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Alan Silva, Executive Vice President and Provost, announced today the hiring of Tarshia Stanley, Ph.D. as Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts and Sciences at ��ɫӰ��. She will join the University in July 2018.

“We are so pleased to have Tarshia joining us as part of the St. Kate’s community and for the leadership she will bring to this role,” said Silva. “Tarshia has a wide breadth of both teaching and administrative experience, as well as a demonstrated ability to innovate and collaborate to drive student success.”

Stanley comes to St. Kate’s after nearly two decades at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. She most recently served as the Director of E.W. Githii Honors Program and Associate Professor of English. During her time at Spelman, she served as the chair of the English Department and was the faculty lead in implementing the college-wide revision of student advising. Her area of focus is film and media studies, with an emphasis on images of women as depicted in all forms of media, particularly images of women of African descent.

During her time at Spelman, she also developed a variety of new academic programs and courses, including the creation of a Film and Visual Culture minor and new career preparation courses to increase the number of students who transition to meaningful jobs in their chosen fields after graduation. She served as the founder and facilitator of the Mother/Daughter conference at Spelman, which invites girls 7-17 and their mother/mentors to campus to share in the journey to healthier self-esteem.

Stanley has authored several articles critiquing Black women in African, African American, and Caribbean cinema as well as Black female iconography in American popular culture. She edited and most recently edited a forthcoming volume for the Modern Language Association’s teaching series entitled .

Stanley earned her bachelor’s degree in English at Duke University. She attended the University of Florida for her graduate studies, where she earned both her masters and doctorate in English.

“��ɫӰ�� is a wonderful institution, and I am honored to have been selected for this position,” said Stanley. “I admire St. Kate’s passionate commitment to educating women in the liberal arts who are also advocates for social justice. I look forward to helping further the mission and vision to empower students to embrace their education and evoke social change.”