Jarell Rochelle
- About
- Education
Biography
Professor Jarell Rochelle is a Hip Hop artist, educator, researcher, and creator of Xpression™. His work bridges Hip Hop culture, movement, emotional expression, and education. He has been featured on So You Think You Can Dance, TEDx, PBS, and Blacademics, and has gained viral attention multiple times for his street dance performances. With more than 100 battles documented online across state, national, and international platforms, Rochelle brings extensive experience as both a practitioner and educator to his work in Hip Hop and higher education.
Current Courses
THE 110.001 Acting I
MUS 158.001 Hip-Hop: Culture, History, and Practice
DAN 228.002 Special Topics In Dance
THE 110.001 Acting I
MUS 158.001 Hip-Hop: Culture, History, and Practice
DAN 228.001 Special Topics In Dance
Teaching Interests & Areas
My teaching intrest are Hip Hop culture with an emphaisis on street dance, history, and practice; Xpression™ Pedagogy; emotional expression through movement; improvisation, freestyle, and choreography; culturally responsive and social-emotional learning; identity, voice, and authentic expression; physical theater and embodied performance; community engagement and social justice; youth development; and the intersection of AI, technology, streaming and arts education.
Research Interests & Areas
My research interests explore the evolving relationship between art, education, technology, culture, and contemporary media. I am interested in how emerging forms of creative communication, including livestreaming and digital platforms, are reshaping how people learn, create, connect, share ideas, and XpressTM them. Influenced by the broader cultural movement surrounding platforms such as Kai Cenat’s Streamer University, my work considers what becomes possible when the creativity and immediacy of today’s entertainment landscape enter conversation with higher education. Ultimately, I am interested in developing forward-thinking approaches to research that remain connected to the present while helping academics imagine what comes next in the advancement and recording of research practices.