School of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts

General Statement

The new School of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts is the home of the visual and performing arts at Texas A&M University. The school offers students the opportunity to prepare for careers in creative practices and to develop intellectual responsiveness to the problems, questions, and values that will confront them in their professions and as lifelong learners.

The faculty of the school includes artists, computer scientists, designers, historians, performers, creative technologists, and critical theorists. At the foundation of the school’s academic programs is an interdisciplinary approach to exploring where art, science, technology and theory combine through dance, music, theater, and visual art and design. 

Undergraduate degrees are offered in Performance Studies, Dance Science (a track of the Kinesiology, BS), and Visualization with undergraduate minors in Art, Game Design and Development, Film Studies, and Performance Studies and an undergraduate certificate in Performing Social Activism.

Graduate degrees include the Master of Arts in Performance Studies, Master of Fine Arts in Visualization, and Master of Science in Visualization. Graduate Certificates are offered in Film and Media Studies and in Popular Culture.

Adinku, Grace, Lecturer
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PHD, Kwame Nkrumah University, 2013

Akleman, Ergun, Professor
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PHD, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1992

Andreassen, Mayet Maria, Instructional Assistant Professor
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MFA, School of Animation and Visual Effects, 2006

Ball III, James R, Associate Professor
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PHD, New York University, 2012

Bergeron, Christine, Clinical Professor
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MFA, Florida State University, 1998

Bieber, Susanne C, Assistant Professor
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PHD, Freie Universitat Berlin, 2012

Bologan, Anatol, Instructional Assistant Professor
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MFA, Texas A&M University, 2018

Campana, Lilia, Instructional Assistant Professor
School of Perf, Vis, Fine Arts
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2014

Cardoso De Cardoso, Leonardo, Associate Professor
School of Perf, Vis, Fine Arts
PHD, The University of Texas at Austin, 2013
MMU, The University of Texas at Austin, 2010

Carletti, Sabrina, Instructional Assistant Professor
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PHD, Princeton University, 2019

Dexter, Rayna M, Instructional Assistant Professor
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MFA, Kent State University, 2009

Donkor, David A, Associate Professor
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PHD, Northwestern University, 2008

Eilers, Howard F, Associate Professor
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MFA, Ohio University, 1964

Finch, Krista S, Instructional Assistant Professor
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MFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, 2000

Galanter, Philip, Associate Professor
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MFA, School of Visual Arts, 1999

Gariazzo, Mariana S, Lecturer
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PHD, The University of Texas at Austin, 2005

Gayk, Michael, Instructional Associate Professor
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MFA, University of Washington, 2001

Honeycutt, Amanda J, Lecturer
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MFA, Texas A&M University Commerce, 2020

House, Felice L, Associate Professor
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MFA, The University of Texas at Austin, 2011

Humphrey, Daniel, Associate Professor
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PHD, University of Rochester, 2006

Kattari, Kimberly A, Associate Professor
School of Perf, Vis, Fine Arts
PHD, The University of Texas at Austin, 2011
MMU, The University of Texas at Austin, 2005

Kicklighter, Caleb L, Lecturer
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MFA, Texas A&M University, 2018

Klein, Barbara J, Instructional Assistant Professor
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MFA, Texas A&M University, 2019

LaFevers, Cory, Lecturer
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PHD, University of Texas at Austin, 2018
MMU, University of Texas at Austin, 2012

Lafayette, Carol J, Professor
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MFA, University of Buffalo - The State University of New York, 1991

Leiderman, Daniil M, Instructional Assistant Professor
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PHD, Princeton University, 2016

Lisonbee, Laurie J, Instructional Assistant Professor
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MFA, California State University, Fullerton, 1998

McLaughlin, Timothy D, Associate Professor
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MS, Texas A&M University, 1994

McNamara, Ann M, Associate Professor
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PHD, University of Bristol, UK, 2000

Moench, Michael, Lecturer
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PHD, University of Texas at Austin, 2020
MMU, University of Texas at Austin, 2013

Morris, Jeffrey M, Professor
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PHD, University of North Texas, 2007

O'Rear, Jesse, Assistant Professor
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PHD, University of Texas, 2020

Pugh, Rebecca, Lecturer
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MFA, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2015

Quek, Francis K, Professor
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PHD, University of Michigan, 1990

Ramadan, Hadeel M, Instructional Associate Professor
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MFA, Virginia Tech, 2014

Regan, Martin P, Professor
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PHD, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, 2006

SIMMS, MICHELLE, Lecturer
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PHD, Texas A&M University, 2011
MFA, Regent University, 2015

Schuld, Dawna L, Assistant Professor
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PHD, The University of Chicago, 2009

Seo, Jinsil, Associate Professor
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PHD, Simon Fraser University, 2011
MFA, School of Visual Arts, 2004

Spalink, Angenette Marie, Assistant Professor
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PHD, Bowling Green State University, 2014

Starrett, Courtney, Associate Professor
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MFA, Temple University, 2005

Stoenescu, Livia, Instructional Associate Professor
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PHD, Queen's University, 2010

Tassinary, Louis G, Professor
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JD, Boston College, 2003
PHD, Dartmouth College, 1984

Thomas, Andre, Associate Professor of The Practice
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MFA, Laguna College of Art and Design, 2017

Uchacz, Tianna, Assistant Professor
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PHD, University of Toronto, 2016

Walsh, Michael, Associate Professor of the Practice
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MFA, University of Southern California, 2001

Wang, Wenping, Professor
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PHD, University of Alberta, 1992
PHD, University of Alberta, Canada, 1992

Wilborn, David F, Associate Professor
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PHD, The University of Texas at Austin, 1994

Woodfin, Samuel, Lecturer
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MFA, Laguna College of Art and Design, 2018