Faculty

LONDON - Summer 2024 Faculty & courses:

Lance Kayser has been teaching at Cerritos College since 2006 and received his MA in English from Cal State Fullerton. His areas of expertise include American Literature, Creative Writing, Literature and Film, and Queer Literature. Professor Kayser is excited for the opportunity to assist students in learning to be better writers, thinkers, and readers in a global context. Students will also have the unique opportunity to explore and experience the culture of various authors they read first-hand. Professor Kayser is eager to experience this once-in-a-lifetime educational endeavor with his students.

Courses (students may enroll in either of these courses but not both):

_{ENGL 102: Introduction to Literature (3 units)}
_{Transfer Credit: CSU; UC}
_{Fulfills Plan B (CSU) – C.2. Humanities requirement}
_{Fulfills Plan C (IGETC) – Area 3.B. Humanities requirement}
_{Prerequisite: Completion of English 100 with a grade of “C” or higher, or “pass,” or the equivalent.}
_{Course Description: This course introduces representative works from major genres, develops students’
close reading and analytical writing skills, and promotes appreciation and critical
understanding of the cultural, historical, and aesthetic qualities of literature as
produced by authors who reflect culturally diverse backgrounds.}

_{ENGL 110: Critical Thinking Through Literature (4 units)}
_{Transfer Credit: CSU; UC}
_{Fulfills Plan B (CSU) -- A.3. Critical Thinking requirement}
_{Fulfills Plan C (IGETC) – Area 1.B. Critical Thinking—English Composition requirement}
_{Prerequisite: Completion of English 100 with a grade of “C” or higher, or “pass,” or the equivalent.}
_{Course Description: In this course, students apply critical thinking skills, close textual analysis,
and research practices in writing analytic, argumentative essays about literary fiction,
poetry, and drama.}

Brandt Reidt black-and-white portrait Brandt Reiter is an educator, director, actor, performance coach, journalist, editor and playwright. He directed the world-premiere of Lisa Kenner Grissom's Tattoo You, which won the 2013 Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival, and his acclaimed New York production of Tennessee Williams' Vieux Carré was selected as the centerpiece of the 2014 Provincetown International Tennessee Williams Festival. For Cerritos College, where he is co-Chair of the Theatre & Film Department and Associate Professor of Acting & Voice, Brandt has directed Our Lady of 121st Street; Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992; The Seagull; Oedipus the King; All My Sons; The Caucasian Chalk Circle; Tucumcari; 3x2x1; Waiting For Lefty; The Glass Menagerie; Stupid F#!%ing Bird and A Streetcar Named Desire. Brandt has also taught acting in New York & Beijing and is the founding editor-in-chief of PARODOS, the journal of the National Alliance of Acting Teachers. He previously served as a Chair of Playwriting for the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, and for five years was jazz critic at Los Angeles' LA WEEKLY where, in addition to music, he weighed in on everything from Architecture to Zen (and the art of motorcycle riding). Brandt is a proud longtime member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA. Education: MFA, Theatre, Sarah Lawrence College; Certificate, Film Theory and Criticism, Sorbonne, Paris; BA, American Studies, Temple University.

Courses:

^{TH 102: History of the Classical Theatre (3 units)}^{Transfer Credit: CSU; UC}^{Fulfills Plan B (CSU) – C.1. Fine Arts requirement}^{Fulfills Plan C (IGETC) – Area 3.A. Arts requirement}^{Course description: This course is designed to introduce the student to the history and literature of
the theatre from ancient times to the English Restoration. The role of theatre in
human affairs will be explored, and particular attention will be given to the way
theatre shapes-- and is shaped by-- the cultural, intellectual, and political forces
of its time.}

^{TH 103: History of the Modern Theatre (3 units)}^{Transfer Credit: CSU; UC}^{Fulfills Plan B (CSU) – C.1. Fine Arts requirement}^{Fulfills Plan C (IGETC) – Area 3.A. Arts requirement}^{Course description: This course is designed to introduce the student to the history and literature of
the theatre from French Classicism to the 20th Century. The role of theatre in human
affairs will be explored, and particular attention will be given to the way theatre
shapes-- and is shaped by-- the cultural, intellectual, and political forces of its
time.}

Past Program Faculty:

Florence 2019:

Dr. Lisa Boutin-Vitela has taught Art History at Cerritos College since 2012. Previously, she was a lecturer at UCLA, Loyola Marymount, and California State University, Long Beach. She received her Ph.D. in Art History from UCLA with an emphasis on Italian Renaissance art. Lisa has lived in Rome as a study-abroad student and has spent long periods of time in Mantua and Florence conducting dissertation research. Lisa looks forward to introducing students to Italian culture and teaching the ART 102 course through on-site visits to Florence's churches, palaces, piazzas, and museums.

In Summer 2019, she taught:

ART 102: Art History II Renaissance to Rococo (3 units)
Transfer Credit: CSU; UC
Fulfills Plan B (CSU) -- C: Fine Arts (1.) requirement
Fulfills Plan C (IGETC) -- Area 3: Arts (A.) requirement
Recommendation: ENGL 52, or ENGL 72 or ESL 152 and READ 54 or READ 97 or equivalent with grades of Pass or "C" or higher.
Description: This course covers art and its role in human affairs from the Renaissance to the Rococo with an emphasis on giving students an understanding of all of the visual arts. It is designed to be of interest and value to the art and non-art major alike.

Dr. Steve Clifford has taught at Cerritos College since August 2003. His Ph.D. is from the University of Washington (Seattle), where he studied gender theory, modernism, and 20th century British and American literature. He spent the 2015-2016 academic year on a research sabbatical, gathering information to create and implement a study abroad program at Cerritos College, researching prospective sites for the program pilot in Dublin, Paris, and Florence. Steve is eager to encourage students to study literature and develop their writing skills as they encounter new global cultures and broaden their understanding of those cultures through academic travel.

In summer 2019, he taught (students may enroll in either of these but not both):

ENGL 102: Introduction to Literature (3 units)
Transfer Credit: CSU; UC
Fulfills Plan B (CSU) – C.2. Humanities requirement
Fulfills Plan C (IGETC) – Area 3.B. Humanities requirement
Prerequisite: Completion of English 100 with a grade of “C” or higher, or “pass,” or the equivalent.
Course Description: This course introduces representative works from major genres, develops students’ close reading and analytical writing skills, and promotes appreciation and critical understanding of the cultural, historical, and aesthetic qualities of literature as produced by authors who reflect culturally diverse backgrounds.

ENGL 110: Critical Thinking Through Literature (4 units)
Transfer Credit: CSU; UC
Fulfills Plan B (CSU) -- A.3. Critical Thinking requirement
Fulfills Plan C (IGETC) – Area 1.B. Critical Thinking—English Composition requirement
Prerequisite: Completion of English 100 with a grade of “C” or higher, or “pass,” or the equivalent.
Course Description: In this course, students apply critical thinking skills, close textual analysis, and research practices in writing analytic, argumentative essays about literary fiction, poetry, and drama.