Graduate Board
Department of Theater and Dance
Carol received her MA in Theater Arts at San Jose State University in 2004. Her thesis research applying quantum physics concepts and language to theater theory will continue towards a dissertation topic. She has worked in theater production for the past 20 years in positions ranging from producer and stage manager to costume, light, sound designer and set painter. Most recently Carol has been a facility manager, teacher of technical theater, and designer at a junior college in San Jose, and maintains a current Secondary Teaching Credential in English. She has presented papers at CETA, ATHE, Comparative Drama Conference, and the Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities. While at UCSB, Carol has directed a one act play for Grad Directed One Acts and taught a class in Musical Theater History.
Comparative Literature Program
David is a Phd student specializing in public cultures, institutions, and technology in West Africa, from the colonial period to the present. He received his BA in English from Reed College in 2007, and he embraces materialism with the foolhardy glee of a sorority girl or a southern aristocratic titan of industry.
Department of Film and Media Studies
Daniel Reynolds is from Portland, Oregon. He received a BA in Linguistics from the University of Oregon in 2001 and an MFA in Film Studies from Boston University in 2004. In the two years before he came to UCSB, he was a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University. Dan is interested in film and video game aesthetics and issues relating to consciousness and cognition
Marthine Satris is a PhD student in the English Department. She received her M.A. from University College Dublin in Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama in 2005. Her current academic interests include contemporary lyric and experimental poetry, Irish literature, and ecocriticism. Before becoming a department representative, she received a CLTC grant to attend the 2006 conference of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literature, held in Sydney, Australia.