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Julianna Leachman, PhD Profile and Contact Information

College of Arts and Humanities
English, Communication, Great Texts, and Modern Languages
  • 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
  • Third 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 200 Years
  • The Story of Scripture
  • Story and History
  • Honors Chronology: Ancient
  • Honors Chronology: Medieval
  • Honors Readings

English

  • World Literature: Russian Literature
  • Health and Science in Literature
  • On Death and Dying
  • Composition and Literature I and II
  • Great Works of Literature II
  • Basic Grammar and Composition

Teaching Focus

Dr. Leachman’s research and teaching interests include questions of regional and national identity in Russian literature and literature of the U.S. South. She is a comparativist by nature, and especially enjoys introducing students to Flannery O’Connor, William Faulkner, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Nikolai Gogol, and Mikhail Bulgakov. She is recently interested in medical humanities and narrative medicine.

Research Interests/Publications

Fyodor Dostoevksy. Edited by Julianna Leachman, Catholic Education Press (imprint of Catholic University of America Press). In progress.

“Love is a Teacher and Prayer is an Education: Pedagogical Lessons from The Brothers Karamazov.” Christian Scholars Review at Hope College, April 15, 2024.

Introduction and Discussion Questions for Flannery O’Connor’s “The Enduring Chill.” Learning the Good Life: Wisdom from the Great Hearts and Minds that Came Before, edited by Jessica Hooten Wilson and Jacob Stratman, Zondervan Press, 2022.

“When Death and Dying Breach the Classroom Walls.” Church Life Journal: A Journal of the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame, March 4, 2021. Co-authored with Dennis Kinlaw.

“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.

Additional Information

Originally from Alabama, Dr. Leachman has lived in Texas since 2008. She and her husband, Taylor, a church planter and pastor ordained in the Presbyterian Church in America, are members of Advent Presbyterian Church of Houston, a church plant near the Texas Medical Center. They have three daughters.