Advisory Board
Tyler and Alice Haynes Professor of American Studies
Interdisciplinary Program Coordinator, American Studies
Specialties:
- Women in combat
- American autobiography
- Women and guns
- American Communist Party (Earl Browder)
- Civil rights in Richmond
(804) 289-8312
Professor of English
Africana Studies Advisory Board Member
Specialties:
- African American Literature and Culture
- 20th Century American Literature
- Black Vernacular Tradition
- Post-Blackness
(804) 289-8292
Dr. Edward L. Ayers
He/Him
Tucker-Boatwright Professor of the Humanities and President Emeritus
Specialties:
- The Civil War
- Digital Humanities
(804) 334-5554
Professor of Theatre
Affiliate faculty in the American Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexualities Studies Programs
Associate Dean, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB)
Specialties:
- Theatre as Social Change
- 20th and 21st Century American Theatre and Performance
- Latina/o Cultural Productions
- Solo Performance
- Documentary Theatre
- Gender and Performance
- Hip Hop Performances
(804) 287-6352
Dr. Nicole Maurantonio
She/Her
Professor of Rhetoric & Communications
Director of Advising, First-Year Seminar, and First- and Second-Year Programming
Specialties:
- Public memory
- U.S. media history
- Race and representation
- Qualitative research methods
(804) 289-8267
Associate Professor of Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Advisory Board Member
Specialties:
- Latin American crónica
- Southern Cone and Brazilian women writers
- Transnational Feminist Theory and Practice
- Gender and Sexuality Studies
(804) 287-6043
Professor of Digital Humanities
E. Claiborne Robins Professor of Liberal Arts
Data Science Advisory Board Member
Interdisciplinary Program Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Studies
Specialties:
- Computational/Digital Humanities
- Visual Culture
- Community Media
- Politics of Representation