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Dr. Patrick Fuery
Professor, Director of the Center for Creative and Cultural Industries

Dr. Patrick Fuery is a graduate of Murdoch University, Australia, with a BA (Hons), MPhil and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature. He has held posts at the University of London (Royal Holloway College), Sussex University, and the University of Newcastle (Australia). He is the author of eight books and has been translated into Chinese, Italian, French, and Korean. His most recent book is Madness and Cinema. His research interests include psychoanalysis, semiotics, literary and cultural theory, gender studies, film and visual studies, medicine and the arts. He is currently completing two books: a study on cultural disturbance and the sublime; and an edited collection on medicine, culture, and the arts.

Office Location: 428 N. Glassell, Office 101
Office Hours:T/Th 10 a.m.-2 p.m.or by appt.
Email: fuery@chapman.edu

Dr. Kelli Fuery 
Professor, Chair of the Department of Creative and Cultural Industries

Professor Kelli Fuery completed her BA (Hons) at Macquarie University in Critical and Cultural Studies, graduating in 1995 with First Class Honors, and completed her Ph.D. (2005) at Murdoch University in Philosophy and Visual Culture. Before joining Chapman University, she held posts in contemporary film, media and cultural studies at Monash University, Australia; The University of Newcastle, Australia; and Birkbeck College, University of London.

She is the author of six books which explore the intersection of visual culture and philosophy—especially phenomenology and psychoanalysis— placing them in conversation with contemporary film, media, and creative practice. She examines how we experience images and sound not just as spectators, but as feeling, thinking, and ethical beings.

At the heart of her scholarship is a commitment to phenomenology, particularly through the work of Simone de Beauvoir and other existential thinkers. Fuery’s writing examines how cinematic and digital forms shape our perception of self, others, time, and space. Her book Ambiguous Cinema: From Simone de Beauvoir to Feminist Film- Phenomenology (2022) is a pioneering contribution to feminist and philosophical approaches to film, offering tools to interrogate ambiguity, affect, and embodied spectatorship.

Her broader body of work engages with psychoanalytic philosophy, particularly the theories of Wilfred Bion, to explore how media can act as a site of emotional processing, trauma, and ethical encounter. Her 2018 monograph Wilfred Bion, Thinking and Emotional Experience with Moving Images exemplifies her commitment to examining how thought and feeling are mediated by visual experience.

In New Media: Culture and Image (2009), Professor Fuery provides a philosophically grounded introduction to digital media that is particularly useful for students and creatives navigating contemporary culture. The book explores how new media technologies affect visual perception, identity formation and aesthetic experience, offering critical frameworks for understanding the relationship between innovation, culture, and meaning making in digital environments. It serves as a key resource for those interested in the intersections of technology, image culture, and creative industries.

Her most recent publication, Film Phenomenologies: Temporality, Embodiment and Transformation (Ed.)(2024) continues this line of inquiry, expanding film philosophy to consider how embodied viewing and sensorial meaning-making evolve across digital and interactive media platforms. The collection reflects her sustained interest in how temporality, transformation, and affect are shaped in both traditional cinema and emergent screen cultures.

For students in the Creative and Cultural Industries, Professor Fuery’s work offers a rich theoretical foundation to critically engage with cultural production, aesthetics, and the ethics of representation. Whether examining feminist soundscapes in urban cinema, the emotional life of media objects, or the politics of visibility and invisibility, her research equips students to think deeply about today’s complex creative media landscape.

Her current projects continue to push the boundaries between philosophy, culture, and creative media, making her work especially relevant for those who want to produce, critique, or transform contemporary media culture. She is a founding scholar for the British Psychoanalyst Council, an Editorial Board Member for Film-Philosophy journal and Special Issues Editor for Film Matters.

Office Location: 428 N. Glassell, Office 102
Office Hours: By appt, arrange via calendly.com/kfuery
Email: Kfuery@chapman.edu

Philippa Nesbitt
Assistant Professor, Center for Creative and Cultural Industries

Philippa Nesbitt is a Ph.D. Candidate in Communication and Culture at Toronto Metropolitan University. Combining fashion studies, disability studies and media studies, her research examines how fashion shapes identity, representation and cultural value, and explores its potential as a tool for social change.  

Philippa’s current research focuses on disability in the fashion industry, with particular attention to the experiences of disabled fashion models and the role of representation in producing more equitable cultural industries. Her work combines qualitative, collaborative and arts-based research methods, shared in academic publications, public creative projects and in New York, Paris, Toronto and Edmonton. Her research has been supported by Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). 

Philippa is the co-author of the book Fashion, Identity, Image (2022). Through case studies of gender, age and queer subjectivities, the book explores clothing, identity and body politics in fashion from 1990 to 2020.  

Drawing on her professional experience in the fashion industry, Philippa brings academic research and industry practice together in the classroom, encouraging students to critically engage with topical issues in the industry while developing practical approaches to inclusive, ethical, and innovative cultural production. 

