Member Type: Faculty
Caroline Bell-Stewart, MFA
Caroline Bell-Stewart is a writer originally from Shelter Island, NY. Her stories can be found in Gulf Coast, Denver Quarterly, Fairy Tale Review, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere. She is the author of the chapbook “Husbandly Things” and co-creator of a cartomantic ornithology narrative called “Mast Year: A Mystical Field Guide”. Caroline received a BA from Bard College […]
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Jacob Burg, PhD
Dr. Jacob Burg is a Lecturer at Boston University in the College of Arts and Sciences’ Writing Program. He was the winner of the 2015-16 Brandeis University Shirle Dorothy Robbins Creative Writing Prize, and the 2019-20 Milton Hindus Dissertation Fellowship. He received his BA in English from Boston College and his PhD in American Literature […]
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Amelia McConville, PhD
Dr. Amelia McConville received her PhD in poetry and poetics with Neurohumanities at Trinity College in Dublin. After completion of her undergraduate degree in English Literature and Philosophy at Trinity, she commenced interdisciplinary doctoral research on poetry with Neurohumanities, investigating visual poetry and poetics using both literary criticism and experimental psychology. Along with interdisciplinary academic […]
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Nicole Schafenacker, MA
Nicole Schafenacker is a writer, artist, and researcher residing on the traditional territory of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation and Ta’an Kwäch’än Council in Whitehorse, Yukon. She holds a BA Honours degree in Drama and Creative Writing from the University of Alberta (Canada) and a Masters degree in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Northern […]
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Christopher González, PhD
Dr. Christopher González is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Endowed Chair in the Department of English at Southern Methodist University. He is the author and editor of many books including the International Latino Book Award-winning Reel Latinxs: Representation in U.S. Film & TV; the Perkins Prize Honorable Mention Permissible Narratives: The Promise of Latino/a Literature; Reading Junot […]
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Carlos Gabriel Kelly González, PhD
Dr. Kelly González is a first-generation Mexican American who received his PhD from The Ohio State University in English with emphasis in Latinx Studies and Video Game Studies. He also minored in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Carlos is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Humanities Research Center at Rice University where he continues to […]
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Brendan McCauley, MFA
Brendan McCauley is a PhD candidate in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst where he researches media industries and explores how digital platforms and more have altered broader artistic practice. He teaches film and television production alongside performance writing and has been a Gallery Director and curator for 10 years.
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Isaiah Stavchansky
Isaiah Stavchansky is a Mexican American playwright and actor. His plays have been developed and produced with Atlantic Acting School, Blue Bird Theater Company, The Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Tank NYC, and Kenyon College. He is a current finalist for Ensemble Studio Theater’s Youngblood Writer’s Group and recently received an NYC Corps Artist’s Grant. He […]
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Amy Zhang
Amy Zhang is a writer, educator, and producer. You can find her non-fiction and fiction in the New York Times, the Atlantic, Atlas Obscura, and Jellyfish Review, where her flash fiction was nominated for Best Small Fictions of 2020. She was formerly a Segment Producer at Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj and also worked in community […]
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Michael Harrington, PhD
Dr. Michael Harrington is an Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow in the Department of English at New York University. His research explores conceptions of race and gender in US culture, literature, and media through the 20th and 21st centuries. He received his PhD in English from Princeton University and BA. from Amherst College. He is a long-time […]
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