BRITTAIN FELLOWS

Matthew Adkins

Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: 20th century American fiction; the evocation of place in fictional landscapes; post-modernism and pop culture

Brandy Blake

University of Georgia
Children’s literature, fantasy, Victorian and modern British literature

Bob Blaskiewicz

Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: 20th-century American literature; composition studies; and academic skepticism

Doris Bremm

University of Florida
20th-century literature, visual art and culture, film, museum studies

Kathryn Crowther

Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: Victorian literature and nineteenth-century print culture; Neo-victorian writing; women's studies

Lauren Curtright

University of Minnesota
Gothic fiction, film, feminism, modernism

Leigh Dillard

Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: 18th-century British literature; book illustration; and visual culture.

Andrew Famiglietti

Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: Cultural studies; science and technology studies; intellectual property and the copyleft movement; and the effect of digital media on the university

Andy Frazee

University of Georgia
Creative writing, poetry, business communication

Michelle Gibbons

University of Pittsburgh
Rhetorical theory and criticism, rhetoric of science, visual communication

Jo Anne Harris

Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: Eighteenth-century Studies, Caribbean Literatures, Early Manuscripts, digital scholarship,computer-mediated communication
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Leeann Hunter

University of Florida
Victorian literature, economics, painting, translation

Diane Jakacki

University of Waterloo
Early modern literature, multimedia research, theatre

Melanie Kohnen

Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: Queer representations in American film and television and their relationship to questions of space, time, citizenship, and the nation

Crystal Lake

Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: Eighteenth-century and Romantic British literature, material culture, and historiography; cultural studies; women writers

Robert LeBlanc

University of Rhode Island
20th-century American literature, postmodernism, student writing

Thomas Lolis

University of Miami
Renaissance literature, composition, graphic novel and visual rhetoric

Regina Martin

University of Florida
Late 19th- and 20th-century British literature, history of the novel, theory

Melissa Meeks

Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: Multimodal composition, assessment, and writing program administration

Kellie Meyer

University of York
Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 19th-century literature, criticism

Irene Middleton

Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: 20th and 21st century audiences of Shakespeare and their cognitive responses to theatre.

Michelle Miles

Emory University
Contemporary Irish literature, postcolonial literature, composition

Jennifer Parrott

Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: Twentieth-century British and Irish fiction and drama, Contemporary Irish women playwrights, travel writing

 

Paulette Richards

Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: Digital video as technical discourse

Christopher Ritter

Washington State University
Digital game studies, digital rhetoric, computers and writing

Peter Rorabaugh

Georgia State University
Early Greek, Roman, and Christian rhetorics; American novels

Rebekah Sheldon

City University of New York
Science fiction, science and literature, queer studies

Malavika Shetty

University of Texas - Austin
Linguistics, rhetoric, gaming, television, Indian culture and identity

Jesse Stommel

University of Colorado at Boulder
Film, digital media, American literature, horror, queer theory

Nirmal Trivedi

Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: American Studies; 19th-century American literature; postcolonial theory; and popular culture

Candice Welhausen

Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: Visual communication, rhetorical theory, and technical communication

Robin Wharton

Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: Medieval law and literature; critical legal studies; and the digital humanities

Roger Whitson

Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: Romantic and postmodern literature; graphic novels; media theory; and disability studies