Curricula Vitae in Art

Name	Personal Focus	Summary
Lydia Brandt Professor	Art History, Architectural History, Historic Preservation	My work asks questions about buildings and landscapes and the ways in which places shape, reflect, and respond to politics, memory, and society in general. I specialize in popular American architecture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with a particular focus on the ubiquitous Colonial Revival.
Kelsey Cameron Assistant Professor		Kelsey Cameron is an Assistant Professor in the department of Film and Media Studies Program, College of Arts and Sciences.
Professor Peter Chametzky Department Chair/Professor	20th and 21st Century art, theory, culture	Peter Chametzky teaches courses in 20th and 21st Century art, theory, and culture. His research focuses on 20th-century German art and culture. He is currently researching contemporary Jewish artists in Germany as part of a book project.
Catherine Y Chi Senior Instructor	Art	Catherine Chi is a digital artist who received her MFA in Digital Art from Indiana University. Her works use a wide range of media including 3d animation, interactive art, game art, drawings, paintings, and video installations.
Dr. Bradford Ray Collins Professor	History of contemporary art	Methodologically, my emphasis is on the meanings of art in context: socio-economic, artistic, and particularly biographic
Dr. Heidi Rae Cooley Associate Professor	Theory and history of new media and technology, Philosophy of science and technology, Theories of vision and visuality	Cooley's scholarship is committed to pursuing a vital relation between theory and practice. Broadly speaking, she is interested in the articulation of poiesis (creative production), aesthesis (sensory knowing), and ethos (practice of living). In this regard, she writes about the inter-relations among technology, sociality, and living bodies. At present she is working on a book-length project that theorizes a notion of eco-logical practice.
Mr. Northrop Fletcher Davis Professor	Manga	Northrop Davis is a screenwriter and director who teaches feature and television screenwriting and manga/anime studies. He earned his B. A. at Duke University and his MFA at California Institute of the Arts.
Michael Brent Dedas Associate Professor	explores the connection between science and art	Brent Dedas is an Associate Professor of Art at University of South Carolina. He received his Masters of Fine Arts degree along with a Museum Studies Curatorial Certificate from the College of Design, Art, Architecture, and Planning, University of Cincinnati. His Bachelor of Fine Arts is from the Hite Art Institute, University of Louisville. Dedas maintains an extensive exhibition record both in the U.S. and internationally.
Professor Chaz Evans Assistant Professor		Evans is an artist, educator, writer, and curator. His work deals with the connections between video game art, 3D animation, software production, and the art historical past as well as the tensions between global technological powers and local media cultures. He holds an MA in art history and an MFA in new media art from University of Illinois at Chicago. His artwork has been exhibited at numerous locations including, UnionDocs NY, The Luminary St. Louis, Chicago Artist Coalition, etc.
Professor Naomi J Falk Associate Professor	Sculpture	Associate Professor Naomi J. Falk received an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University with studies in sculpture and ceramics. Exhibiting at well-respected regional and national venues like the Maryland Federation of Art, VAE Raleigh, ATHICA in GA, and Rivers of Steel in PA, she’s also attended residencies in Germany, Iceland, New York, Vermont, Faroe Islands, and Hambidge Center. Additionally, Falk is Co-Creator of the art project share platform, www.WhatDoWeDoNow.art.
Susan Felleman Professor	Relationship between film and other visual arts, History and theory of avant-garde film and video and the art film, History and theory of Hollywood cinema	Professor Felleman is currently on research leave, completing a book project, Real Objects in Unreal Situations: Modern Art in Fiction Films, a series of case studies that examine not only the way that art is engaged in fiction films and how cinematic and narrative reframing alters the experience of art objects, but also investigate the material, economic, social and political currents through which the art comes to appear on screen.
Dr. Minuette Byers Floyd Professor	Multicultural art education, Traditional Arts, Interdisciplinary Instruction	Her research focuses on traditional arts by using audio/ video recording, and photography to document throughout areas of the United States. She is also examining the impact of study abroad on the lives of first generation college students.
Dr. Andrew S Graciano Professor	Art History, 1700-1870, History of Science, 1700-1870, Art Theory, 1700-1870	I am particularly interested in the relationships among art, science, anatomy, medicine, economics, and politics in the Age of Enlightenment.
Byeongwon Ha Assistant Professor	Interactive art, Sound art, Video art	Byeongwon Ha is an assistant professor in Media Arts in the School of Visual Art and Design at the University of South Carolina. He has created as an artist in the field of new media art in Columbia, South Carolina. His research traces a significant transition from analog media, including film, architecture, and video, to new media. After releasing several short narrative films in South Korea, he became an experimental filmmaker.
