In Conversation

Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Joey Bargsten, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Interactive Multimedia, as they discuss how Dr. Bargsten combines digital art, film, video games, interactivity, music, and performances from actors to create immersive storytelling through virtual reality. 

Dr. Bargsten is an Associate Professor of Interactive Multimedia, in the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies, for the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, at Florida Atlantic University.

Recent Publications:
Narrative and Spatial Design through Immersive Music and Audio . The IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces, 5th Annual Workshop on Sonic Interactions in Virtual Environments (2020).

Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Becka McKay, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Translation and Creative Writing, and Director of the MFA in Creative Writing, as they discuss her passion for the written word, what inspires her to write, and her process on how she constructs her own poetry.

Dr. McKay is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, for the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, at Florida Atlantic University.

Her first book of poems, A Meteorologist in the Promised Land, was published by Shearsman Books in 2010. She has published three translations of fiction from the Hebrew: Laundry (Autumn Hill Books, 2008), Blue Has No South (Clockroot, 2010), and Lunar Savings Time (Clockroot, 2011). She has received awards and grants from the Seattle Arts Commission and the American Literary Translators Association, and a Witter Byner Poetry Translation Residency. In 2006 she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her poems and translations have appeared in American Letters & Commentary, ACM, Third Coast, The Iowa Review, Hotel Amerika, Rhino, Natural Bridge, Rattapallax and elsewhere.

Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Becka McKay, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Translation and Creative Writing, and Director of the MFA in Creative Writing, as they discuss her passion for the written word, what inspires her to write, and her process on how she constructs her own poetry.

Dr. McKay is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, for the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, at Florida Atlantic University.

Her first book of poems, A Meteorologist in the Promised Land, was published by Shearsman Books in 2010. She has published three translations of fiction from the Hebrew: Laundry (Autumn Hill Books, 2008), Blue Has No South (Clockroot, 2010), and Lunar Savings Time (Clockroot, 2011). She has received awards and grants from the Seattle Arts Commission and the American Literary Translators Association, and a Witter Byner Poetry Translation Residency. In 2006 she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her poems and translations have appeared in American Letters & Commentary, ACM, Third Coast, The Iowa Review, Hotel Amerika, Rhino, Natural Bridge, Rattapallax and elsewhere.

Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Chris Robé, Professor of Film Studies, and Stephen Charbonneau, Associate Professor of Film Studies and they discuss their new book InsUrgent Media from the Front: A Media Activism Reader.

Dr. Robe is a Professor of Film and Media Studies in the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies (SCMS), for the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, at Florida Atlantic University.

Dr. Charbonneau is an Associate Professor of Film Studies and Graduate Director in the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies (SCMS), for the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, at Florida Atlantic University.

InsUrgent Media from the Front: A Media Activism Reader is available now.

Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Chris Robé, Professor of Film Studies, and Stephen Charbonneau, Associate Professor of Film Studies and they discuss their new book InsUrgent Media from the Front: A Media Activism Reader.

Dr. Robe is a Professor of Film and Media Studies in the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies (SCMS), for the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, at Florida Atlantic University.

Dr. Charbonneau is an Associate Professor of Film Studies and Graduate Director in the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies (SCMS), for the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, at Florida Atlantic University.

InsUrgent Media from the Front: A Media Activism Reader is available now.

Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Assistant Professor of Ceramics, Thomas Stollar, Ph.D. and they discuss ceramics as a medium and how it can also archive a civilization.

Dr. Stollar is an Assistant Professor of Ceramics, in the Department of Visual Arts & Art History, for the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, at Florida Atlantic University. He is also the creator of the online exhibition platform “DISTANT CERAMICS.” To view some of his works please visit his website, http://thomastollar.com/.

Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Assistant Professor of Ceramics, Thomas Stollar, Ph.D. and they discuss ceramics as a medium and how it can also archive a civilization.

Dr. Stollar is an Assistant Professor of Ceramics, in the Department of Visual Arts & Art History, for the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, at Florida Atlantic University. He is also the creator of the online exhibition platform “DISTANT CERAMICS.”

Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Assistant Professor of Multimedia Studies, Nicole Morse, as they discuss the cultural phenomenon of the Selfie.

Nicole Erin Morse is an Assistant Professor in the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies at Florida Atlantic University and Director of the Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Their research has been published in Jump Cut, Feminist Media Studies, Porn Studies, [in]Transition, and elsewhere. Their book manuscript Selfie Aesthetics explores the political, theoretical, and aesthetic implications of self-representation by trans women and trans feminine artists. Further writing, including media pedagogy blog posts, can be found at nemorse.com.

Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Assistant Professor of Multimedia Studies, Nicole Morse, as they discuss the cultural phenomenon of the Selfie.

Nicole Erin Morse is an Assistant Professor in the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies at Florida Atlantic University and Director of the Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Their research has been published in Jump Cut, Feminist Media Studies, Porn Studies, [in]Transition, and elsewhere. Their book manuscript Selfie Aesthetics explores the political, theoretical, and aesthetic implications of self-representation by trans women and trans feminine artists. Further writing, including media pedagogy blog posts, can be found at nemorse.com.

Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Professor of Philosophy, Susan Schneider, Ph.D. and they discuss Artificial Intelligence and its implications for the future.

Dr. Schneider is the William F. Dietrich Distinguished Professor of Philosophy of Mind at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida, with a joint appointment in the Brain Institute. She will also be the founding director of a center on the future of the mind.

Her book, Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind, is available on Amazon.