Creative Campus Advisory Council
The Curb Center is a valuable resource for all students, faculty and staff. We encourage everyone on our campus and in our neighborhood communities to become involved in creative practices designed to increase cultural empathy and foster civic and public engagement. To achieve this goal Curb creates, sponsors, and supports immersive arts and cultural experiences aimed at enriching the lives of our Vanderbilt University community and beyond.
In 2020, the Curb Creative Campus Advisory Council was formed so that we could plan and deliver these experiences in a cohesive and targeted manner with the other campus creative entities who share in our vision of arts-focused exploration, engagement, and experience. In its first year, the Advisory Council includes 7 acting members and 3 ex-officio members who will meet each semester to discuss plans for artistic and cultural engagement opportunities at the center, on campus and in the Nashville community.
2020-2022 COUNCIL MEMBERS
- Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons
Professor of Fine Arts
Cornelius Vanderbilt Endowed Chair of Fine Arts, Drawing, Performance,
Installation - Dwayne Elliot
Director, Arts and Campus Events - Leah Lowe
Director, Curb Center for Art, Enterprise & Public Policy
Associate Professor, Theatre Directing & Dramaturgy - Elizabeth Meadows
Associate Director, Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities
Senior Lecturer, Department of English
Faculty Head of House, East House - Dana Nelson
Gertrude Conaway Professor of English and American Studies
Chair, English - Alice Randall
Andrew W. Mellon Chair in the Humanities
Writer in Residence, African American & Diaspora Studies - Johnathan Rattner
Associate Professor, Cinema & Media Arts and Art
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Cinema & Media Arts
EX-OFFICIO ADVISORY COUNCIL MEMBERS
- Jay Clayton
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English - Lisa Monteggia (2020-2022)
Barlow Family Director of the Vanderbilt Brain Institute
Professor, Pharmacology
Professor, Psychology
Professor, Psychiatry - Douglas Schmidt (2020-2023)
Associate Provost. Research and Development and Technologies
Co-Director, Data Science Institute
Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering
Professor, Computer Science
Professor, Computer Engineering
