Cynthia Callahan, Associate Professor of English (PhD, University of Delaware), teaches American and multi-ethnic American literatures. Focusing on fictional adoptive families in American literature, her first book, Kin of Another Kind: Transracial Adoption in American Literature (Michigan UP, 2011), explores the role of kinship in articulating racial and national identities in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her current book project examines narratives by and about African Americans in adoptive relationships in the years following World War II. Callahan’s research has been featured in or is forthcoming from MELUS, Modern Fiction Studies, Twentieth Century Literature, and Adoption & Culture. Callahan is a recipient of the Mansfield campus Excellence in Teaching and Faculty Service Awards. She currently serves as the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs for the Mansfield campus. callahan.138@osu.edu, 419-755-4242.
Jamison Kantor, Associate Professor and Coordinator of the English Major (PhD, University of Maryland), focuses on British Romantic literature, the Black Atlantic and the idea of technological progress in modernity. His first book, Honor, Romanticism, and the Hidden Value of Modernity (Cambridge, 2022) considers the literary culture and politics of honor in the Romantic era. He is finishing a second book about technology, automation and the ideology of historical progress in the art and literature of a long Romantic period. Kantor's articles and reviews have been appeared in The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, PMLA, Jump Cut, and Critical Inquiry. Kantor is also the winner of the 2025-6 Paul W. Brown Excellence in Teaching Award, given to one History and one English professor from across the university. He is delighted to work with students at all levels on both traditional and non-traditional projects. kantor.41@osu.edu, 419-755-4017.
Andrew Kinney, Senior Lecturer (MA, Ohio State University), teaches first year writing in addition to other writing and literature courses in the English department. He currently serves as the Writing Program Administrator. Andrew is interested in how readers and writers work in digital spaces, the construction of community among teachers and students, and rhetoric. He hopes students apply their rhetorical powers for virtuous ends. kinney.64@osu.edu, 419-755-4153.
Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich, Associate Professor (PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), specializes in Shakespeare, Renaissance drama, and early modern women writers. Her research and teaching are united by interests in literary and theater history, adaptation, gender, and disability. The author of The Elizabethan Country House Entertainment: Print, Performance, and Gender (2016), she has published widely on early modern English drama and poetry. Her in-progress academic book on the history of staging masques in Shakespeare is titled “Strange Spectacles: Shakespeare’s Masques and Their Afterlives.” She is also editing Much Ado About Nothing for Cambridge Shakespeare Editions and writing a book for students about how gender was performed on Shakespeare’s all-male stage. She especially enjoys supervising student research projects. kolkovich.1@osu.edu, 419-755-4281.
Joan L. Richmond, Senior Lecturer (ABD, University of Texas at Arlington), has researched rhetoric, composition, and critical theory. Her current research interests include postmodern theory and pop culture. One project includes an exploration of non-linear dynamics as they relate to postmodern theory and teaching composition. She has taught composition, literature, and literary theory in Texas for ten years and returned to her native Ohio in 2000. richmond.58@osu.edu, 419-755-4206.