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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, disability studies, and the health humanities, broadly understood. She is the author of The Medical Imagination: Literature and Health in the Early Uni…
Erika Boeckeler’s work spans multiple genres and disciplines: Shakespeare, early modern poetry, History of the Book, early modern art history, early Slavic print culture. Her book, Playful Letters: A Study in Early Modern Alphabetics (University of I…
Beth Britt is a 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: Rhetoric, Law, a…
*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 new book, Organizing Relation: Attachment Theory and Literary Criticism (forthcoming from Oxford UP) investigates embodied intelligence and systems-based learning in the field of attachment theory, which it then puts into practice f…
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 teaches courses in digital humanities and co-administers Northeastern’s graduate certificate in Digital Humanities. She directs the Centers for Digital Scholarship, the Digital Scholarship Group, and the Women Writers Project, an…
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…
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 gender …
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, Professor of English and former Writing Program Director, Writing Center Director, and English Department chair, teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in writing and the teaching of writing. Lerner is the author or co-author of eigh…
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 is an award-winning teacher and researcher who focuses on writing assessment and writing development with particular attention to justice and fairness. For more than 20 years she has advocated against assessment practices that are based on we…
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 is a poet, translator, scholar, publisher, and teacher. She is a former NU Writing Center Director and is currently serving as the Undergraduate Program Director in English. She is the author of The Optogram of the Mind is a Carn…
Tarushi Sonthalia’s research focuses on the aesthetic and epistemic affordances of speculative fiction, with a particular emphasis on contemporary speculative fiction from the Caribbean and South Asia. She offers speculative fiction as a practice of …
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 Hayden’s Ferry Review, Green Mountain Review, Parcel Literary Journal, and Portel del Sol, among others. She was awarded a 2020 Miami Book Fair Emerging Writer Fellows…
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…
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 teaches Advanced Writing for the Health Professions, Advanced Writing in the Sciences, and Writing to Heal. She is the author of two books on chronic disease: Life Disrupted (Walker, 2008) and In the Kingdom of the Sick: A Social Histo…
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 earned her PhD in Composition & Rhetoric at the University of Massachusetts – Amherst, and teaches courses on scientific writing and technical writing. Her research considers how the neoliberal age requires updated understandings of h…
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…
Chelsey Grasso is a writer and educator who joins Northeastern with nearly a decade of teaching experience. Her own writing has been published in the Harvard Review Online, the Rumpus, the Indiana Review, the Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere. …
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…
Blake Huggins teaches Advanced Writing in the Disciplines and First-Year Writing. He came to Northeastern in 2023 after teaching at Endicott College and Boston University. His interests in digital rhetoric, media, and pop culture build on research ex…
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 …
So Young Koo received her Ph.D. in Literature, Media, and Culture from Florida State University. She studied Literature at the University of Texas at Dallas (M.A.) and English and French at the University of Texas at Austin (B.A.). She focuses on the…
Bailey holds a PhD in Rhetoric and Composition from Georgia State University and a Master’s in Professional Writing from Kennesaw State University. She has been a writing teacher for over a decade and has worked as a wine writer and sommelier i…
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 …
Allison Nick (she/her) is a scholar, writer, and educator whose work focuses on interwar and mid-century writing, feminist antifascism, and politics in literature. She completed her PhD in English at the University of Mississippi and has previously t…
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…
Karina Sembe is a scholar and educator in cultural studies, history, and race and ethnicity studies. She holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies from Boston University. Prior to joining BU, she received a Ph.D. in Literary Studies and worked as a journalis…
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, PhD (“Dr. V”) joined Northeastern in 2020, after serving as a visiting faculty member at Vassar College and at the College of the Holy Cross. She teaches courses in first-year writing as well as advanced writing in the technical profess…
Mina Vidrine joined Northeastern from the University of Oregon, where she taught writing for five years while completing her PhD in English. In 2022, she spent a year teaching writing and literature at Transilvania University of Brașov (Romania) as a…
Mixie Wholey (she/they) is a Boston-based writer, educator and drag performer. She has a PhD in Literature from Northeastern University, writing extensively on queer internet culture and performance art as a form of queer activism. Her work has been …
Stephanie Young is a poet and scholar whose writing engages feminist theory, digital and new media, and the Bay Area’s literary past and present. Her books of poetry and cross genre writing include Pet Sounds, It’s No Good Everything’s Ba…
