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Casey Smith

Program Chair, Liberal Arts
Liberal Arts

Casey Smith is the Program Chair for Liberal Arts at DCAD. He holds a BA in English from Kenyon College and an MA and Ph.D. in English with a minor in Victorian Studies from Indiana University. Before coming to DCAD, he spent 20 years on the faculty of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design at George Washington University, where he was the founder and director of the Corcoran Writers Center. He also has taught at Indiana University and West Chester University. A frequent publisher and presenter of scholarly work on a range of topics, Casey most recently presented “Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market: 150 Years of Art & Illustration” at the Annual Symposium of the Fellowship of American Bibliophile Societies at the Delaware Art Museum. He serves as Vice-President of the Chesapeake Chapter of the American Printing History Association and is an active member of the College Book Art Association; the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals; the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing; and The William Morris Society of North America. His poetry has been published in various journals and chapbooks, and he is the sole proprietor of “Own Goal Press”, an experimental letterpress printing operation based in Wilmington, Delaware.

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Denise Tanyol

Professor, Liberal Arts
Liberal Arts

Denise Tanyol received her BA in creative writing from the Writing Seminars at the Johns Hopkins University and her MA in English and creative writing from the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi. Her doctoral dissertation at the University of Pennsylvania, “The Inconstant Machine: Photography and American Literature,” concerns American writers’ often conflicted encounters with the camera, in particular their responses to changes in technology and practice. She has published papers on Melville, Joyce, and Faulkner and has presented conference papers on various photo-textual topics, including “The Photographic Novel from Wright Morris to 9/11.”

Her recent teaching includes modern American literature, the literature of the American South, and the impact of photography on American writing. At DCAD and the University of Pennsylvania, she developed a new creative writing class, “Making Photo-texts,” in which students make hybrid works of fiction and creative nonfiction that incorporate photographs. At DCAD, she teaches the history of film (Moving Pictures), the history of photography (Lenticular Vision), and Modern Lit and Creative Writing