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  • David Gillingham

    School of Music

    Office Phone: 989-774-1961Department Phone: 989-774-3281Email: gilli1dr@cmich.edu

    David Gillingham is a prize-winning composer of wind and percussion music and one of the top composers for band in the United States. More...

  • Sharon House

    Art

    Office Phone: (989) 774-3521Department Phone: (989) 774-3025 Email: house1sl@cmich.edu

    Sharon House is the author of "Teaching Art in the Elementary School: Fostering Diversity Through Art Education," a book published in 1992. More...

  • Eric Torgersen

    English

    Office Phone: (989) 774-3126Department Phone: (989) 774-3171Email: torge1e@cmich.edu

    Eric Torgersen is an authority on modern and contemporary American poetry and poets and the teaching of creative writing. More...

  • Alexandra Mascolo-David

    School of Music

    Office Phone: (989) 774-1964Department Phone: (989) 774-3281Email: david1am@cmich.edu

    Central Michigan University School of Music faculty member Alexandra Mascolo-David has performed and led workshops and master classes in Europe, Asia and the Americas. She has given solo recitals in Brazil, China, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Poland, Spain and the United States, including a New York debut recital at Carnegie Hall in May 2004, which received a favorable review in The New York Concert Review. She has appeared as a soloist with orchestras in Peru and the USA and has completed five years of engagements with the CMU-based Orpheus Piano Trio. More...

  • Will Anderson

    Broadcast & Cinematic Arts

    Office Phone: 989-774-1546Department Phone: 989-774-3851Email: ander1ww@cmich.edu

    Among other media topics, Will Anderson can evaluate television programs designed for children and trends in children's television; additionally, he has experience analyzing and reseaching the professional wrestling industry. More...

  • Nina Nash-Robertson

    School of Music

    Office Phone: (989) 774-3391Department Phone: (989) 774-3281Email: nashr1nm@cmich.edu

    Nina Nash-Robertson specializes in choral music, particularly Irish choral music. More...

  • Ronnie Apter

    English

    Office Phone: (989) 774-3128Department Phone: (989) 774-3171Email: apter1r@cmich.edu

    Ronnie Apter is an authority on modern poetry and a leading scholar on Ezra Pound. More...

  • Isabel O'Hagin

    School of Music

    Office Phone: (989) 774-1963Department Phone: (989) 774-3281Email: ohagi1ib@cmich.edu

    Isabel O'Hagin specializes in early childhood music, music education, multicultural music education and Latino music. More...

  • Robert Barclay

    Public Relations & Marketing

    Office Phone: (989) 774-7329Department Phone: (989) 774-3197Email: barcl1ra@cmich.edu

    Robert Barclay is an authority on blues and rhythm and blues music. More...

  • Gretchen Papazian

    English

    Office Phone: (989) 774-2585Department Phone: (989) 774-3171 Email: papaz1gd@cmich.edu

    Gretchen Papazian can talk about 19th Century American literature, women's literature and cultural studies. More...

  • James Batcheller

    School of Music

    Office Phone: (989) 774-3317Department Phone: (989) 774-3281Email: batch1jc@cmich.edu

    James Batcheller, assistant director of bands at CMU, has done research on marching bands, conducting and wind band literature and history. More...

  • John Pfeiffer

    English

    Office Phone: (989) 774-3126Department Phone: (989) 774-3171Email: pfeif1jr@cmich.edu

    John Pfeiffer teaches classes on science fiction and fantasy literature. More...

  • William Brevda

    English

    Office Phone: (989) 774-2663Department Phone: (989) 774-3171Email: brevd1w@cmich.edu

    William Brevda, trained in modern American literature, is the author of articles on electric signs and the American imagination. More...

  • Mark Poindexter

    Broadcast & Cinematic Arts

    Office Phone: (989) 774-3713Department Phone: (989) 774-3851Email: poind1m@cmich.edu

    Mark Poindexter is an authority on international film and can comment on African-American cinema, African-Americans on television, cinema in Africa and other popular culture topics. More...

  • Alan Gumm

    School of Music

    Office Phone: (989) 774-1966Department Phone: (989) 774-3281Email: gumm1aj@cmich.edu

    Alan Gumm is the author of numerous articles on music education. He can talk about music teaching styles, effective teaching, motivation, and the psychology of music. More...

  • Timothy Caldwell

    School of Music

    Office Phone: (989) 774-1967Department Phone: (989) 774-3281Email: caldw1jt@cmich.edu

    Timothy Caldwell is the author of the book "Expressive Singing: Dalcroze Eurhythmics for Voice" and the video "Dalcroze Eurhythmics." More...

  • Ronald Primeau

    English

    Office Phone: (989) 774-3117Department Phone: (989) 774-3171Email: prime1rr@cmich.edu

    Ronald Primeau is the author of a book about American road stories. More...

  • Alan Weber

    Teacher Education & Professional Development

    Office Phone: (989) 774-3877Department Phone: (989) 774-3975Email: weber1am@cmich.edu

    Alan Weber has written numerous articles on the relationship of writing to learning. More...

  • Keith Clifton

    Music

    Office Phone: (989) 774-2228Department Phone: (989) 774-3281Email: clift1ke@cmich.edu

    Keith Clifton is familiar with all periods of music history, from Middle Ages to the present. More...

  • Susan Stan

    English

    Office Phone: (989) 774-3109Department Phone: (989) 774-3171Email: stan1sm@cmich.edu

    Susan Stan specializes in children's books from other countries and children's book publishing. More...

