Notes From a Writer’s Desk: Meet the Fellows!

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Katie Callam received her PhD in historical musicology from Harvard University with American studies as her secondary field. Her research focuses on curating and public music history in the United States during the early twentieth century. Callam views the writing process as an endlessly fascinating puzzle of arranging words and organizing ideas. She loves finding new spots to write on campus and is a fan of the Loeb Music Library in particular.

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Louis Gerdelan received his PhD from the Department of History at Harvard University, where he specialized in the study of early modern Europe and the Atlantic world. His current research focuses on ideas about disasters in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He also has broad interdisciplinary interests, especially in environmental topics.

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Alex Creighton received his PhD from the Department of English at Harvard University, with studies of women, gender, and sexuality (WGS) as his secondary field. A long-time instructor in higher education, he has taught courses in English, creative writing, WGS, and expository writing. Writing, he believes, is all about practice: trying new things, making mistakes, revising, trying again. With practice—as well as guidance and encouragement—students can expand the boundaries of their abilities as writers.

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Jordan Wilkerson earned his PhD in chemistry from the Harvard University Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology. His research has been published in several atmospheric science journals and he writes about science for news outlets such as Eos and Scientific American. Wilkerson is passionate about helping graduate students more clearly communicate their research and its impact on our world today.

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 Emmy Waldman received her PhD from the Harvard University Department of English. Her research explores graphic narrative as a form and contemporary phenomenon. Her current book project, Filial Lines, examines the entanglement of the self and other people in the contemporary American graphic memoir. The book investigates a set of (auto)biographical works by Art Spiegelman and Alison Bechdel in which the focus is, paradoxically, on the parent's story. Her interest in comics and graphic narrative has led to a number of different projects currently underway, including an article on comics form and lyric poems and an illustrated essay with New Yorker cartoonist Jason Adam Katzenstein on comics and mental health.