If you have updated information about any former Brittain Fellow, please contact the Associate Director of the Writing and Communication Program, Dr. Andy Frazee.
2015 Alums
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Joy Bracewell
University of Georgia
Research Interests: Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Studies, the Black Atlantic, Visual Literacy -
Mauro Carassai
University of Florida
Research Interests: Digital Media, Criticism and Theory, American Studies -
Lisa Dusenberry
University of Florida
Research Interests: Children’s Media, Digital Media, Media Theory, Technical Communication -
Annalee Edmondson
University of Georgia
Research Interests: 19th–21st-century British literature, literary modernism, narrative theory, the novel, feminist theory, ethics, affect theory -
Marty Fink
The Graduate Center (CUNY)
Research Interests: Queer/trans studies, HIV/AIDS and new media, graphic novels, DIY zine culture, prison activism -
Amanda Golden
University of Washington
Research Interests: Poetry, Anglo-American Modernism, Digital Humanities, Composition -
Dustin Hannum
University of Rochester
Research Interests: American literature, literary theory, rhetoric and composition, film -
Leah Haught
University of Rochester
Research Interests: Medieval Literatures and Cultures, Middle English Arthuriana -
Julie Hawk
University of Rochester
Research Interests: Medieval Literatures and Cultures, Middle English Arthuriana -
Mirja Lobnik
Emory University
Research Interests: Literature of the Americas, Interdisciplinary Studies of Memory and Orality, Multimodal Composition -
Noah Mass
University of Texas
Research Interests: Twentieth and Twenty-First Century American Literature, Southern Literature, African-American Literature, Regionalism, and Transnational Studies -
Patrick McHenry
University of Florida
Research Interests: American Modernist Poetry, Literature, and Culture; Literary and Critical Theory; New Media Studies, Cultural Studies -
Iuliu Ratiu
SUNY Albany
Research Interests: Analytical Writing and Life Narratives, Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Thoreau, Transcendentalism and Antebellum Literature
2014 Alums
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Andrew Bozio
PhD, University of Michigan
Research Interests: Late medieval and early modern drama and poetry; cognitive theory and literary studies; intellectual history
abozio@skidmore.edu -
Mollie Barnes
PhD, University of Georgia
Research Interests: Victorian Literature, American Literature, Nineteenth-Century Transatlanticism
Assistant Professor of English, University of South Carolina Beaufort
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Rachael Dean-Ruzicka
PhD, Bowling Green State University
Research Interests: American Culture, Digital Pedagogy, Young Adult Literature
Assistant Professor of English, Georgia Gwinnett College
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Jason Ellis
PhD, Kent State University
Research Interests: Twentieth-century American literature and Science Fiction, Digital Literacy, and Neuroscientific Discourses
Assistant Professor of English, New York City College of Technology
jellis@citytech.cuny.edu -
John Harkey
PhD, The City University of New York
Research Interests: 20th century American Literature, especially poetics -
Christine Hoffmann
PhD, University of Arkansas
Research Interests: Credibility standards in early modern British literature, copia & accumulation in early modern and 21st-century discourse, folly’s influence in early modern drama & 21st-century politics, self-fashioning & gender politics inside social networks
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Jennifer Lux Holley
PhD, University of Connecticut
Research Interests: Poetry and the intersection between creative and critical writing -
Aaron Kashtan
PhD, University of Florida
Research Interests: Media studies, Comics, Animation, Video Games, Literature, Computer Graphics -
Margaret Konkol
PhD, SUNY Buffalo
Research Interests: Modernism, Poetry/Poetics, Ecocriticism, Digital Humanities, Literature and Science, Feminist Criticism
Visiting Assistant Professor of English, New College of Florida
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Amanda Madden
PhD, Emory University
Research Interests: Technological change in the Early Modern Era, Digital Humanities, Cultural Networks and Intellectual Communities, Narrative, Cultural Adaptations of Technology, and Historical Representation in Popular Culture -
Julia Munro
PhD, University of Waterloo
Research Interests: pre-photographic and early photographic technologies -
Jennifer Orth-Veillon
PhD, Emory University
Research Interests: Comparative Literature, French Literature, Postcolonial Studies, Twentieth Century European Literature -
Aron Pease
PhD, University of Florida
Research Interests: Economic Critique; Global Studies; Media Studies; Ninteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-First Century American Literature; Economics; Cultural Studies -
Britta Spann
PhD, University of Oregon
Research Interests: Twentieth Century American Literature, Poetry, and the Classical Tradition
2013 Alums
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Brandy Blake
PhD, University of Georgia
Research Interests: Children’s Literature, Fantasy, Victorian and Modern British Literature.
