Intersections 2004 Faculty
Darlene Boroviak
Professor of political science
Professor Boroviak teaches courses on U.S. foreign policy, the integration of modern Europe, the role of international law and organizations in international relations, and other aspects of political science. She has also taught First-Year Seminar, which she finds particularly interesting and challenging. Professor Boroviak's research interests include higher education in the European Union; the evolution of the European Union; and women and politics.
Jay Goodman
Professor of political science
Professor Goodman brings both academic and practical perspectives to his courses in American politics and law. He has worked in many political campaigns, and has authored and edited textbooks on American and urban politics as well as law review articles on the rules of federal litigation.
As a member of the Rhode Island and Massachusetts bars, he brings a real law perspective to his role as academic advisor to pre-professional students. Professor Goodman is an avid political observer who has studied the role of political advertising in elective campaigns; his teaching interests include media and politics, public administration and law.
Evelyn Staudinger Lane
Assistant professor of art
Professor Lane's scholarly focus has included the architecture, sculpture and stained glass of Notre-Dame de Donnemarie-en-Montois, a thirteenth-century collegiate church near the city of Provins, once one of the most powerful economic centers in medieval France. She is currently co-editing a book on new approaches to medieval art.
Professor Lane is also keenly interested in the relationship between prints and painting, particularly in the work of Dürer, Rembrandt and Goya. A true teacher-scholar, she challenges her students to get involved in research and curatorial projects. A recent seminar for art history majors examined the history of printmaking and culminated in an exhibition and accompanying catalogue written by her students. Impressions: The Art of the Print drew on works from the Wheaton College Collection that were largely donated by alumnae/i.
Elizabeth Ann Sears
Professor of music and director of music performance
Professor Sears' current research interests are American musical theatre, opera and song. She has written numerous articles and reviews on American music and appears as pianist on two CDs of African-American art songs and spirituals. At Wheaton she teaches courses in African-American music, American musical theatre and piano. She has also advised independent studies in subjects as diverse as Black musical theater and Verdi's operas. An accomplished performer, she recently partnered with violinist Irina Muresanu in performing the Beethoven Violin Sonatas in four Wheaton recitals sponsored by the Evelyn Danzig Haas '39 Visiting Artists Program.
Josh Stenger
Assistant professor of English and film studies
Professor Stenger's expertise centers on Hollywood and American cinema. He teaches classes in film history and theory and has studied the relationship between Hollywood film and the cultural landscape and mythology of Los Angeles. He sees film studies as a multilayered subject that makes connections across disciplines.
"When you study American film, you can't really understand it without knowing the history of the culture that produced it," Professor Stenger says. "Students can also learn a lot about basic economics, and quite a bit about products and ideology and certainly a lot about other basic subjects such as gender, race and the social sciences."
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