New Faculty - College of PSFA
The college welcomes nine new faculty members to carry on the tradition of excellence.
The College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts encompasses majors ranging from dance to ROTC. The college prides itself on the diverse nature of its departments, clubs and programs.
This fall, the college welcomes nine new faculty members to carry on the tradition of excellence. They are among 54 new faculty members joining the SDSU family this semester — the largest cohort of faculty to be hired by SDSU since the 2007/2008 academic year.
Carlos Castro, MFA (San Francisco Art Institute, 2010) Castro was born in Bogota, Colombia. In his work, Castro explores how icons and cultural values taken as givens are redefined in contemporary life when they meet with supposedly not desirable or not recognized sides of society. The point where established and clandestine overlap and generate a sort of social schizophrenia; finding this specifically in issues such as labor, identity, displacement and piracy. He has had solo exhibitions at serveral venues including LA Galería Bogotá (2014); 21st Street Projects NYC (2014); Museo Santa Clara Bogotá (2013); Phoenix Gallery New York (2010); the French Alliance, Bogota (2007).
Matthew Higgins, MA (Cantab, 1983) Higgins is a British architect and interior designer. He was formerly managing partner of Higgins Gardner & Partners, a London-based practice specializing in museum and cultural design with completed projects in the United Kingdom, Ireland and the Middle East. In 2009 he established CODA Projects LLC, focusing on contemporary residential and industrial design. The practice is currently completing homes for private clients in New Jersey and Los Angeles. In tandem with his professional work Higgins has taught architecture and spatial design at the University of the Arts, London, the University of Brighton and, most recently, the Design Program of University of California, Davis.
Charles Goehring, Ph.D. (University of Iowa, 2008) Goehring specializes in rhetorical studies. His areas of expertise include visual rhetoric, rhetorical theory and criticism, social movements, the work of Kenneth Burke, feminist theory and criticism, and critical/cultural studies. His current research focuses on several instances of the rhetorics of torture, the cultural functions of apocalyptic narrative, the use of the visual in enacting social change and a retheorization of the role of audience in political oratory. He received his MA from SDSU, and joined the School of Communication as a lecturer in 2007.
Luke Winslow, Ph.D. (University of Texas at Austin, 2009) Winslow is an assistant professor in the School of Communication. His areas of teaching and research interest include contemporary rhetorical criticism, political communication, and rhetoric and social justice. Winslow’s interest in the rhetorical representations of race, gender, and class in popular culture has led to publications related to why there are so few black quarterbacks in the NFL, why popular evangelical Christian minister Joel Osteen talks so much about physical appearance (and so little about Jesus), and why the rhetorical justification for slashing funding for higher education relies on portraying college professors as undeserving welfare queens.
L.Robert Payne School of Hospitality and Tourism Management
Lori J. Sipe, Ph.D. (University of San Diego, 2013) After working as an executive for SeaWorld San Diego for more than 20 years, Lori began teaching in the hospitality and tourism management program at SDSU. She has been honored for her innovation in teaching undergraduates and recently received the prestigious Foster Award for her dissertation research. Currently, her research focuses on innovation and strategic leadership in organizations whose main economic offering is an experience. She currently teaches accounting, leadership, and strategy courses in undergraduate and graduate level programs in the hospitality and tourism management department, and she designs and facilitates executive education programs for professionals in the hospitality and tourism industry.
School of Journalism and Media Studies
Kaye Sweetser, Ph.D., APR+M (University of Florida, 2004) Sweetser is an associate professor of public relations in the School of Journalism and Media Studies. Her research focuses on politics as public relations campaigns. The majority of her work examines digital political public relations, and looks at various social media and online tools used in campaigns and their effect on the electorate.
Shannon Kitelinger is the director of bands at SDSU where he conducts the university Wind Symphony and Symphonic Band, and teaches courses in conducting and wind literature. He also serves as the undergraduate student advisor. Shannon has taught at the elementary, middle school, high school and university levels, also serving as the assistant conductor for the Lone Star Wind Orchestra, a professional wind band based in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. During his time at SDSU, ensemble enrollment has tripled and his groups have been featured at several local, state, and regional conferences. The 2012 recipient of California Music Educator’s “Music Educator of the Year” Award, Shannon is published annually in Teaching Music Through Performance in Band.
School of Theatre, Television, and Film
Aurorae Khoo (B.A. Brown University, MFA New York University) Khoo has written for the CBS drama “Unforgettable,” Showtime’s “Nurse Jackie,” the USA Network’s “In Plain Sight;” and the comedy “Running Wilde” on Fox; and produced episodes of the CBS shows “JAG” and “Walker, Texas Ranger." She held a Bunting Fellowship at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute and an International Rotary Fellowship in Taiwan. She has held commissions from various organizations and theaters, including South Coast Repertory. Her plays have been produced and developed around the country.
Anne E. McMills, M.F.A. (Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts, 2002) McMills is a lighting designer and professional associate lighting designer. Her far-reaching career extends across the many facets of the lighting world — from theater (including Broadway and the West End) to television and theme parks to architecture, industrials, concerts, award shows, dance and opera. McMills has mounted productions in the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Australia, and Germany and is a proud member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829. Anne is the author of "The Assistant Lighting Designer’s Toolkit," published by Focal Press. She is currently working on her second book, "3D Printing for Entertainment Design (working title)."