ISyE Academic Advisor and Communication Specialist, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Sarah Bleakney
PhD, University of Florida
Research Interests: Victorian Studies, Aging Studies, Gender Studies, Business Communication.
Instructional Designer, University of Florida
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Doris Bremm
PhD, University of Florida
Research Interests: Twentieth-Century Literature, Visual Art and Culture, Film, Museum Studies. -
Peter Fontaine
PhD, Georgia State University
Research Interests: Fiction Writing, American Pop Culture Studies.
Communication Center Associate Director, Georgia Institute of Technology
peter.fontaine@lmc.gatech.edu -
James Gregory
PhD, University of Georgia
Research Interests: Medieval English and Welsh Studies, Digital Literacy, Technical Communication.
Instructional Design Consultant, IUPUI
jamegreg@iupui.edu -
Kathleen Hanggi
PhD, Emory University
Research Interest: Postcolonial Studies with emphasis on African Literature and Film.
Assistant Professor of English, Doane College
kathleen.hanggi@doane.edu -
Lauren Holt
PhD, Emory University
Research Interests: First Year Writing and Communication, Multiliteracies and Multimodality, Digital Pedagogy, Participatory Pedagogy, Restoration, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Poetics, Genre Theory, and Affect and Psychoanalytic Theory.
ESL Program Instructor, Emory University
laurenreaholt@gmail.com -
Diane Jakacki
PhD, University of Waterloo
Research Interests: Early Modern Literature, Digital Humanities, Multimedia Research, Theatre.
Digital Scholarship Coordinator, Bucknell University
diane.jakacki@bucknell.edu
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Emily Kane
PhD, University of Georgia
Research Interests: 19th and 20th Century American Literature, 20th Century British and Irish literature, Transatlantic Travel and Relocation.
Program Officer, The Center for Global Education, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
kane@hws.edu -
Thomas Lolis
PhD, University of Miami
Research Interests: Renaissance Literature, Composition, Graphic Novel, Visual Rhetoric.
English Teacher, The Episcopal School of Texas
t.lolis@tmi-sa.org -
Kellie Meyer
PhD, University of York
Research Interests: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Nineteenth Centure Literature, Literary Criticism.
Office Manager, DIY Event Décor Rentals -
Michelle Miles
PhD, Emory University
Research Interests: Contemporary Irish Literature, Postcolonial Literature, Composition.
Associate Director, UGA at Oxford Study Abroad Program
mrmiles@uga.edu -
Christopher Ritter
PhD, Washington State University
Research Interests: Digital Game Studies, Digital Rhetoric, Computers and Writing.
Assistant Professor, Clayton State University
christopherritter@clayton.edu
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Malavika Shetty
PhD, University of Texas – Austin
Research Interests: Linguistics, Rhetoric, Gaming, Television, Indian Culture and Identity.
Lecturer, Writing and Communication Program, Georgia Tech
malavika.shetty@lmc.gatech.edu -
Katherine Tanski
PhD, Purdue University
Research Interests: Rhetoric of Technology, New Media, Popular Culture, Fandom Rhetoric, Professional Writing, and Fan Culture.
Instructional Designer, North Idaho College
kvtanski@nic.edu -
Christopher Weedman
PhD, Southern Illinois University
Research Interests: British Film, Literature, and Culture; Exp. Excilic Cimena Film Studies and Twentieth Century British Literature and Drama.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Kutztown University
2012 Alums
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Michelle DiMeo
PhD, University of Warwick
Research Interests: Early Modern Science and Medicine, Early Modern Medicine Books, Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh (1615-1691)
Curator of Digital Collections at the Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF)
mdimeo [at] chemheritage [dot] org
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Leeann Hunter
PhD, University of Florida
Research Interests: Professional Culture, Gender, and Technology in the Nineteenth Century and the Present, with Emphasis on Social Economics.
