Faculty & Staff – School of Visual Arts & Design

Faculty

Rudy McDaniel

Director, Professor of English

Department Chair, School of Visual Arts & Design

Interests: Technical Communication, Digital Ethics, Video Games...

Hadi Abbas

Professor of Ceramics

Interests: Medieval history, religious history, monastic history...
Chuck Abraham

Associate Director

Interests: Rabbi Olshansky's main academic interests are the prophetic books of...
JoAnne Johnson Adams

Associate Lecturer of Character AnimationGraduate Coordinator, Animation & Visual Effects

Interests: Creative Writing: Emerging forms of poetry, & prose...
Bobby Aiosa

Assistant Professor, Studio Art, Sculpture
Amy Avalos

Lecturer
Owen Buffington

Lecturer, Studio Art, 2D and 3D Design
Jason Burrell

Assistant Director, Senior Lecturer, Graduate Coordinator, Studio Art

Interests: Victorian Culture and Literature, Charles Dickens...
Michael Cabrera

Associate Lecturer of Animation & Visualization
James Chambless

Lecturer, Animation & Visualization
Christina Christie

Lecturer, Character Animation
Byron D. Clercx

Professor of Sculpture

Interests: Cervantes, Don Quixote, Spanish Medieval & Golden Age, Early Modern...
Larry Cooper

Assistant Gallery Director, Senior Lecturer of Book Arts and Studio Art

Interests: 20th Century U. S. , Cultural History, Sport History...
Victor M. Davila

Associate Professor of Graphic Design and Illustration

Interests: 20th Century U. S. , Cultural History, Sport History...
Lindsay Deifik

Assistant Professor, Studio Art, Printmaking
Brooks Dierdorff

Associate Professor of Photography

Interests: Adobe Creative Innovator, Adobe Creative Education Leader (ACE),...
Matt Dombrowski

Assistant Director, Professor of Animation & Visualization

Interests: Adobe Creative Innovator, Adobe Creative Education Leader (ACE),...
George Donald

Lecturer
Demetrius Dukes

Assistant Professor, Character Animation
Lorna Galloway

Lecturer, Studio Art, 2D and 3D Design
Melissa Geppert

Associate Lecturer, Art History

Interests: Contemporary art since 1960, 20th & 21st century art of Latin America...
Kevin Haran

Jenkins Distinguished Professor in Community Arts, Professor of Studio Art

Interests: Scientific and technical communication, Narrative information visualization...
Waheeda F. Illasarie

Assistant Director, Academic Programs
Tommy James

Associate Professor of Architecture
Nicholas Kalemba

Lecturer, Studio Art, Drawing and Painting
Njeri Kinuthia

Assistant Professor
Amer Kobaslija

Associate Professor of Studio Art (Drawing, Painting)
Shannon Rae Lindsey

Director, UCF Art Gallery, Associate Lecturer, Studio Art
Theo Lotz

Director of Flying Horse Editions, Senior Lecturer

Interests: Cross-Cultural Projects in Foreign Language Teaching.
Theresa Lucey

Lecturer of Studio Art (Drawing)
K-J Mathieson

Associate Professor, Character Animation
Ilenia Colón Mendoza

Professor of Art History

Interests: Sacred Art and Liturgical Practices, Polychrome and Hyperreal Sculpture...
Justin Nolan

Associate Lecturer of Photography, Videography, Design

Interests: Eulogistic Rhetorics, Critical Race Theory, Language Diversity, y Raciolinguistics,.
Carla Rossi Poindexter

Professor of Studio Art (Painting, Drawing)

Interests: Eulogistic Rhetorics, Critical Race Theory, Language Diversity, y Raciolinguistics,.
Jennifer Princivil

Assistant Professor, Architecture
Robert Rivers

Professor of Studio Art (Drawing, Etching)

Interests: Eulogistic Rhetorics, Critical Race Theory, Language Diversity, y Raciolinguistics,.
Ananya Shenoy

Instructor, Animation & Visualization
Ericka Sobrack

Lecturer, Studio Art, Drawing and Painting
Steven C Spencer

Senior Lecturer, Coordinator of B.S. Photography, Daytona Campus

Interests: Victorian literature and culture, science and literature, the Gothic...
Debi Starr

Associate Lecturer, Studio Art, 2D and 3D Design

Interests: Music and technology, music and sound design for animation...
Stella C Sung

Director

Interests: Music and technology, music and sound design for animation...
Ashley Taylor

Assistant Professor, Emerging Media, Graphic Design
Megan Thomas

Assistant Professor, Studio Art, Ceramics
Michael Tole

Assistant Professor, Studio Art, Drawing
Stephanie Toth

Assistant Professor, Animation & Visualization
Joshua Treadway

Assistant Professor, Architecture
William Truran

Assistant Professor, Emerging Media and Graphic Design
Keri Watson

Assistant Director, Professor of Art History

Interests: Art of the United States, Carceral Landscapes, Disability Studies...
Margaret Ann Zaho

Professor of Art History

Interests: Italian Renaissance Narrative Fresco Cycles, Triumphal Imagery...

Staff