Faculty
Ninotchka Devorah Bennahum
Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Performance
Studies and Theater and Director of the MFA in New Media Art and
Performance.
B.A., Swarthmore College; M.A., Ph.D., New York University
Specializations: Flamenco, Performance Theory, Dance History,
African-American Performance, Gypsy/Middle East Performance History.
Selected Publications:
Antonia Merce, La Argentina: Flamenco and the Spanish Avant-Garde,
Wesleyan University Press (2000)
Marla Del Collins
Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Performance
Studies, Educational Theatre and Theatre
B.F.A., Dramatic Arts, University of West Virginia, M.A., Educational
Theatre, Ph.D., Arts and Humanities in Education, Fellowship:
Interpersonal and Speech Communication, Department of Culture
and Communication, New York University.
Specializations:
Whole Systems Theories as they apply to transcultural communication
and globalization, teaching and learning pedagogy, the fine arts
and gender communication.
Selected Publications:
Transcending Dualistic Thinking in Conflict Resolution, Negotiation
Journal, Harvard Law School (2005), To Veil or Not to Veil: A
Feminist’s Journey Through the Land of Jordan, Women and
Language Journal, George Mason University (2003), “Dragonflying”
Beyond Cultural Constraints: The Transcultural Phenomenon, Journal
of Human Communication, Pan-Asian Association (2002), Intrapersonal
Communication, The Missing Link, Illinois Communication Journal,
Illinois Communication Association (2001).
Gail-Ann G. Greaves (Chairperson)
Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Performance
Studies and Theatre, and Director of the Forensic Program in Speech
and Debate
B.A., M.A., Brooklyn College (CUNY); Ph.D., Howard University
Specializations: Forensics, Rhetoric, Inter-cultural Communication,
Cultures of the Caribbean, the United States and Africa, Political
and Social Commentary calypso.
Director and Coach of the LIU Student Forensic Team
Selected Publications:
“Call-Response in Selected Calypsoes of Political Commentary
from the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.” (1998, September).
Journal of Black Studies, 29(1), 34-50. “The Rhetoric of
the Calypso of Political Commentary from the Republic of Trinidad
and Tobago: An African-centered Historical-critical analysis.”
(1995, December). The Howard Journal of Communication, 6(4), 321-334.
Barbara Parisi
Professor of Communication Studies, Performance Studies and
Theatre
B.A., Hunter College (CUNY); M.A., Brooklyn College (CUNY); M.A.,
The Graduate Center (CUNY); M.A., Ph.D., New York University
Specializations: Communication Studies, Performance Studies, Theatre
A founder, executive director of the Ryan Repertory Company at
the Harry Warren Theatre, Brooklyn (1972)
Selected Publications:
Empowerment Through Communication, Kendall Hunt (1995),
The History of Brooklyn’s Three Major Performance Art
Institutes, Scarecrow Press (2003).
John Sannuto
Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Performance
Studies and Theatre; and Director of Theatre
B.A., Brooklyn College (CUNY); M.A., D.A., New York University
Specializations: Theatre, Dance, Movement for Theatre, Oral Interpretation,
Public Speaking, Directing, Voice and Diction, Musical Theatre.
