Graduate Program Directors, Emerson College

Graduate Program Directors meet with all graduate students in their programs to regularly advise them or coordinate their advising with other faculty members, and to plan and update their programs of study to ensure timely graduation.

Business of Creative Enterprises

Robert Lyons

Pronouns: (He/Him/His)

Sr Executive-in-Residence and Graduate Program Director
Address
robert_lyons@emerson.edu Telephone 6178248746

Department Marketing Communication

Communication Disorders

Robin Danzak

Pronouns: (She/Her/Hers)

Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director - Residential
Address
robin_danzak@emerson.edu Telephone 6178248730

Department Communication Sciences & Disorders

Creative Writing

Mako Yoshikawa

Professor and Graduate Program Director
Address
mako_yoshikawa@emerson.edu Telephone 6178248750

Department Writing Literature & Publishing
Mako Yoshikawa is the author of the novels One Hundred and One Ways and Once Removed. Her work has been translated into six languages; awards for her writing include a Radcliffe Fellowship. Her essays have been published in the Missouri Review, Southern Indiana Review, Harvard Review, Story, LitHub, Best American Essays, and Longreads. Her memoir, Secrets of the Sun, is forthcoming from Ohio State University Press in February 2024.

Digital Communication Leadership online MA

Linda Gallant

Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director
Address
linda_gallant@emerson.edu Telephone 6178248737

Department Communication Studies

Digital Marketing and Data Analysis

Sereikhuoch Eng

Pronouns: (She/Her/Hers)

Assistant Professor and Graduate Program Director
Address
sereikhuoch_eng@emerson.edu Telephone 6178248746

Department Marketing Communication

Film and Media Art

John Gianvito

Professor and Graduate Program Director
Address
john_gianvito@emerson.edu Telephone 6178248800

Department Visual & Media Arts

Journalism and Media Innovation (Online MA)

Azeta Hatef

Pronouns: (She/Her/Hers)

Assistant Professor and Graduate Program Director
Address
azeta_hatef@emerson.edu Telephone 6178248805

Department Journalism
Azeta Hatef is a media researcher and award-winning instructor. Her scholarly interests focus on issues of social media as activism for underrepresented groups, gender and identity, and media systems in a global context. Dr. Hatef’s current work explores the representation of Afghans in American news media and popular culture.

Media Design

Paul Mihailidis

Pronouns: (He/Him/His)

Professor, Special Advisor to the Provost and Graduate Program Director
Address
paul_mihailidis@emerson.edu Telephone 6178248805

Department Journalism

Popular Fiction Writing and Publishing

Katie Williams

Pronouns: (She/Her/Hers)

Assistant Professor and Graduate Program Director
Address
katie_williams@emerson.edu Telephone 6178248750

Department Writing Literature & Publishing

Public Relations, Sports Communication, and Political Communication

Mary Anne Taylor

Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director
Address
maryanne_taylor@emerson.edu Telephone 6178248737

Department Communication Studies

Publishing and Writing

Susanne Althoff

Pronouns: (She/Her/Hers)

Associate Professor and Interim Graduate Program Director
Address
susanne_althoff@emerson.edu Telephone 6178248750

Department Writing Literature & Publishing

Strategic Marketing Communication

Brenna McCormick

Pronouns: (She/Her/Hers)

Senior Executive-in-Residence and Graduate Program Director
Address
brenna_mccormick@emerson.edu Telephone 6178248746

Department Marketing Communication

Speech@Emerson

Laura Glufling Tham

Pronouns: (She/Her/Hers)

Graduate Program Director, Speech@Emerson
Address
laura_glufling_tham@emerson.edu Telephone 6178248730

Department Communication Sciences & Disorders

Theatre Education

Lizzy Davis

Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director
Address
lizzy_davis@emerson.edu Telephone 6178248780

Department Performing Arts

Writing for Film and Television

James Lane

Senior Scholar-in-Residence II and Graduate Program Director
Address
james_lane@emerson.edu Telephone 6178248800

Department Visual & Media Arts
Jim is both a media scholar and filmmaker with extensive publications and production experience. His publications have been featured in Wide Angle, Jump Cut, and more while his filmography has exhibited at major film festivals internationally, with his autobiography I am Not an Anthropologist premiering at the Sundance Film Festival.

Jim is currently Senior Scholar-in-Residence for the department of Visual and Media Arts in LA and Graduate Program Director for the MFA Program in Film and TV Writing.

Graduate Program Directors