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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…
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…
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…
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…
*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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
Laura Green supports experiential teaching and learning for CSSH faculty and undergraduates. A scholar of Victorian literature and culture, she has published two books, Literary Identification: From Charlotte Brontë to Tsitsi Dangarembga, and Educati…
Dr. Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández earned a bachelor’s degree in literature from the University of California Santa Cruz and master’s and doctoral degrees in English from Cornell University. Previously, she was an associate professor of gen…
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…
Kelly’s research follows three paths that often cross, and cross-fertilize: 1) The literature and culture of the Western European Middle Ages, with two foci: the romance, and eco-theoretical readings of medieval texts; 2) The afterlives of the Middle…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Mya Poe’s research focuses on writing assessment and writing development with particular attention to justice and fairness. For more than 20 years she has advocated for eliminating writing assessment practices that result in unnecessary structural ba…
Janet Randall is an emeritus professor who was 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,…
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…
Isabel Sobral Campos’ current research examines the intersection of poetry, visual culture, and ecocriticism. In particular, she is interested in how poems listen to the environment and how images in poems become imprints, tracks that lead read…
Sebastian Stockman is a Teaching Professor in the English Department. A former newspaper reporter, he holds an MFA in nonfiction writing from Emerson College, and he publishes essays and criticism widely. Stockman has written for The New York Times B…
Caitlin F. Thornbrugh is a writer from Kansas City. Her work has appeared in Green Mountain Review, Parcel Literary Journal, The Paper Napkin, and Portel del Sol, among others. She was awarded a 2020 Miami Book Fair Emerging Writer Fellowship Honorab…
Dr. Qianqian Zhang-Wu’s research focuses on multilingual writing, translingualism and raciolinguistic ideologies. Her work appears in high-impact, peer-reviewed journals, such as TESOL Quarterly, Written Communication, Research in the Teaching of Eng…
Emily Avery-Miller’s experience and areas of interest include: first-year writing, service-learning and civic engagement, and interdisciplinary writing and research. Her essays and short fiction have earned honorable mentions from New Millenniu…
Christopher Ayala is a writer from Massachusetts. He is a former technology fellow and Juniper Fellow in Fiction at the MFA for Poets & Writers. He is the winner of the inaugural James W. Foley memorial prize and a recipient of a R.E.A.L Diver…
Laura Beerits’ research and teaching interests include student writing practices, teaching assistant pedagogy, and the contemporary American coming-of-age novel. …
My teaching and research grow out of my experiences in Taiwan, where I worked for 16 years before coming to Northeastern. I write about US-Taiwan intercultural relations and the rhetorical representations of self and other in intercultural contexts. …
Tabitha Benitez explores the intersections of race, ethnicity, language and systems of power class at the university in a global context. She hopes to pursue a long career in academia wherein she may be able to unteach the white literary canon and pr…
Aaron Block’s academic interests include evaluation and labor practices in higher education. Outside of the classroom (and, let’s be honest, from time to time inside the classroom) he enjoys reading and talking about comic books, collecti…
Galen Bunting’s research examines shell-shock narratives and gendered diagnoses in Modernist literature and traces textual representations of masculinity and gender in the aftermath of the First World War. In his research, he centers those on t…
Jeremy P. Bushnell is the author of The Weirdness (Melville House, 2014) and The Insides (Melville House, 2016). He lives in Dedham, Massachusetts. …
Abbie DeCamp specializes in memes and internet culture, digital writing, queer theory and visual culture. …
Laurie Edwards primarily teaches Advanced Writing for the Health Professions and Writing to Heal, with particular interest in online/hybrid pedagogy, diversity and inclusion in the writing classroom, and narrative medicine. She is a nonfiction writer…
Christen Enos’ short stories have appeared in Quick Fiction, The New Orleans Review, Natural Bridge, and Phoebe, among other journals, and her nonfiction work has been published by The Tusculum Review and MAKE. She has been teaching at Northea…
Catherine Fairfield is a teacher-scholar with a PhD in English & Women’s Studies from the University of Michigan. Her passion is building inclusive and accessible classroom communities through Social Emotional Learning and collaborative and activ…
Sarah Finn began teaching and mentoring first-year students as early as her undergraduate years at Tufts University. Her research focuses on affect, social justice pedagogies, and the interconnections of student activism and classroom writing process…
