Bernard Welt began keeping a dream journal at the age of twelve. Twenty years later, as an instructor in college composition, he encouraged students to keep their own dream journals as an inexhaustible resource for productive introspection, surprising idea-generation, and practice in free, informal writing. As a Professor of Arts and Humanities at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, he's become known as a model innovator of interdisciplinary humanities courses exploring the relation between dreams, imagination, and the arts--especially film. Bernard Welt is a former member of the board of directors of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, and has recently written the article on cinema and dreams for The Encyclopedia of Sleep and Dreams (Deirdre Barret and Patrick McNamara, eds., Praeger Press, forthcoming January 2012).Prof. Welt is also the author of Mythomania: Fantasies, Fables, and Sheer Lies in Contemporary American Popular Art (Lammy Award nominee), and has contributed to art catalogues including Splat! Boom! Pow! The Influence of Cartoons in Contemporary Art and Raymond Pettibon: A Reader. His poem, “I stopped writing poetry . . . “ included in The Best American Poetry 2001, was selected by a reader poll at poets.org as the best American poem of the year 2000. He has received a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Fellowship in Writing.