COMMUNICATIONS

Program Faculty

Rebecca Burnett, Director, Writing & Communication Program
Professor
Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon

Office: Skiles 348
Phone: (404) 894-1158

Andrew Cooper, Writing Program Coordinator
Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Princeton
website

Office: Skiles 301
Phone: (404) 894-8923

Karen Head, Special Advisor to the Writing & Communication Program, LCC
Graduate Communication Coordinator, CETL
Ph.D., Nebraska
website

Office: Skiles 350
Phone: (404) 385-2225 or 385-7357

Brittain Fellows

Alexander Ames, Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Saint Louis
Research interests include: Old and Middle English language, literature, paleography, and codicology; medieval and early modern drama; medievalism
website

Office: Skiles 323
Phone: 404-894-8482

Fernando Arenas, Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Kansas
Research interests include: Audience studies, disability studies, art cinema narration, Latin-American cinema.
website

Office: Skiles 320
Phone: 404-894-0505

Scott Banville, Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Ohio State
Research interests include: Victorian literature and culture, digital media studies, cultural studies
website

Office: Skiles 316
Phone: (404) 894-4815

Olin Bjork, Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Texas
Research interests include: Milton Studies, digital humanities, bibliography and textual studies
website

Office: Skiles 323
Phone: (404) 894-8482

Emma Crandall, Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Michigan
Research interests include: American modernism & the avant-garde, gender & sexuality studies, Gertrude Stein
website

Office: Skiles 307
Phone: (404) 894-7626

Francis Desiderio, Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Emory
Research interests include: American studies, urban studies, and the production of space
website

Office: Skiles 329
Phone: 404-385-0626

Terry Easton, Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Emory
Research interests include: Labor, immigration, culture and identity
website

Office: Skiles 309
Phone: 404-894-1021

Jason Embry, Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Ph.D. (cand.), Georgia State
Research interests include: Postmodern American literature, Beat literature, science fiction studies, web culture, and pop-cultural studies
website

Office: Skiles 328
Phone: 404-894-6816

Lori Emerson, Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Ph.D., SUNY Buffalo
Research interests include: American and Canadian literature, new media theory and writing
website

Office: Skiles 328
Phone: (404) 894-6816

Kathryn Farley, Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Northwestern
Research interests include: Digital performance studies, technological arts education, literary adaptation, multimedia improvisation, computers and creative learning
website

Office: Skiles 313
Phone: (404) 894-1025

Daryl Farmer, Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Nebraska
Research interests include: Fiction and literary nonfiction writing, 20th century literature, environmental studies, travel literature, and literature of contemporary West
website

Office: Skiles 321
Phone: (404) 894-1289

Michael Fournier, Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Ph.D. (cand.), Georgia State
Research interests include: Renaissance literature, instructional technology, 20thcentury American & Canadian poetry
website

Office: Skiles 326
Phone: (404) 894-7491

Jürgen Grandt, Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Georgia
Research interests include: African American literature and culture, musicology, modernism
website

Office: Skiles 304
Phone: (404) 894-1023

Jared Johnson, Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Ph.D. Candidate, Stony Brook
Research interests include: English Renaissance literature; new economic criticism and empire studies; film, media, and cultural studies
website

Office: Skiles 304
Phone: (404) 894-1023

Danielle Lawson, Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Ph.D. (cand.), Queensland University of Technology
Research interests include: New media (primarily internet chat, internet advertising, and online video games); group membership and 'misbehaving' in online forums; the C-generation; and internet research ethics
website

Office: Skiles 309
Phone: (404) 894-1021

Karissa McCoy, Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Vanderbilt
Research interests include: American literature and American cultural studies, critical race theory, 
literature and class relations, gender theory
website

Office: Skiles 310
Phone: (404) 894-7490

Derek Merrill, Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Florida
Research interests include: 20th century U.S. literature, cultural and visual studies, political theory and literature.
website

Office: Skiles 316
Phone: (404) 894-4815

Matthew Paproth, Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Southern Illinois-Carbondale
Research interests include: Contemporary British and Irish fiction, modernism and postmodernism, cultural studies and popular culture
website

Office: Skiles 303
Phone: (404) 894-2738

Chad Pearson, Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Texas at Dallas
Research interests include: Existential literature and philosophy, history of the novel, world literature
website

Office: Skiles 310
Phone: (404) 894-7490

Manuel Perez-Tejada, Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Ph.D. Candidate, Kansas
Research interests include: Mexican cinema, documentary films, critical political economy, cultural studies
website

Office: Skiles 320
Phone: (404) 894-0505

Rubén Ramírez-Sánchez, Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Ph.D., New Mexico
Research interests include: Cultural studies, uses of media technologies, social resistance, punk culture
website

Office: Skiles 313
Phone: (404) 894-1025

JC Reilly, STAC Program Advisor
Ph.D., Nebraska
Research interests include: Women's Spirituality Studies, Women's Studies, Poetry & Poetics
website

Office: Skiles 321
Phone: 404-894-1289

Todd Reynolds, Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Florida
Research interests include: Nineteenth century US literature and culture, technology and the social division of labor
website

Office: Skiles 315
Phone: 404-894-1021

Benjamin Robertson, Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Buffalo
Research interests include: American literature, science and literature, politics
website

Office: Skiles 301
Phone: 404-894-8923

Lisa Schneider, Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Emory
Research interests include: 20th Century American literature, poetry and poetics, psychoanalysis, literary theory
website

Office: Skiles 307
Phone: 404-894-7626

Kent Still, Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Ph.D. (cand), Emory
Research interests include: Phenomenology, ethics and politics in contemporary continental philosophy, modernity
website

Office: Skiles 329
Phone: (404) 385.0626

Daniel Vollaro, Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Georgia State
Research interests include: Canon formation, literary history, genocide studies, H. D. Thoreau
website

Office: Skiles 316
Phone: (404) 894-7491

Allison Whitney, Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Chicago
Research interests include: Cinema and media studies, communications, gender studies
website

Office: Skiles 316
Phone: (404) 894-1024

Andrea Wood, Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Florida
Research interests include: Gender & sexuality studies, feminist and queer theory, film and new media studies, popular genres, comics and animation, fandom, and Japanese pop culture
website

Office: Skiles 303
Phone: (404) 894-2738