Faculty

Affiliate Professor of English; Professor of Law

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 of English

Marina Leslie retired from the English Department at the end of the 2019-2020 academic year. 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 th…

Professor Emeritus of English

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, including Cas…

Associate Professor Emeritus of English

Postdoctoral Teaching Associate in English

Arsalan Haq’s dissertation,“Graphic Acts: Narrative Desire and Design in Comics and Architecture,” is directed by Hillary Chute and examines architecture design and comics as complementary art forms that narrate experiences through the medium o…

Postdoctoral Teaching Associate in English

My academic interests are in cultural materialist approaches to Welsh and British cultural and literary histories, religious studies, and human rights. These interests come together in my instruction of writing, which asks students to expand what the…

Postdoctoral Teaching Associate in English

Amy Patterson’s research interests include digital pedagogy, sonic rhetoric, and communication across the curriculum. Her most recent project uses qualitative interviews and sound-mapping to explore connections between theater sound design and …

Postdoctoral Teaching Associate in English

Talia Vestri’s literary scholarship examines poetry and fiction from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, particularly focusing on the period of British Romanticism. In first-year writing courses, Dr. Vestri draws on her interests in gender…

Part-Time Lecturer in English

Adam spent the past decade teaching English in the U.S. and Korea in both K-12 and higher education settings. His passion for teaching has led to an interest in researching and writing about language acquisition and student mobility in international …

Part-Time 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. …

Part-Time Lecturer in English

Paul Babin’s dissertation explored the spatial poetics of sixteenth and seventeenth century cartography and representations of space in early modern drama. …

Part-Time Lecturer in English

Julie Baer 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 transition programs in community-based organizatio…

Part-Time 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. Her main area of interest is exploring gender issues through Victorian responses to Shakespea…

Part-Time Lecturer in English

Part-Time Lecturer in English

Alexa Carey specializes in the teaching of writing. …

Part-Time Lecturer in English

Amy Carleton’s academic research focuses on online communities as well as the intersection of race and digital culture. Outside of academia, her essays and articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The…

Part-Time 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…

Part-Time 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…

Part-Time Lecturer in English

Miles Collins-Sibley (he/him, they/them) is a Black, trans, and disabled poet and writing instructor. He teaches First-Year Writing at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Northeastern University. Miles is currently a PhD student in UMass-Amh…

Part-Time Lecturer in English

Michael Dedek 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 programs. …

Part-Time 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…

Part-Time Lecturer in English

Jimi Duggan’s research interests include: twentieth-century and contemporary American fiction; global literatures; the novel; critical and aesthetic theory. …

Part-Time Lecturer in English

Maia Farrar’s teaching and research interests include Medieval English Romance, political narratives and theory, gender studies, and narrative analysis. Her research intersects literary political conflict with contemporary political activism. M…

Part-Time Lecturer in English

Harley Ferris specializes in the teaching of writing. …

Part-Time 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 …

Part-Time Lecturer in English

Maryam Monalisa Gharavi is an artist, poet, and theorist whose work explores the interplay between aesthetic and political valences in the public domain. She held a postdoctoral Fulbright and Visiting Professorship at Birzeit University, was Lectu…

Part-Time Lecturer in English

Matthew Halm has taught courses in composition, rhetoric, writing theory, film studies, and technical and professional writing. His research incorporates materialist media theory and theories of composition and rhetoric, particularly as they pertain …

Part-Time Lecturer in English

Deanne Harper specializes in the teaching of writing. …

Part-Time Lecturer in English

Nicole Holland specializes in the teaching of writing. …

Postdoctoral Teaching Associate in English

Part-Time Lecturer in English

Nicole Infanta Keller’s research and teaching interests include women’s scientific writing, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature, and digital humanities. …

Part-Time Lecturer in English

Bre Leake specializes in the teaching of writing. …

Part-Time Lecturer in English

Ewa Matyczyk specializes in the teaching of writing. …

Part-Time Lecturer in English

Duyen Nguyen’s research interests include Victorian literature, postcolonialism, and digital humanities. …

Part-Time Lecturer in English

Part-Time Lecturer in English

Faviana Olivier has several Certifications in Teaching Business ESL [English as a Second Language] and International Marketing. Her academic interests lie in the area of teaching Advanced Writing to enhance students’ intercultural communication. She …

Part-Time 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 was named the Douglas Award Winner for Excellence in Tea…

Part-Time 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 …

Part-Time Lecturer in English

Maurice Rodriguez’s research interests include contemporary multicultural American literature, American Studies, adaptation, and film. He is currently studying at The New School as an MFA candidate in their Creative Writing program. He writes a…

Part-Time 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…

Part-Time 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…

Part-Time Lecturer in English

Ed Steck is a poet with an interest in how poetry can make its self aware within other forms of writing, such as technical writing, science fiction, artists books, and eco-criticism. His writing addresses the speculative long-term technological impac…

Part-Time 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 …

Part-Time Lecturer in English

Trudy Stone has been teaching First-Year Writing courses at Northeastern University since September, 1997. She has done extensive tutoring at University of Massachusetts as part of her graduate work. She taught ESL (Intermediate/Level 3) at Roxbury C…

Part-Time Lecturer in English

Kate Templeton earned her doctorate after defending her dissertation, “The Radical Eye: Documentary Aesthetics in New Deal America.” Kate has been teaching in the Writing Program since 2007. …

Part-Time Lecturer in English

Alex Terrell specializes in the teaching of writing. …

Part-Time Lecturer in English

Oliver Wallis specializes in the teaching of writing. …

Part-Time Lecturer in English

Juliana Ward specializes in the teaching of writing. …

Part-Time 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…

Part-Time Lecturer in English

Melissa Wolter-Gustafson has taught in a wide variety of educational contexts, ranging from Boston Public elementary and high schools to a Reggio Emilia inspired preschool to a non-profit program committed to expanding access to educational opportuni…

Part-Time Lecturer in English