Graduate Faculty

Professor of English and Africana Studies

Professor Aljoe’s research focuses on 18th and early 19th Century Black Atlantic and Caribbean literature with a specialization on the slave narrative and early novels. In addition to teaching in these areas, she has published articles on these…

Associate Professor of English; Founding Director, Health, Humanities, and Society minor and initiative

Sari Altschuler’s research focuses primarily on American literature and culture before 1865, literature and medicine, disability studies, and the health humanities, broadly understood. She is the author of The Medical Imagination: Literature an…

Associate Professor of English; Graduate Program Director

Erika Boeckeler’s work spans multiple genres and disciplines: Shakespeare, early modern poetry, History of the Book, sixteenth century German art history, early Slavic print culture. Her book, Playful Letters: A Study in Early Modern Alphabetics (Uni…

Professor of English

Beth Britt is a feminist rhetorical theorist and critic whose research focuses on legal rhetoric. She is the author of Reimagining Advocacy: Rhetorical Education in the Legal Clinic (Penn State University Press, 2018) and Conceiving Normalcy: Rhetori…

Distinguished Professor of English and Art + Design

*Dr. Chute is on leave through the 2023-2024 academic year. Hillary Chute’s work focuses on comics and graphic novels, contemporary fiction, visual studies, American literature, gender and sexuality studies, literature and the arts, critical th…

Dean’s Professor of Civic Sustainability; Professor of English

As Dean’s Professor of Civic Sustainability, Ellen’s research explores the perseverance of people made possible with reading and writing. She’s currently co-leading a team that is developing a digital archive to support the translat…

Chair and Professor of English

Professor Davis’s current book project, Attachment Styles, is an interdisciplinary work connecting attachment theory and literary studies. It looks at matters of dissociation, relationality, cybernetic theory, and attunement in figures in psychology …

Distinguished Professor of English

Elizabeth Maddock Dillon teaches courses in the fields of early American literature, Atlantic theatre and performance, and transatlantic print culture. She is the author of New World Drama: The Performative Commons in the Atlantic World, 1649-1849 (D…

Visiting Assistant Professor of English; Co-Director, Digital Integration Teaching Initiative

Lawrence Evalyn studies infrastructure and gender in the histories of digital texts. He is currently writing a monograph on the history of mass digitization, exploring when and why women’s writing and authorless writing from the eighteenth cent…

Professor of the Practice in English; Director, Digital Scholarship Group

Julia Flanders is a professor of the practice in English and the director of the Digital Scholarship Group in the Northeastern University Library. She also directs the Women Writers Project and serves as editor in chief of Digital Humanities Quarterl…

Professor of English

Chris Gallagher has published widely on the teaching and assessment of writing and on educational innovation at both the K-12 and higher education levels. He is author or co-author of five books and many articles in writing studies and education jour…

Assistant Professor of English

Ali Glassie’s research, teaching, and outreach explore the influence of the ocean’s cultural histories and ecological dynamics on the literatures of the Americas. Her current book project, Atlantic Shapeshifters: Sea Literature’s Fluid Forms, l…

Associate Dean of Teaching, Learning, and Experiential Education; Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

As associate dean, Laura Green works with colleagues throughout the college and the university to advance our mission in the Experiential Liberal Arts by connecting innovative classroom teaching and experiential learning; fostering excellence and inn…

Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature; Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Carla Kaplan, a professor of English, African-American and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, holds the Davis Distinguished Professorship in American Literature and writes on modern, African-American, and women’s history and culture. She has pub…

Professor of English

Kathleen Coyne Kelly has published in Arthuriana, Exemplaria, postmedieval, Studies in Philology, and Year’s Work in Studies in Medievalism. She is the author of Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages and A. S. Byatt, and co-edi…

Associate Professor of English

Professor Kim’s work centers critiques of colonialisms and racial capitalism and draws from critical digital studies, translation studies, critical theory and critical race & ethnic studies. She teaches courses on Race & Artificial Intelligen…

Ruderman Professor of Jewish Studies; Director of Jewish Studies Program; Professor of English

Lori Hope Lefkovitz is the author of In Scripture: The First Stories of Jewish Sexual Identity (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010), which was named a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in the category of Women’s Studies. Her awards i…

Professor of English

Neal Lerner teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in writing and the teaching of writing. Lerner is the author of over 40 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on the history, theory, and practice of learning and teaching writing, and is a fi…

Associate Professor of English; Undergraduate Program Director

Patrick Mullen is the author of The Poor Bugger’s Tool: Irish Modernism, Queer Labor, and Postcolonial History (Oxford, 2012), which is soon to be released in paperback. He has also written articles on Edith Wharton, James Joyce, and Roger Casement t…

Associate Professor of English

Mya Poe’s research focuses on writing assessment and writing development with particular attention to equity and fairness. She is the co-author of Learning to Communicate in Science and Engineering (CCCC Advancement of Knowledge Award, 2012), c…

Professor of English and Linguistics; Director, LingLaw Lab

Janet Randall is a professor affiliated with both the Department of English and the Linguistics Program, in the College of Science. Her research and publications span areas in theoretical linguistics (the syntax/semantics interface, argument structur…

Associate Professor of English and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Co-Director of NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks

K.J. Rawson works at the intersections of the Digital Humanities and Rhetoric, LGBTQ+, and Feminist Studies. Focusing on archives as key sites of cultural power, he studies the rhetorical work of queer and transgender archival collections in brick-an…

Assistant Professor of English; Director of Multilingual Writing

A passionate researcher, a devoted educator, and a nerdy applied linguist, Dr. Qianqian Zhang-Wu’s research focuses on multilingualism, multilingual writing, translingualism and TESOL. Her work appears in high-impact, peer-reviewed journals, such as …