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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…
Amanda Berry’s articles and essays include “desire vomit emptiness: Cymbeline’s Marriage Time,” Shakesqueer (ed. Madhavi Menon 2010); “The Altar of the Dead,” The Critical Companion to Henry James , (…
Andrew Bertaina is the author of the essay collection, The Body Is A Temporary Gathering Place (Autofocus 2024), the book length essay, Ethan Hawke & Me (Barrelhouse, 2025), and the short-story collec…
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…
Kyle Dargan is currently an Associate Professor of literature and Asst. Director of creative writing at American University, as well as the founder and editor of POST NO ILLS magazine. He also works a…
Dr. Kirstie Dorr is an associate professor of Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies and Literature. An interdisciplinary scholar, her research and teaching are anchored in Black, Indigenous, and …
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…
Paul Fileri (he/him/his) is Professorial Lecturer in the Cinema Studies program in the Department of Literature at American University, in Washington, DC. He received his doctorate in Cinema Studies f…
Dustin Friedman is Associate Professor of Literature at American University and affiliated faculty in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. His research focuses on Victorian literature, aestheticism…
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…
Gary Kafer’s fields of research and teaching include digital media, surveillance culture, algorithms and big data, science and technology studies, social media and video games, contemporary art, and t…
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 AU since 2007, David Keplinger is the recipient of the 2025 American Academy in Rome Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize for Literature. He will be in residence at the Academy until…
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…
Jeffrey Romero Middents studies and teaches film and world literature at American University in Washington, DC, specifically focusing on Latin American narratives from the 1960s to the present. His sc…
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…
Patricia Park is the author of award-winning adult literary and YA novels. Re Jane (Viking/Penguin Random House 2015), a modern retelling of Brontë’s Jane Eyre set in New York and Seoul, was named
Dolen Perkins-Valdez is the New York Times bestselling author of Wench, Balm, Take MyHand, and, most recently, Happy Land. Take My Hand was awarded the 202…
Professor Pike has taught in the Department of Literature since 1995. His most recent book is After the End: Cold War Culture and A…
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…
Rachel Louise Snyder is the author of Fugitive Denim: A Moving Story of People and Pants in the Borderless World of Global Trade, the novel What We’ve Lost is Nothing…
David J. Vázquez is Professor of Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies and Director of the Latina/o/x Studies Program. He teaches courses on comparative Latina/o/x literature and culture, compara…
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 American University. She also serves as an Associate Director of Faculty…
Rhonda Zimlich is the author of Raising Panic, winner of the Steel Toe Books 2023 Award for prose. She teaches writing at American University in Washington, DC. She writes about intergenerational trau…