A new semester kicks off at the College of the Arts with several new faculty members in our ranks. Their addition to the Arts family on campus augments a world-class team of practicing professionals who regularly perform, exhibit and present their research at home and abroad. They join a cohort of faculty members dedicated to opening the art world for students on campus and helping them connect to the arts community in Atlanta and beyond.
In the Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design, we welcome:
Dr. Grace Harpster – Assistant Professor
Dr. Grace Harpster is a new assistant professor of art history. Her research centers on early modern Italy, with special attention to the problematic relationship between art and religion in the expanding late sixteenth-century Catholic world. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and has held fellowships at Columbia University, the Getty Research Institute, and the Fulbright Program in Italy, among others. Research interests include early modern understandings of media and material, histories of restoration, and anthropological approaches to art history. Read more...
Serena Perrone – Assistant Professor
Serena Perrone is a multi-disciplinary artist who employs various techniques ranging from printmaking and drawing to photography and writing to reflect on personal mythologies, examine differing forms of nostalgia, recount stories of destruction, regeneration, transition, enchantment and disenchantment, and capture images of the synchronistic and uncanny ways that magic and wonder are encountered in liminal spaces. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design with an MFA in Printmaking, she splits her time between the United States and Italy. She is currently the Assistant Professor of Printmaking at Georgia State. Read more...
Jiha Moon – Lecturer
Jiha Moon is originally from Daegu, South Korea and joins the Welch School faculty as a lecturer in the painting and drawing department. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, and her gestural paintings, mixed media, ceramic sculpture and installation explore fluid identities and the global movement of people and their cultures. Moon will be teaching foundation courses at Georgia State. Read more...
Maryam Palizgir – Part-Time Instructor
Maryam Palizgir is an Iranian-born artist and designer who currently lives and works in the U.S. Her work is interdisciplinary in nature, combining two and three-dimensional drawing, sculptural painting, and installations focusing on the interaction of geometric abstract forms, color, reflective objects and the layering of grid-like materials. Palizgir has exhibited in Iran, several European countries, the U.S. and Russia, and has been the recipient of numerous international and Iranian awards. Read more...
Teresa Bramlette Reeves - Visiting Lecturer
Teresa Bramlette Reeves earned her M.F.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Ph.D. in art history from the University of Georgia and taught at Georgia State University from 2001-2011. Among her awards include a Fulbright Scholar, MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Pollack-Krassner Foundation Fellowship, and a P.S. 1 National Studio Program Fellowship in New York, among many others. In 2017, she presented a solo exhibition, “Channeling Joan Fontaine” at White Space Gallery. Most recently, she served as the Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Zuckerman Museum of Art. Read more...
In the School of Film, Media & Theatre, we welcome:
Dr. Jade Petermon – Assistant Professor
Dr. Jade Petermon received her Ph.D. from the Department of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2014. She is currently completing a manuscript entitled Hyper(in)visibility: Race and Representation in the Post-Racial Era. Dr. Petermon is a recipient of the American Association of University Women’s American Fellowship, and her work has appeared in Film Quarterly and in publications from both Rutgers University Press and University of Texas Press. She is currently teaching undergraduate and graduate-level classes on media theory and television analysis. Read more...
Dr. Jenny Gunn – Limited-Term Lecturer
Jenny Gunn joins School of Film, Media & Theatre after recently completing her doctorate in Moving Image Studies. Her dissertation, "Narcisscinema: Selfie Culture and the Moving Image" analyzes practices of self-mediation in digital media and visual culture. Jenny has served as editorial and social media staff of liquid blackness, a research project on blackness and aesthetics where she continues to serve in an advisory capacity to the research group. Her writing has been published in Film Philosophy, Cinephile, Mediascape and is forthcoming in Black Camera and JCMS. Read more...
In the School of Music, we welcome:
Dr. Xieyi (Abby) Zhang – Assistant Professor
Dr. Zhang is a new assistant professor in music theory specializing in nineteenth-century musical form and the music of Antonín Dvořák. This Chinese-born Canadian completed his Ph.D. at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and previously received a B.Mus. with a specialization in music theory from the University of Toronto. Read more...