Education: AB, Bryn Mawr College, 1972; PhD, Indiana University, 1992

Biography: Wendy Kolmar is Professor of English and of Women’s and Gender Studies. She teaches courses on feminist theory and the history of feminist thought, Victorian literature, women and literature, gothic and supernatural literature, film and literary criticism. She serves regularly as a consultant and reviewer for women’s and gender studies programs around the country and also served for many years on various governing bodies of the National Women’s Studies Association. Her publications include Haunting the House of Fiction: Feminist Perspectives on Ghost Stories by American Women (with Lynette Carpenter — 1991); Creating an Inclusive College Curriculum: A Teaching Source Book from the New Jersey Project (edited with Ellen G. Friedman, Charley B. Flint, and Paula Rothenberg — 1996); A Selected Annotated Bibliography of Ghost Stories by British and American Women Writers (with Lynette Carpenter — 1998); Feminist Theory: A Reader (with Fran Batkowski, now in its second edition) and a special issue of Women’s Studies Quarterly, entitled Looking Across the Lens: Women’s Studies and Film.

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Education:  BA, Texas A&M University, 2002; MA, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005; PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2012

Biography: Summer Harrison is an Associate Professor of English and Environmental Studies & Sustainability. Her teaching and research interests include environmental and social justice, ecocriticism, narrative, gender studies, nonhuman personhood, energy humanities, community-based learning, and contemporary American literatures. At Drew, she teaches courses in food justice and U.S. literature, nature writing, environmental justice, ecocriticism, gender and contemporary literature, American Indian literature and film, and multiethnic U.S. literature. Recent publications include “Mountaintop Removal Mining Fiction: Energy Humanities and Environmental Injustice,” published in Appalachian Journal, and  “’We Need New Stories’: Trauma, Storytelling, and the Mapping of Environmental Injustice in Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms and Standing Rock,” which appears in American Indian Quarterly. In her spare time, she likes drawing and adventure walking.

Education:  BA, University of Mumbai; MA, University of Florida; MFA (Film and Media Arts), Temple University; PhD, Rutgers University.

Biography: Shakti Jaising’s research and teaching engage with twentieth- and twenty-first-century Anglophone literatures, film studies, Marxism, feminism, and postcolonial and globalization studies. Her book Beyond Alterity: Contemporary Indian Fiction and the Neoliberal Script (2023) won the 2024 Bela Kornitzer Nonfiction Award. Focusing on literature and film from contemporary India, and departing from assumptions of alterity and difference that typically inform approaches to the formerly colonized world, the book draws attention to continuities produced by global capitalism’s structuring of consciousness and subjectivity across the North-South divide. Jaising’s new research investigates the material and cultural impacts of streaming services like Netflix. She is co-editor of the forthcoming volume, Streaming Video in the Global South (Bloomsbury)—and her scholarly writing also appears in journals such as Modern Fiction Studies, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, and ARIEL: A Review of International English Literatures.

Education: BA, University at East Anglia, 1981; MA, 1986; PhD, Binghamton University, 1991.​

Biography:  Sandra Jamieson specializes in writing and communication studies and directs Drew’s Undergraduate Writing Fellows program. She teaches courses on social media, digital writing, authorship, genres of writing, creative nonfiction, tutoring and teaching writing, and civic engagement, and has led travel programs to Argentina and Cuba, and service trips to Honduras and the Dominican Republic. A principal researcher in the national study of student writing, the Citation Project, she has published many articles and book chapters in addition to The Bedford Guide to Teaching Writing in the Disciplines, and three co-edited collections, Coming of Age: The Advanced Writing Curriculum (2000), Information Literacy: Research and Collaboration across Disciplines (2016), and Points of Departure: Rethinking Student Source Use and Writing Studies Research Methods (2018). She has held office in two major writing studies organizations, and regularly lectures and runs workshops on plagiarism and information literacy on college campuses and presents papers at professional conferences in the US and abroad.

Website: sandrajamieson.net

Education: BA, University of Washington, 2009; MA, UC Irvine, 2012; PhD, UC Irvine, 2018.

Biography: Specializing in composition theory and pedagogy, Jens Lloyd has a particular interest in place-based approaches to research and teaching. Other interests include writing program administration, histories and theories of rhetoric, travel writing, and young adult fiction. His scholarly writing appears in Rhetoric Review, Literacy in Composition Studies, Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society, and Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric, as well as in Bordered Writers: Latinx Identities and Literacy Practices at Hispanic-Serving Institutions, an edited collection from SUNY Press. His favorite tree on campus is conveniently located right outside his office window.

Education: BA, University of York; MPhil, University of Cambridge; PhD, Duke University.

Biography: Jacob Soule is Assistant Teaching Professor of English. His teaching and research interests include modern and contemporary Anglophone literatures (particularly the novel), critical theory, urban studies and the environmental humanities more broadly. He has taught courses on genre fiction and film, cities in literature, nature and environmental writing, and literary and cultural theory. His scholarly writing has appeared in Contemporary Literature, Novel: A Forum on Fiction, and the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, in addition to Liquidity, Flows, Circulation: The Cultural Logic of Environmentalization, an edited collection published by The University of Chicago Press.

Education:  BA, University of Chicago, 1998; MA, University of Pennsylvania, 2006; PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 2009

Biography: Hannah Wells is a scholar of American literature, culture, and philosophy. Her teaching and research interests include law and literature, African American literature, political philosophy, pragmatism, and the history of science. She is currently at work on a book called American Pragmatism and the Color Line, which explores the racial and material histories out of which pragmatist philosophy emerged as well as pragmatism’s vexed use value for writers like Henry James and W.E.B. Du Bois. Her articles appear in American Literature and The Henry James Review. Before coming to Drew, Hannah was an A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto. She has also taught at Stanford, the Cooper Union, and the University of Pennsylvania.

Education: B.A., University of Pennsylvania; M.A. The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University; M.F.A. University of Arizona

Biography: Courtney Zoffness won the 2018 Sunday Times Short Story Award, the largest international prize for short fiction. She also received the Arts & Letters Creative Nonfiction Prize and the American Literary Review Fiction Prize, and her work has appeared in several journals and anthologies, including The Southern Review, Longreads, The Rumpus, The Common, Los Angeles Review of Books, and McSweeney’s Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement. She has been honored with an Emerging Writers Fellowship from The Center for Fiction, residency fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, and a notable essay in Best American Essays 2018. Courtney has taught at a range of institutions, from Yale University to the University of Freiburg in Germany. At Drew, she teaches fiction, creative nonfiction, and contemporary American literature, and directs the Creative Writing Program.