Full Name
Denielle Emans
Job Title
Assistant Professor of Design
Company
Roger Williams University
Speaker Bio
Dr. Denielle Emans is an Assistant Professor at Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island. She is passionate about intercultural collaboration, communication design, and empowering teams to fuel creative action. Before joining the Feinstein School of Humanities, Arts, and Education faculty, Dr. Emans spent more than a decade teaching in the Gulf Arab Region of the Middle East. She served as an Associate Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar and taught as an Assistant Professor at Zayed University in Dubai, UAE.

In addition to co-authoring chapters for the Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Design and the Springer Handbook of Sustainability and Social Science Research, she published the book “Intercultural Collaboration by Design: Drawing from Differences, Distances, and Disciplines through Visual Thinking.” Co-authored with Kelly Murdoch-Kitt and published by Routledge in 2020, this peer-reviewed handbook helps people work, learn, and communicate across cultures using creative approaches.
Twitter Handle
@denielle
Instagram
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