Office Location: 428 N. Glassell, Office 106
Office Hours: T/Th 1-2 m and by appointment 
Email: pnesbitt@chapman.edu  

• United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network:
  The Center for Creative and Cultural Industries was accepted into the prestigious United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, joining universities and research centers around the world. We have begun to develop a number of initiatives that directly address issues of environmental sustainability, gender and race inequality, and widening access to education. A substantial benefit of association with SDSN is that it bestows all CCI students with membership in SDSN Youth, SDSN’s official Youth initiative. In addition, CCI students will also be able to utilize open-access courses run by universities such as Harvard and Yale, as well as access to fellowships and scholarship opportunities.
• European Cooperation in Science and Technology
  The European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) is a funding organization for the creation of research networks, called COST Actions. These networks offer an open space for collaboration among scientists across Europe (and beyond) and thereby give impetus to research advancements and innovation. Dr. Patrick Fuery joined a European Cooperation in Science and Technology-funded research project on Connecting Critical Pedagogies, Inclusive Art Forms and Alternative Barometers for Urban Sustainability Innovation through creative and circular technologies.
• Youth Democracy Cohort (a UN based platform)
  The Center for Creative and Cultural Industries (CCI) has been accepted as a member of the Youth Democracy Cohort. The Youth Democracy Cohort (YDC) seeks to enhance the involvement of youth in democratic processes at national, regional, and global levels. The platform is composed of 9 co-leading organizations and over 550 member organizations worldwide, including governments, international organizations, civil society, academia and the private sector. The membership allows CCI to support its students and further its research in cultural diplomacy.
• Envision OC:
  Organization that showcases the opportunities that are available in Orange County in career, enterprise, and lifestyle. CCI is exploring ways in which our students and research can work with Envision OC.
• Acrylicize:
  An award-winning collective of Artists, Designers and Crafts workers based in London and Seattle. By playing in the space between art and design it tells the unique stories of its clients, creating bespoke artworks that champion their concept of ‘Art as Identity’.
• Adobe:
  CCI collaborated with Educational Technology Services for the CCI program to be used as a case example in the application for Chapman to become a creative campus with Adobe. The University has subsequently been awarded this status.

Dr. Alicia Boyce
Part Time Lecturer, Center for Creative and Cultural Industries

Alicia (Ali) Boyce (she/her) received her Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from Claremont Graduate University and is settled on Tovaangar land. Her scholarship bridges Black and Black feminist studies, root working, environmentalism, abolitionist thought, anti-capitalism, and geographies with expertise in literature and media analyses of colonialism and coloniality. 

Office Hours: By Appointment
Email: alboyce@chapman.edu

Dr. Megan Cole
Part Time Lecturer, Center for Creative and Cultural Industries

Megan Cole (she/her) holds a PhD in English from the University of California, Irvine. Her research interests include the environmental humanities, 19th and 20th century American fiction, and literary journalism. Her work has been published in venues including Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Studies in American Naturalism, and The Los Angeles Review of Books.

Office Hours: By appointment
Email: megcole@chapman.edu

Ms. Rachel Du Mont-Greenlee
Part Time Lecturer, Center for Creative and Cultural Industries

Rachel Du Mont-Greenlee is a Cultural Studies PhD student at Claremont Graduate University. She holds a BS in City and Regional Planning (Cal Poly SLO) and an MA in Social Anthropology (Goldsmiths, University of London). Her interdisciplinary research explores how cities function as vessels for memory, identity, and transformation. She focuses on topics including memory studies, architecture, gentrification, preservation, utopianism, museum studies, and material culture. Rachel is interested in how spatial politics and awareness shape our sense of history and belonging. As an academic, writer, and avid reader, her work blends epistemological inquiry with creative storytelling to examine cultural legacies in built and imagined spaces.

Office Hours: M 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. & 4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m., W 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
via https://calendly.com/dumontgreenlee-chapman/30min
Email: dumontgreenlee@chapman.edu

Mr. Ryan Haley
Part Time Lecturer, Center for Creative and Cultural Industries

Mr. Haley graduated with a B.A. in English from California State University Fullerton and received his Master of Arts in Comparative Literature from National University. He is the co-host of two independent podcasts, and producer of an additional two shows. He has also written and taught several podcasting workshops with his podcasting partner, and Chapman University Alum, Mike Gravagno. Currently Mr. Haley teaches multiple classes through the Center for Creative and Cultural Industries at Chapman University in the areas of Podcasting and Content Creation.

Office Hours: By Appointment
Email: rhaley@chapman.edu

Mr. Keir Pearson
Part Time Lecturer, Center for Creative and Cultural Industries

A graduate of Harvard University, Keir Pearson pursued a career in screenwriting following college. His work with joint screenwriter Terry George on the 2004 film “Hotel Rwanda” earned Pearson and George a nomination for an Academy Award for best screenplay, as well as winning the Best Script for Film Award given by the Irish Film and Television Association. In addition they were awarded the Humanitas Prize which is awarded annually to film and television writers whose work entertains, engages, and enriches the public by exploring significant human and social values. Pearson went on to pen the screenplay for the 2013 film “Chávez,” about American labor leader César Chávez, founder of the United Farm Workers. Mr. Pearson has taught several courses in the CCI program, most notably, CCI 301 Studies in Cultural Institutions, where students look at cultural institutions through the lens of studio systems and films.

Office Hours: By Appointment
Email: kepearson@chapman.edu

Ms. Shannon Halverson
Program Manager, Center for Creative and Cultural Industries

Ms. Halverson has been with Chapman University for 19 years, 17 of which have been with Wilkinson College, and has been working with the Creative and Cultural Studies Initiative here at Chapman from its beginning. A graduate of the University of San Francisco with a BA in History, she also holds a Certificate in Arts Management from UC Irvine's Paul Merage School of Business and Claire Trevor School of the Arts. Ms. Halverson is always happy to meet and discuss the Center or the Minor, the easiest way to reach her is via email to make an appointment.

Office Location: 428 N. Glassell, Office 108
Email: shalvers@chapman.edu