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This center serves as a hub for scholarly community and a resource for prospective collaborations.
If you are Charlotte faculty, staff, or a student conducting research, creative work, teaching, or service related to the themes of this center — which are broadly inclusive — please share your work on this form to be included as an affiliate or email heatherfreeman@charlotte.edu.
If you are not affiliated with the university but have intersecting research, creative, teaching, or service-related activities, we encourage you to reach out to the Director or a relevant Center affiliate.
Director
Heather D. Freeman
Professor of Digital Media
Department of Art & Art History, College of Arts + Architecture
Faculty Website
heatherfreeman@charlotte.edu
- Magic in the United States podcast series
- Öccane mixed media print series
- Mosaic web application (collaboration with Tres Henry)
- Familiar Shapes film
Affiliates
Justin Cary
Senior Lecturer
Writing, Rhetoric & Digital Studies, College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences
Faculty Website
jcary1@charlotte.edu
- Tarot and AI: Intersections of Digital Art, Writing and Divination Systems Tarot decks
- The Cosmic Invisible: A Daily Tarot Retreat for Writers writing on the Tarot
- Falling. Floating. Dreaming. The Magic of Twin Peaks writing on media and magic
Dr. Sean McCloud
Professor of Religious Studies
Department of Religious Studies, College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences
Faculty Website
spmcclou@charlotte.edu
- American Possessions: Fighting Demons in the Contemporary United States book
- Making the American Religious Fringe: Exotics, Subversives, and Journalists, 1955-1993 book
- Recent Classes: New Religions and Cult Controversies; Religion and Popular Culture; Joining and Leaving Religions; Ghosts, Demons, Fear, and Conspiracy in American Culture
Erik Waterkotte
Associate Chair & Associate Professor of Print Media
Department of Art & Art History, College of Arts + Architecture
Faculty Website
ewaterko@charlotte.edu
- Theurgical Studies Press zine series on horror, weird literature, and the occult (published with Benjamin Gardner)
Dr. Damien Patrick Williams
Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Data Science
Department of Philosophy and The School of Data Science, College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences
Faculty Website
damien.p.williams@charlotte.edu
- Any sufficiently transparent magic . . . article
- Belief, Values, Bias, and Agency: Development of and Entanglement with “Artificial Intelligence” dissertation
- Appendix A: An Imagined and Incomplete Conversation about “Consciousness” and “AI,” Across Time dialogue (dissertation excerpt)
Tamara Williams
Associate Professor of Dance and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Department of Dance, College of Arts + Architecture
Faculty Website
twill260@charlotte.edu