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of English, Washington State University
leeann.hunter@wsu.edu
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Jennifer Parrott
PhD, Southern Ilinois University – Carbondale
Research Interests: Twentieth-Century British and Irish Fiction and Drama, Contemporary Irish Women Playwrights, Travel Writing.
Assistant Professor of English, Clayton State University
jenniferparrott@clayton.edu
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Nirmal H. Trivedi
PhD, Boston College
Research Interests: U.S. Empire Studies, 19th-century American Culture, Visual Culture, Postcolonial Theory, Digital Pedagogy.
Director, Academic Transition Programs (GT 1000 & First-Year Reading Program), Georgia Institute of Technology
nirmal.trivedi@gatech.edu
2011 Alums
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Crystal B. Lake
PhD, University of Missouri
Research Interests: Eighteenth-Century and Romantic British Literature, Material Culture, and Historiography; Cultural Studies, Women Writers.
Assistant Professor of English, Wright State University
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Paulette Richards
PhD, University of Virginia
Research Interests: French Civilization, History.
Professor, English Workshops in Professional Communication, Institut Supérieure de Management, Senegal; Artist in Residence, Institut Français
paulette.richards [at] lmc.gatech.edu">paulette.richards@lmc.gatech.edu -
Robin Wharton
PhD, University of Georgia
Research Interests: Medieval Law and Literature, Critical Legal Studies, the Digital Humanities.
Lecturer of English, Georgia State University
Editor, Hybrid Pedagogy Publishing
Editor and Head of Technical Development, The Hoccleve Archive
Website
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Roger Todd Whitson
PhD, University of Florida
Research Interests: Romantic and Postmodern Literature, Graphic Novels, Media Theory, Disability Studies.
Assistant Professor, Washington State University
roger.whitson@wsu.edu
2010 Alums
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Olin Bjork
PhD, University of Texas at Austin
Research Interests: English Literature, English, Professional Writing, Technical Communication, Digital Humanities.
Assistant Professor of English, University of Houston-Downtown
bjorko@uhd.edu -
David Brown
PhD, University of Michigan -
Emma Crandall
PhD, University of Michigan
Research Interests: Fashion and Style, and the History of Butch Glamour.
Assistant Professor of English, Temple University -
Kathryn Farley
PhD, Northwestern University
Research Interest: Impact of Digital Media Technologies on Creativity and Performance Scholarship.
Instructor, Kennesaw State University
kfarley67@hotmail.com
www.kathrynfarley.org -
Elizabeth Freudenthal
PhD, University of California – Santa Barbara
Research Interests: Contemporary US Fiction and Culture, the Medicalization of Personality.
Grant Writer, Growing Home Inc.
efreundenthal@yahoo.com -
Jurgen E. Grandt
PhD, University of Georgia
Research Interest: Intersections of Raciological Taxonomies With Recording and Print Technologies in Twentieth-Century American Culture.
Assistant Professor of English, Gainesville State College
jurgen.grandt@ung.edu -
Anthony (Andy) Dyer Hoefer
PhD, Louisiana State University
Research Interests: Religion and Literature (Particularly the Eschatological Dimensions of Region and Nation), Ecocriticism (Particularly the Relationships Between Regional Identity and Land Use Policies).
Director of the University Scholars Program, George Mason University
ahoefer@gmu.edu -
Jared Johnson
PhD, SUNY Stony Brook
Research Interests: English Renaissance Drama, Early Modern Cultural Studies, Film and New Media Adaptations of Shakespeare, Interdisciplinary Scholarship That Explores Interstitial Connections Between and Among English, Theater Arts, and Media Studies.
Assistant Professor of English, Thiel College
jjohnson@thiel.edu -
Stacy B. Lavin
PhD, Duke University
Research Interests: Semiotics, Modernist Literature (Literary Modernism), Italian (Languages and Linguistics), Postmodernism (Literature), the Social Study of Information and Communication Technology.
Formatting Manager, American Journal Experts -
Danielle Lawson
PhD, Queensland University of Technology – Brisbane, Queensland (Australia)
Research Interests: The Intersection Between Popular Culture and Cyberculture, Celebrities and Their Use of Internet Technology (Social Media, Websites and Discussion Groups), Fandoms and Fan Communities, Social Identities in Online Spaces, Citizen Journalism and the Changing Nature of “Information Media.”
