Our Writing, Literature & Publishing Department is made up of accomplished publishing and writing professionals. They are editors, writers, designers, producers, publishers, and consultants currently working in the field. They have experience at organizations such as Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Addison-Wesley, Globe Pequot Press, Nation Books, Viking, Penguin, Da Capo Press, GBH, MIT Technology Review, Newsweek, Inc., Men’s Journal, The New York Times Magazine, The Boston Globe Magazine, Boston magazine, and The Atlantic. Their expertise gives you a solid foundation in traditional and cutting-edge publishing.
Meet Your Graduate Program Director
Your Graduate Program Director, Bill Beuttler, will serve as your primary faculty advisor, guiding you on course selection to ensure that you will achieve your learning objectives and satisfy the program requirements. You will also receive program and department news from your program director along with any on- and off-campus opportunities that might be of interest to you.
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Bill BeuttlerPronouns: (He/Him/His)Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director
Bill Beuttler, a Chicago native, broke into journalism as a police reporter at the legendary City News Bureau of Chicago. His first teaching job was as a visiting professor of magazine journalism at Ohio University's E.W. Scripps School of Journalism.
Before joining Emerson, Beuttler spent three years covering jazz for The Boston Globe, which he continues to do occasionally, and teaching journalism at Boston University. His magazine work includes stints as a senior editor at the Discovery Channel, Men's Journal, and Boston magazine, and as an associate editor at DownBeat and American Way. He has also been published in JazzTimes, Jazziz, The Atlantic, Esquire, Chicago magazine, The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Travel Holiday, Cooking Light, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and The New York Times Book Review.
His first book, Make It New: Reshaping Jazz in the 21st Century, was published in 2019 by Lever Press and is available in paperback and open access editions. DownBeat magazine called Make It New “a rewarding book that examines some of the key voices directing contemporary jazz.”
Publishing Faculty
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Susanne AlthoffPronouns: (She/Her/Hers)Associate Professor
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Jabari AsimProfessor - On Leave
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Morgan BakerSenior Affiliated Faculty
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Michael BoeziAffiliated Faculty - On Leave
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Leslie BrokawPronouns: (She/Her/Hers)Senior Affiliated Faculty - On Leave
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Delia CabePronouns: (She/Her/Hers)Senior Affiliated Faculty
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Michael CampbellPronouns: (He/Him/His)Affiliated Faculty - On Leave
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Susan CanavanAffiliated Faculty
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Christine CassonSenior Writer-in-Residence II
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Mark ChimskyAffiliated Faculty
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Lisa ClarkPronouns: (She/Her/Hers)Affiliated Faculty
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Jaci ConryPronouns: (She/Her/Hers)Affiliated Faculty
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Alexander DannerPronouns: (He/Him/His)Affiliated Faculty
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Benoit Denizet-LewisAssociate Professor
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Lisa DiercksPronouns: (She/Her/Hers)Professor
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Angela DombroskiAffiliated Faculty - On Leave
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William DonoghueProfessor Emeritus
- Department Writing Literature & Publishing
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Joseph DurandPronouns: (He/Him/His)Senior Affiliated Faculty
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Karen EnglishSenior Affiliated Faculty
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Daniel FittsAffiliated Faculty
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Alyn GamblePronouns: (They/Them/Theirs)Affiliated Faculty
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Julia GlassSenior Distinguished Writer-in-Residence
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Lise HainesSenior Writer-in-Residence
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Joseph HerounPronouns: (He/Him/His)Affiliated Faculty - On Leave
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Steven HimmerPronouns: (He/Him/His)Sr Lecturer II and First Year Writing Program Director
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Beth InesonPronouns: (She/Her/Hers)Affiliated Faculty
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Roy KamadaPronouns: (He/Him/His)Associate Professor and Chair
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Missy KennedyPronouns: (She/Her/Hers)Affiliated Faculty
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Stephanie KnappAffiliated Faculty
Stephanie Knapp has worked in the editorial departments of Hachette Books, Crown Publishing, and Rodale Books. She was most recently a Senior Editor at Seal Press, where she acquired and edited feminist nonfiction projects. Stephanie is currently Director of External Affairs at the Commonwealth of Massachusetts' Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance. She is a graduate of New York University's Steinhardt School, and she holds an MBA with a focus in Social Impact from Boston University.
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Maria KoundouraPronouns: (She/Her/Hers)Interim Dean, School of Arts & Assistant Provostmaria_koundoura@emerson.edu
- Department Academic Affairs
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Mary KovaleskiSr. Lecturer II
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Scott LajoiePronouns: (He/Him/His)Affiliated Faculty
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Lauren LandryPronouns: (She/Her/Hers)Affiliated Faculty - On Leave
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Donald LankiewiczAffiliated Faculty - On Leave
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Adele LeePronouns: (She/Her/Hers)Associate Professor and Associate Chair
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Gian LombardoSenior Publisher-in-Residence
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Nancy MahoneyPronouns: (She/Her/Hers)Affiliated Faculty
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Megan MarshallCharles Wesley Emerson Professor
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Kimberly McLarinPronouns: (She/Her/Hers)Professor & Interim Dean of Graduate & Professional Studieskimberly_mclarin@emerson.edu
- Department Graduate & Professional Studies
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Melissa NassonPronouns: (She/Her/Hers)Affiliated Faculty - On Leave
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William OremSenior Writer-in-Residence
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Jon PapernickPronouns: (He/Him/His)Senior Writer-in-Residence
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Raquel PidalPronouns: (She/They)Assistant Professor
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Rachel RaczkaPronouns: (She/Her/Hers)Affiliated Faculty
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Philip RappaportPronouns: (He/Him/His)Affiliated Faculty
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Frederick ReikenProfessor
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George RestrepoPronouns: (He/Him/His)Affiliated Faculty
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John RodzvillaPronouns: (He/Him/His)Assistant Professor - On Leave
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Matt SchweitzerPronouns: (He/Him/His)Affiliated Faculty - On Leave
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Stephen ShanePronouns: (He/Him/His)Senior Lecturer - On Leave
Areas of Focus: Writing Center Coordinator
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Adam SpryAssociate Professor
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Kyanna SuttonPronouns: (She/Her/Hers)Assistant Professor
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Rosario SwansonPronouns: (She/Her/Hers)Associate Professor
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Daniel TobinPronouns: (He/Him/His)Professor
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Jessica TreadwaySenior Distinguished Writer-in-Residence
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Novuyo TshumaPronouns: (She/Her/Hers)Assistant Professor
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Jerald WalkerProfessor
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Wendy WaltersProfessor - On Leave
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Lissa WarrenSenior Affiliated Faculty
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Daniel WeaverSenior Publisher/Editor-in-Residence
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Steve YarbroughProfessor
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Mako YoshikawaProfessor and Graduate Program Director
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.