Arielle Bernstein is a Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer in the Department of Literature at 17³Ô¹ÏÔÚÏß, where she also co-directs the MA in Literature, Culture, and Technology. She is a writ…
Fiona Brideoake’s teaching and research focuses on British literature and culture of the long eighteenth century. Her particular interests include Bluestocking feminism, queer historiography, Jane Aus…
Edward Comstock holds a PhD from 17³Ô¹ÏÔÚÏß's School of Education, Teaching, and Health, as well as an MA in Literature. At the intersection of rhetoric, writing studies, educational psycholo…
Benjamin Djain is a Professorial Lecturer in the Writing Program and the Department of Literature at 17³Ô¹ÏÔÚÏß. He is a comparative early modernist who focuses on English and Spanish theatre. Professor Djain…
Professor Dussere's teaching and research are primarily focused on the literature, film, and culture of 20th- and 21st-century America. He has published two critical studies, Balancing the Books (a st…
Laura Ewing's research focuses on technical communication, intercultural communication, and rhetoric & technology. Before coming to 17³Ô¹ÏÔÚÏß, Laura spent five years in Japan, writing and consulting with int…
Dustin Friedman's fields of research and teaching are Victorian and modern literature, aestheticism and decadence, queer theory, the history and theory of aesthetics, and global nineteenth-century wri…
Lindsey Green-Simms’ teaching and research focuses on film and literature from the Global South, with a particular emphasis on African cultural production. Professor Green-Simms' most recent book, Que…
Dr. Chelsea L. Horne's areas of research encompass communication, digital culture, information integrity, privacy, internet governance, AI policy, performance studies, and the public humanities. Recen…
Professor Kakoudaki teaches interdisciplinary courses in literature and film, visual culture, and the history of technology and new media. Her interests include cultural studies, science fiction, apoc…
A professor of Literature at 17³Ô¹ÏÔÚÏß since 2007, David Keplinger is the recipient of the 2022 17³Ô¹ÏÔÚÏß Teacher/Scholar of the Year Award. He is the author of eight collections of poetry, most re…
Keith D Leonard is the author of Fettered Genius: The African American Bardic Poet from Slavery to Civil Rights. His publications, presentations, and courses have revolved around his study of…
Dr. Levy's work focuses on embodied rhetorics, particularly how they intersect with cultural rhetorics and decolonial theory and practice. She joined 17³Ô¹ÏÔÚÏß in the fall of 2019, and has felt at home ever …
Professor Noble's teaching and research interests include American literature, intimacy and the emotions, and philosophical approaches to literature. She is the author of Rethinking Sympathy and H…
An expert on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century theatre, Professor Payne has published on topics ranging from the Restoration actress to baroque opera. She is the editor of “The Cambridge Companion t…
Dolen Perkins-Valdez is the New York Times bestselling author of two novels: Wench and Balm. *USA Today* called Wench "deeply moving" and "beautifully written." *People* called it "a devastatingly bea…
Professor Pike has taught in the Department of Literature since 1995. His most recent book is After the End: Cold War Culture and Apocalyptic Imaginations in the 21st Century, forthcoming fro…
Jeffrey Romero Middents studies and teaches film and world literature at 17³Ô¹ÏÔÚÏß in Washington, DC, specifically focusing on Latin American narratives from the 1960s to the present. His sc…
Professor Sha is the author of three books, the latest of which is Imagination and Science in Romanticism (Johns Hopkins, 2018). This book won the 2018 Jean-Pierre Barricelli Prize for the best book p…
Anita Gilman Sherman studies 16th and 17th century literature, specializing in works that have problems of knowledge and interpretation at their thematic center. Her book, Skepticism and Memory in Sha…
Kathleen Smith’s teaching and research focus on the later Middle Ages. Her current book project draws together legal, literary, religious, and social history and examines the concept of intention as a…
Sarah Trembath is an editor, writer, and educator. She has been teaching since 1998 and joined the 17³Ô¹ÏÔÚÏß faculty in 2014. Her written work has appeared in Radical Teacher, the Santa Fe Writer’s Project Q…
Professor Voris’s teaching and research interests include 20th century American and British literature, the intellectual history of modernism and its relation to the visual arts, as well as contempora…
Lily Wong is an Associate Professor in the departments of Literature (LIT) and Critical Race Gender & Culture Studies (CRGC) at 17³Ô¹ÏÔÚÏß. She also serves as an Associate Director of Faculty…
Lacey Wootton has taught in the Writing Studies Program since 1999. She holds a PhD in Writing and Rhetoric from George Mason University and an MA in Literature from 17³Ô¹ÏÔÚÏß. Prior to her time at 17³Ô¹ÏÔÚÏß, she e…