Gabrielle Stecher Woodward is a writer, critic, and award-winning educator. She earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of Georgia, where her research focused on historiography and the reception and cultural afterlives of the ancient world. Her subsequent work interrogates the stories we tell about creative women from antiquity to the present, and her writing has appeared in American Book Review, Harvard Review Online, Film Quarterly, and Woman’s Art Journal.

She is a Lecturer at Indiana University Bloomington, where she teaches in the Department of English and the Hutton Honors College. Recent courses include Woman, Image, Myth: The Mediated Afterlives of Marilyn Monroe, Joan Didion and the Art of Prose, and Once Upon a Time in the Hollywood Novel. Her teaching emphasizes digital creativity, multimodal storytelling, and forms of public writing.