Professor
B.A., M.F.A., Kent State University
Lyke, a Los Angles artist and professor of art at Occidental College, is known for her printmaking, multicolored abstract monotypes, and mixed media work.
Professor
B.A., B.F.A., Indiana University
M.F.A., Tyler School of Art
Besemer has taught painting and drawing at Occidental since 1987. She has also taught courses in gender theory in the women’s studies department.
Assistant Professor
B.A., Grinnell College
M.F.A., New York University
Ph.D., University of Southern California
De Fren teaches new media theory and practice.
Associate Professor
B.A., Harvard University
M.F.A., Ph.D., USC
Fox teaches courses in film and video production, narrative theory and screenwriting, documentary history and production, cinema aesthetics, and themed theory-production seminars on subjects such as autobiography in film and video and representations of body, illness and dying, gender, and sexuality in media.
Professor
B.A., Dartmouth College
M.A., Syracuse University
Ph.D., New York University
A fellow of the American Academy in Rome, Frank’s academic expertise is in Italian Renaissance art.
Associate Professor
B.F.A., Boston University
M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts
Heffernan teaches all levels of sculpture, installation, and hybrid studio/theory courses in photography and visual culture. Her art practice reflects this range of interests, incorporating photography, video, installation, sculpture, and writing to explore corporeality and its relation to images, words, and other representations.
Professor
B.A., Pomona College
M.A., Boston University
Ph.D., UC Berkeley
Lyford is the author of Surrealist Masculinities: Gender Anxiety and the Aesthetics of Post-World War I Reconstruction in France (2007).
Professor
B.A., Brown University
M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan
Yuhas’s research interests include the nature of topographical painting in the Chinese literary tradition, and the transformation of Buddhism and Buddhist art as they spread from India to Central Asia, Tibet, China, and Japan.
Adjunct Instructor
B.A., State University of New York at Albany
M.F.A., USC
Dutcher takes a practical, goal-oriented approach to teaching writing.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
B.F.A., Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
M.A., UC Riverside
Folland is an independent art critic and curator, and a Ph.D. candidate in modern/contemporary art history at UCLA.
Adjunct Instructor
B.S., Yale University
Hawthorne teaches classes in the AHVA and UEP departments at Occidental College.
Adjunct Instructor
B.A., University of Victoria
M.A., York University
M.A., University of California, Irvine
Laskin teaches in the Art History and Visual Arts department at Occidental College
Lin teaches in the AHVA department at Occidental College.
Visiting Scholar
M.A., University of Lodz
M.A., University of Montana
Ph.D., University of Oregon
Marciniak teaches courses the Art History and Visual Arts department at Occidental College
Adjunct Instructor
Bach. of Architecture, Pratt Institute School of Architecture
Pacifici teaches in the AHVA department at Occidental College.
Visiting Assistant Professor
B.A, Williams College
M.A, Catholic University of America
M.A., Ph.D., Yale
Perchuk's courses include "The Medieval Tourist." Prior to Occidental, she was a lecturer at UC Riverside.
Adjunct Instructor
B.A., UC Davis
M.F.A., UC Irvine
Linda Stark has taught drawing and painting at Occidental since 2001. She has also taught graduate and undergraduate painting and drawing as a visiting professor at UCLA.
Tucker teaches in the AHVA department at Occidental College.
Adjunct Instructor
Directing Workshop for Women Award Recipient, The American Film Institute, ADD, National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield, England, Hill Lane College, England
Arun teaches courses in the Art History and Visual Arts department.
