Faculty Fellows

Ileana Nachescu (she/ea) is a scholar of intersectional and transnational feminism. She co-founded the first Women’s Studies Center at her alma mater, the University of the West, Timisoara, Romania. Her monograph titled The National Alliance of Black Feminists: A History has recently been published by the University of Illinois Press.

An award-winning educator, Ileana Nachescu received two Humanities Plus grants (in 2019 and 2024) to integrate zines and podcasts into feminist pedagogy, and has

My research interests include public perception of science and science communication in film, media and museums. I have an A.B. in Biological Sciences from Mount Holyoke College; and an M.S. in Zoology and a Ph.D. in Media Studies, both from Rutgers University. My doctoral research focused on the role of visual format, rhetoric and culture in science communication. Prior to my tenure at Rutgers, I worked at Enzon Inc., serving in a variety of positions from immunologist to Associate Director of

Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan is an Instructor in the History Department at Rutgers University, where she directs the Public History Program. She holds a PhD in History from the University of Leicester and an MA in Modern History from Queens University Belfast, and researches poverty, labor, mobility, crime and punishment in the early American northeast, as well as public historical and commemorative representations of these subjects. Kristin is the author of Vagrants and Vagabonds: Poverty and

Professor Scanlon is the author of Narrative, Authority, and Power: The Medieval Exemplum and the Chaucerian Tradition (1994). He is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Literature, 1100-1500 (2009), and co-editor of John Lydgate: Poetry, Culture, and Lancastrian England (with James Simpson, 2005). He has published numerous essays on Middle English, Old French, Medieval Latin texts and traditions. He has also published on medievalism, and American and African-American Literature.