Assistant Professor of Communication & Media Studies, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania -
Karissa McCoy
PhD, Vanderbilt University
Research Interests: American Literary/Cultural Studies, Critical Race Studies, Gender/Sexuality Studies.
Communications Specialist, Kenning Communications; Administrative Assistant, Physique Perfection Dance Studio -
Ruth McIntyre
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Matthew Paproth
PhD, Southern Illinois University – Carbondale
Research Interests: Contemporary British and Irish Fiction (Especially Modernism and Postmodernism), Popular Culture and Cultural Studies (Especially Music and Television), Technology in Pedagogy (Especially Multimedia Classroom Projects).
Assistant Professor of English, School of Liberal Arts, Georgia Gwinnett College
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Manuel Antonio Perez Tejada Dominguez
PhD, The University of Kansas
Research Interests: Movies, Documentaries, Mexican Cinema, Cultural Industries, Film Distribution, Film and Media Studies.
Full-time professor, Department of Communication Sciences, University of the Americas – Puebla
antonio.tejada@udlap.mx
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Tiffany Tsao
PhD, University of California – Berkeley
Research Interests: Colonial Naturalist Texts, Comparative Literature, East Kalimantan Literature, Indonesian Literature, Victorian Literature.
Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle
tiffany.tsao@newcastle.edu.au -
Daniel Vollaro
PhD, Georgia State University
Research Interests: American Literary History, American Anarchism, Existentialist Literature, Service Learning Pedagogy.
Assistant Professor of English, Georgia Gwinett College
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Andrea Wood
PhD, University of Florida
Research Interests: Transnational Comics and Animation, Popular Genres, New Media, LGBTQ Literature and Film, Feminist and Queer Theory, Fandom Studies.
Assistant Professor of Media Studies, Winona State University
awood@winona.edu
2009 Alums
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Alexander Vaughan Ames
PhD, Saint Louis University
Adjunct Instructor, University of South Carolina
amesa@mailbox.sc.edu -
Fernando Arenas
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests: Literature, Film, and Popular Music, Studied Through an Interdisciplinary and Theoretical Prism Centering on the Dyad of Post-Colonialism and Globalization.
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Scott Balcerzak
PhD, University of Florida
Research Interests: Classic Hollywood Literature and Film, Early 20th Century Popular Stage, Vaudeville and Broadway, Cinema and Digital Culture, Gender Studies
Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies, Northern Illinois University
sbalcerzak@niu.edu -
Jason Embry
PhD, Georgia State University
Research Interests: Postmodernism Science Fiction, First-Year Writing, Utopia/Dystopia.
Assistant Professor of English, Georgia Gwinett College
jembry@ggc.edu -
Lisa Hager
PhD, University of Florida
Assistant Professor of English, University of Wisconsin – Waukesha
lisa.hager@uwc.edu -
Todd Reynolds
PhD, University of Florida
Full-time organizer, Maryland Teachers and Researchers Union -
Lisa Schneider
PhD, Emory University
Instructor, Roosevelt University -
Allison Whitney
PhD, University of Chicago
Research Interests: Gender, Race, and Genre; Religion and Film, Feminist Media Studies.
Assistant Professor of English, Texas Tech University
allison.whitney@ttu.edu
2008 Alums
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Scott Banville
PhD, Ohio State University
Research Interests: Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture, the Novel, Cultural Studies, Popular, Culture, Gender and Sexual Studies, Digital Media Studies.
Assistant Professor of English and Writing Program Administrator, Nicholls State University -
Andrew Cooper
PhD, Princeton University
Research Interests: Literature, Film Studies, Rhetoric, Composition, Technical Communication, the Horror Genre in Novels and Film.
Assistant Professor, University of Louisville
andrew@landrewcooper.com -
Francis Desiderio
PhD, Emory University
Research Interests: American Studies, Urban Studies.
