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, reception, and the cultural afterlives of the ancient world. Her subsequent work interrogates the stories we tell about women artists from antiquity to the present, and her writing has appeared in American Book Review, Harvard Review Online, Film Quarterly, Woman’s Art Journal, and the Washington Independent Review of Books.

She is an Assistant Professor in the English and Communications Department at Pensacola State College, where she teaches writing and literature courses. She previously taught in the Department of English and the Hutton Honors College at Indiana University Bloomington.