Who We Are

 

Kerill O’Neill

Director, Center for the Arts and Humanities

Julian D. Taylor Professor of Classics

Miller 200

207.859.4166

knoneill@colby.edu

Kerill O’Neill is the Julian D. Taylor Associate Professor of Classics. His research interests range from love magic in Latin poetry to religious cult in Bronze Age archaeology. As Humanities Division Chair (2008-2012), Kerill chaired the committee that developed a successful proposal to the Mellon Foundation for the establishment of the Center for the Arts and Humanities in 2013. Kerill promotes a vision of the arts and humanities that is heavily student-focused, sharing the value of the humanistic disciplines as a rich, rigorous, intellectual pursuit but also as an excellent preparation for successful careers in a rapidly changing world.

 

Dean Allbritton

Associate Director, Center for the Arts and Humanities

Associate Professor and Chair of Spanish

Lovejoy 323

207.859.4673

dallbrit@colby.edu

 

Dean Allbritton is an Associate Professor of Spanish, teaching courses on Spanish cinema, culture, and gender and sexuality. His work analyzes representations of illness and health in contemporary Spanish culture as political metaphors of national wellbeing. His current book project, Feeling Sick: The Early Years of AIDS in Spain, explores the cultural history of HIV/AIDS in Spain through visual culture and ephemera of the time and is forthcoming from Liverpool University Press. He has published articles in The Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, Revista de estudios hispánicos, and Hispanic Research Journal, among others.

 

Megan Fossa

Assistant Director, Center for the Arts and Humanities

Miller 201

207.859.4165

mefossa@colby.edu

 

 

 

Megan Fossa joined the Center for the Arts and Humanities in 2014 and serves as the Assistant Director. Megan is responsible for providing strategic direction and operational support for the Center, and coordinates and supports all faculty programs and courses that are associated with the Annual Humanities Theme. She is responsible for pre-event planning, on-site execution, and post-event follow-up for social, co-curricular, and community programs. Megan also processes finances, and supervises the student advisory board, along with student interns.

Megan received a Bachelor of Arts in Communications, Marketing / Public Relations at Thomas College, and holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration.

 

Ayla Fudala

Program Coordinator, Environmental Humanities

Miller 207C

207.859.4161

afudala@colby.edu

 

Ayla Fudala has served as the Environmental Humanities Program Coordinator since February 2019. She works closely with the EH Student Advisory Board to produce editions of FAUNA Environmental Humanities Literary and Art Magazin and helped to plan and run the Inaugural Colby Summer Institute in the Environmental Humanities.

She holds a Master’s in Environmental Culture and Communication from the University of Glasgow, and a Bachelor’s in Environmental Studies and English from the University of Pennsylvania.

Executive Committee

Student Advisory Board

Students play a key role in shaping the programming and vision of the center, and the student advisory board (SAB) serves as a representative voice, a promotional agent, and an important liaison between the student body and the center. Current members of SAB include:

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Faculty Coordinating Committee

  • Dean Allbritton, Spanish
  • James Barrett, Classics
  • Valérie Dionne, French & Italian
  • Sarah Duff, History
  • Gary Green, Art
  • Lareese M. Hall, Libraries
  • Lydia Moland, Philosophy
  • Elena Monastireva-Ansdel, German & Russian
  • Laura Saltz, American Studies
  • Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh, Religious Studies
  • Mo Shabangu, Creative Writing and English
  • Gwyneth Shanks, Theater and Dance
  • Natalie Zelensky, Music
  • Hong Zhang, East Asian Studies

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