Honors Program Assistant Director, Georgia Southern University
francisdesiderio@georgiasouthern.edu -
Terry Easton
PhD, Emory University
Assistant Professor of English, Gainesville State College -
Lori Emerson
PhD, SUNY at Buffalo, New York
Research Interests: Digital Media, Digital Literature, Media Theory, Archives, Media Archaeology, History of Computing, Typewriting; Twentieth and Twenty-First Century North American Literature: the Avant-Garde, Modernism, Post-1945 Experimental Writing, and Science and Literature.
Assistant Professor of English, University of Colorado – Boulder
lori.emerson@colorado.edu -
Daryl Farmer
PhD, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
Research Interests: Creative Writing (Nonfiction/Fiction and Poetry), Literature of Ecology, 20th Century American Literature, Composition, Contemporary U.S. West Literature, Travel Literature and the Journey Narrative, Magical Realist Literature.
Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, Stephen F. Austin State University
dlfarmer@alaska.edu -
Angela Flury
PhD, University of California – Davis
Research Interests: Fashion Studies, History of the Novel, Translation Studies, Visual Studies, Pedagogy of Writing, Cinema.
Associate Professor of English, DePauw University
aflury@depauw.edu -
Michael Fournier
PhD, Georgia State University
Research Interests: Renaissance Poetry, 20th Century Poetry in English, Technical Communication.
Assistant Professor of English, Georgia Gwinnett College
mfournie@ggc.edu -
Derek Merrill
PhD, University of Florida
Lecturer, UC Merced
dmerrill2@ucmerced.edu -
Chad Pearson
PhD, University of Texas at Dallas
Research Interests: Rhetoric, Expository Writing, Composition, Creative Writing, World Literature, American Literature, Literary Theory, Humanities, Film Studies, Speech and Communication. -
Ruben Ramirez-Sanchez
PhD, The University of New Mexico
Associate Professor of Communication, University of Puerto Rico -
JC Reilly
PhD, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
Research Interest: Poetry.
Director of Undergraduate Programs, Georgia Institute of Technology
jc.reilly@lmc.gatech.edu -
Benjamin J. Robertson
PhD, University at Buffalo
Research Interests: Digital Media, Music, Contemporary American Literature and Culture, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Critical Theory.
Instructor, University of Colorado – Boulder
benjamin.j.robertson@colorado.edu -
Kent Still
PhD, Emory University
Research Interest: Philosophy.
Philosophy Instructor, Emory University
2007 Alums
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Ashley Lear
PhD, University of Houston
Research Interests: Literature and Interdisciplinary Courses.
Professor, Department of Humanities and Communication, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
andrewsa@erau.edu -
Mary Behrman
PhD, Emory University
Research Interests: History of the English Language, Medieval Literature.
Lecturer of English, Kennesaw State University
mbehrman@kennesaw.edu -
Kristin Girard
PhD, SUNY Stony Brook
Research Interests: Parenting, Cooking, Healthy Living, Education, Travel, Staying Organized.
Editor of Fayette Woman Magazine
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Rodney Hill
PhD, University of Kansas
Research Interests: Film, Marketing and Publicity.
Assistant Professor of Film, Hofstra University
rodney.hill@hofstra.edu -
Caroline Kimberly
PhD, Tulane University
Communications Specialist, The University of Texas – MD Anderson Cancer Center -
Thomas Lilly
PhD, Emory University
Research Interests: 19th Century American Literature, Particularly Periodical Literature and the Modes; Genres and Materials of Popular Literature of the Period; the Relationship Between Online Writing and Critical Thinking.
Associate Professor of English, Georgia Gwinnett College
tlilly@ggc.edu -
James McClung
PhD, University of Georgia
Director of UGA at Oxford Study Abroad Programs
jmcclung@uga.edu -
Ben Miller
PhD, Emory University
Research Interests: Human Rights, Sound Studies, Digital Humanities, Collective Memory.
Assistant Professor, Georgia State University
miller@gsu.edu -
Melissa Stevenson
PhD, University of California – Santa Barbara
Academic Director, Stanford University
melissas@stanford.edu -
John Wells
PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology -
Leslie Worthington
PhD, Auburn University
Chair of the Department of English and Foreign Languages, Advisor for the Chestatee Review, Gainesville State College
lworthington@gsc.edu -
Jennifer Wunder
PhD, Georgia State University
Research Interest: Literary, Cultural and Political Influence of Secret Societies Such as the Freemasons During the 18th and 19th Centuries
Associate Professor of English, Director of the Honors Program, Georgia Gwinnett College
jwunder@ggc.edu
2006 Alums
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Kahlil Elayan
PhD, Georgia State University
Research Interests: Modern American Literature, Hero Literature, World Literature, Comparative Literature, Modern British Literature.
