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

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

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

David Brown Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow Research interests: Sociolinguistics; historical sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics; and pedagogy

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

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

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

Kathryn Farley Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow Research interests: Digital media and performance, literary adaptation, multimedia-based improv comedy, computers and creativity website

Elizabeth Freudenthal Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow Research interests: Contemporary U.S. fiction, biomedicine and culture, postmodernism, histories of science, medicine and technology, material culture

Jurgen Grandt Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow Research interests: African American literature and culture, musicology, Walter Benjamin, southern literature website

Jo Anne Harris Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow Research interests: Eighteenth-century Studies, Caribbean Literatures, Early Manuscripts, digital scholarship,computer-mediated communication website

Anthony (Andy) Hoefer Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow Research interests: 20th C. U.S. Literature; Southern Studies; place, space, and ethnicity; nation and region; ecocriticism; apocalyptic literature and rhetoric

Jared Johnson Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow Research interests: English Renaissance literature; new economic criticism and empire studies; film, media, and cultural studies website

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

Stacy Lavin Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow Research interests: 19th and 20th-century Anglo/Irish/American literature, literary modernism, 20th-century information culture, cultural studies of science, technology, and new media.

Danielle Lawson Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow Research interests: Internet chat, internet culture and language, language and social interaction in chat rooms, linguistic anthropology, technical communication and the internet website

Karissa McCoy Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow Research interests: 20th and 21st-century American fiction, critical race studies, literature of the American South, gender studies website

Ruth McIntyre Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow Research interests: Late medieval literature, rhetoric, Manuscript studies, women's writing, technical communication

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

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

Matthew Paproth Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow Research interests: 20th and 21st-century British fiction, popular culture, digital pedagogy website

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

Manuel Perez-Tejada Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow Research interests: Mexican cinema, documentary films, critical political economy, cultural studies website

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

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

Tiffany Tsao Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow Research interests: Victorian and Moodernist British literature; postcolonial literature (in particular, that of Southeast Asia); and science and literature

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

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

Andrea Wood Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow Research interests: Gender & sexuality studies, LGBTQ literature and film, popular genres, comics and animation, feminist and queer theory, fandom, Japanese pop culture website