Georgia Southern University is the state’s largest and most comprehensive center of higher education south of Atlanta. With 142 degree programs at the bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral levels, Georgia Southern has been designated a Carnegie Doctoral/Research university and serves more than 27,000 students from all 50 states, Washington D.C., and Puerto Rico as well as 102 nations. With three vibrant campuses — the Armstrong Campus in Savannah, the Statesboro Campus and the Liberty Campus in Hinesville — Georgia Southern offers an attractive campus environment that encourages learning, discovery and personal growth. Georgia Southern’s nationally accredited academic programs prepare diverse scholars for leadership and service as world citizens. A unit of the University System of Georgia, the University boasts 200-plus student organizations, outstanding Division I athletics, and state-of-the art residence halls and campus facilities.

Since 1906, the University’s hallmark has been a culture of engagement that bridges theory with practice, extends the learning environment beyond the classroom, and promotes student growth and life success. Central to the University’s mission is the faculty’s dedication to excellence in teaching and the development of a fertile learning environment exemplified by a free exchange of ideas, high academic expectations, and individual responsibility for academic achievement. Faculty, staff, and students embrace core values expressed through integrity, civility, kindness, collaboration, and a commitment to lifelong learning, wellness, and social responsibility.

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Standing Up and Standing Together: Feminist Teaching and Collaborative Mentoring

Blogging a Research Paper?: Researched Blogs as New Models of Public Discourse

Performative Memory: Form and Content in The Jewish Museum Berlin

Performative Auto/biography in Ruth Klüger’s Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered

The New Art of Revision?: Research Papers, Blogs, and the First Year Writing Classroom

Dr. Costello is an active interdisciplinary scholar, which means she works on several projects simultaneously. Currently, Dr. Costello's manuscript on public memory and the Holocaust is under contract, with a focus on third generation survivors, gender performance, affect, and new media. She has an article under review on the Holocaust film Shoah and its absence of female testimony (using digital archives). Dr. Costello is also working with a national coalition on an article that explores program structure and university policy around WGSS Programs, including a national survey of WGSS Program Directors as well as an article about LGBTQ+ survey data to analyze campus climate at Georgia Southern around these issues. 

Since fall 2017, Dr. Costello has also been managing a $100,000 grant to expand LGBTQ+ resources, research, and curriculum on campus, which will grow (with a second grant) to become an active Research Institute with scholarships and research stipends. Dr. Costello actively works to make GSU more diverse and inclusive. In addition to the grant award, she serves on the President’s Diversity Advisory Council (to increase diversity and inclusion in hiring and policy) as well as serving as Diversity Faculty Fellow to teach teachers about how to expand diversity and inclusion practices in their classroom. She advises the National Organization for Women’s student chapter on campus and mentors Honors students as the Honors Coordinator for Writing and Linguistics. With an interdisciplinary cohort on campus, she is building Online Honors Thesis Modules for Honors students without mentors, slated for release in 2019.

Rhetoric and Public Memory

Genocide Studies

Women's and Gender Studies

The Holocaust

Writing and Linguistics

Interdisciplinary Studies

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Professor, Writing and Linguistics & Director, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program

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