  • Alice Gardner

    Art

    Office Phone: (989) 774-4280Department Phone: (989) 774-3025 Email: gardn2ae@cmich.edu

    Alice Gardner teaches the history of Great Lakes area Indian art. More...

  • Kevin Corbett

    Broadcast and Cinematic Arts

    Office Phone: 989-774-7285Department Phone: 989-774-3851Email: corbe1kj@cmich.edu

    Kevin Corbett specializes in the social history of film, including the cultural history of small-town movie theaters. More...

  • Susan Steffel

    English

    Office Phone: (989) 774-3236Department Phone: (989) 774-3171Email: steff1sb@cmich.edu

    Susan Steffel can talk about young adult literature and the education of literature teachers. More...

  • Anne Alton

    English

    Office Phone: (989) 774-3560Department Phone: (989) 774-3171Email: alton1ah@cmich.edu

    Anne Hiebert Alton is an authority on several authors, including Charlotte Bronte, J. M. Barrie, P. L. Travers, Charles Dickens, Terry Pratchett, Diane Duane, Maurice Sendak, and Louisa May Alcott, as well as the Harry Potter books, fantasy, and British and Canadian Children's literature. More...

  • J. Robert Craig

    Broadcast & Cinematic Arts

    Office Phone: (989) 774-7277Department Phone: (989) 774-3851Email: craig1jr@cmich.edu

    J. Robert Craig studies fantasy, horror and science fiction films and how those films reflect on society. Craig is also an electronic media law expert and 30-year observer of the Federal Communications Commission. More...

  • Sharon Stevenson

    English

    Office Phone: (989) 774-3574Department Phone: (989) 774-3171Email: steve1sl@cmich.edu

    Sharon Stevenson is an expert in Old English literature, Medieval literature and mythology. More...

  • Ari Berk

    English

    Office Phone: (989) 774-2664Department Phone: (989) 774-3171 Email: berk1ad@cmich.edu

    Ari Berk is an expert on folklore, mythology and Native American literature. More...

  • Yvette Crandall

    Communication & Dramatic Arts

    Office Phone: (989) 774-4305Department Phone: (989) 774-3177Email: crand1yb@cmich.edu

    Yvette Crandall can speak about ballet, folk, country, tap and contemporary dance. More...

  • Jill Taft-Kaufman

    Speech Communication & Dramatic Arts

    Office Phone: (989) 774-3962Department Phone: (989) 774-3177Email: taftk1j@cmich.edu

    Jill Taft-Kaufman is the author of articles on theater and performance of literature More...

  • Brian Smith

    Sociology, Anthropology & Social Work

    Office Phone: (989) 774-3428Department Phone: (989) 774-3160 Email: smith1b@cmich.edu

    Brian Smith is a sociologist who specializes in juvenile justice, popular culture, and marginalized youth and education. More...

  • Maureen Eke

    English

    Office Phone: (989) 774-3117Department Phone: (989) 774-3171 Email: eke1mn@cmich.edu

    Maureen Eke is an authority on African literature. More...

  • Marcy Taylor

    English

    Office Phone: (989) 774-3520Department Phone: (989) 774-3171Email: taylo1mm@cmich.edu

    Marcy Taylor is the is chair of the English department and can speak about issues involving the teaching of writing at the middle and high school levels and adolescent literacy, as well as pedagogical theory. More...

  • Carol Riddle

    English

    Office Phone: (989) 774-1497Department Phone: (989) 774-3171Email: riddl1cl@cmich.edu

    Carol Riddle wrote the text for the fantasy and science fiction course offered through CMU's off-campus programs. More...

  • Richard Gergel

    Art

    Office Phone: (989) 774-3551Department Phone: (989) 774-3025Email: gerge1ra@cmich.edu

    Richard Gergel can talk about art history, especially in the Classical, Roman, Greek, American and Renaissance styles. More...

  • William (Bill) Wandless

    English language and literature

    Office Phone: 989-774-1667Department Phone: (989) 774-3171 Email: wandl1wh@cmich.edu

    William H. Wandless is an authority on English literature of the Restoration and Long Eighteenth Century, 1660-1820. More...

  • Carolyn Loeb

    Art

    Office Phone: (989) 774-3427Department Phone: (989) 774-3025Email: loeb1cs@cmich.edu

    Carolyn Loeb has researched and written about art history, including architecture from the 19th and 20th centuries. More...

  • Janice Hartwick-Dressel

    English

    Office Phone: (989) 774-3189Department Phone: (989) 774-3171 Email: hartw1jj@cmich.edu

    Janice Hartwick-Dressel can speak about issues involving literature and writing for children and young adults, multicultural literature, the teaching of writing at the elementary and middle school levels, and the education of literature and writing teachers. More...

  • Jeffrey Weinstock

    English Language & Literature

    Office Phone: (989) 774-3101Department Phone: (989) 774-3171 Email: weins1ja@cmich.edu

    Jeffrey Weinstock is an authority on popular culture, American literature and literary criticism. More...

  • Daniel Patterson

    English

    Office Phone: (989) 774-2660Department Phone: (989) 774-03171Email: patte2dj@cmich.edu

    Daniel Patterson is an authority on colonial American literature, the origins and subsequent development of American nature writing and ecocriticism. More...

  • Steven Holder

    English

    Office Phone: (989) 774-3171Department Phone: (989) 774-3171Email: holde1s@cmich.edu

    Steven Holder is an authority on older popular culture, including detective fiction. More...

  • Patty Williamson

    School of Broadcast and Cinematic Arts

    Office Phone: 989-774-2561Department Phone: (989) 774-3851 Email: willi1pa@cmich.edu

    Patty Williamson is an expert on reality television, among other media-related topics. More...

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