Carolin Fuchs’ research interests lie at the intersection of technology and language education, with a focus on virtual exchanges (telecollaboration), learner autonomy, online teaching, and task design. She has taught at City University of Hong…
Robin Garabedian recently finished her PhD at the University of Massachusetts – Amherst. Her research considers how the neoliberal age requires updated understandings of how writing functions in the lives of our students. She is particularly in…
Kelly Garneau joined the faculty at Northeastern in 2007 and teaches First-Year Writing and Advanced Writing in the Disciplines. She received her Ph.D. from Northeastern University, specializing in modernist American fiction, especially the role of …
Julia Garrett earned a B.A. in English Literature from Harvard College and completed a doctorate in English with an emphasis in Women’s and Gender Studies from UC Santa Barbara. More recently she received graduate training in Composition and Rhetoric…
Matthew’s research has focused heavily on family archives and research through lived experiences. His dissertation, Commemorative Objects: Tracing Memory, Meaning Making, and Uptakes through Family Photographs, dove into his own family archives…
Shao-wei Huang received his PhD in English at University at Buffalo, SUNY. Interested in literary and writing studies, his teaching and research interests include eighteenth-century Gothic fictions and satires, first-year writing, writing center theo…
Blake Huggins received his PhD from Boston University where he also taught in the Writing Program and Core Curriculum. His research examines how feeling and affect impact how we view time, how we remember, and how we re-present ourselves in digital s…
Ellen (Elly) Jackson has been a writing instructor at Northeastern since 2005. She previously taught composition at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY. She holds an MFA from Stanford University and a BA from Webster College in St. Louis, MO, where sh…
Dr. Bret L. Keeling’s research interests include modernism, gender and sexuality studies, writing studies, critical pedagogy, literary and critical theory, and service-learning. He’s published papers on H.D., Virginia Woolf, and E. M. Forster. …
Kamila Kehoe received her PhD from Cornell University. Her approach to teaching is inspired by the potential of unexpected connections between disciplines, perspectives, and genres to foster writers’ creativity and problem-solving. As a multilingual …
Michael McCluskey’s research looks at the technological changes of the 1920s and ’30s through studies of the film and literature of the period. He is particularly interested in the intersection of the history of technology and the history…
Justin Mellette’s research and teaching interests include African American and American literature, music, comics and graphic novels, and business and professional writing. His monograph Peculiar Whiteness: Racial Anxiety and Poor Whites in Southern …
Dan Metzger is a critical practitioner-researcher whose scholarship focuses on improving first-year student experience through gateway writing instruction. His research applies Black feminism and Foucauldian social theories to student experience and …
Ted Moss teaches First-Year Writing and Advanced Writing in the Disciplines. He previously taught composition at Emerson College and The New England Conservatory of Music. His academic interests include assessment, visual rhetoric, multimodal and dig…
Cecelia A. Musselman is Teaching Professor in the Writing Program. She has been teaching with Wikipedia since 2006 and is an active member of the Boston-based Working Wikipedia Collaborative group of instructors and researchers. Her doctoral work was…
Laurie Nardone joined Northeastern’s Department of English in 2008 to teach in the Writing Program. From an undergraduate study on the representation of the Salem Witch Trials in literature, Laurie focused her graduate work on film theory and gender …
Ellen Noonan holds advanced degrees from Northeastern University and Emerson College. She is a published poet whose interests include slam poetry, found poetry, and writing and social justice. …
Matt Noonan is a painter and educator who has over 30 years of experience in teaching writing in higher education. He has a Doctoral degree from Northeastern University, Boston where he completed his Doctoral Project entitled “Making Maps: Teac…
Olivia Ordoñez’s research examines the ways in which individuals and communities engage in dialogue across differences in sociopolitical location, such as race, gender, disability, and economic status. In particular, she assesses, with an eye t…
Fi Stewart-Taylor received a PhD in English from the University of Florida in 2024. They study multimodal, self published, and small press texts, particularly (web)comics and zines. Their recent work considers the relationship between mediums, publis…
Talia Vestri (“Dr. V”) first joined Northeastern as a Postdoctoral Teaching Associate in 2020, after serving as a visiting faculty member at Vassar College and at the College of the Holy Cross. Now as an Associate Teaching Professor, Dr. …
Dr. Griffin Zimmerman (they/he) earned their PhD in Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English from University of Arizona. Griffin is a trans, spoonie, and neuroqueer scholar who specializes in interdisciplinary critical disability studies, s…
