At AUR, we take great pride in our brilliant faculty & staff who bring extraordinary experiences, knowledge, and dedication to the classroom and the campus. With the Unplugged series, we wanted to get to know our people beyond the professional. What motivates them? What is the most important lesson they have learned from life? And what secrets are they willing to reveal to us? All this and more are uncovered in these interviews.
Cait Huseman.
Assistant Director of US Admissions
Q. When were you happiest?
I’ve always been happiest when singing. In high school, I used to compete in regional choirs. Only the best vocalists from the districts could join. We’d spend 3 days rehearsing and then put on a concert for our families...
Professor Brian Koperski.
Film, Communication, and Digital Media
Q. When were you happiest?
2 seconds before asking to do this interview... however, when I got married, and the birth of my daughters hold the true top spots.
Professor Lisa Colletta.
English Writing, Literature, and Publishing
Q. When were you happiest?
For about half an hour in the mid-1980s.
Professor Elizabeth Wueste
Archaeology & Classics
Q. When were you happiest?
I am always happiest during the summer when I am digging. I love the sun, the warmth, the friendship, the dirt, the travel.
Professor Lauren Golden
Art History
Q. When were you happiest?
Every trip I made to Rome before moving to Rome.
Professor Riccardo Quaranta
General Education
Q. When were you happiest?
I was really happy when I was living in Thailand as it felt like every day was a new discovery for me.
Professor Kathleen Fitzsimmons
Business Program
Q. When were you happiest?
Twice! In the months following having been struck by the “thunderbolt” when I met the proverbial “tall, dark and handsome” - and when they put my newborn daughter in my arms!
Professor Victor Rambaldi.
Film
Q. When were you happiest?
When I signed my very first contract to direct a film with an American production company in Los Angeles. What a feeling that was!
Professor Marco Conti
Archaeology & Classics
Q. When were you happiest?
When I read Petronius' Satyricon and Apuleius' Metamorphoses the first time, or when I first bought and listened to White Light / White Heat by the Velvet Underground in late 1975.
Professor Jenny Petrucci
First Year Studies
Q. When were you happiest?
There are two places where (or when) I always feel happy no matter what; the first one is in the classroom and the second is on the theater stage when I act. When I am in one of those two places, I forget everything else.
Professor Lorenzo Coretti
Communication & Digital Media
Q. When were you happiest?
The moment my Blanca said “yes.” It was a warm night of August, and we were in Cullera, a lovely seaside town on the coast of Valencia, in Spain.