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Clark University
Department of
Visual and Performing Arts

Program Director

  • Soren Sorensen

    Associate Teaching Professor, Visual and Performing Arts

    Director of Screen Studies, Visual and Performing Arts

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    SSorensen@clarku.edu

    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 […]

Program Faculty

  • Hugh Manon

    Associate Professor, Visual and Performing Arts

    Department Chair, Visual and Performing Arts

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    HManon@clarku.edu

    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 […]

  • Gohar Siddiqui

    Assistant Professor, Visual and Performing Arts

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    GSiddiqui@clarku.edu

    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 […]

Erica Tortolani, Ph.D.
Email: etortolani@clarku.edu

James Maurelle, M.F.A.
Email: jmaurelle@clarku.edu

Marcia Butzel, Ph.D.
Email: mbutzel@clarku.edu