BOBCAT IDEA - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Assistant Director
- Assistant Director of the IDEA Center
Jeremy White is a graduate of Texas State University with a BFA and an MA in Theatre, and earned his PhD. in Fine Arts from Texas Tech University. His areas of expertise are theatre history/criticism/theory and playwriting. His dissertation explored how playwrights can utilize the anti-hero character type to comment upon and criticize social practices. Professionally, he as served as a contributing writer for the websites The Hard Times and Cracked and has published multiple comedy articles. He also continues to write and direct for the theatre, and has worked with the Wimberley Players and The City Theatre in Austin.
In his spare time he plays nerdy tabletop games and watches terrible movies for fun.
Job Titles:
- Development Specialist for the IDEA Center
- Student Development Specialist II
Dr. Jonathan Lollar is the student development specialist for the IDEA Center. Jonathan is a first-gen student who attended TXST starting in 2015, first earning an MA in Applied Ethics and Philosophy and later a PhD in Developmental Education with a concentration in learning support. His research is focused on developmental education policy, learning frameworks course interventions, professional development, and prison education. Jonathan has taught philosophy (PHIL 1320, Ethics and Society) and a learning frameworks course in educational psychology (EDP 1350, Effective Learning), and has unique experience working with neurodiverse students, students inside prisons, low-income and first-generation students. Jonathan is the associate editor for the Journal of College Academic Support Programs and president of the Texas College Reading and Learning Association. He has won TXST's Doctoral Merit Fellowship, the Julia Visor Award from the National College Learning Center Association, and the Carol Dochen Professional Development Award from the College Academic Support Programs conference.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Director of the IDEA Center
Dr. Peter Golato has been an enthusiastic supporter of student success throughout his career as a faculty member at the University of Alabama, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Utah State University, and Texas State University. In his faculty roles including his current one as a professor of French in the department of World Languages and Literatures, he has provided training and professionalization opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to prepare them for teaching in public schools, applying to graduate programs, and seeking careers in academia. In addition, he has directed the research and/or served on the committees of over sixty doctoral, master's, and undergraduate Honors students.
Dr. Golato's research has examined the learning and processing of French and German under laboratory conditions and the spontaneous use of these languages in everyday social interaction. His articles, books, and book chapters on these topics have appeared in top-ranked venues. While at Texas State, he has received the Presidential Distinction Award for Excellence in Teaching for the College of Liberal Arts. He has also been named an Alpha Chi Favorite Professor, and has received the Stephany Goodbread Faculty Advisor of the Year Award in the Honors College and the Golden Apple Award in the College of Liberal Arts. Dr. Golato holds a B.A. in History from the University of Connecticut, an M.A. in French Linguistics from Louisiana State University, and a Ph.D. in French Linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin.
Job Titles:
- Research Coordinator
- Research Coordinator for the Innovation
Cathlin Noonan (she/her) is the Research Coordinator for the Innovation, Discovery, Exploration, and Analysis (IDEA) Center. Cathlin is currently pursuing an MFA with a focus in poetry at TXST. She is a poetry editor for The Night Heron Barks and co-editor at Next Page Press, an independent press out of San Antonio. Cathlin's poem "Ghazal With Louse'' was a finalist for Crazyhorse's Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize for 2022, and her poem "Setting the Record'' was a finalist for Broad River Review's 2022 Rash Award in Poetry.