Anna Brecke, Ph.D.
Anna Brecke, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor | University Seminars
Anna Brecke is an adjunct faculty member at Salve Regina and is also a Lecturer in Literary Arts at RISD. She holds duel Master’s degrees in English and Gender/Cultural Studies from Simmons University, and a Ph.D. in English from URI. Her research focuses on gender and popular media in the 19th century and today.
Her specific interests include non-canonical 19th-century women’s writing, the periodic press and serialized narrative, television and the gendered body, and supernatural/speculative fiction.
She is a co-founder of the Mary Elizabeth Braddon Association and is also an area chair in Women’s and Gender Studies for the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association. She has appeared on the podcasts “The Victorian Scribblers” and “3 Interns and Counting.”
Donna Harrington-Lueker, Ph.D.
Donna Harrington-Lueker, Ph.D.
Professor | English, Communications, and Media
A former magazine writer and editor, Donna Harrington-Lueker is a specialist in print culture and book history. Her research interests include 19th century print culture, the radical or alternative press; women and the media; and global media systems. Her work has appeared in Book History, 19th Century Studies, Journalism History, and the Keats-Shelley Journal. She is the author of Books for Idle Hours: 19th-Century Publishing and the Rise of Summer Reading.
Dr. Harrington-Lueker received her bachelor’s degree from Merrimack College in North Andover, M.A., and her master’s and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. She has worked as a magazine editor in Washington, D.C., and San Francisco and freelanced from the Providence, R.I. area.
Hyoyeun Jun, Ph.D.
Hyoyeun Jun, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
English, Communications, and Media
Dr. Hyoyeun Jun received her Ph.D. in Mass Communication at the University of Georgia in May 2020. Her interdisciplinary scholarship combines work on crisis and risk communication, health communication, and science communication, from a public relations’ perspective, to provide effective and tailored messaging in situations where the public is experiencing crisis and risk. Her aim is to understand uncertainties faced by the public in crisis and to offer strategies for effective messaging to public relations practitioners in managing a crisis.