Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
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Harry R. McCarthy
Overseas Studies, Bing Overseas Studies
BioMy research centres on early modern acting and performances by children in the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
I grew up just outside Oxford, where I attended local comprehensive schools before coming to Exeter in 2011. Over the course of my BA in English and French, I was repeatedly drawn to questions concerning early modern theatrical culture and present-day performances of early modern drama, which culminated in a final-year dissertation on the self-fashioning and reputation of the actor-playwright Nathan Field. Having graduated with a First and Dean's and College Commendations, I left Exeter in 2015 to pursue an M.St. in English (1550-1700) at the University of Oxford, where I worked on theatrical documents in the plays of Christopher Marlowe, the publication and paratexts of Jacobean play quartos, ekphrasis in the narrative poetry of Spenser and Shakespeare, and, finally, a dissertation on early modern concepts of 'youth' and its articulation in the repertory of the Children of the Queen's Revels, 1609-1613. I returned to Exeter in 2016 after being awarded a South, West, and Wales DTP PhD scholarship which allows me to continue to pursue my interests in the training, rehearsal, performance, and afterlives of early modern boy actors.
Throughout my undergraduate and postgraduate studies, I have worked as Director of the Oxford Summer Academy, a Writing Advisor with Exeter's Undergraduate Writing Centre, and have privately taught English, French, and Drama to GCSE, IB, and A Level students. At Exeter, I have taught classes in Shakespeare and Performance (Stage and Screen), and Early Modern Literature. With Paul Prescott (Warwick), I was the Performance Reviews Editor and Editorial Assistant for Shakespeare Bulletin until December 2017. -
Richard McGrail
COLLEGE Lecturer, Civic, Liberal, and Global Education
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsEthnographic research describes the daily lives of children in California's foster care system who live in therapeutic residential group homes. Research questions how relationships of trust and attachement are formed between children and their adult caregivers, as well as among the children themselves.
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Sangeeta Mediratta
PWR Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
BioSangeeta Mediratta teaches classes on rhetoric and writing, literature and film. Her PWR classes currently focus on maps, borders, networks, objects, and objectification. She loves learning about and helping her students develop their research interests and projects and takes great joy in fostering strong class communities centered around writing and research.
She completed her Ph.D. from University of California, San Diego in English Literature. Her dissertation :Bazaars, Cannibals, and Sepoys: Sensationalism and Transnational Cultures of Empire" studied at the ways texts, objects, and spectacles in the U.S. and Britain drew upon imperial stories and objects to critique contemporary social formations. She has also written on world cinema, popular culture, disability studies, as well as gender and race studies.
Her current research focuses on the materiality of writing and on how students use culture as a way to build campus communities. She is also interested in empathy as a mode of living, connecting, writing, and being. -
Rania Zuri
Undergraduate, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
BioRania Zuri is the founder and CEO of The LiTEArary Society, the world’s largest youth-led nonprofit organization working to end book deserts for disadvantaged preschool children. To date, The LiTEArary Society has donated more than $1 million worth of brand new books to over 91,000 disadvantaged preschool children in all 50 states. The LiTEArary Society has partnerships and has received funding from Scholastic, Inc., Barnes & Noble, L'Oréal, Hershey’s, Pilot Pens, and Starbucks.
For her work in early childhood literacy, she has been featured on Good Morning America, Forbes, NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, The Today Show, The Kelly Clarkson Show (x2), CBS Evening News, NPR, Fox News, Teen Vogue, The Washington Post, NowThis, The Hill, People Magazine, and more.
She was named by Forbes as one of "Six Teens Making the World a Better Place” in 2022 and made the Forbes 30 under 30 list in 2024 as the youngest CEO on the entire list. In 2023, Rania received The Diana Award, one of the most prestigious international accolades a young person (ages 8 to 25) can receive for social or humanitarian work and was one of only 3 recipients out of the 189 global recipients to be introduced by Prince Harry. In 2023, Rania was honored at the White House by the First Lady of the United States as a "Girl Leading Change" in celebration of International Day of the Girl. Most recently, Rania was honored by L'Oréal Paris as a L’Oréal Woman of Worth, L'Oréal's signature philanthropic initiative which honors 10 female leaders each year.
Rania has given a TEDx Talk on book deserts with over 43,000 views on TED.com and Youtube and was the keynote speaker at the annual WV Head Start Conference. She has written op-eds for Teen Vogue and NBC News Online on education as well. She serves as an ambassador for many organizations and corporations, including the United Nations Association (as a UNA-USA Global Goals Ambassador for Sustainable Development Goal #4).
She is the youngest author of a US Senate Resolution in U.S. history and has written a children’s picture book series (sold in-store at select Barnes & Noble stores) where 100% of the profits go to the purchase of brand-new Scholastic books for preschool children in Head Start programs.
Rania is a Coca-Cola Scholar, a U.S. Presidential Scholar, a Cameron Impact Scholar, a Taco Bell Live Mas Scholar, winner of the Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes, and has received 3 US Congressional Commendations as well as the George H.W. Bush Point of Light Award. -
Indi Melvin
Undergraduate, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
BioClass of 2030
Intended major: film and media studies
Interest in cinematography, filmmaking, neuroscience, microbiology and human biology
