Gina is the Associate Director of Teaching Development and Initiatives. In this role, she supports teaching across the humanities for faculty members, postdoctoral scholars, and graduate students. She also leads the McDougal Graduate Teaching Fellows Program, an interdisciplinary team of around 20 graduate fellows each year. Gina is especially invested in object-based teaching and teaching across the collections, and she is always looking for opportunities to create communities of practice that support instructors at all ranks and collections experts in their pedagogy.
At Yale and at Purdue University, she has taught courses on literary liars as well as creative nonfiction and research in the university archives. She has led workshops across the US and internationally on digital editing and teaching with manuscripts at the Huntington Library, 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.
Ginaís work has appeared in a variety of venues, including the University Museums and Collections Journal, Pedagogy and Profession, Exemplaria, The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, The Chaucer Review, Teaching Gradually (ed., Derina Samuels and John Wyatt Greenlee), and Medium ∆vum, among others. In 2017, she co-curated an exhibition on medieval manuscripts entitled ìMaking the Medieval English Bookî at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. She also designed digital programs for a 2018 Mystic Seaport Museum exhibit on the Vinland Map. She holds a PhD in Medieval Studies from Yale (2020), as an MA in English from Purdue, and a B.A. in English and History (with a minor in French) from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Gina is originally from North Carolina. She enjoys traveling, playing board games, and spending time with her family. Above all else, she loves greyhounds and puns: she has two of the former, and an unrelenting supply of the latter.