Grace is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in the English Department. Before Brown, she earned a BA in English from Grinnell College. Her research examines the interactions between early modern legal structures and dramatic works. In addition to her research, she has designed and taught coursework for undergraduate students and for participants of the Summer@Brown Pre-College programs. Grace began working with the Sheridan Center through the Teaching and Course Design Seminars, and is returning as a Head Teaching Consultant.

A literary critic and creative writer from Los Angeles, California, Juan Gallardo is a fifth-year doctoral candidate in the English department. He is a scholar of Lacanian psychoanalysis, African American literature, narrative theory, and rhetoric and composition. This will be his third year with the Sheridan Writing Center.

Kevin is a fifth-year PhD Candidate in biomedical engineering with a research focus on cellular response to mechanical stimuli. Kevin is also in his second year as President of the Graduate Student Council where he has led initiatives and advocated for many graduate student needs on campus. He earned an ScM in biomedical engineering from Brown and a BS in biomolecular engineering from the Milwaukee School of Engineering where he was a student-athlete captaining the ice hockey team. He first engaged with the Sheridan Center through the teaching seminar during his master's studies, continued by completing the course design seminar during his early doctoral studies, and continued involvement as a Teaching Consultant and Engineering Department Liaison.

Brianna McNish earned a B.A. in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Connecticut, where she found her love of teaching and talking about writing. She is now a sixth-year Ph.D. candidate in English Literature at Brown University. Her dissertation project focuses on early twentieth-century African-American literature, exploring the affective resonances of black literary productions of the “romance plot” and sensual pleasure in contention with emerging turn-of-the-century black political movements. Brianna joins the Sheridan Center in Fall 2024 as an Interdisciplinary Opportunity Fellow after completing Sheridan’s Teaching Certificate program in Fall 2023.