Faculty

Associate 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…

Associate 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

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. …

Director of Student Diversity and Success; Associate Teaching Professor in English

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…

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 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…

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. …

Teaching Professor and Online Pedagogy Coordinator in English

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…

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; 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 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…

Teaching Professor in English; Director of First-Year Writing

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…

Postdoctoral Teaching Associate in English

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. …

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. …

Professor of English

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…

Associate 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…

Associate 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

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; Director of Advanced Writing in the Disciplines

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…

Professor of English

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…

Associate Teaching Professor in English

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…

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…

Associate Teaching Professor in English and Director of the Writing Minor

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…

Associate Teaching Professor in English

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. …

Assistant Professor of English; Director 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…

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

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; 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

Bre Leake specializes in the teaching of writing. …

Part-Time Lecturer in English

Katherine Morelli’s research and teaching, both grounded in community literacy, meet at the intersections of medical and health rhetoric, literacy studies, technical communication and applied linguistics. Morelli has taught English as a Second …

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

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

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

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…