Current
Dr. Lindsey Harding, editor-in-chief and faculty advisor
Lindsey is the Director of the Writing Intensive Program at the University of Georgia. She is the author of Pilgrims 2.0. Her research and writing interests include composition and rhetoric, creative writing, and digital humanities. Her critical writing can be found in Teaching English in the Two-Year College and Harlot. Her flash fiction and stories have appeared in Spry, Soundings Review, Prick of the Spindle, The Boiler, and others. She lives in Athens, Georgia, with her husband and four children.
Faith Macdonald, 2024-2025 managing editor
Faith Macdonald is an archaeology PhD student in the Anthropology Department whose research focuses on mapping sheep transhumance networks within Northern Spain during the socio-ecological transitions occurring between Late Antiquity, the Early Middle Ages, and the Medieval Period. She wants to engage people in a greater breadth of human-environmental relations from the past to contextual current issues regarding anthropogenic climate change. Outside of research, she enjoys running half-marathons at a respectably average pace, playing tabletop games, and receiving niche music recommendations.
Yuliia Kabina, 2024-2025 managing editor
Yuliia Kabina is a PhD student in the Department of English. She is a consultant at the Willis Center for Writing and works toward her African American Graduate Certificate. With the primary focus on James Baldwin, she explores 20th century historical and cultural processes that influenced his writing style and civil rights activism.
Tinah Borah
Tina Borah is a graduate student in the Department of English at UGA, residing in Athens, Georgia. Originally from Assam and having lived in Delhi, India, she now teaches First Year Writing and tutors at The Jill and Marvin Willis Center for Writing. Her research focuses on postcolonial studies, migration literature, ecocriticism, third culture theory, and Anglophone literature from the Global South, with a special emphasis on writings from Northeast India. In her free time, she enjoys cooking and reading about stock markets and AI.
Kobina Oduro Korankye
Kobi Korankye was born in Cape Coast, Ghana. He has a BA in Philosophy and Political Science from the University of Ghana and an MA in Philosophy from Kent State University. He is currently a PhD student in Philosophy at the University of Georgia. Kobi’s broad interests in philosophy include Analytic Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Cognitive Science and Applied Ethics. He is currently exploring the impact deepfake technology can have on the epistemic value of photographs, videos, and audio recordings in public discourse. Kobi is eager to expand his knowledge in artificial intelligence as he hopes to cultivate the skill to conduct more research in areas where philosophy intersects with AI. When Kobi is not doing academic work, he likes to play video games, listen to music and write poetry.
Sofie Varriano
Sofie is a PhD student in the Entomology department studying bird and insect interactions on farms. As an undergraduate in Arkansas, she worked in a lab studying bison, insects, and invasive plants in prairies. Sofie enjoys watching movies, baking, and taking naps with her cat.
Riley Thoen
Riley Thoen is a PhD student in the Department of Plant Biology. He received his B.A. in honors biology from Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter, MN. Riley’s research aims to understand how habitat fragmentation and climate change influence plant conservation through effects on the ecology and evolution of populations. Currently, his research highlights how climate change is affecting stress-adapted plant populations on Georgia’s granitic outcrops.
Timeko McFadden
Timeko McFadden is a doctoral candidate in Hispanic Studies in the Romance Languages Department. She teaches Spanish language courses as well as SPAN 2550: Introduction to Latino Literature. A graduate of the Women’s Studies certificate program she also teaches Multicultural Feminisms for IWS. She has served as a writing coach for the Writing Intensive Program which ignited her interest in serving on the Classic Journal’s editorial board. Her research interests include the performance of latinidad in the South, Latinx women’s culinary writing and food ways in literature. Outside of her research, she can’t seem to survive without music and sci-fi. Having worked as a certified chef for 8 years in upstate SC, she also requires the occasional hike to balance out her love of pastries and mofongo.
Dru Horne
Dru Horne is a PhD student in Mathematics Education and a Master’s student in Mathematics. His research focuses on how students think about and understand mathematical ideas, especially in combinatorics (the mathematics of counting). Dru also has a BS in Mathematics and MEd in Mathematics Education from the University of Georgia. Prior to starting a PhD program, he spent three years teaching high school mathematics classes including Algebra 2, Pre-Calculus, Calculus, and Statistics. Outside of his studies, Dru enjoys reading, playing games (video games and table top), and spending time with his three cats.
Christina James
Jared Asser
Chelsea L Cobb
Chelsea is currently a Creative Writing Ph.D. candidate, graduate teaching assistant, and Writing Center consultant at the University of Georgia. Her writing has won the Margaret Harvin Wilson Writing Award and was nominated as a finalist at the Agnes Scott Writers’ Festival. Her writings can be found in Stillpoint Literary Magazine, The Spectacle, Rappahannock Review, Gulf Coast Magazine, and elsewhere.
Lily Wilson
Lily (she/her) is a first year MA student at the University of Georgia. Her research focuses on post-bellum American Literature and Culture. Lily graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Southern Maine in 2023 with a BA in English and minors in Educational Studies and Honors. At USM, she spent a year as a writing tutor in the university’s writing center and completed an internship with the Faulkner Journal. Currently Lily works as a writing consultant in the Jill and Marvin Willis Center for Writing at UGA.
Malia Little
Malia is a Master’s student in the English Department, studying mid-20th century American Literature. She completed her BA at Young Harris College in Georgia’s Blue Ridge Mountains. There she fell in love with American Modernism and wrote her capstone, an ecocritical analysis of William Faulkner’s “The Bear.” While at YHC, Malia worked as a writing tutor, an experience she is building upon in the Jill and Marvin Willis Center for Writing here at UGA. When she can, Malia enjoys visiting her family and dog, Luke, in her hometown of Rome, Georgia.
Eden Gilley
Eden is a first-year MA student in the English department at the University of Georgia. In 2023, she graduated from UGA with a B.A. in English and a minor in Women’s Studies. It was during this time that Eden first became involved with The Classic, working as a digital communications intern for UGA’s WIP program. In her graduate research, she is interested in studying Victorian women’s literature and digital media. She currently works as a consultant in the Jill and Marvin Willis Center for Writing.
Kimba Wisotsky
Kimba is an MA English student whose love for the physical book, while unwaning, is being adapted to her grad school lifestyle. Whether it’s reading manga on the bus, playing Dungeons and Dragons, or binging audiobooks, she is consistently consuming stories as quickly as she can get them. Her major interest is concerned with these alternate forms of storytelling, and how these media’s rhetoric affects one’s sense of identity. She works as a tutor in the Writing Center, and at the Ramsey rock climbing wall. At other times, she can be found in the Oconee Hill Cemetery or Pet Supplies Plus.
Kristen Locke
Kristen Locke is an MA student studying English with an emphasis in 20th and 21st century poetics, as well as a tutor in the Jill and Marvin Willis Writing Center. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Georgia with her BA in English and a minor in Philosophy, Law, and Ethics. As an undergraduate, she spent a semester interning as a copyeditor and writer for the Georgia Museum of Art. In her free time, she enjoys writing poetry, and some of her poems have been published in UGA Stillpoint and Treehouse Zine.