Faculty & Staff
Professor of Rhetoric and Communication Studies
Chair, Department of Art and Art History
Specialties:
- Visual Rhetoric
- Geopolitics
- Presidential and Electoral Rhetoric
- Cold War and post-Cold War Public Address
- Critical Intercultural Communication
(804) 287-6383
Associate Professor of Art
Assistant Chair, Department of Art & Art History
Visual and Media Arts Practice Coordinator
Specialties:
- Alternative Media
- Experimental Film
- Sound and Video Art
(804) 484-1551
Dr. Mia Reinoso Genoni
She/Her
Dean of Westhampton College
Associate Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences
Affiliated Faculty, Art and Art History; Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies; American Studies
Affiliated Faculty in American Studies
Contact: 804-289-8468
Visiting Lecturer of Art
Specialties:
- Sculpture
- Art
- Art History
- Conceptual Art
Associate Professor of Classics and Archaeology; Affiliated Faculty, Art & Art History
Coordinator, Archaeology Minor
Curator, Ancient World Gallery
Specialties:
- Archaic Greek Art and Poetry
- Anatolian Archaeology
- Achaemenid Art
- Funerary Monuments and Traditions
(804) 289-8426
Part Time Instructor, Art
Specialties:
- Painting
- Drawing
(804) 289-8272
Associate Professor of Art History
Specialties:
- Renaissance and Baroque Art History
- Museum Studies
(804) 484-1575
Associate Professor of Art History, Emerita
Specialties:
- 18th, 19th and 20th Century Art History
- History of Photography
(804) 289-8674
Dr. Megan Driscoll
She/Her
Assistant Professor of Art History
Africana Studies Advisory Board Member
Specialties:
- Modern and Contemporary Art History
- Discourses on Blackness in Contemporary Art
- Postwar Photographic and Time Based Media
- Art and the Internet
(804) 662-3114
Studio Art Lab Manager
Specialties:
- Woodworking
- Metalworking
- Sculpture
- Furniture Design
(804) 289-8489
Visiting Lecturer of Art
Specialties:
- Photography
- Queer Studies
- Art Theory
Assistant Professor of Art History
Specialties:
- Pre-modern East Asian art (China, Korea, and Japan)
- Art of the marginalized
- Landscape painting Intersections of texts and images
- Border art
Executive Director, University Museums
Specialties:
- Museum education
- Teaching with art objects in non-arts disciplines
- Curatorial practice in university museums
- Building museum collections to complement university curricula
- European and American art, 1750 to the present
- History painting and visual culture of the French Revolution
Adjunct Lecturer of Art & Art History
Contact:
Harrison Moenich
They/Them
Digital/Media Arts Technician
Specialties:
- Contemporary Art
- Photography
- Painting
- Sculpture
(804) 287-6682
Associate Professor of Photography and Extended Media
Specialties:
- Photography
- Contemporary Art Theory
(804) 662-3397
Wood Metal Tech Lab Technician
Contact:
Justin James Reed
He/Him
Adjunct Lecturer of Art & Art History
Specialties:
- Photography
- Experimental Book Making
Part Time Instructor, Art
Specialties:
- Digital History
- Digital and Internet Art
- Digital America Journal
(804) 289-8272
Professor of Art
Specialties:
- Painting
- Drawing
- Land and Environmental Art
(804) 289-8273
Ms. Tanja Softić
She/Her
Professor of Art
Tucker-Boatwright Professor of Art & Art History
Specialties:
- Printmaking
- Drawing
- Book Arts
- Works on Paper
(804) 289-6624
Dr. Agnieszka Szymańska
She/Her
Wood, Metal, Technology-lab Technician
Specialties:
- Woodworking
- Metalworking
- Sculpture
(804) 289-8272
Assistant Professor of Art
Pronouns: they/them/he/she
Specialties:
- Sculpture
- Experimental Film
- Contemporary Art
- Conceptual Art Theory
Part-Time Instructor, Art Printmaking, Book Arts
Specialties:
- Printmaking
- Book Arts
(804) 289-8272
Specialties:
- Video, Sound, and Animation
- Sculpture, Performance, and Site-Specificity
- Artist Books and Creative Coding
- Curatorial Practice
Emeriti Faculty
Associate Professor of Art History, Emerita
Specialties:
- 18th, 19th and 20th Century Art History
- History of Photography
(804) 289-8674
Executive Director of University Museums Emeritus
Specialties:
- Museum Studies
- Color and Design
- Digital Artmaking
(804) 287-6614