Lecturer of English, Kennesaw State University
keylayan@kennesaw.edu -
Jonathan Goodwin
PhD, University of Florida
Research Interests: 20th Century and Contemporary Literature, Especially Modernism; Cognitive Science and Narrative Theory, and Film and New Media Studies.
Assistant Professor of English, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
jonathan.goodwin@louisiana.edu -
Afshin Hafizi
PhD, University of Florida
Research Interests: Iranian Society, Philosophy, World Literature.
English Professor, The Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) -
Steve Levin
PhD, Emory University
Research Interests: How Twentieth-Century Global Conditions Have Shaped Contemporary Culture and Produced New Discourses of Self and Identity, Contemporary British and Postcolonial Literature, Transnational Cultural Studies, Critical and Literary Theory.
Associate Professor of English, Clark University
slevin@clarku.edu -
Srikanth Mallavarapu
PhD, SUNY Stony Brook
Research Interests: The Negotiation of Modernity in the Postcolonial Context, Contemporary South Asian Literature and film, Critical Theories of Literature, Science, Technology, and Culture.
Assistant Professor, Roanoke College
mallavarapu@roanoke.edu -
Brian McGrath
PhD, Colgate University
Research Interests: European Romanticism, Poetry and Poetics, and Literary, Aesthetic, Rhetorical Theory.
Associate Professor, British Literature and Literary Theory, Clemson University
mcgrath@clemson.edu -
Petra Schweitzer
PhD, Emory University
Research Interests: Holocaust Studies, Comparative Literature, Testimony and Trauma Studies.
Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages, Shenandoah University
pschweit@su.edu -
Fred Young
PhD, University of Florida
Lecturer, Full-time faculty, UC Merced
fyoung3@ucmerced.edu
2005 Alums
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Hamilton Carroll
PhD, Indiana University
Research Interests: Twentieth and Twenty-First Century US Literature, American Studies, Film Studies, US Culture Studies, Gender and Masculinity Studies, US Racial Formations, Memory, Cultures, and Globalization.
Lecturer in American Literature and Culture, University of Leeds
a.cathcart@leeds.ac.uk -
Brian Cliff
PhD, Emory University
Research Interests: Modern and Contemporary Irish literature, Community and Contemporary Irish fiction, the Harlem Renaissance, the Use of Golden Age Comic Books in Contemporary American Fiction.
Assistant Professor in Irish Studies and English, Trinity College – Dublin
bcliff@tcd.ie -
Reshmi Hebbar
PhD, Emory University
Research Interests: Literary and Cultural Studies, Multicultural Fiction, American Literature, Women’s Literature, Narratives of Immigration, Media Studies.
Assistant Professor of English, Oglethorpe University
rhebbar@oglethorpe.edu -
Bridget Heneghan
PhD, Vanderbilt University -
Piper Huguley-Riggins
PhD, Georgia State University
Research Interests: Twentieth Century American Literature, Popular Fiction.
Lecturer, Spellman College
phuguley@spelman.edu -
Michael Laughter
Research Interests: Career Preparation, Workplace Communication Issues, Business Ethics.
Assistant Coordinator of the Undergraduate Professional Communcations Program, Georgia Institute of Technology
michael.laughter@ece.gatech.edu -
Lisa McNair-Dupree
PhD, University of Chicago
Research Interests: Technical Communications, Computers and Writing, Sociolinguistics.
Associate Professor, Department of Engineering Education, Virginia Tech
lmcnair@vt.edu -
Doreen Piano
PhD, Bowling Green University
Research Interests: Rhetorical Theory, Composition Studies, Women and Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Critical Pedagogy, Visual Research Methods, Creative Nonfiction.
Associate Professor, University of New Orleans
dpiano@uno.edu -
Tabitha Sparks
PhD, University of Washington
Research Interests: The 19th Century Novel, Literature and Medicine; Narrative Theory.
