Emily B. Todd, Ph.D., Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences

Emily B. Todd has been Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences since July 2022. Before her appointment at Eastern, she was at Westfield State University from 1999 to June 2022, where she was professor of English, long-serving department chair, and dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. From 2015 to 2017, she served as a member of the Executive Committee of Association of Departments of English (ADE), a program of the Modern Language Association, and she was ADE president in 2017. Early in her career she co-founded Westfield State’s Faculty Center for Teaching and was the Faculty Center’s first coordinator. With Matteo Pangallo, she is coeditor of Teaching the History of the Book (University of Massachusetts, 2023) and, with Denise Kohn and Sarah Meer, she is also coeditor of Transatlantic Stowe: Harriet Beecher Stowe and European Culture (Iowa UP, 2007). Her research is on nineteenth-century transatlantic book history, and she has published in Papers of the Bibliographic Society of America, Book History, American Literary History, among other academic journals. She earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of Minnesota, her M.Phil. in Scottish Literature from St. Andrews University, and her B.A. in American Studies from Amherst College.