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Marcia Gealy
Distinguished Senior Lecturer, The Writing Program and Comparative Literature

PhD, The Ohio State University

Kresge Hall, 2-215
847-491-4966
mgealy@northwestern.edu

Marcia B. Gealy is a Distinguished Senior Lecturer in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University where she teaches a variety of courses in the Writing Program, the Center for the Writing Arts, and Comparative Literature. She received her M.A in English and Comparative Literature with Honors from Columbia University in N.Y. and her Ph.D. in English with a special field in Modern Jewish Literature and History from Ohio State University. She has been recognized for excellence in teaching at Northwestern by Mortar Board and the Associated Student Government. In 2002, she was named the Charles Deering McCormick University Distinguished Lecturer. In 2008, the Orientation Issue of the Daily Northwestern named her Modern Jewish Literature course one of the "12 Classes You Must Enroll In before Leaving NU." Her research interests include the teaching of minority students and the storytelling tradition in Modern Jewish literature, two fields in which she has published articles. Her research has been funded by the Ford Foundation, the Illinois Humanities Council and a Hewlett Endowment Grant. She is a reader for the Northwestern University Press, a member of the University Fellowships Committee, a faculty fellow at the Women's Residential College, and a senior fellow at the Searle Center for Teaching Excellence.

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