Rhetoric Faculty Profiles
Rhetoric
Matthew Parfitt
Chairman, Division of Rhetoric; Associate Professor of Rhetoric
BA (English), MA (English), University of Toronto; PhD (English), Boston College
parfitt@bu.edu
Research interests: composition, literary theory, British literature 1880–1930, gender studies, World War I, Robert Frost
Robert Emery
Assistant Dean of the College; Director of the Writing Center; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Rhetoric
BA (English), University of Pennsylvania; MA (English), EdD (humanistic studies), Boston University
remery@bu.edu
Research interests: suspense fiction; composition theory; music composition and publishing
D. Lynn O’Brien Hallstein
Assistant Professor of Rhetoric
BA (speech communication), University of Pittsburgh; MA (speech communication), University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; PhD (communication), Ohio State University
lhallst@bu.edu
Research interests: Rhetoric, cultural studies, feminist theory, and contemporary understandings of motherhood and mothering.
Regina Hansen
Assistant Professor of Rhetoric
BA (English/anthropology), Tufts University; PhD (English/Victorian studies), Boston College
rhansen@bu.edu
Research interests: Victorian literature, children’s fiction, composition studies
Charles Henebry
Assistant Professor of Rhetoric
AB (science and literature), Harvard College; MA (development of English); PhD (English), New York University
henebry@bu.edu
Research interests: rhetorical practices and visual culture in the Renaissance
Christopher Pearce
Assistant Professor of Rhetoric
BA (classics and English), Vanderbilt University; MA (English), PhD (English), The University of Texas at Austin
617-358-3204
cppearce@bu.edu
Research interests: 18th-century British literature, linguistics and lexicography, Samuel Johnson
Gillian Pierce
Assistant Professor of Rhetoric
BA (French and English history and literature), Harvard College; MA (comparative literature), University of Michigan; PhD (comparative literature), University of Michigan
gpierce@bu.edu
Research interests: Comparative literature, eighteenth-century French literature and salons, literary and aesthetic theory, literature and the visual arts, Agnès Varda
Davida Pines
Associate Professor of Rhetoric
BA (English), Yale University; MA (English & American literature), New York University; MPhil (English romantic poetry), Oxford University; PhD (English & American literature), Brandeis University
dpines@bu.edu
Research interests: 20th-century British and American literature, marriage and the modern novel, romanticism
John Regan
Assistant Professor of Rhetoric
BA (English), Central Connecticut State University; MA (English), Southern Connecticut State University; PhD (English), University of Rhode Island
jregan@bu.edu
Research interests: American literature, composition and rhetoric; computers and writing instruction
Rachel Smith
Assistant Professor of Rhetoric
BA (Literature & Political Theory), Sarah Lawrence College; MA, PhD (English), Rutgers University
Matthew Stewart
Associate Professor of Rhetoric
BA (English), Coe College; HDip (Anglo-Irish literature), Trinity College; PhD (English), Emory University
mstewart@bu.edu
Research interests: war literature, modern literature, Ernest Hemingway
Megan Sullivan
Associate Professor of Rhetoric
BA (English), Albertus Magnus College; MA (English), Southern Connecticut State University; PhD (British literature), University of Rhode Island
msullvan@bu.edu
Research interests: education, writing, literature, film, women’s studies, Irish studies
Allan Taylor
Instructor of Rhetoric
BA (English & philosophy), Samford University; MA (English), University of Oregon; PhD (English), Boston University
actaylor@bu.edu
Research interests: 19th-century America
Kathleen Vandenberg
Assistant Professor of Rhetoric
BA (Biology), Belmont Abey College; MA (English Language & Literature) Winthrop University; PhD (Rhetoric & Composition), The Catholic University of America
Aaron Worth
Assistant Professor of Rhetoric
BA (English & theater), Bates College; MA, PhD (English & American literature), Brandeis University
worth@bu.edu
Research interests: English and American literature