Arielle Bernstein
Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer
CAS | Literature
Arielle Bernstein is a Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer in the Department of Literature at Â鶹´«Ã½, where she also co-directs the MA in Literature, Culture, and Technology. She is a writ…
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arielle@american.edu
Fiona Brideoake
Assistant Professor
CAS | Literature
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…
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fbride@american.edu
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(202) 885-2998
Edward Comstock
Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer
CAS | Literature
Edward Comstock holds a PhD from Â鶹´«Ã½'s School of Education, Teaching, and Health, as well as an MA in Literature. At the intersection of rhetoric, writing studies, educational psycholo…
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ecomst@american.edu
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(202) 885-2975
Benjamin Djain
Professorial Lecturer
CAS | Literature
Benjamin Djain is a Professorial Lecturer in the Writing Program and the Department of Literature at AU. He is a comparative early modernist who focuses on English and Spanish theatre. Professor Djain…
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Erik Dussere
Professor
CAS | Literature
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…
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dussere@american.edu
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(202) 885-2428
Laura Ewing
Professorial Lecturer
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Laura Ewing's research focuses on technical communication, intercultural communication, and rhetoric & technology. Before coming to AU, Laura spent five years in Japan, writing and consulting with int…
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ewing@american.edu
Dustin Friedman
Associate Professor
CAS | Literature
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…
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dustinfr@american.edu
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(202) 885-2963
Lindsey Green-Simms
Professor and Department Chair, Literature
CAS | Literature
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…
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lgs@american.edu
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(202) 885-2901
Chelsea Horne
Senior Professorial Lecturer
CAS | Literature
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…
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horne@american.edu
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(202) 885-2825
Despina Kakoudaki
Associate Professor and Director, Humanities Lab
CAS | Literature
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…
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kakoudak@american.edu
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(202) 885-2796
David Keplinger
Professor
CAS | Literature
A professor of Literature at AU since 2007, David Keplinger is the recipient of the 2022 Â鶹´«Ã½ Teacher/Scholar of the Year Award. He is the author of eight collections of poetry, most re…
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keplinge@american.edu
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(202) 885-2748
Keith Leonard
Associate Professor
CAS | Literature
Keith D Leonard is the author of Fettered Genius: The African Â鶹´«Ã½ Bardic Poet from Slavery to Civil Rights. His publications, presentations, and courses have revolved around his study of…
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kdl@american.edu
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(202) 885-2961
Daisy Levy
Senior Professorial Lecturer
CAS | Literature
Dr. Levy's work focuses on embodied rhetorics, particularly how they intersect with cultural rhetorics and decolonial theory and practice. She joined AU in the fall of 2019, and has felt at home ever …
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levy@american.edu
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(202) 885-2918
Marianne Noble
Professor
CAS | Literature
Professor Noble's teaching and research interests include Â鶹´«Ã½ literature, intimacy and the emotions, and philosophical approaches to literature. She is the author of Rethinking Sympathy and H…
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mnoble@american.edu
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(202) 885-2988
Deborah Payne
Professor
CAS | Literature
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…
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dcpayne@american.edu
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(202) 885-2997
Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Associate Professor
CAS | Literature
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…
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(202) 885-2978
David Pike
Professor
CAS | Literature
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…
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dpike@american.edu
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(202) 885-2996
Jeffrey Romero Middents
Associate Professor
CAS | Literature
Jeffrey Romero Middents studies and teaches film and world literature at Â鶹´«Ã½ in Washington, DC, specifically focusing on Latin Â鶹´«Ã½ narratives from the 1960s to the present. His sc…
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middents@american.edu
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(202) 885-2979
Richard C. Sha
Professor
CAS | Literature
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…
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rcsha@american.edu
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(202) 885-6300
Anita Sherman
Professor
CAS | Literature
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…
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asherm@american.edu
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(202) 885-2988
Kathleen Smith
Assistant Professor
CAS | Literature
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…
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kathlees@american.edu
Sarah Trembath
Professorial Lecturer
CAS | Literature
Sarah Trembath is an editor, writer, and educator. She has been teaching since 1998 and joined the AU faculty in 2014. Her written work has appeared in Radical Teacher, the Santa Fe Writer’s Project Q…
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trembath@american.edu
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(202) 885-1456
Linda Voris
Associate Professor
CAS | Literature
Professor Voris’s teaching and research interests include 20th century Â鶹´«Ã½ and British literature, the intellectual history of modernism and its relation to the visual arts, as well as contempora…
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voris@american.edu
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(202) 885-2930
Lily Wong
Associate Professor
CAS | Literature
Lily Wong is an Associate Professor in the departments of Literature (LIT) and Critical Race Gender & Culture Studies (CRGC) at Â鶹´«Ã½. She also serves as an Associate Director of Faculty…
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wong@american.edu
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(202) 885-2987
Lacey Wootton
Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer
CAS | Literature
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 AU. Prior to her time at AU, she e…
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lwoott@american.edu
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(202) 885-2982