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Weiling Deng

Biography

Dr. Weiling Deng is an Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Champlain College. She currently serves as the Core Division’s Third Year Faculty Lead and helps develop the new curriculum of Digital Humanities. Weiling received her Ph.D. in Social Sciences and Comparative Education from UCLA. Her research and teaching interests centrally address “a world in flux,” the ever-lasting, AI-infiltrated reality in which education, art, technology, and relationship are embedded. Weiling writes and teaches about Global Asias, Urban Humanities, panoramic and immersive media, generative education, higher education organizational change, gender and feminist studies, technology and race. Drawing from theorists like John Dewey and Paulo Freire, Weiling is dedicated to place-based international education through experiences of immigration, diaspora, border, and urban space.

Weiling is currently working on her first book project, titled Illuminating the Shadows of the Undead: Panoramic Fabulation of Transpacific Chinese Scenes. The book focuses on the speculative cinematic connections between Hollywood and Shanghai, Shenyang, and Beijing by way of Los Angeles’ DIY artist-built folk-art scenes. Built around the immersive art programs of a Los Angeles-based non-profit museum devoted to the illustrious history of proto-cinematic technologies of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the book adopts multiple media—including 360-degree panorama, diorama, peepshow, shadow projection performance, crankie, theater, walk-in archival installation, photography, garden, and film—to re-enliven the alien/ated “China” stories on the geographical and cultural edge of Hollywood.

Weiling’s articles have appeared in Verge: Studies in Global Asias, Panoramic and Immersive Media Studies, in South Asian Review, Museological Review, Critical Digital Humanities Cookbook, Los Angeles Review of Books, and academic anthologies including Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues: Intersections, Opacities, Challenges in Feminist Theorizing and Practice.

Weiling spends a lot of her time reading, writing, and traveling globally. She loves cities with well-curated bookstores and museums, cool architecture and art scenes, expansive public transportation, and grassroots immigrant neighborhoods — in particular Montreal, Dublin, Los Angeles, and Seattle where she continues to build professional connections and engage in community works. As an amateur photographer, she documents the intersection of urban life and urban ruins. She sees ruins — in higher education, industry, and the environment — as generative sites where relations are revolutionized, reimagined, and rebuilt.

Publications & Abstracts

Deng, Weiling. 2025. “Speculative Wuhan Panorama: Scaling Hydro-Urbanism from the Hankou Water Tower.” Verge: Studies in Global Asias, vol. 11, no. 2, special issue The Asian Century: Idea, Method, and Media, edited by Christopher T. Fan, Paul Nadal, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, and Tina Chen, 43-53.

“A Classroom Camera Obscura.” International Panorama Council Newsletter no. 48. June 2025, pp. 38-41.

Deng, Weiling, Sara Velas, Ruby Carlson, and Jonathan Banfill. 2024 “Relocating Shengjing: Traveling Panorama as Theory.” In Panoramic and Immersive Media Studies Yearbook Vol. 1, edited by Molly Briggs, Thorsten Logge, and Nicholas Lowe. Berlin: De Gruyter, 25-54.

Deng, Weiling, Sara Velas, Ruby Carlson, and Jonathan Banfill. 2024. “The Feral Garden of the More-than-Panorama Museum.” Museological Review, issue 27, Museums as Spaces of Rootedness and Response-ability, 136-155.

Deng, Weiling. 2023. “Death and Life in the Bordersand–Remembering the Chance of Living during Partition through Geetanjali Shree’s Tomb of Sand.” South Asian Review, vol. 45, no. 1-2, special issue Partition: 75 Years and Beyond, edited by Debali Mookerjea-Leonard and Nalini Iyer.

“The Chinese Restaurant on Main Street, U.S.A. – Review of From Chinatown to Every Town by Zai Liang.” Los Angeles Review of Books. September 2023.

Recommended Reading, Listening & Viewing

• Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection (Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing)
• The Intimacies of Four Continents (Lisa Lowe)
• Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals (Saidiya Hartman)

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Renae Desautels

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Renae is the Student Resources Coordinator and Single Parent Program Coordinator. Renae has a Bachelor’s of Arts in Social Work. Prior to starting at Champlain in December of 2024, she worked in the social work field in the Burlington area before starting, growing, and selling a childcare company with four locations in Chittenden County.

Renae resides with her husband, Dan, in Grand Isle. She is Mom to four adult children and two dogs. When not at work, Renae enjoys any activity on, in, or around Lake Champlain.

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Riley Dickie

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Tamie-Jo Dickinson

Biography

Tamie-Jo Dickinson is a National Board Certified Business Teacher and teaches business and entrepreneur classes at CVU High School, Champlain, CCV, VTC, Castleton, and through the Governor’s Institute of Vermont. She has decades of teaching under her belt and is skilled at making complex topics seem easy and attainable. Her passion is teaching entrepreneurship and business social responsibility. She provides training opportunities for teachers around the state on how to implement entrepreneurship into their curriculum, and her students have been winners of many state-wide business plan competitions. She teaches Managerial Accounting at Champlain, and she works as an educational consultant for the Vermont Small Business Development Center.

Hobbies and Interests: Tamie is a certified Jazzercise Instructor, which means she is actually a franchise owner! She teaches adult classes twice a week, and she teaches programs for young children during the summer.

Favorite Quote

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

—George Bernard Shaw

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Bethany Dietrich

Biography

Beth joined Champlain College with experience as a law librarian at Syracuse University College of Law, skill as a business librarian at Saint Michael’s College, and practice creating unique programs and events to encourage students to engage with the library. As Outreach & Engagement Librarian, Beth works collaboratively across campus to design, implement, and promote meaningful and impactful library programming and activities for both on-campus and online populations. She also delivers in-class information literacy sessions and provides research and reference support to the Champlain community. Beth has served as the Vice-President and President of the College & Special Libraries Section of the Vermont Library Association. She has also served on the Vermont Library Conference planning committee.

