Faculty

Teaching Professor in English

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…

Teaching Professor in English

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…

Associate Teaching Professor in English; Director of the Writing Center

Laura Beerits’ research and teaching interests include student writing practices, teaching assistant pedagogy, and the contemporary American coming-of-age novel. …

Teaching Professor in English

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. …

Assistant Teaching Professor in English

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…

Teaching Professor in English

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…

Professor of English

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…

Teaching Professor in English

Jeremy P. Bushnell is the author of The Weirdness (Melville House, 2014) and The Insides (Melville House, 2016). He lives in Dedham, Massachusetts. …

Assistant Teaching Professor, English

Abbie DeCamp specializes in memes and internet culture, digital writing, queer theory and visual culture. …

Teaching Professor; Director of Advanced Writing in the Disciplines

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…

Teaching Professor in English

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…

Visiting Teaching Professor in English

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…

Teaching Professor in English

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…

Teaching Professor of German and English; Academic Coordinator of the German Program; Coordinator of Online Teaching and Learning, CSSH

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…

Visiting Teaching Professor in English

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…

Teaching Professor in English

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 …

Teaching Professor in English

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…

Assistant Teaching Professor, English

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. …

Assistant Teaching Professor, Writing Program

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…

Assistant Teaching Professor, English

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…

Assistant Teaching Professor in English

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…

Teaching Professor in English

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. …

Associate Teaching Professor in English

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 …

Professor of English

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…

Teaching Professor in English

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…

Teaching Professor in English

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 …

Associate Teaching Professor in English; Director of First Year Writing

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 …

Teaching Professor in English

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…

Teaching Professor in English

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…

Teaching Professor in English; Director of the Writing Program

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 …

Teaching Professor in English

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. …

Associate Teaching Professor in English

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…

Assistant Teaching Professor, English

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…

Teaching Professor in English; Undergraduate Program Director

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…

Teaching Professor in English

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…

Teaching Professor in English and Director of the Writing Minor

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…

Teaching Professor in English

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…

Associate Teaching Professor in English

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…

Assistant Professor of English; Coordinator of Multilingual Writing

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…

Visiting Teaching Professor in English

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…

Visiting Teaching Professor in English

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…

Visiting Teaching Professor, English

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 …

Postdoctoral Teaching Associate, English

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…

Postdoctoral Teaching Associate, English

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…

Postdoctoral Teaching Associate, English

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…

Postdoctoral Teaching Associate in English

Postdoctoral Teaching Associate, English

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…

Postdoctoral Teaching Associate, Writing Program

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…

Postdoctoral Teaching Associate, English

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…

Postdoctoral Teaching Associate, English

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 …

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

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

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

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

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

Part-Time Lecturer in English

Nicole Infanta Keller’s research interests include women’s scientific writing of the long eighteenth century, book history, and digital humanities. She is the Digital Humanities Editor for ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–18…

Part-Time Lecturer in English

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 holds an M.A. in English Literature and Composition from…

Part-Time Lecturer in English

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

Part-Time Lecturer in English

Vijeta Saini is a recent PhD from the English Department at Northeastern University, where she was a CSSH Scholar and the recipient of both the CSSH Experiential Fellowship at MIT and the FLEX Fellowship. Her research offers the first sustained schol…

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

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

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