Stories We Tell Course Pairing
Stories We See: Intro to Photography (PT 270)
In this course, we will explore how we read and tell photographic stories. Some stories are told with a single photograph, while others are expressed with multiples, each image building upon the other to construct meaning. We will investigate the grammar of photographic expression and how we may best use those tools to interpret and craft photographic stories, much as one would read and write them. Paired with Professors Miller's English Literature class, we will collectively examine how literature and photography align and diverge in their approaches to storytelling. Is one, for example, more likely to be used for documentation while the other for fiction? Where do those biases originate and what happens to storytelling when they unravel? Through these examinations students will gain an understanding of fundamental photographic techniques, acquire visual composition skills, learn photographic discernment, and develop creative, photographic solutions to visual storytelling problems.
Faculty Biography
Professor Dan Schlapbach received a BS from Washington University and an MFA from Indiana University and is a Professor of Visual and Performing Arts/Photography at Loyola University. Mr. Schlapbach's research and teaching interests include 19th century photographic processes and digital imaging and how these processes inform each other. He exhibits his works regionally and nationally and received Individual Artist Awards from the Maryland State Arts Council in 2009 and 2011.
The Art of Reading: Exploring Literary and Visual Texts (EN 101)
Cultivates reading, writing, thinking, and oral communication skills by investigating the kinds of attention that literary texts, in multiple genres, ask of readers. Students explore fiction, photography, poetry, paintings, graphic narratives and other kinds of texts to discover how they work to generate ideas in their readers. The course is writing intensive.
Faculty Biography
Dr. Nicholas Andrew Miller is Associate Professor of English and Director of Film Studies at Loyola University Maryland. His areas of teaching and scholarly interest include film animation, early cinema, the intersections between modernist print and visual cultures, and twentieth-century Irish and British literature. He is currently at work on an interdisciplinary study of transformation in modernist visual culture titled Metaphor and Metamorphosis: Animating the Modern Imagination. He is the author of Modernism, Ireland, and the Erotics of Memory (Cambridge, 2002).
Mentor Biography
Heather Moore is a Loyola graduate, and the Assistant Dean in School of Education. This is her 13th year as a Messina Mentor. Heather grew up in Massachusetts and Rhode Island and has lived in Baltimore for the past 20+ years Heather is married and have two sons. Heather enjoys participating in all the Baltimore has to and looks forward to sharing her love of Baltimore with Messina students!
