CSUSB CAL Talks

Mr. Duffie is an exciting addition to our Department of Art & Design at Cal State San Bernardino. Wait until you hear about his background and work projects before he landed at CSUSB. Very impressive! Rafael graduated with an MFA in Animation & Visual Effects from the Academy of Art in San Francisco. His MFA focus is on 3D modeling and sculpting characters for feature films and video games...

Dr. Shafiq Rahman is an esteemed member of our tenured faculty at Cal State San Bernardino. He is an expert in communication studies and has done research, writings and teachings on international communication. He describes his time in his native Bangladesh and the educational path that led him to the United States. It is delightful to hear about his journey from tropical Southeast Asia to the col...

Dr. Julie Taylor is not an idle person! She teaches many courses in Communication & Media with a specialization in Organizational Communication. She is also the Department's Faculty Advisor. In addition, Julie is the Co-Director at The Speaking Center at JHBC (the CSUSB business college). During our interview you learn about her upbringing in lovely Colorado. Does that make her "outd...

Luisa graduated in May 2024 with her Bachelor of Arts in Art and Design. She was also honored by being named the College of Arts and Letters Outstanding Student for that year! Luisa was well engrained in the CAL family by working as a student assistant graphic designer for Coyote Radio & Advertising. Listen as she describes what she'd like to be doing with her degree and experience in gra...

Dr. Parastou Feiz Zarin Ghalam is our guest on this episode and she has some delightful stories to tell! There's a favorite recipe included, too. Listen as she describes her favorite memory growing up in Tehran. And what was it that brought her to the United States? And how did she land at CSUSB? With her eloquent delivery Dr. Feiz also talks about her favorite class to teach as a Professor i...

Hats off to this homegrown lady! Penny grew up in Redlands and it's fun to hear what kind of things she did there as a teenager. Always drawn to radio, Lecturer Drake-Green achieved her Associate of Arts degree in Radio-Television from San Bernardino Valley College but there was some years in the carnival thrown in there! Miss Penny, as the students affectionately call her, made her way to Ca...

You'll enjoy hearing about Art and Design from the perspective of Dr. Scalissi. Discovering her love of and interest in art came at an early age in a home filled with artists. Andy Warhol plays a big part in her launch! Nicole is a historian of contemporary art. Her research focuses on performance, intervention, and installation art that deals with issues of violence, Latinx/Afro-Latinx ident...

I was delighted to spend time interviewing Dr. Kirk! His lively, easy-going disposition is contagious. From a Huntington Beach humble beginning to a world-class scholar, hear the engaging delivery of his story here on the CAL Talks Podcast Series.  From his CSUSB bio: Dr. Kirk Kanesaka is an Assistant Professor of Japanese and Asian Studies.  His specialty is in premodern Japanese literature and t...

Join us for a listen to the brightly spoken podcast from one of our latest additions to the CAL family in our Philosophy Department. Andrea Daventry tells us about her educational path from sunny and balmy Florida to the wilds of the Connecticut River valley in Amherst, Massachusetts. And she adds where she settled on living in the Inland Empire (great pick!). The courses she teaches at CSUSB incl...

Professor Wasserstein is the latest addition to the wonderful Department of English at CSUSB. Is it something about people from the Midwest that makes them inherently nice and polite? I don’t know but she is both! Izzy was born and raised in Kansas. She’s the author of two poetry collections, This Ecstasy They Call Damnation and When Creation Falls, the short story collection All the Hometowns You...

This is an entertaining and informative episode with Dr. Guillermo Aviles-Rodriguez. It's an understatement to say that Guillermo is colorful, intelligent, funny and a deep thinker. He is all that and more as he adds his depth and style to the Department of Theatre Arts here at Cal State San Bernardino.    Guillermo holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Utah, a Master of Fine A...

During this episode on the College of Arts and Letters Podcast Series we spend time with Miriam Fernandez, PhD who recently received her promotion to Professor in the CSUSB English Department. What is the difference between writing and composition? This expert puts it plain and easy to understand and practice. Her stance? Everyone can write! Her current research focuses on Chicanx rhetorical pract...