Dr. Anna Swartwood House, PhD Associate Professor	Renaissance art, Artists north and south of the Alp, Reception of art	My research focuses on intersections between Renaissance art and artists north and south of the Alps; artists’ biographies; and the reception of art. I am currently completing a book, based on my doctoral dissertation, that proposes a new understanding of the contributions of the Sicilian painter Antonello da Messina (c. 1430-1479) through the perspective of historiography and reception.
Ms. Dawn Marie Hunter Associate Professor	Art: Painting and Drawing, Popular Culture, Medical Illustration: Brain Anatomy	Dawn Hunter's most recent series is a comprehensive biographical project about neuroscience's father, Santiago Ramón y Cajal. A selection of works from her new series about him is currently on exhibit alongside six of Cajal's original medical illustrations at the National Institute of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, MD. In celebration of the Instituto Cajal's 100th anniversary, Professor Hunter has ten biographical works about Cajal currently on display at the Instituto Cajal, Madrid, Spain.
Dr. Olga Ivashkevich Associate Professor	Girls Studies, feminist art pedagogies, childhood in the age of new media	My research interests include childhood in the age of new media, girlhood studies, feminist art pedagogies, and socio-cultural aspects of children's image making. I also conduct feminist art workshops for at-risk girls from local communities, which are an integral part of the Women's Well Being Initiative by the Gender and Women's Studies at USC.
Meena Khalili Associate Professor		MEENA KHALILI is a professor of design and interaction, who makes daily drawings of things. She is an artist who uses design as a strategy for creation, and a designer who brings artistic methods to her solutions. A native of Washington, D.C., Meena holds a BFA in Illustration and an MFA in Visual Communication + Graphic Design from VCUarts. She serves on the National AIGA Design Educators Community Steering Committee.
Professor Laura K. Kissel Professor	documentary media production	I am an Emmy nominated documentary filmmaker. My media work explores social/cultural landscapes, the representation of history, and the use of orphan films.
Hyunji Kwon, PhD Associate Professor		Hyunji Kwon research interests include postcolonialism, gender-based violence, trauma art, and creative qualitative methodologies, especially their pedagogical relation to the subjectivity of both trauma and non-trauma subjects. Her work explores Western and non-Western contexts with careful attention to the morality of researching and working with vulnerable populations. She has published peer-reviewed journal articles in the interdisciplinary fields of Art Education and Gender Studies.
Elizabeth Landesberg Instructor	collaborate with young people through educational programs, media workshops and community orgs	Elizabeth (EB) Landesberg is a filmmaker, producer, educator, and translator. She has collaborated with young people through educational programs, media workshops and community organizations around the world. Most recently, she was one of the producers and editors of the cross-border collaborative documentary Only the Ocean Between Us created through Another Kind of Girl Collective, which had its world premiere at Hot Docs 2021.
Blair Minick Lindsey Instructor		Blair Minick Lindsey studied at the Savannah College of Art and Design, where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Photography and a minor in Metals and Jewelry. She continued her education at North Georgia College and State University and received her Master of Arts in Teaching. Blair grew up always knowing that she wanted to be in art education. This led her to her career as an art teacher, where she taught for seven years on the K-12 level.
Professor Carleen Maur Assistant Professor	hybrid methods of both film & video examining intersections between gender, sexuality & camouflage	Carleen Maur is a professor and filmmaker. Her films have been screed at film festivals across the globe including, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Engauge Film Festival and Crossroads. Her work has awards from both Mannheim Arts and Film Festival and Thomas Edison Film Festival (formally Black Maria). In addition to festivals her work has been invited to screen in collaboration with institutions such as the Museum of Sex, the Filmmakers Coop and the Rhode Island School of Design.
Professor Evan J Meaney Professor	Gaming, New Media, Video Games	I am very interested in how gaming (video games and social games) can be used as educational tools. I believe that video games can have the same social and educational impact as any documentary. I hope to use my skills in informatics and gaming to co-develop gaming components for interdisciplinary research projects.
Ms. Stephanie L. Nace Associate Professor	Graphic Design	I'm a Graphic Designer by nature. I work with symbols, images and typography on multiple layers to create powerful visual pieces. I love to work with image-making and textures of both typography and images to create effective work for my clients.
