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Julianna Leachman, PhD Profile and Contact Information

College of Arts and Humanities
English, Communication, Great Texts, and Modern Languages
  • Assistant Professor of Literature
  • Director, The Academy

Education

  • PhD, Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin
  • MA, Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin
  • BA, Comparative Literature and Russian, Vanderbilt University

Courses Taught

Master of Liberal Arts

  • Russian Literature
  • Law and Literature

Honors College

  • Second Year Writing
  • All Roads Lead to Rome: The Ancient Roman and Early Christian Worlds
  • Walking to Piraeus: The Ancient Greek World
  • Faith, Reason & Romance: The Medieval & Renaissance Worlds
  • Enlightenment & Modernity
  • The Last 100 Years
  • The Story of Scripture

English

  • On Death and Dying
  • Composition and Literature I and II
  • Basic Grammar and Composition

Teaching Focus

Dr. Leachman is an Assistant Professor in the English Department and member of the Honors College at 91޳.  Her research and teaching interests include questions of regional and national identity in Russian literature and literature of the U.S. South

Research Interests and Publications

“The Price of Restoration: Flannery O’Connor and the Nineteenth-Century Russian Realists” in Beyond Solzhenitsyn: The Russian Soul in American Culture, eds. David P. Deavel and Jessica Hooten Wilson (University of Notre Dame Press 2020).

“Faulkner’s Dirty Little Secret: I Am Temple Drake.” The Faulkner Journal. 27.2 (Fall 2013): 3-22.

Awards and Honors

Carson McCullers Society 2018 Outstanding Conference Paper Prize

Additional Information

Dr. Leachman serves as Director of The Academy, HCU’s dual-enrollment program. Originally hailing from the great state of Alabama, Dr. Leachman has been a proud Texan since 2008.  She and her husband, Taylor, a minister ordained in the Presbyterian Church in America (and a native Houstonian), have three delightful, Texas-born daughters