VPA Office Staff

Dr. Bradley Shope

Dean, College of Visual and Performing Arts

shope@kutztown.edu

Dr. Bradley Shope, received his Ph. D. in Ethnomusicology from Indiana University in 2003. Dr. Shope's scholarly interests range from popular music in South Asia before the Indian Independence of 1947 to the history of 19th century staged performances in New York City. He was also a public-sector ethnomusicologist, conducting public programming and documentation projects with recent immigrant communities in Queens, NYC from 2001 to 2010. He has received numerous grants to conduct this work, including two National Endowment for the Arts Challenge America Grants.

He has published two books. His first work, More Than Bollywood: Studies in Indian Popular Music (co-edited with Gregory Booth) was published by Oxford University Press in 2014. His second book, American Popular Music in Britain's Raj, was published in 2016 by the Eastman Music Series of the University of Rochester Press.

Dr. Shope has seventeen years of administrative experience in higher education. Prior to his appointment of Dean in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Kutztown University, he was the Chair of the Department of Music at Texas A & M Corpus Christi, a position he obtained after six years serving as the Director of the Center for Faculty Excellence (CFE) at the institution. As the Director of the CFE, he contributed to the national conversation on Teaching & Learning and faculty development in higher education. He has given invited talks at American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) and Excelencia in Education conferences, and he published an article in Diversity & Democracy on issues in inclusive excellence in faculty development. In 2014 he was an active participant in AAC&U’s Growing Knowledge project that sought to increase awareness of inclusivity in higher education.

DR. AMY PFEILER-WUNDER

Associate Dean, College of Visual and Performing Arts

wunder@kutztown.edu

Dr. Amy Pfeiler-Wunder earned her Ph.D. in Teaching and Learning: Art from the University of Iowa and has over 25 years of experience in PreK-Higher Education art education settings. She taught for 15 years in the Department of Art Education, Kutztown University, teaching courses in the undergraduate and graduate programs and doctoral courses in transformational teaching and learning in the Department of Secondary Education. She also served in the role of department chair and coordinator of the master’s in art education program.  In the college she facilitates Communities of Practice (CoP’s) focused on equity, diversity, and inclusivity with faculty to support curricular and pedagogical transformation. She collaborates on interdisciplinary (assessment, recruitment, and philanthropic) programming supporting student success initiatives focused on student growth, academic, health and wellness. In her time at KU, Pfeiler-Wunder also served as assistant dean, chair of the Graduate Council and chair of the Commission on Human Diversity.

As an educator/researcher/artist her projects are often collaborative, navigating the intersection of narrative inquiry, action research, and cross-pollination of disciplines with keen attention to the impact of professional identity and positionality on the views of learners and curriculum creation. Her research has been presented at regional, national, and international conferences along with her work being published in books and peer-reviewed journals. Her most recent book chapter was published in Cultivating Critical Conversations in Art Education Honoring Student Voice, Identity, and Agency (2023), edited by Connie Stewart, Eli Burke, Lisa Hochtritt, and Toya Northington. Pfeiler-Wunder co-authored the chapter titled:  Let’s talk: Engaging in critical conversations in the art Room with K-12 educator Mary Kate Bergh.

She is active in the National Art Education Association (NAEA), currently serving as the past chair of the NAEA Research Commission after serving as chair for two years. She previously served as the Higher Education Division Director on the NAEA board and the Higher Education Representative on the Research Commission from 2016-Spring 2020. In addition, she served on the task force for focused on fostering leadership growth within the NAEA organization. Through collaboration with leaders in the field, she guided the creation of the Professional Learning Group to support K-12 research, serving as co-chair and then the first chair of the Professional Learning through Research Working Group under the Research Commission. She also served as the NAEA Student Chapter National Liaison working with the NAEA board and student leaders to establish a pre-service board position. She was recently recognized by her peers and the NAEA Association as the National Higher Education Art Educator and Eastern Region Higher Educator for 2024.

Joselyn Wynter

Clerical Assistant II
College of Visual and Performing Arts
wynter@kutztown.edu