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About our Speakers
 John
Decker is assistant professor
for Art History at GSU’s School of Art & Design. Dr. Decker is
a specialist in the art of the Netherlands and Belgium and
focuses on religious and devotional images. His main research
interests center on the formation of identity from the late
fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries. Decker focuses
his research on the roles of meditation and devotion in the
formation of the soul. He is also interested in all manner of
religious behavior from personal piety, to life in the
monastery, to public rites such as feast days and pilgrimages.
 Randy
Malamud
Is professor and
associate chair at GSU’s Department of English. He
teaches courses in Modern Literature, Ecocriticism,
and
Cultural Studies, and has published several booksand articles
on these subjects, including two books about T. S. Eliot's
drama. His research is inspired by Mesoamerican conceptions of
animals, and animals' parity with people, as embodied in their
beliefs concerning animal souls. His book, Poetic Animals and
Animal Souls, addresses a wider set of venues and tropes that
human culture offers for the viewing/framing of animals.
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