Gina, who earned her PhD in Medieval Studies from Yale in 2020, is the Associate Director of Teaching Development and Initiatives. At Yale, she has taught courses on “literary liars” like Cyrano de Bergerac, Chaucer’s “hendy Nicholas” and Shakespeare’s Iago, as well as the modern essay, featuring writers like Jhumpra Lahiri and Tom Wolfe. She received her MA in English from Purdue University, where she taught introductory writing through a variety of lenses, from monsters and heroes to research in the university archives. While at Purdue, she also taught in first-year learning communities, an abiding interest which she continued at Yale through her work as a former coordinator of the Silliman College Graduate Affiliate program. 

She is especially invested in object-based learning and digitally engaged pedagogy, having led workshops on digital editing and teaching with manuscripts for the London Rare Books School, the International Paleography Summer School, Yale, University College London, and the University of Toronto, and elsewhere. In October 2023, she spent a week at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, offering a series of three workshops on teaching with objects across the disciplines. Her work on object-based learning and belonging is forthcoming in the University Museums and Collections Journal (with Danielle Raad), and appears in Teaching Gradually (ed., Derina Samuels and John Wyatt Greenlee). She has written about building pedagogical community in times of crisis for Pedagogy and Profession. In Fall 2017, Gina co-curated an exhibition of manuscripts entitled “Making the Medieval English Book” at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. She also designed digital programs for a 2018 Mystic Seaport Museum exhibit on the Vinland Map. 

Gina’s research has appeared or is forthcoming in a variety of venues, including Pedagogy and Profession, Exemplaria, The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, The Chaucer Review, and Medium Aevum, among others.