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  • Matt Malsky

    Professor, Visual and Performing Arts

    Tina Sweeney, M.A. '49, Endowed Chair in Music

    Director of MCA, Visual and Performing Arts

    Director of Higgins School for the Humanities

    Matt Malsky is a composer whose music has been performed and acclaimed internationally. His compositional style is characterized by its rhythmic vitality and dramatically crafted gestures, and has been described as economical, eloquent, intellectually rigorous, and emotional compelling. His virtuosic […]

Program Faculty

  • Stephen DiRado

    Professor of Practice, Visual and Performing Arts

    Gallery Director, Visual and Performing Arts

    Stephen DiRado is a professor in the Visual and Performing Arts Department, Clark University. He is a photographer and filmmaker whose art is primarily inspired by his captivation and admiration for the people in his community. His scrupulously skilled photographs […]

  • Sherry Freyermuth

    Associate Professor, Visual and Performing Arts

    Sherry Freyermuth is a published, award-winning graphic designer with experience working for large corporate brands and non-profit initiatives. She currently is an Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Clark University in Worcester, MA. Sherry has been teaching hand lettering and typography […]

  • Benjamin Korstvedt

    Professor, Visual and Performing Arts

    Professor Benjamin M. Korstvedt is an active researcher and scholar, a committed and enthusiastic teacher, a frequent speaker at national and international conferences, and a productive author and editor. He graduated summa cum laude from Clark University in 1987 with […]

  • Stephen Levin

    Associate Professor, English

    Director of Graduate Studies, English

    Professor Levin specializes in contemporary British and postcolonial literature, transnational cultural studies, and critical and literary theory. His research focuses on the ways in which twentieth-century global conditions have shaped contemporary culture and produced new discourses of self and identity. […]

  • Hugh Manon

    Associate Professor, Visual and Performing Arts

    Department Chair, Visual and Performing Arts

    Professor Hugh Manon is a film scholar and cultural theorist whose work focuses on the psychoanalytic theories of Jacques Lacan.  His research extends concepts such as anxiety, disavowal, and jouissance into the study of analog, digital, and hybrid forms of […]

  • Meredith Neuman

    Associate Professor, English

    Professor Neuman teaches and researches in the fields of early and nineteenth-century American literature. In her first book, Jeremiah's Scribes: Literary Theories of the Sermon in Puritan New England (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013), she delves into the world of sermon notetaking, shifting […]

  • Gohar Siddiqui

    Assistant Professor, Visual and Performing Arts

    Professor Siddiqui joined the Department of Visual & Performing Arts in Fall 2017. She received a B.A. in English from University of Delhi, India; M.A. degrees in English from University of Delhi and from Bridgewater State in Massachusetts, and a […]

  • Toby Sisson

    Associate Professor, Visual and Performing Arts

    Director of Studio Art, Visual and Performing Arts

    Toby Sisson earned her B.F.A, Magna Cum Laude, from the College of Visual Arts in Saint Paul, Minnesota and her M.F.A. from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Her areas of specialization include drawing, painting and printmaking, as well as […]

  • Soren Sorensen

    Associate Teaching Professor, Visual and Performing Arts

    Director of Screen Studies, Visual and Performing Arts

    Soren Sorensen joined the Department of Visual and Performing Arts in Fall 2019. He holds an M.F.A. in Film from Vermont College of Fine Arts and an M.A. in Art from Rhode Island College. Sorensen teaches the bulk of the […]

  • Kristina Wilson

    Professor, Visual and Performing Arts

    Director of Art History, Visual and Performing Arts

    Kristina Wilson is an art historian specializing in modern design, modern art, and the history of museums in the United States. She studies how race and gender influence the practice of designers and artists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. […]

John Freyermuth
Email: jfreyermuth@clarku.edu