Kate Kohler Amory
Kate Kohler Amory (Department of Theatre & Speech Communication) has performed in many off-Broadway theater productions including The Life of Spiders, and Einstein’s Dreams (Culture Project), Twelfth Night and Much Ado About Nothing (Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater). She has performed with many regional theaters including Shakespeare&Company and New England Shakespeare Festival and has written and performed numerous solo shows. She has taught in several Universities, the American Academy of Dramatic Art and Shakespeare&Company. She holds an MFA in Theatre: Contemporary Performance from Naropa University, a Masters from RADA/ Kings College London and Bachelors in Drama from Goldsmiths College, London. She is also a certified Somatic Movement Educator.
Guillermo Avila-Saavedra
originally from Quito, Ecuador, where he received his B.A in Management from the Universidad Catolica in 1999. He received his M.A. in Advertising from Michigan State University in 2002 and his Ph.D. in Mass Media & Communication from Temple University in 2008. He teaches from a broad perspective, incorporating his interests in media and society, in advertising, and in popular culture. Dr. Avila-Saavedra’s main research interest is the relationship between media and identity formation. In his dissertation, The Latino Trend: Identity, Influence and Transformations in American Television, he examines the increasingly hybridized nature of American television and the possibilities of identification for American-born Latinos.
Chris Fauske
Chris Fauske (Communications) earned his Ph.D. at the University of Delaware, where his dissertation examined the role of the Church of Ireland in Jonathan Swift’s writings. He has been a campaign manager in England and in New Hampshire and was a sub-editor and feature writer at a British trade journal. He is currently a staff writer for The Daily Peloton and is the author, editor, or co-editor of six scholarly volumes and the translator of a novel from Norwegian, and he is the co-convenor of the biennial Money, Power, and Print international colloquium.
Bethany Jay
Bethany Jay (History) received her Ph.D. from Boston College in 2009. While finishing her doctorate, she administered several Teaching American History grants that worked to improve history education in Essex County. Dr. Jay’s interests include history education, public history, American memory, and slavery.
Caroline Murphy
BA and PhD in art history at University College London. A scholar of gender and Renaissance and culture, she also plans to develop design history related courses , on such topics as the history of dress, industrial design and material culture She has written numerous articles and three books: Lavinia Fontana; A Painter and Her Patrons in Sixteenth Century Bologna (Yale University Press, 2003), The Pope’s Daughter; The Extraordinary Life of Felice della Rovere (Oxford University Press, 2005) and Murder of a Medici Princess (OUP, 2008) which won the Marraro Prize for best book of 2008 from the Society for Italian Historical Studies.
Kimberly Poitevin
Kimberly Poitevin (Interdisciplinary Studies) completed her Ph.D. in English Renaissance Literature at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Her dissertation, Making Up Race in Early Modern England, explored a variety of literary, historical, and anatomical texts as well as visual texts like paintings and woodcuts to show how cosmetics and racial identities were intertwined in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Portions of the dissertation have been published as articles or book chapters. Before joining the Interdisciplinary Studies department at Salem State, Kim taught at the University of Illinois and Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois.
Emily Bretherick Rowland
attended the University of North Alabama where she majored in chemistry. During her junior year of college she met her husband who was also majoring in chemistry. After graduating with a B.S. degree in chemistry she decided that she wanted to teach organic chemistry at the college level. She started graduate school at the University of Mississippi where she joined a synthetic organic methodology research group. The advisor of the group moved to the University of South Florida and Emily moved with him. She earned her Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of South Florida. Her research interests include the development of new enantioselective reaction methodology. Emily is now teaching organic chemistry at Salem State.
Peter Sampieri
Peter Sampieri (Department of Theatre & Speech Communication) is a professional stage director, playwright, and college professor who has served as guest faculty at New York University, Brown University, Providence College, University of Rhode Island, Huntington Theatre Company, and The Brown/Trinity Consortium. His professional directing credits include the Off-Broadway world premiere of On The Line at The Cherry Lane Theatre, and The Three Same Guys at The Public Theatre, in New York. His work has been seen at The Trinity Repertory Company and The Gamm Theatre, where his direction of Radio Free Emerson received an Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding New Play in 2008. He is very happy to be a part of the Salem State Theatre Department. He lives nearby with his wife Jill, and their dog Snug.
Beifang Yi
Nevada, Reno in 2006. His research interests are in Computer Graphics and Scientific (Information) Visualization, Human-Computer Interactions (HCI), and Software (User-Interface) Design. He developed a working platform of Sign Language Interfacing System for his Ph.D. project (http://cs.salemstate.edu/~b_yi/sEditor/). He taught Computer and Information Sciences courses at SUNY, Fredonia before joining Salem State and had been a computer/software engineer for fourteen years before coming to America for his Ph.D. studies. He was once an avid reader on cognitive science (psychology, philosophy of mind and language), linguistics, and Chinese/English classics.
This article is part of ASpect’s December 2009 issue on interdisciplinarity.
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