Honors Program Staff and Core Faculty
Work closely with award-winning faculty who light up the classroom and are passionate about teaching.
The faculty will connect with you one-on-one, advise and mentor, and serve along-side you in the community.
Director Honors Teaching Associate Professor
Specialties: Interdisciplinary and hybrid approaches to themes and topics, Genocide in the 20th
Century and literature of witness, Medical humanities, Gender Studies, Science writing,
Speculative fiction, Unusual narrative strategies, Contemporary post-apocalyptic narratives,
Creative writing: poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, dramatic forms, Monster Theory,
fairy tales, and folklore in literature and pop culture.
- merie.kirby@UND.edu
- 701.777.2219
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Merrifield Hall, Room 120A
Honors Teaching Assistant Professor
Specialties: 20th Century Continental Philosophy, Caribbean Philosophy, Philosophy of Race, Environmental
Philosophy, Phenomenology, 20th Century American Literature, Film Theory, Western
Esotericism, and Permaculture.
- 701-777-2219
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Merrifield Hall, Room 120E
Honors Teaching Fellow
Specialties: Educational Foundations, Multiculturalism, theater, Postcolonialism, Gender, Playwright.
- 701.777.2219
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Merrifield Hall, Room 120C
Honors Teaching Assistant Professor
Specialties: Caribbean Literature and philosophy, 18th-20th century continental philosophy, comparative
theories of freedom, feminist theory, histories of the Haitian and French Revolutions
and decolonial thought.
- 701.777.2219
- Merrifield Hall, Room 120B
Honors Teaching Assistant Professor
Specialties: Postcolonial Literature and theory, Medical Humanities, Literature and Science, Science
Fiction, Body Politics, Disability Studies, Gender Studies, the role of the Lliterary
in the Development of Contemporary Human Rights Discourse, and Pop Culture.
- mary.oleary@UND.edu
- 701.777.2219
- Merrifield Hall, Room 120D
Administrative Associate
- paula.cox@UND.edu
- 701.777.2219
- Merrifield Hall, Room 120
Honors Program Affiliated Faculty
Yee Han Chu
Academic Support and Fellowship Opportunities Coordinator
- yee.chu@UND.edu
- 701.777.4436
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O'Kelly, Room 8