BRENNA CASEY
Duke University, Ph.D., English
University of Notre Dame, M.F.A., Creative Writing
Boston College, B.A., English, B.A., Hispanic Studies

Brenna is a Lecturer at Duke University with a dual appointment in the Departments of English and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies. She teaches courses in literature, creative writing, ethnic studies, gender studies, and critical theory. Her research and writing interrogate the transnational formations of race and gender categories through literature and visual culture of the Atlantic World.  Brenna received her Ph.D. from Duke with a certificate in Feminist Studies. She also holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Notre Dame where she was the Sparks Fellow. Brenna’s essays, poetry, and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, The Boiler, Post Road, Leviathan, and others. Brenna has led programs for Putney Student Travel and National Geographic Student Expeditions in Ecuador, Peru, Argentina, Costa Rica, Ireland, Spain, and the Czech Republic. Brenna is fluent in Spanish.

VERONICA FITZPATRICK
University of Pittsburgh, Ph.D., English and Film Studies
University of Notre Dame, M.F.A., Creative Writing
Michigan State University, B.A., English, Women’s Studies

After completing her B.A. at Michigan State, Veronica earned her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Notre Dame, and her Ph.D. in English with an emphasis in film studies from the University of Pittsburgh. Veronica has taught with the Young Writers Workshop, the educational nonprofit Pittsburgh Filmmakers, and the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University. This fall, she will join the Department of Performing & Media Arts at Cornell University. Veronica has published writing on art and culture in Bright Wall/Dark Room, cléo, the Ploughshares blog, The Village Voice, and elsewhere. She has led Putney’s Writing in Ireland program three times and taught creative writing on their Pre-College Prague program last year.