Julianna Leachman, PhD Profile and Contact Information
- 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 . 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