English and Media Studies

Senior Lecturer Brian Wilson, MFA has released and is exhibiting a series of new artistic works in 2D and 3D. Wilson was also recently accepted as an Associate Member to the Boston Sculptors Gallery. With a sculptural practice that centers on the tension between form and perception, Wilson works with familiar materials—concrete, glass, wood, and steel. Through distortion, twisting, juxtaposition, and spatial disruption, he invites viewers to reconsider the assumptions they hold about the physical world and the objects in it. His recent series, Sandworks, aims to bring attention to the relationship society has with sand. Wilson’s artistic, professional, and research-based practices include 2D and 3D projects that explore ideas of perception.

Brian’s recent photo based research project Why We Make is a photo-ethnographic series that aims to foreground the motivations of creative professionals and document their work in various disciplines. Why We Make Featuring Sandworks is on view at the RSM Art Gallery from Sept.-October 7th, 2025.

Ekkarat Ruanglertsilp, EMS lecturer, teaches linguistics, first-year composition, and multimodal communication courses that focus on language variation, change, and attitudes in the American context as part of everyday social practice.

He is also specialized in socio-cultural linguistics, and language in the pop culture domain. His publications on critical discourse analysis, sexuality studies, celebrity culture, World Englishes, have appeared in journals such as Journal for Cultural Research, Manusya: Journal of Humanities, and in the New York magazine (Vulture) interview – Why You Can’t Stop Saying ‘That’s That Me, Espresso.’

Ruanglertsilp is currently working on an article manuscript which explores how U.S. gay men, who identify as fans of female vocalists, engage with the feminist ideologies in pop diva culture and the gay male stereotype of diva-worship using the critical discourse analysis frameworks. In it, he investigates the several insightful ways of how certain U.S. gay men came to their novel understandings of womanhood through the diva-worship practice while also seeking meaningful and self-empowering ways to identify with their divas and what they represent.

James Mulder, lecturer and co-coordinator of Bentley’s Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, teaches first-year writing and multimodal communication courses that focus on diverse linguistic communities and dominant language ideology. His research focuses on trans and gender studies as well as early modern poetry and drama and has appeared in the journal SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 and “The Kinky Renaissance,” an essay collection published by ACMRS Press.  

Currently, Mulder is writing scholarly essays on trans and gender-nonconforming figures in the work of William Shakespeare and Edmund Spenser. These essays will appear in “The Queerness of Early Modern English Death: Figuration, Representation, Matter,” forthcoming from Bloomsbury, and an upcoming special issue of Spenser Studies.