Staff
Contact Lauren with questions regarding:
- Admissions
- Enrollment
- Petitions
- Program requirements
- Comprehensive exam, MA/MFA thesis defense, and dissertation defense procedures
- Graduation
Schedule a virtual advising appointment!
Dr. Nicole Hodges Persley is an award-winning professor and director. She is an associate professor of American Studies and African American Studies who specializes areas of hip-hop studies, acting and directing, and African American performance in theater, film and television. An artist-scholar, Hodges Persley creates intentional bridges between the entertainment industry and academia. She is the author of Sampling and Remixing Blackness in Hip-Hop Performance and Breaking It Down: Auditioning for Artists of the Global Majority, co-written with Monica Ndounou of Dartmouth University
Contact Brandy for:
- Questions about MUSE and to schedule campus visits (online or in person) for prospective students
- Course scheduling questions and permission numbers for current students
- MUSE events and communications
- Student support/resource referrals, both on- and off-campus
Current in-person office schedule: Mondays and Wednesdays, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.