Dr. Brad Petitfils

Expertise: Posthumanism; Hyperreality; Media Studies; Developmental Psychology; Undergraduate Education; Curriculum Studies; General Education; Cultural Studies

Dr. Brad Petitfils joined Chapman University in fall 2021 after having served as Director of Advising & Student Success at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. Prior to his time at Drexel, he was the Senior Director of Advising & Academic Success at the University of North Carolina Asheville, and Senior Director of Student Success and Institutional Research & Effectiveness at Loyola University New Orleans, where he was also the founding director of the Student Success Center and served as the institutional liaison to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges. He has held positions in campus planning and assessment, institutional accreditation, curriculum development, and instructional technology.

In addition, Brad has taught interdisciplinary first-year seminar courses for over a decade and was the faculty director of Loyola's summer abroad program in Paris, France for ten years. He earned his doctorate in Curriculum Theory from Louisiana State University, and his master’s and bachelor’s degrees from Loyola University New Orleans. His writing has appeared in the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, Educational Philosophy and Theory, and Antistasis, and he has presented at academic conferences across the United States and in Canada.  He is the author of the book monograph Parallels and Responses to Curricular Innovation: The Possibilities of Posthumanistic Education (Routledge, 2014).