Anna Divinsky is an Instructor of Art for the School of Visual Arts at The Pennsylvania State University. Her role is to write and teach an online art course titled Art 10: Introduction to Visual Studies. Anna is responsible for creating the content of the Introduction to Visual Studies which involves writing narratives and assignments, and participating in creative decision making. As an instructor it is her duty to communicate with the students, providing them with helpful constructive feedback, answering their questions, giving grades and offering any other course-related assistance. Also her tasks include maintaining close correspondence with the teaching assistants, overseeing their work and ensuring successful teaching output. Anna’s experience in studio art stems from teaching drawing courses and online art at the Pennsylvania State University. While drawing classes enabled her to create a closely-knit studio atmosphere with assignments and projects oriented towards the students’ personal progression, online art demonstrated an interesting balance of theory and practice useful in promoting growth and development of individual views and styles in non-art majors. Each course contributes to her ideas and goals of building versatile objectives as she continues to share her knowledge and learn from the students. Anna also draws on her experience from giving private art lessons to children of every age group for several years, utilizing their creative energy as sources of inspiration for college level courses. Most importantly, Anna integrates her personal art research and work into every aspect of her teaching, sharing her understanding and perception of art. Anna is an active participant in art exhibitions and community. In the past year alone she has been in over a dozen shows, exhibiting her work in Pittsburgh, State College, Washington DC and Sydney, Australia. Anna’s solo exhibits, group shows and art activities have received praised attention from local papers and fellow artists. She is a member of various guilds such as the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, Group A and the Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh. Anna is also affiliated with The Digging Pitt Gallery in Pittsburgh which carries her work in their permanent flat files collection. Her newest interest is curatorship as she embarks on curating the Fiberarts Membership Exhibition 2007in Pittsburgh’s Brew House Space. Anna received a Bachelors of Art in Studio Arts and Art History from the University of Pittsburgh and a Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking at the Pennsylvania State University.

Charles Youmans teaches undergraduate and graduate music history. Before joining the School of Music faculty in 1999, he taught for three years at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. Youmans's research deals with musical aesthetics in late nineteenth-century Germany and Austria. His book Richard Strauss's Orchestral Music and the German Intellectual Tradition (Indiana University Press, 2005), examines the influence of Goethe, Wagner, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche on the music and programs of Strauss's tone poems. Further research interests include musical hermeneutics, Gustav Mahler, and the reception of Eduard Hanslick's formalism. Articles by Youmans have appeared in Nineteenth-Century Music, The Musical Quarterly, the Journal of Musicology, and elsewhere. He has presented papers at conferences in the United States and Germany. Trained as a classical guitarist, Youmans has studied interpretation with John Sutherland, Christopher Parkening, and David Russell. He holds B.M. and M.M. degrees in guitar performance from the University of Georgia, and the A.M. and Ph.D. in musicology from Duke University.

Dana Carlisle Kletchka has an M.A. in art education with an emphasis in museum education and is currently conducting research toward her doctoral dissertation in art education at Penn State. She has 12 years of art museum education experience at both university and private museums; has published book chapters, articles, and book reviews; and regularly attends and presents at national and state conferences. She was on the review panel for Art Education magazine, the journal of the National Art Education Association, from 2003-2007 and served as the Museum Division Director on the board of the Pennsylvania Art Education Association for four years (2002-2005). As an affiliate instructor of art education in the School of Visual Arts and an affiliate instructor of art history, she is the principle instructor for Art/Art H 409: Museum Studies, a course offered jointly by those programs each spring. In addition to supervising the training and continuing education for a corps of more than 40 docents, she sponsors student internships, practicums, and special projects as well as conducting special tours and presentations to university classes and community groups.

Eric McKee, Associate Professor of Music Theory, joined the Penn State faculty in 1992 and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in music theory. He received his doctorate from The University of Michigan, where he served as editor of the music theory journal, In Theory Only. Besides numerous presentations at national conferences in the United States, he has presented his research in England, Ireland, Germany, Poland, and Canada. His articles have appeared in such journals as Music Theory Spectrum, Music Analysis, In Theory Only, and Theory and Practice. Eric's research projects have explored the musical depictions of death and spirituality in 18th and 19th century music, Schenkerian approaches to tonal form, phrase rhythm in the music of Mozart, and the minuets of Bach and Mozart. His current research, for which he was awarded a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, focuses on the influence of the dance in Chopin's music.

Heather McCune Bruhn is a instructor in Art History and an e-Learning fellow at Penn State during the academic year 2007-2008. A specialist in medieval metalwork, she received her Ph.D. in Art History in 2006. She has has published articles and presented papers on her dissertation topic, German late gothic monstrances, at the Cleveland Museum of Art, The International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, and Florida State University. A Fulbright grantee, she conducted dissertation research in Germany and neighboring countries while living in Cologne during the academic year 2002-2003. As a master's student at Penn State, she wrote two catalogue entries and two essays for the Medieval Art in America: Patterns of Collecting 1800-1940 catalogue, and had the opportunity to handle a late gothic monstrance when the show was dismantled. This experience prompted her continuing work with these elaborate and complex liturgical objects. Dr. McCune Bruhn has previously taught survey and medieval art courses at Penn State and was the recipient of a Graduate Assistant Award for Outstanding Teaching in 2000.