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Chuck Tryon
PhD, Purdue University
Research Interests: Film Theory and History, Modern and Postmodern Theory, Literary Theory, Modern and Postmodern American Literature, Narrative Theory, Electronic Pedagogy, Frankfurt School, Cultural Studies, Science Fiction and Fantasy.
Associate Professor, Fayetteville State University
ctryon@uncfsu.edu -
Patricia Ventura
PhD, University of Florida
Research Interests: Cultural Studies, American Studies, Neoliberal Culture Studies, Film and Media Studies.
Associate Professor, Department of English, Spelman College
pventura@spelman.edu
2004 Alums
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Doug Davis
PhD, Carnegie Mellon University
Assistant Professor of English, Gordon State University
ddavis@gordonstate.edu -
Scott Ellis
PhD, Emory University
Research Interests: American Literature with an Emphasis on Pre-1900 Texts, American Indian Literature, Science Fiction, the Relationship Between Technology and Literature.
Professor of English at Southern Connecticut State University
elliss3@southernct.edu -
Andrew Hebard
PhD, University of Chicago
Research Interests: Late 19th Century American Literature, the State Regulation of Race Relations, American Imperialism and Sovereignty, Law and Literature, Literary Genres.
Associate Professor, Miami University
hebarda@muohio.edu -
Laura McGrath
PhD, University of Georgia
Research Interests: Online Teaching and Learning, New Media, Rhetoric and Composition, Professional Writing.
Associate Professor of English at Kennesaw State University
lmcgrat2@kennesaw.edu -
Lisa Minnick
PhD, University of Georgia
Research Interests: Language Variation in American English and the Development of Modern English; Language, Gender, and Culture; Language in the African American Community; the Language of American Literature; Politics and the English Language.
Associate Professor of Western Michigan University
lisa.minnick@wmich.edu -
Kate Ready
PhD, University of Georgia
Research Interests: British Eighteenth-Century and Romantic literature.
Assistant Professor of English, The University of Winnipeg
k.ready@uwinnipeg.ca -
Mary Wearn
PhD, University of Georgia
Research Interests: Gender Studies, Abolitionist Writing and Slave Narratives, Maternal Theory, Electronic Pedagogy.
Associate Professor of English and Assistant Vice President for Academic Planning and Policy, Middle Georgia State University
mary.wearn@maconstate.edu -
Jennifer Wheelock
PhD, Florida State University
Executive Director, Development Communications, Emory University
jennifer.wheelock@gmail.com
2003 Alums
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Ann Campbell
PhD, Emory University
Research Interests: Eighteenth-Century British Literature, Women’s Novels, Courtship Novels.
Associate Professor of English, Boise State University
anncampbell@boisestate.edu -
Mary Carney
PhD, University of Georgia
Research Interests: Gender, culture, and American literature of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Associate Professor of English and Director, Center of Teaching, Learning and Leadership, University of North Georgia
mary.carney@ung.edu -
Molly Crumpton
PhD, University of Georgia
Research Interests: Cross-Cultural Study of Ethnic American Literatures.
English Professor, California State University – Stanisclaus
mcrumpton@csustan.edu -
Jason Jones
PhD, Emory University
Research Interests: Victorian Literature, Humanities Computing, Psychoanalysis.
Professor, Central Connecticut State University
jonesjason1@ccsu.edu -
Susan McHugh
PhD, Purdue University
Research Interests: Modern and Contemporary Narrative, Media Theory, Intersectional Analysis, Animal Studies in Literature, Science, and the Arts.
Professor and Chair, Department of English, University of New England
smchugh@une.edu -
Gretchen Papazian
PhD, University of Chicago
Research Interests: Children’s Literature, American Literature, Cultural Studies.
Assistant Professor of English, Central Michigan University
papaz1gd@cmich.edu -
Matthew Roberson
PhD, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
Research Interests: Fiction Writing, Postmodern American Literature, Cultural Studies.
Professor, Central Michigan University
rober1m@cmich.edu -
Stacy Takacs
PhD, Indiana University
Research Interests: Contemporary American Literature and Culture, American Cultural Studies, TV Studies, Media and Globalization.
Associate Professor, Oklahoma State University
stacy.takacs@okstate.edu -
Jennifer Thompson
PhD, University of California – Irvine
Research Interests: Feminist Theory, 19th and 20th Century Philosophy and Critical Theory, the Representation of Violence.
