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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…
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…
Allison Bannister is a cartoonist and comics scholar, with an MFA in Cartoon Studies from the Center for Cartoon Studies and a PhD in Communication and Rhetoric from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Her interests include multimodal storytelling, web…
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. …
Melissa Pearson joined the faculty at Northeastern as a lecturer in the Writing Program in Fall 2015. She teaches first-year writing and advanced writing in the disciplines. Her research interests are in African American feminist rhetoric, first-year…
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram is the author of Travesty Generator (Noemi Press), a book of computational poetry that received the Poetry Society of America’s 2020 Anna Rabinowitz prize for interdisciplinary work and longlisted for the 2020 National Book …
Francis Blessington’s major area is Milton and seventeenth-century English literature. He has written two books on Milton that have become standard: Paradise Lost and the Classical Epic (Routledge) and Paradise Lost: Ideal and Tragic Epic (A St…
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…
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) and Conceiving Normalcy: Rhetoric, Law…
Jeremy P. Bushnell is the author of The Weirdness (Melville House, 2014) and The Insides (Melville House, 2016). He lives in Dedham, Massachusetts. …
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 theory, and media studies. She is the author of Graphic Women:…
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…
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…
Lee Emrich’s research looks at early modern English literature using media studies, performance studies, and feminist approaches. She is currently at work on her book manuscript, Wearable Techne: Dressing Knowledge in Early Modern England, whic…
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…
Tabitha Espina joins Northeastern University as a Postdoctoral Teaching Associate, having previously taught at University of Guam, Washington State University, and Eastern Oregon University. She has published in Race and Pedagogy Journal, Asian St…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Philip Gilreath received his PhD in English from the University of Georgia in 2022. His work can be found in ISLE, Adaptation, Arrêt sur scène. …
Kat Gonso’s research focuses on peer review and its impact on the choices student writers make in creative writing, first-year writing, and writing in the discipline courses. She has held roles as Director of First-Year Writing and Director of the Wr…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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. …
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…
Kristin Lacey joins Northeastern University after earning her PhD in English and American Literature at Boston University, where she taught courses in English and Writing. Dr. Lacey strives to create a warm, communal classroom environment in which st…
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, Professor, and Chair of the English Department 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 practi…
Mary Loeffelholz is Professor of English at Northeastern University. Her leadership in academic and faculty affairs includes five years as Chair of Northeastern’s English department (2001-2006) and eight years as Vice Provost for Academic Affairs (20…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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. …
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 …