Jess Peri Instructor	Studio Art	Jess Peri was born in Dallas, Texas and received a BFA cum laude from the University of North Texas (2012) and an MFA from the University of New Mexico (2018). Peri joined the University of South Carolina in the Fall of 2020. Peri’s work has been included in exhibitions at the Harwood Museum of Art (Taos, NM), Albuquerque Museum (Albuquerque, NM), University of New Mexico’s Museum of Art (Albuquerque, NM), SRO Photo Gallery (Lubbock, TX), Lionel Rombach Gallery (Tempe, AZ), among others.
Professor Kathleen Robbins Professor	Photography, Southern studies	Kathleen Robbins is an associate professor of art, affiliate faculty of southern studies and coordinator of the photography program in the McMaster College of Art at the University of South Carolina. Robbins was raised in the Mississippi Delta and received her MFA from the University of New Mexico in 2001. Her photographs have been exhibited in over 40 venues in the United States, China, and Great Britain. Her work is part of numerous collections including the Ogden Museum of Southern Art.
Ms. Mary Catherine Robinson Professor	Printmaking, Drawing	Mary Catherine Robinson is Assistant Professor and Head of the Printmaking Program at the University of South Carolina. Robinson works primarily in printmaking and drawing, and her imagery results from observing nature. She often uses the forms of trees and vines to express the flux of life (movement, growth, decay) and the interconnectedness of beings.
Maureen Ryan Research Assistant Professor	explores how television and other forms of media have represented women's labor and everyday lives, the cultural politics of lifestyle media, the history of television and digital platforms	Maureen Ryan (she/her) is a feminist media historian who researches and teaches classes on television, film, and digital media. She also currently serves as the Associate Director of UofSC's Humanities Collborative. She is at work on the edited volume The Long 2020, which is forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press, and a new research project on women's work and labor politics as they are represented in 1980s American film and television.
Professor Sara Schneckloth Professor		Sara Schneckloth works in a variety of media as a way to explore the potential of contemporary drawing practice. Drawing on the visual culture of science, Schneckloth creates images that speak to the physical and emotional processes of remembering. The notion of the gesture factors strongly into her work, figuring as both the mark on the page and as an invitation for viewers to intimately interact with her drawings.
Abbe Schriber Assistant Professor	analyzes the unconventional, genre-blurring practices of artists of African descent in the U.S.	Abbe Schriber focuses on 20th and 21st century art, performance, and material culture of the African Diaspora. Her research analyzes the unconventional, genre-blurring practices of artists of African descent in the United States to ask how diaspora—along with its dynamics of cultural survival and loss—is integral to visual innovation. She approaches African American art from a transnational standpoint, looking at Black artistic communities in the U.S. as diasporic and hemispheric.
Professor Virginia Marie Scotchie Professor	Ceramics	Current research focuses on ceramic sculpture dealing with domestic abstraction, stoneware clay, and mid-temperature glaze in oxidation.
Jordan Sheridan Instructor	existing space between her experience of motherhood and how notions of identity are understood	Jordan Sheridan received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of South Carolina in 2021, and her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the College of Charleston in 2011. Her awards include the McColl Parents and Educators Residency and the Emerging Artists Grant from the South Carolina Arts Commission.
Lauren Steimer Associate Professor		Steimer's current book project addresses the manner in which cultural policies, economic climates, and industry structures affect the trained laboring bodies of martial arts performers and the way that the spectacles that these artists produce are changed by such structures. Her areas of specialization are Hong Kong Action Cinema, Film Exhibition History, Stardom, Labor, and the Body.
Marius Ivan Valdes, MFA Professor	Character based art and design	My creative projects have evolved from a lifelong interest and relationship with visual stories and character based art and design. To me the most interesting aspect of creating art is imagination. It gives the artist the ability to create new worlds, interesting characters, and situations that can address any topic in a unique way. It is important for me to share my imagination with others.
Amanda Wangwright Associate Professor		Amanda Wangwright has published on twentieth-century Chinese art, its transnational patronage networks, conceptualizations of gender and the body, and unfolding canonization. Her book, The Golden Key: Modern Women Artists and Gender Negotiations in Republican China (1911-1949) (Brill, 2020), investigates artists’ public personas and feminist artistic practice, as well as the wartime developments that led to their exclusion from the canon of modern Chinese art.
Ashley Young Assistant Professor	African American media studies, Black cultural politics, television studies, and star studies	Dr. Ashley S. Young is a scholar of race and media with an emphasis on African American film and television. Dr. Young received her doctorate from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts in Cinema and Media Studies. Her primary research interests include African American media studies, Black cultural politics, television studies, and star studies.