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Leeann Hunter (Ph.D., University of Florida, 2010) is a scholarly associate professor of English at Washington State University. Her academic interests center on questions of purpose, community, and wellness. These interests have found expression in Victorian Studies in her research on care economies; in undergraduate programs in her work on personal and professional development; and most recently, in Indigenous Studies and mythology in her work on ecological economics and the hero’s journey. She is committed to student wellness and belonging, and actively researches and implements inclusive pedagogies.

Teaching

Dr. Hunter aspires to build a community around her students that will empower them to practice emotional discipline and courage in their academic and extracurricular endeavors. She promotes creativity and expression in all of her classrooms, integrating personal storytelling, narrative psychology, and literary analysis to help students define what core values move them to make a difference in their world. She draws upon this approach in every encounter she has with students to help them find the motivation they need to keep creating, writing, and revising.

Selected Publications

L. Hunter. “Honoring Others by Honoring Ourselves: Affective Labor and Mentoring Programs.” In Affective Labor and Alt-Ac Careers, ed. Lee Skallerup Bessette. University of Kansas P, 2022.

L. Hunter. “The Integrative English Major: Cultivating Growth, Transformation, and Possibility.” ADE Bulletin (Published by the Modern Language Association), no. 155, 2018, pp. 36-41.

P. Ericsson, L. Hunter, T. Macklin, E. Edwards. “Composition at Washington State University: Building a Multimodal Bricolage.” Composition Forum 33 (2016).

L. Hunter. “The Embodied Classroom: Deaf Gain in Multimodal Composition and Digital Studies.” Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy 8 (2015).

L. Hunter. “Communities Built from Ruins: Social Economics in Victorian Novels of Bankruptcy.” WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly 39.3 (2011): 137-152.