Assistant Professor of the Humanities, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University -
Skip Willman
PhD, Indiana University
Research Interests: Contemporary American Fiction, Critical Theory.
Associate Professor, University of South Dakota
skip.william@usd.edu -
Vince Willoughby
2002 Alums
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Ron Broglio
PhD, University of Florida
Research Interests: Critical Animal Studies, Literary Theory, English, Phenomenology, Art History, Critical Theory, Continental Philosophy, Art Theory.
Associate Professor, Arizona State University
ron.broglio@asu.edu
2001 Alums
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Sandy Baldwin
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Richard A. House
PhD, University of California – Irvine
Research Interests: Contemporary American Literature, Literary Theory, Engineering Communication.
Associate Professor of English, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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Eric Sonstroem
PhD, Indiana University
Research Interests: Romanticism, Cultural Studies, Cultural Studies of Science, Population, Electronic Pedagogy.
Chair of the English Department, University of the Pacific
esonstroem@pacific.edu
2000 Alums
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Suzanne Black
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Katheryn McPherson
PhD, Emory University
Research Interest: The Ways English Drama Reveals Aspects of the Protestant Reformation.
Honors Program Director and Professor of English, Utah Valley University
kathryn@yorku.ca -
Lance Newman
PhD, Brown University
Research Interests: Early American Literature, Environmental Literature.
Professor of English and Environmental Studies, Westminster College
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Lisa Yaszek
PhD, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Research Interests: Speculative Fiction, Science and Technology Studies, Gender Studies, Cultural History.
Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Georgia Institute of Technology
lisa.yaszek@lmc.gatech.edu
1999 Alums
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Dan Cabaniss
PhD, University of Southern California
Associate Professor of English and Journalism, University of North Georgia
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Lissa Holloway-Attaway
Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor, Department of Culture and Communication, Blekinge Institute of Technology.
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Heather Huddleston
PhD, University of California -
Andy McMurray
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Alex Reid
PhD, SUNY Albany
Research Interests: The Study of Communication Theory and Practice in Digital Media, Digital Rhetoric, Composition Theory, Digital Humanities, Posthuman/Nonhuman Theory.
Associate Professor of English, University at Buffalo
areid@buffalo.edu
1998 Alums
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Ann Bomberger
PhD, SUNY Stony Brook
Assistant Professor of English, Gannon University
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Jeffrey Di Leo
PhD, Indiana University
Research Interests: Applied Ethics, Contemporary Innovative Literature, Classical American Philosophy, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Language, Literary and Cultural Theory.
Dean of Arts and Sciences and Professor of English and Philosophy, University of Houston-Victoria
1997 Alums
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Sandra Hayes
PhD, Santa Clara University -
Mary McCormack
PhD, Augusta State -
Steve Spence
PhD, University of Florida
Research Interests: Media and Civil Rights, Social Media, Globalization
Associate Professor of Digital Media Studies, Clayton State University
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Anne Stockdell-Giesler
PhD, Georgia State University
Research Interests: Teaching, Public Relations, Writing, Editing, Project Management.
Founder, Silent e Writing Services -
Patsy Worrall
1996 Alums
- Tanya Augsburg
Research Interests: Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Theory, Pedagogy, and Assessment.
Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and Liberal Studies; Vice-President, Relations, of the Association for Interdisciplinary Studies (AIS),San Francisco State University.
tanya@sfsu.edu
- Kim VanHoosier-Carey
Individualize Degree Specialist, Center for Individualized Learning, Metropolitan State University of Denver
kvanhoo3@msudenver.edu
1990 Alums
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Elizabeth Mauldin
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David Morgen
PhD, Columbia University
Research Interests: Computers and Composition.
Program Coordinator for the Emory Writing Program
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Jami Moss
PhD, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Research Interest: Fundraising.
Director of Stewardship and Development, First Presbyterian Church
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Anne Sinkey
Education and Outreach Coordinator, Kennesaw State University
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Brandy Walker
Research Interest: How Training Changes People’s Thinking About Conflict Resolution.
Educational Program Specialist, UGA Fanning Institute
brandy.walker@fanning.uga.edu