Denise Gonzales Crisp is Associate Professor in Graphic Design, and principal of the design studio SuperStove! She served as Department Chair from 2002 to 2006.

Prior to arriving at the college in Fall 2002, Gonzales Crisp was the senior designer for Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, as well as designer for Artext magazine, SciArc lecture series, several design studios and independent presses. Her design and writing have appeared in the Russian KAK, Graphis, Émigré, Metropolis, Eye, Print, Step, How and I.D. magazines, ACD 100, CA and Graphis. Her design work was featured in the 2002 Paris exhibition “East Coast/West Coast Dreams,” and more recently the 2005 anthology All Access: The Making of Thirty Extraordinary Graphic Designers. Gonzales Crisp has lectured widely, including the Walker Art Center/Minneapolis, GraficEurope/Berlin, RMIT/Melbourne, ArtCity/Calgary and many colleges and universities.

Teaching experience includes a position as core faculty in the graduate Media Design Program at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and a part-time appointment teaching typography there for 12 years. Additionally she has held regular part-time appointments at California Institute of the Arts and Otis Art Institute. Her research areas include defining what she calls the "DecoRational", alternative design writing, and typography. She is currently writing a textbook on typography to be published by Thames & Hudson in 2007.

Gonzales Crisp is a contributing editorial board member of an upcoming journal "Design Criticism," a member of the CAM advisory board in Raleigh, and a member of the graphic design professional organization American Institute of Graphic Arts, for which she served on the Los Angeles chapter’s advisory board.