A devout humanitarian, musicologist and full-time cultural historian devoted to his lifelong interdisciplinary pursuit of immeasurable intelligence, Arwulf has been assisting instructors, students and their guests at the University of Michigan since January of 1992, supporting the educational mission by encouraging presentational excellence, improving the teaching-learning experience and helping to sustain what he calls the collective attention span. Decades of involvement with Herb Eagle’s Slavic, Central and East European cinema courses have resulted in a unique collaborative arrangement; during lectures, Arwulf runs film clips from the podium, leaving professor Eagle free to engage the class in analytical discourse while stills from the films appear onscreen to enhance and illuminate the discussion. Active in the field as technician and lead media consultant, Arwulf collaborates with the LSA Technology Services Operations administrative team on special events and schedule coordination.

Known since 1971 by the name Arwulf, Theodore Grenier is essentially a creature of this university's multicultural environment. Arriving in Ann Arbor as a precocious and impressionable bookworm in 1968, he soon developed a strong working relationship with the UM library system which has intensified over the years. Throughout the 1970s, Arwulf's filmic sensibilities evolved at screenings sponsored by campus film groups, and at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, which he first experienced when it was held in what is now Lorch Hall’s Askwith Auditorium. The plot thickened as young Wulf participated as both student and teacher in a series of highly unconventional "free schools" which flourished in Ann Arbor's experimental alternative educational environment.

Following involvement at the ambitious Solstis School program, Arwulf attended classes at Community High during its first years of operation (1972-74) and began defining his autodidactic methodology. Subsequently enrolled at the smaller and progressively intimate high school known as Earthworks, he audited art history lectures at UM and EMU, experiencing Diane Kirkpatrick’s popular Dada and Surrealism slideshows and discussing art theory with Alan Kaprow, the inventor of what were known in the 1960s as Happenings. While his older brother Zach Grenier pursued a career on stage and screen [http://zachgrenier.info/], Arwulf directed his theatrical efforts toward performance poetics, absurdist street theatre and experimental collaborations at the original Performance Network (located on the site currently occupied by the Ann Arbor Y).

After hosting a three-hour Sunday morning traditional jazz show on WEMU for one quarter of a century, Arwulf chose to sever ties with that NPR affiliate in early 2012. Since 1977 he has been involved at student-run, community-connected WCBN 88.3 FM, where he serves as cultural historian, philosopher, musicologist and broadcasting advisor. He hosts Face the Music, a carefully researched program of 20th century blues and jazz that airs Thursdays from 7-8 PM. Professionally billed as arwulf arwulf, he writes for the Ann Arbor Observer, gardens, prepares vegetarian meals and enagages in unconventional cosmo-poetic research with his wife and soul mate Lindsay Forbes.