Cristina Richieri Griffin

Dr. Cristina Richieri Griffin joins the Center for Teaching Excellence as a Faculty Fellow for the 2026–2027 academic year. Cristina is an Assistant Professor of English, where she specializes in nineteenth-century literature, the history of the novel, gender and sexuality studies, and literature pedagogy. She is Co-Director of the UVA Reading Collaborative, which promotes a revitalized reading culture at the University of Virginia and beyond, and Managing Director of UVA’s Center for the Liberal Arts, which provides professional development for K–12 teachers.

Her publications have appeared in nineteenth-century scholarly journals as well as Norton anthologies and Oxford handbooks, and she leads several public humanities initiatives, including Teaching Literature for Liberty, a nationwide resource for K–12 English language arts and social studies teachers; Project Gothic, a digital companion to the world’s largest archive of gothic fiction, which is housed in UVA’s Special Collections; and Poe at UVA, a celebration of place-based reading and Edgar Allan Poe funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.