comm

Name	Personal Focus	Summary
Warren Bareiss Professor	Mass Media	Dr. Warren Bareiss studies relationships among health, communication, and culture. His analysis of self-injury in films was awarded Top Paper, Southern States Communication Association Gender Studies Division in 2015, and a later version was published by the Journal of Medical Humanities. His analysis of U.S. press coverage of adolescent self-injury was published in Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine.
Allison Cantrell Senior Instructor	Mass Media	Allison Cantrell is a senior instructor of mass media and public relations at the University of South Carolina Upstate. She has been teaching at the University since 2006. She graduated from USC Upstate (Spartanburg) in 1999 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications with a concentration in journalism. She earned a Master of Arts degree in professional communication from Clemson University in 2003.
Michael (Del) DeLorm Assistant Professor		Del DeLorm is a native of Charlotte, NC, where he attended the UN - Asheville. After earning his BA with Honors in Drama, he went on to earn his MFA in Theatre from the University of Memphis. While there, he served as Graduate Assistant in the costume and electrics shops. He remained in Memphis for several years after graduation as the TD of the Michael D. Rose Theatre, taught adjunct classes, and worked as a freelance designer for Playhouse on the Square and Theatre Memphis.
Matthew Donaldson Associate Professor	Graphic Design, content-management systems, responsive design and development.	Matthew Donaldson serves as an assistant professor of graphic design at the University of South Carolina Upstate. He teaches a variety of courses in graphic design, including Interface Design I, Graphic Design I, II and III, and Senior Seminar, and serves as co-director of The Studio, a student-run, faculty-led design firm at USC Upstate. In 2007, Matthew earned a Bachelor of Arts in visual arts from Francis Marion University.
Derek Fenner Assistant Professor		Derek Fenner is an Assistant Professor in the University of South Carolina Upstate Visual Arts program.
Dr. Michelle Epstein Garland Associate Professor	Communication, the impact of faculty messages on college student identities and student outcomes, course and program assessment and evaluation	Dr. Michelle Epstein Garland is an assistant professor in communication studies and the basic course director for public speaking. She earned her Bachelor of Arts from the College of Charleston and her Master of Science and Ph.D., in both communication and information, from the University of Tennessee. Dr. Garland has taught courses in public speaking, theories and principles in human communication, communication research methods, interpersonal communication, and senior seminar at UofSC Upstate.
Dr. Shuang Hundley, PhD Assistant Professor		Shuang Hundley is an Assistant Professor of Digital Studies and Mass Media in the Department of Fine Arts & Communication Studies, University of SC Upstate.
Bridget Kirkland Associate Professor	Graphic Design	Bridget Kirkland is an Associate Professor of Graphic Design in the Department of ine Arts & Communication Studies and the Department of University Marketing and Communications, University of SC Upstate.
Emily Kofoed Associate Professor	Communication	Emily Kofoed is full time faculty of Communications for the Department of Fine Arts and Communication Studies at University of South Carolina Upstate.
Lee E. Neibert Professor	Fine Arts, Communications	Lee Neibert, Assistant Professor of Theatre at the University of South Carolina Upstate, comes to Spartanburg from Oklahoma. Lee received his B.A. in English from Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania and worked professionally at Allenberry Playhouse before entering the graduate theatre program at Oklahoma State University.
Renu Pariyadath Associate Professor	Communication Studies	Renu Pariyadath is an instructor for the Department of Find Arts and Communication Studies at University of South Carolina Upstate.
Laura Rikard Associate Professor		Laura Rikard is an Assistant Professor of Theater in the Department of Fine Arts & Communication Studies, University of SC Upstate.
Dr. Nolan Stolz Associate Professor	Music	Composer, scholar and drummer Dr. Nolan Stolz is Associate Professor of Music at the University of South Carolina Upstate. Although firmly rooted in the contemporary classical tradition, his compositions are clearly influenced by his performance background in jazz fusion and progressive rock. His works have been performed in North and South America and Europe, including many regional, national and international festivals and conferences.
Gin-Wen Sue Assistant Professor		Freda earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in printmaking from the SCAD Atlanta. She currently lives in Greenville, S.C., and teaches drawing and printmaking at the University of South Carolina Upstate in the Visual Arts Department. Freda has recently had concurrent shows of her works across the U.S. and Asia, including Starfangled Press, Brevard, N.C.; Kai Lin Art, Atlanta; Jan Kossen Contemporary Art Gallery, New York City; and the National Tainan Living Art Center, Tainan, Taiwan.
David Wallace Associate Professor		David Wallace is an Assistant Professor, Mass Media in the Department of Fine Arts & Communication Studies, University of SC Upstate.
Carolyn Webber Associate Professor	explore the organization of difference (race, class, gender and sexuality) in social institutions	Dr. Carolina Webber earned her Ph.D. in organizational communication and cultural studies (speech communication) at the University of Utah. Her research is informed by critical and feminist theories of organization and qualitative research methods as she studies relationships among power, organization and identity. Her current research projects explore the organization of difference (race, class, gender and sexuality) in social institutions such as the workplace and higher education.
Griffin Woodworth Associate Professor	monograph on the music of the popular-recording artist Prince	Dr. Griffin Woodworth is an assistant professor of music in the Commercial Music Program at the University of South Carolina Upstate, where he teaches courses on popular music and music technology. Dr. Woodworth is currently working on a monograph on the music of the popular-recording artist Prince, whose career Dr. Woodworth avidly followed during his decade-plus residence in Minneapolis, Minnesota, before coming to teach at USC Upstate.