The Harriet W. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning

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.