Jason Ohlberg
johlberg@skidmore.edu
518-580-8378

Jason Ohlberg is associate professor and the associate chair of dance at Skidmore College where he teaches a broad range of courses in dance technique, history, and theory, as well creates new works for Skidmore Dance Theater. Jason danced professionally for several companies, including Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Dance Kaleidoscope, Jan Erkert and Dancers, and the University of Washington’s Chamber Dance Company. For over twenty years, he has created dances for companies and festivals throughout the country, including Arc Dance Productions, Dance Kaleidoscope, Cornish Dance Theatre, the Ruth Page Dance Festival, Spectrum Dance Theatre, Seattle Dance Project, and the Seattle International Dance Festival. In addition to his artistic profile, Jason has presented research at the annual conferences of the International Association of Dance Medicine & Science (IADMS) and the National Dance Educators Organization (NDEO). His work has been published by the Journal of Dance Education (JODE) and he has recently contributed a chapter on navigating teacher/artist/scholar hybridity in higher education for a forthcoming book project with McFarland Press.

Barbara Black
bblack@skidmore.edu
518-580-5145

Barbara Black is Tisch Chair in Arts and Letters and professor of English at Skidmore College, where she teaches courses in Victorian literature and culture. She is the author of three books: Hotel London: How Commercial Hospitality Shaped a Nation and Its Stories (Ohio State University Press 2019); A Room of His Own: A Literary-Cultural Study of Victorian Clubland (Ohio University Press 2012); and On Exhibit: Victorians and Their Museums (The University Press of Virginia 2000). She is also the co-editor of a new edition of the Anglo-South African writer Olive Schreiner’s Dreams, out from Broadview Press in the fall of 2020. In addition to her teaching at Skidmore, where she has received the Ciancio Award for Excellence in Teaching, she is on the graduate faculty at the University of the South’s School of Letters and the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury. Black’s essays have appeared in such venues as Victorian Poetry, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, the Dickens Studies Annual, Salmagundi, and the Grolier Encyclopedia of the Victorian Era. She currently serves on the Editorial Advisory Committee for her discipline's flagship journal, PMLA.