Audrey Peterson-McCann, Ph.D. specializes in global Victorian Literature and college writing. She received her Ph.D. from SUNY Albany with distinction in 2024. Her recent book project unveils the ways that global Victorian novels explored, and exposed, the use of animals and plants in childhood education. Dr. Peterson-McCann’s recent work is forthcoming in the journals Victorian Literature and Culture and Children’s Literature Association Quarterly.       

Dr. Peterson-McCann has been teaching at the college-level since 2017. She has an extensive teaching repertoire that includes several specialized topics in both literature and writing. Her teaching has been recognized and awarded. Her writing pedagogy is interdisciplinary in focus, always engaging students to develop rhetorical strategies and compose written texts that are also intellectual endeavors in exploration and inquiry. Her courses help students develop ways to critically engage with the technological world and approach the contemporary moment through writing, thinking, and forming communities with the use of language. At RPI she teaches Writing in Context, Strategic Writing, Victorian Fiction and Technology, and Inquiry: The American Dream.