Get to know the Core Program team.
Director, Core Program; Associate Dean for Curricular Affairs
Faculty
Visiting Assistant Professor, Core Program
Core Program
Brian Bartell studies the intersection of technology, aesthetics, politics, and race and social difference in the twentieth and twenty-first century United States.
Visiting Professor, Core Program
Core Program
Alex Bolyanatz is a psychological anthropologist who investigates the evolutionary origins of morality and other human belief systems. He has conducted fieldwork among the Sursurunga people of Papua New Guinea since 1989.
Project SAFE Director and Survivor Advocate
Lizzy Denny (she/her/hers) is originally from Louisville, Kentucky but has lived in Los Angeles for the past 8 years. She received her undergraduate degree from Earlham College in Comparative Languages and Linguistics as well as Women鈥檚, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. It was at Earlham that she...
Resident Assistant Professor, Core Program
Core Program
Jackie Elam's areas of specialization include death studies, critical theory, genre studies (esp. horror and sci-fi), film noir, 19th and 20th-century British literature, Los Angeles, and all things "沤i啪ek."
Resident Associate Professor, Core Program
Core Program
Devin Fromm studies theories of modernization and the cultures of modernity, with a particular focus on detective fiction.
Senior Director of Advising; Affiliated Faculty, Music & Core Program
Music
Edmond Johnson is Senior Director of Academic Advising
Coordinator, Book Arts Program
Jocelyn Webb Pedersen is a letterpress printer and book artist. She teaches courses in typography and hand-printed book production and offers co-curricular programs, events, and workshops.