Professional & Scholastic Affiliations

Association of College & Research Libraries

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Patrick DiMambro

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Ryan Dinapoli

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Tyler Dion

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Matthew Dismuke

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Dismuke works in the game industry and taught an Advanced Seminar class.

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Mauriella DiTommaso

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Richard Doubleday

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Dr. Richard Doubleday joined Champlain College as a Professor in fall 2024, coming from Louisiana State University College of Art & Design, where he serves as professor emeritus. He previously held the position of Assistant Professor of Art at Boston University College of Fine Arts. A specialist in graphic design history and theory, his doctoral thesis investigated contemporary Chinese graphic design and its historical antecedents. Doubleday’s doctoral research has been supported by notable fellowships, including a 2022-2023 China-U.S. Scholars Fellowship (CUSP) and a 2017-2018 Fulbright Fellowship as a senior research scholar at the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.

His scholarly focus has evolved from examining graphic design in the post-Mao era to encompass the cultural production in other Sinophone communities outside of China. Currently, Dr. Doubleday is working on a research project examining the intersection of cultural theory and the history of graphic design. His extensive publication record includes books as author and co-author, along with regular contributions to leading national and international publications, earning widespread recognition for its contribution to design discourse.

Dr. Doubleday maintains an active international presence as a global educator, having led workshops in China, Ecuador, Mexico, Vietnam, and Peru, and directing study abroad programs in China, London, and the Netherlands. His poster designs have been exhibited at prominent venues worldwide, including the Golden Bee Moscow Biennial of Graphic Design, Ecuador Poster Biennial, and the International Poster Triennial in Toyama, Japan.

Dr. Doubleday’s academic foundation rests on more than two decades of professional design practice with esteemed firms and institutions, notably including Lincoln Laboratory at MIT, a Department of Defense research center focused on national security applications. His design industry experience has served as a platform for his academic career. Dr. Doubleday’s teaching practice encompasses the history of graphic design and theory, color theory, motion graphics, and fundamental and advanced principles of graphic design and typography.

Distinctions & Awards

• Professor Emeritus, Louisiana State University, 2024
• China-U.S. Scholars Program (CUSP) Exchange Fellowship, 2021
• Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship, 2017-18
• Asian Cultural Council (ACC) Grant, 2014
• Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Fellowship, 2004

Publications & Abstracts

• Ornament and Initial: Beauty of Graphic Design, 17-20th Century
• Jan Tschichold – Master Typographer
• Book (Practical) Art Hideki Nakajima Letter and Design TYPO-GRAPHICS
• Graphic: 500 Designs that Matter
• The Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design
• Bloomsbury Design Library

Curriculum Vitae

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Professional & Scholastic Affiliations

• Fulbright Alumni Association
• Phi Kappa Phi, Honor Society
• Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC)
• Graphic Artists Guild
• Society of Printers
• Professional Association for Design (AIGA)

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Christopher Dreisbach

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Christopher Dreisbach is an award-winning filmmaker, musician, and fine artist with over a decade of professional experience.

American Film Institute Conservatory, Master of Fine Arts (specializing in Directing)
Hampshire College, Bachelor of Arts

Distinctions & Awards

Alfred P. Sloan Science & Film Award

Recommended Reading, Listening & Viewing

• Film: Housekeeping (1987), Directed by Bill Forsyth
• Music: Talk Talk – Laughing Stock (1991)
• Book: The Visiting Privilege by Joy Williams

Favorite Quote

“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.”

—Robert Bresson

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Jeevan DSouza

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Dr. Jeevan D’Souza has been an adjunct professor of computer science and mathematics at Champlain College Online since 2017. Prior to joining CCO he has worked as an academic, IT manager, computer programmer, and electronics engineer.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering (EE) from Shivaji University, India, in 2000, a master’s in EE from the University of Texas in 2003, a graduate certificate in computer engineering at Polytechnic Institute of NYU in 2005 and a PhD in computer science from Nova Southeastern University in 2012.

His teaching interests are in the fields of digital circuit design, computer programming, robotics, and embedded systems. He currently lives in Miami and is enjoying the sunshine.

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Danielle Duerr

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Danielle earned a BFA in Dance and a BA in French from SUNY Brockport in 2015. Before starting at Champlain College Online, Danielle worked as a manager at Barnes & Noble. There, she found a passion for building relationships with people to help them with their needs. She is eager to take that skill and begin her career in higher education as an Academic Advisor. She is excited to build relationships with the students to help them realize their academic and personal goals. When she is not working, Danielle enjoys camping, reading, and baking delicious treats.

What are your hobbies?

Baking, camping, reading, and dancing

Favorite local eateries and things to do in Vermont:

I love Pizza 44 and trying all the local creemee places!

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Kevin Duerr

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Kevin earned a Bachelor of Science in Developmental Psychology in 2013 from SUNY Brockport and a Master of Science in Higher Education & Student Affairs Administration in 2015 from SUNY Buffalo State University. In 2017, Kevin started working at Champlain College in Residential Life. In January 2019, he shifted to the Registrar’s Office where he has been since. When he’s not working, Kevin enjoys playing hockey, camping with his wife, and playing multiple instruments.

What are your hobbies?

Hockey, music, camping, cooking.

Favorite local eateries and things to do in Vermont:

Taco Gordo, August First, Shy Guy Gelato, Folino’s

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