Liberal Arts

Mar Romasco Moore is the author of the novels I Am the Ghost in Your House , Krazyland (forthcoming), and Some Kind of Animal, as well as Ghostographs , an interconnected collection of flash fiction inspired by vintage photographs. Her stories have appeared in Lightspeed , Fireside, DIAGRAM , Hobart , Interfictions , Kaleidotrope, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet , and the anthology Women Destroy Science Fiction . She received an MFA from Southern Illinois University and currently teaches writing at Columbus College of Art & Design. marromascomoore.com

Terry Monnett teaches physics and scientific applications for artists. Monnett studied computer graphics at the Advanced Computing Center for Arts and Design and painting and drawing at The Ohio State University. Her 2D digital are and 3D animation have been exhibited at SIGGRAPH. BS in mathematics/physics, Purdue University. MA in education, The Ohio State University. MA in journalism, OSU. Monnett teaches at Capital University and CCAD.

Sophia Kartsonis received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Utah, an MFA from University of Alabama and a Ph.D from the University of Cincinnati. An associate professor at Columbus College of Art & Design, Sophia Kartsonis has been at the college since 2009. She teaches Writing Poetry, Writing Fiction, 20th Century Literature, and Advanced Creative Writing in the Writing, Literature and Philosophy department. She is also the faculty advisor for Botticelli Magazine, the literary and art journal of CCAD. She has authored three chapbooks: EMUseum, Dancing Girl Press, 2010, &...

Dr. Lesley Jenike earned her B.F.A. from Emerson College, her M.F.A. from the Ohio State University, and her PhD from the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Jenike has been a professor at Columbus College of Art & Design since 2008 and has taught such classes as Film and Literature, Writing Poetry, American Literature, and Advanced Creative Writing. Dr. Jenike is the author of two full-length poetry collections: Ghost of Fashion (2008) and Holy Island (2014). Her poems and essays have appeared or will appear in Poetry , The Gettysburg Review , The Rumpus , The Southern Review , The Kenyon Review...

Irmak Ertuna Howison moved to Columbus from Istanbul, Turkey. She teaches writing and introduction to philosophy in CCAD. Her research interests include feminist crime fiction, science fiction, and literary criticism. She recently co-authored a humorous book on Jane Austen in Turkish (Dogan Egmont, March 2017). She is currently co-editing a collection on eco-criticism in Turkish literature and co-authoring a book on Frankenstein in honor of its 200th anniversary. BA in Sociology, Bogazici University, Istanbul, 2004; MA in Comparative Literature, Binghamton University, 2006: PhD in Comparative...

Andy Havens is a marketing communications professional with over 25 years of experience in retail, business-to-business and non-profit marketing. He graduated from Cornell University with a degree in Writing and has worked for Verizon Wireless, Vorys/Sater and OCLC in Columbus. He has taught as an adjunct at CCAD since 2003, covering subjects such as marketing for designers, history of advertising and introduction to business. He is the author of two urban-fantasy novels, a bunch of poetry and co-authored a scholarly report on social media and online trust.

Charlene Fix taught writing poetry, film and literature, and literary studies. Fix received fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council and the Greater Columbus Arts Council, and has published poems in Poetry , Literary Imagination , Hotel Amerika , The Manhattan Review and others. Fix has published chapbooks: Mischief and Greatest Hits and books: Flowering Bruno , Harpo Marx as Trickster , and Frankenstein’s Flowers . Fix has received the Robert H. Winner Memorial Award and Louis Hammer memorial Awards from the Poetry Society of America. BS in English Education, Ohio State University, 1970; MA in...

Sonya Fix teaches writing, oral communication, and theory & criticism for ESL learners at the undergraduate and graduate levels. She received a B.A. from Eastern Michigan University in English Linguistics and Literature as a Presidential Scholar and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Linguistics from New York University, where she was a MacCracken Fellow and Dean's Dissertation Fellow. Fix's sociolinguistic research focuses on racial, ethnic, and regional variation in American English, second dialect acquisition, inter-ethnic group communication, and language, identity and subjectivity. She has published...

Elizabeth Douglas teaches introductory, developmental, abnormal, and social psychologies and theories of personality. In addition to CCAD, Douglas teaches psychology courses at other Columbus area colleges and has received excellence in teaching awards and nominations. Douglas previously worked as a music and theater director in Germany, where she established a music program for children. Douglas has been a professional musician and has experience in theater and dance performance. BA in psychology, Appalachian State University, 1971; MA in psychology and education, Appalachian State University...

Maggie DiVito studied at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She has worked as a college lecturer in English and the liberal arts since 2002. She earned a BFA in painting and drawing and a post baccalaureate in creative writing from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. While attending SAIC, she worked as a substitute high school English teacher and taught non-credit art classes at a community college. Maggie earned her MFA in poetry from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she also worked as assistant editor of...