The Art and Design building at CSUSB is an enormous and finely equipped space for students to learn and practice their craft. One of the leads in the department is the guest you'll listen to on this episode. Andrew Oakes is an Art and Design Professor who loves the world of branding. He describes how he has successfully run his own branding design company for decades while also teaching multi...

Newly promoted Professor of Communication Studies, Dr. Thomas Corrigan discusses his research and teaching which examines the relationship between wealth, power, and the media. This area of Communication Studies is also known as the Political Economy of Communication (PEC). He shares the focus of two of his Fall 2023 courses which are Digital Media and Society and the Political Economy of Communic...

Here's another engaging episode in the CAL Podcast Series on Mental Health and Well Being. Dr. Neal Malik (Dr. Neal) has worked in higher education since 2007. He is currently an Associate Professor within the Department of Health Science and Human Ecology and Program Director for the Master of Science in Health Services Administration the Program Coordinator for the Bachelor of Science in He...

From the CAL Podcast Series on Mental Health and Well Being, we hear the story of Jennifer "Jen" Moulton as told by herself from start to finish. She details for us her childhood growing up locally in Temecula, a city in the Inland Empire where California State University San Bernardino is located. But she made the dramatic move across the country to New York City to begin her academic c...

From the CAL Podcast Series on Mental Health & Well Being:  Christina's research interests lie within the area of trauma and associated mental health conditions, such as Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Her research activities focus on elucidating mechanisms of vulnerability and resilience among interpersonal violence and combat populations. As a natural progression of this work, Dr....

Matthew Poole is a curator and writer living and working in Los Angeles, California. His practice involves producing exhibitions, publishing artists’ projects, writing on topics related to the relations of production and distribution of art, and teaching. Poole is a professor of art history and theory in the Department of Art & Design at California State University, San Bernardino. In 2022-23...

James Trotter is the Assistant Director of the Academic Technologies and Innovation (ATI) Department in the lower level of the Pfau Library on campus. The ATI Department is a branch of CSUSB Information Technology Services. In his ATI role, James has dedicated his expertise, mentorship and passion for technology to his department for over fourteen years.   Mr. Trotter constantly searches for new o...

Lacey Kendall is a radio expert who continues to bring her knowledge to CSUSB students as a communication studies lecturer. With more than 40 years of radio experience, Kendall managed CSUSB’s Coyote Radio before launching and managing PAWS Radio on the CSUSB Palm Desert Campus. She also remains active in the industry as a radio announcer at KCAL. Kendall, who earned her master’s in communication...

Join us for this interview with CSUSB’s Department of Music Assistant Professor of Music (Music Technology), Martim Galvao. He is somewhat new to the College of Arts and Letters having moved to the region in August to start with the Fall Semester.  Dr. Galvão is a Brazilian-American composer, percussionist and multimedia artist. Much of his work is concerned with interfaces and how we interact wit...

Merry Scully joined the CSUSB Museum in August of 2022. Most recently she was head of curatorial affairs, and curator of contemporary art at the New Mexico Museum of Art. Previous positions include curator of the Governor’s Gallery for Governor Bill and Barbara Richardson; director of exhibitions and the associate director of exhibitions and public programs at the San Francisco Art Institute; and...

This is a delightful look into the world of our Music Department Chair extraordinaire, Lesley Leighton. What hasn't she done in music? She explains to you with insight and wit. Plus, she makes soufflés? Yes! Listen and be inspired by "the chef." At the end she offers our Music students advice on what's important to have and maintain a career in the Music world.  Here are some l...

From growing up in the South to working for NASA and now as an Associate Professor in Art and Design at CSUSB, Rob entertains us with his unusual, interesting and fun path as he details his background in Art and Design. In addition to teaching, Rob is also a Faculty Fellow in the xREAL Lab on campus (xREAL: Extended REALity for Learning). Find out what drew Mr. Ray to Cal State San Bernardino. He...

New to the CSUSB Department of Art and Design, Associate Professor Taylor Moon discusses her strong ties to the CSU system via Cal State Northridge and how that shaped her future as a Design Artist. Being a Southern California native, her academic path took her from her home area of Northridge to UCSB where she began working in art galleries. You'll be fascinated by what is her art "spec...