A native of New Orleans, Louisiana, Professor Rebecca Posusta received her B.A. and M.A. in English Literature from Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. She moved to Colorado in 2006 and in 2008, she joined the faculty at UCCS as an instructor in Literature. She was promoted to Teaching Professor in 2023 and is a specialist in Study Abroad programming. She teaches a variety of introductory courses in literature, including an essential and required Introduction to Literary Studies course; British literature of the seventeenth, eighteenth century and nineteenth century; Postcolonial literature; an Inclusivity course for the Compass Curriculum on Global Women Story Tellers and a Sustainability course on Environmental Stewardship and the Management of the Estate in Literature. In 2012, she also became an instructor in the Humanities program and has taught courses on Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and the Southern Gothic along with faculty from the History Department. In 2023, Professor Posusta created a new course on Classic and Pop Culture Science Fiction. Professor Posusta was awarded Badges through the FRC for Online Course Design, Accessibility, & Facilitation and teaches English 2010, 2920 and 1500 online. In 2015, 2018, and 2022, Professor Posusta led travel study courses to Jane Austen's England, and in 2024 took a group of students to England and France to consider the intersections of history and literature by “Walking in the Footsteps of Henry V". A Jane Austen scholar, Professor Posusta has published articles on Jane Austen’s Persuasion in Critical Surveys and Approaches to Teaching Austen’s Persuasion. She has also presented papers on Austen at numerous Annual General Meetings for the Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA). She currently serves as Regional Coordinator for the Pikes Peak Region of JASNA. In 2023, Professor Posusta began an new project looking at the lives of the students at a 19th century reformatory school in Leeds, UK, and was awarded grants through the Humanities Program and the Teaching Enhancement program at UCCS. She traveled to Leeds in March 2024 to retrieve archival materials and document the current condition of the reformatory. A self-confessed bookaholic, Professor Posusta believes in lifelong education and enjoys reading anything and everything. Stop by her office and take a look at her collection of vintage 19th and early 20th century books. 

 

Professor Posusta received her B.A.& M.A. in English Literature from Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia