Brad Petitfils

Brad Petitfils is the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and Student Success at Chapman University in Orange, CA. He earned his Ph.D. in Curriculum Theory, a field that asks educators to rethink and reconceputalize the classroom experience. He was initially inspired by the work of Jean Baudrillard, and his early work was focused on the fields of hyperreality and posthumanism; more recently, he has researched and taught about various forms of popular culture as critical texts.