Faculty

Professor of Law; Affiliated Professor of English

Professor Jessica Silbey is a leading scholar and nationally recognized expert on intellectual property and the use of film to communicate about law. Silbey has altered the national conversation about creativity and invention with her recent book, Th…

Associate Professor Emeritus

Marina Leslie is a retired Associate Professor Emeritus of English at Northeastern University. She is the author of Renaissance Utopias and the Problem of History and co-editor with Kathleen Coyne Kelly of Menacing Virgins: Representing Virginity in …

Professor Emeritus

Professor Guy Rotella [retired] from the English department at the end of the 2011-2012 academic year. Professor Rotella began his Northeastern career in 1974. A specialist in twentieth-century American poetry, he has written or edited eight books, i…

Associate Professor Emeritus

Visiting Lecturer in English

Justin Mellette is a Visiting Lecturer at Northeastern University. He earned his PhD in English at Penn State University and his BA in English at the University of South Carolina. His research and teaching interests include African American and Ameri…

Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor in English

Katherine Morelli holds a PhD in Writing, Rhetoric and Literacies from Arizona State University (ASU) and a MA in Applied Linguistics from UMass-Boston. Her research and teaching, both grounded in community literacy, meet at the intersections of medi…

Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor in English

Caitlin F. Thornbrugh is an essayist and poet from Kansas City. Her work has appeared in Parcel Literary Journal, The Paper Napkin, Portel del Sol, and Honest Noise, among others. Her piece, “Ahuacatl, Agovago, Avocado: The Corrupt Alligator Pear” wa…

Lecturer in English

Tom Akbari has degrees in molecular biology and biochemistry and English. He closely follows relations between American literature and science and is concerned with the role of the humanities at the technocratic university. …

Lecturer in English

Paul Babin is a PhD candidate and Lecturer in English at Northeastern University. He is writing a dissertation that explores the spatial poetics of sixteenth and seventeenth century cartography and representations of space in early modern drama. …

Lecturer in English

Julie Baer is a lecturer in the Writing Program, where she teaches social-justice-themed first-year and advanced writing in the disciplines seminars. In addition to teaching at NU and BU, she has taught writing in workforce development and college tr…

Lecturer in English

Mary Balestraci has been teaching writing at Northeastern University since 1995, as a full-time teaching professor and, alternately, as a part-time adjunct. Mary holds a Master’s degree and a Ph.D. from Northeastern University in English Litera…

Lecturer in English

Dr. Tabitha T. Clark has been teaching at Northeastern University in some capacity for eleven years. She brings her passion for the fields of 19th century science and literature, American modernism, and cultural studies to the Writing Programs classe…

Lecturer in English

Sandra Clyne is all about synesthesia: interconnecting disparate sensory modalities. For example, she always does visual artwork to music. So she stresses the interplay of verbal and visual texts in her First-Year Writing classes, where students crea…

Lecturer in English

Michael Dedek completed his Ph.D. in English at Northeastern University in 2016 and has taught first-year writing and advanced writing courses at NU since 2007. His research has focused on curriculum change and linguistic diversity in writing program…

Lecturer in English; Director of the General Studies Program

Lynn Dornink specializes in teaching first year writing courses. She enjoys working with students who tell her that they, “don’t like writing,” and takes it as a personal challenge to convince them otherwise. She uses a variety of m…

Lecturer in English

Brigid Flynn is a PhD candidate and Instructor in English at Northeastern University. She holds a Master’s Degree in English and Film Studies from the University of Rhode Island. Her research interests include film adaptation, children’s …

Lecturer in English

Nicole Infanta Keller earned her Ph.D. in English at Northeastern in 2018. Her research and teaching interests include women’s scientific writing, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature, and digital humanities. …

Lecturer in English

Duyen Nguyen received her Ph.D. in English literature in 2015. She has taught in the Writing Program at Northeastern University since 2008. Her research interests include Victorian literature, postcolonialism, and digital humanities. …

Lecturer in English

Lecturer in English

Suzanne Richard McCarthy has been a writing instructor at Northeastern since 2005. She previously taught composition at Mount Ida College in Newton, MA and Newbury College in Brookline, MA. She holds an M.A. in English Literature and Composition from…

Lecturer in English

Jefferson Riordan is a writer, teacher, and musician, as well as a music producer, and is the proud father of two children. His worlds of writing and music inform one another, each offering unusual and very useful perspectives and opportunities with …

Lecturer in English

Carolyn Sirois brings an interdisciplinary background in English Literature, Political Science and Studio Art to her teaching practice. Carolyn’s orientation to interdisciplinary learning informs the collaborative and multi-modal projects she designs…

Lecturer in English

Susan Spilecki teaches writing at Northeastern University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Although she has taught creative writing and literature in the past, her current work centers on helping nonfiction writers find healthy practices to…

Lecturer in English

Alison Y.L. Stephens joined Northeastern University in 2017 as a Multilingual Writing Support Specialist, coordinating resources and professional development opportunities for faculty and tutors working with multilingual students. Prior to that, she …

Lecturer in English

Trudy Stone has been teaching First-Year Writing courses at Northeastern University since September, 1997. She received both her B.A. (English Literature) and M.A. (S.O.L. Reading and Writing Theories) at University of Massachusetts Boston. Trudy has…

Lecturer in English

Kate Templeton came to Northeastern University after receiving her MA in English from University College London. She earned her doctorate at Northeastern in 2017 after defending her dissertation, “The Radical Eye: Documentary Aesthetics in New Deal A…

Lecturer in English

Max first arrived at Northeastern in 2006 as a bright eyed, twenty two year-old graduate student. Now a grizzled veteran with more than ten years’ experience, Max specializes in First-Year Writing and Advanced Writing in the Business Administra…

Lecturer in English

Melissa Wolter-Gustafson received both her undergraduate and graduate degrees at Northeastern and has been teaching in the Writing Program since 2006. Melissa has taught in a wide variety of educational contexts, ranging from Boston Public elementary…