Jennifer Kelly is an instructor in the School of Visual Arts at Penn State, teaching part time for four years. She has taught Introduction to Drawing for two of those years. Kelly earned a BFA from Penn State in 1995 and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999. Jennifer has exhibited her work in Chicago, IL, Cleveland, OH, Stamford, NY, and Los Angeles, CA. Her favorite part of teaching Art 20 is to see students improving over the duration of the course.

Lisa Jenkins teaches undergraduate- and graduate-level world music. She holds a B.A. in Music from Penn State, a M.A. in Musicology from the University of Michigan and is currently completing her Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from the University of Michigan. Her dissertation, "Celtic Connections: Celticism and the Impact of Globalization on Contemporary Scottish Music and Culture," examines Celtic music in light of the new global aesthetic and describes its impact on local culture in Scotland. Her work is based on research at the School of Scottish Studies in Edinburgh, Scotland as well as fieldwork focusing on the annual Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow, Scotland. She has presented papers at conferences in the United States and Canada. Her performing experiences in world music include Highland bagpipes, bodhran, Javanese gamelan, ko-tsuzumi and taiko drumming. Further research interests include Japanese music, globalization, and folk music revivals.

Mallika Bose is an Assistant Professor in the department of Landscape Architecture at The Pennsylvania State University. She is an architect and urban planner with a specialization in Environment-Behavior Studies. Her research interests are primarily in the areas of: Public Health and the Built Environment (with special emphasis on vulnerable groups), Social Aspects of Housing and the Built Environment, Gender and Environments, and Planning/Design Education. As part of her interest in education, she has been working with the E-learning Institute of the College of Arts and Architecture (at PSU) in developing an online course (Larch 065) that uses innovative assessment techniques. For the past three years she has also been working on research on different aspects of active living and healthy eating with respect to public housing residents in Pennsylvania.

Michele is an Assistant Professor in the School of Theater where she teaches studio courses in jazz, tap, modern, and improvisation in addition to contributing choreography for the University Resident Theater Company and the University Dance Company. Off campus, Michele’s work has been presented by numerous arts organizations in Pittsburgh and Washington D.C. and most recently at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center in Maryland, Goose Route Dance Festival in Shepherdstown WV, and NYC at Jennifer Muller’s HATCH Performance Series. In addition to performing her own choreography Michele has danced with the Pittsburgh Opera, Junction Dance Theatre, Physical Theatre Project, DANA Movement Ensemble B3W and currently performs with ETCdance. Michele earned her MFA from George Mason University and has served on the faculties of Point Park University, George Mason University, and the Catholic University of America. Michele is a member of the Association for Theater in Higher Education and recently performed at the national conference in New Orleans. She is also member of the board of the American College Dance Festival Association serving the Northeast region.

Phillip Mackenzie Torbert was born just outside New York City in 1978, and grew up in New Jersey and Pittsburgh. He has been studying music ever since his first violin lesson at age three. Torbert began composing at Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan, and holds advanced degrees from The Pennsylvania State University in both music composition and conducting. He has been commissioned by collegiate choral and chamber ensembles, and has also written an award-winning orchestral work. His works have seen performances in the United States, Europe, and South America. Current projects include the revision of a work for musical theater chronicling the life of Vincent van Gogh, slated for a performance in Philadelphia and a chamber piece to be premiered by Andrés Cardenes, concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony. Torbert has also worked as a freelance graphic designer, web designer and photographer. He has served on the faculty of The Pennsylvania State University School of Music since the fall of 2006 and concurrently holds the title of Director of Music at Pasquerilla Spiritual Center.

Music theorist, composer, and performer, Stephen Hopkins is an Assistant Professor of Music at Penn State University. Before his arrival at Penn State in 2003, Hopkins served as Music Director at North Florida Community College for six years. He holds masters and Ph.D. degrees in music theory from Florida State University, where he was the recipient of a University Fellowship. His undergraduate degree is from the College of William and Mary.

Dr. Hopkins is a founding member of the Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic, and was appointed Secretary Pro Tempore for the society's founding meeting. His research interests include the music of Scriabin and Messiaen, as well as jazz. His most recent paper, read at the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities in January 2007, is “Herbie Hancock’s Collaboration with Sting in a Performance of ‘Sister Moon’: A Renewal of Art Song in the Twenty-first Century.”

Hopkins’ compositions have been performed by various soloists, and vocal and instrumental ensembles in Florida, Pennsylvania, Missouri, and—most recently—Hawaii, where the composer performed his recent album of solo piano compositions, Meditations in Blue. Performances of Hopkins’ works at Penn State University include his anthem, “And the Glory of the Lord Filled the Temple,” performed by the University Choir in March 2006. In March 2007 Hopkins’ jazz tune, “Second Spring,” was performed by Professor of Saxophone David Stambler’s jazz sextet during the Penn State School of Music’s 2007 Jazz Festival, with guest artists Dick Oatts on alto saxophone and Jim McFalls on trombone.