Joseph Brentlinger

Visiting Lecturer, Public Oral Communication

• josbrent@iu.edu

Research interests: The Hermeneutics in Real Life Project; Invitational Rhetorical Invention; Digital Rhetoric, and; The Works of Paul Ricœur and Kenneth Burke 

David Graham

Visiting Lecturer

• grahamda@iu.edu

David Graham is visiting lecturer who previously was a faculty member at Texas Tech University. His research interests are writing in health science, fiction, creative non-fiction, theatre, and works in translation.

Mark McCleerey

COLL-P 155 Visiting Lecturer

Abigail Scott Rawleigh

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Abigail Scott Rawleigh holds a PhD in early American literature from the University of Notre Dame. Her work studies the intersection of religion and literature in the early Anglophone Atlantic with a particular emphasis on devotional practices and literatures. Her current book project focuses on domestic language, imagery, and the real spaces to which they correspond in seventeenth-century settler colonial poetry.

Nathan Schmidt

Visiting Lecturer

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Nathan Schmidt researches the relationship between infrastructure, technology, and the environment at the turn of the twentieth century. His interests include science fiction, popular science nonfiction, critical ecology, and archive studies. His work in the public humanities has included cirque performances, puppetry, and interactive walking tours. He is a managing editor at Gamers with Glasses, a site dedicated to bridging the gap between academic and popular video game criticism; his writing on games, music, and culture can be found at PopMatters and throughout the internet.

Claire Woodward

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Claire Woodward received her PhD in Germanic Studies in 2024. Her research interests center on narrative thinking, empathy, community, side-taking, economic narratives, and memory (all with a focus on German and comparative literature, culture, and film). Claire has conducted research in Fritz Breithaupt's Experimental Humanities Lab and currently assists with coordinating a research project on civic engagement at the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs. She has collaborated on articles with scholars from the humanities and sciences and looks forward to future interdisciplinary collaborations.