Associate Professor Gillian Paku (SUNY Geneseo/Matt Burkhartt)
SUNY Geneseo associate professor of English Gillian Paku has been selected as a fellow for the inaugural 2025 cohort of the (AAA) Faculty Fellowship Program. Eleven faculty members from SUNY institutions have been selected as the 2025 inaugural class.
The AAA Faculty Fellowship program is a community of individuals committed to promoting and growing accessibility practices in and out of the classroom on their campuses. During the program's first year, fellows will:
- Explore models and strategies to build and expand a culture of access on their campuses
- Share their expertise and experience as they identify obstacles and work towards solutions to broaden the adoption of accessibility practices.
- Connect with other communities of practice and campus leaders with a shared vision, including disability and accessibility directors, chief diversity officers, chief information officers, teaching center directors, and others.
- Grow as faculty leaders as they coordinate with campus leadership to design and execute a plan to engage their campus community in the work of access.
Paku has been a faculty member at SUNY Geneseo since 2008. She teaches courses primarily in 18th-century literature and literary disability studies and has published articles for Oxford University Press Handbooks Online and Eighteenth-Century Life. She has received numerous teaching awards, including the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2013. Paku received her PhD from Harvard University.