Faculty

British Tutors

Donald and Molly Rumbelow: Instructors, British Life and Culture

Donald and Molly Rumbelow are both Blue Badge Guides in London. Molly Rumbelow has graduate degrees in art and design history. Donald Rumbelow served for over two decades as a police inspector in London. One highlight of their course is a late night Jack the Ripper tour of London. The Rumbelow's are regularly sought after to lead travel and study groups in London.

Patricia Passes: Instructor, Art History

Tricha Passes is a graduate of the Courtauld Institute London. This is an internationally renowned university specializing in the study of the History of Art. She went on to take her Masters from Bath Spa University in Visual Culture. Tricha's key subject interests are Nineteenth and Twentieth century art with particular focus on the Avant-Garde, British Modernism and Modernism in the U.S.A. She works for the University of the West of England in the Visual Culture Department and has overseen several research projects for their Dean of Faculty. She also lectures at Bristol University in the History of Art Department specializing in Twentieth Century Art. For the last ten years, she has taught in London on a variety of overseas programmes for American students.

Tricha's research in 2007 was concerned with artists and their relationship to the environment. She gave a seminar paper for Bristol University in November 2007 on the North American artist Neil Jenney. This involved travelling to New York last summer to interview him about his practice. She is currently preparing a paper for The Royal West of England Academy in Bristol to coincide with their exhibition on the theme of ‘Night', entitled ‘In Such a Night as This': Romanticism's Nocturnal Address.

UMHB and Hardin-Simmons Faculty

Dr. Stephen Crawford (UMHB)

• MUSI 2358 The Sun Never Sets: World Music in former British Colonies
• MUSI 4391 The British Invasion: The influence of British rock music and musicians on the popular music of the 1960s

Dr. Kelly Pigott (HSU)

• CSCH 4391 Reformations of the 16^th and 17^th Centuries
• CSBS 1312 Engaging the New Testament

British Faculty

Prof. Patricia Passes

• ARTS 1350/4391 Art Appreciation

Profs. Molly and Donald Rumbelow

• HIST 4391 British Life and Culture

Dr. Sue Healy

• THEA 4391 London Theatre