Creative & Critical Studies Faculty

FULL-TIME FACULTY | Chair of Creative & Critical Studies, assistant professor and director of writing. Widely celebrated and award-winning multidisciplinary poet with multiple published collections and honors, including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and scholar of poetry pedagogy and systemic inequities in educational settings.

FULL-TIME FACULTY | Cultural anthropologist, filmmaker and associate professor, whose research focuses on African fashion and diasporas, and issues surrounding diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility. Recent film work includes a short documentary on the Black community in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, and a work-in-progress on the life of Senegalese fashion designer Adama Paris.

FULL-TIME FACULTY | Professor of Art History and Curatorial Studies, who has written and lectured extensively on the culture of Renaissance Italy, and a leading community educator on the Holocaust within greater Philadelphia.

FULL-TIME FACULTY | Professor of Art History and Humanities and program head for Visionary Academic Honors, who focuses on the intersection of ethics, socially engaged art and critical pedagogy. Widely published science-fiction and fantasy novelist who writes under the pen name Jonathan Nevair.