Dr. Willa Hammitt Brown (she/her) is a Preceptor in Expository Writing at Harvard University. She received her PhD from the University of Virginia in 2017 and is currently turning her dissertation, "Gentlemen of the Woods: Manhood, Myth, and the American Lumberjack, 1860-1920," into a book manuscript. Willa is a columnist and podcast host for Off Assignment, and has appeared on NPR, the CBC, and TheAtlantic.com.