Professor, Arts and Humanitieses, Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington DC; PhD, Literary Studies. Bernard Welt has taught an interdisciplinary course on dreaming for over 25 years at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington DC, as well as a course on dreams and cinema, covering film fantasy, surrealism, and the interpretation of dreams as represented in film. He is an active writer of poetry, fiction, plays, and essays on film, art and fantasy.

He has presented on dream education and on dreams and cinema at IASD Conferences since 2001. He is moderator of the IASD e-study groups on Education and on Dreams, Creativity and the Arts and served on the board of IASD from 2005-2008.

Bernard Welt, Mythomania: Fantasies, Fables, and Sheer Lies in Contemporary American Popular Art (Art Issues Press).