Art & Communications Faculty

KATHRYN OSENLUND, EdD
Dr. Kathryn OsenlundProfessor of Communications and Theater
Office: Room 310, Holy Family Hall
Phone: 215-637-7700 ext. 3416
Email: kosenlund@holyfamily.edu

Education: BFA Film, University of the Arts; MA Theater, Villanova University; EdD Media, Temple University.

Courses taught currently: Acting, Theater Workshop, Understanding Film, Video I, Video II, Cooperative Education.
Also taught: Public Speaking, Writing, Interpersonal Communication, HF London Summer Program, Municipal Police Officer Training: Crisis Intervention role plays and MPO Speech.

Areas of interest: New playwrights, Fringe Theater and Off-Off B’way, Tennessee Williams;  Movies, Film criticism.

Recent Presentations, Publications:    
Taught The American Gangster Film course, Oxford University Summer School, Oxford, England 2009
Presented Tennessee Williams and The Night of the Iguana: From Page to Stage to Film. PCEA Conference, 2008
Publish theater criticism w) online theater magazine, CurtainUp.com. Reviews are archived on the site.

Other Roles:
At Holy Family-- Supervise Communications Co-op Placements, Facilitator, Marion Ahrens Von Rosenstiel Scholarship ad hoc committee; Nominations Committee; Co-op Advisory Board: Development and PR Committee of the Board of Trustees; Rep for PaCIE; Recurrent Visiting Team member for Middle States Commission on Higher Education
Freelance-- Book editor; Member American Theater Critics Assn; Member International Association of Theater Critics; Member Literature Film Assn
Other-- Certificate Fundraising Mgmt, UPenn General Studies; Critic Fellow O’Neill Theater Center

Current favorite quote:  If only Mozart had had a really good drummer.  (Keith Richards)