Gillian Paku
Associate Professor of English
Welles 219A
585-245-5272
paku@geneseo.edu
she/her/hers
Gillian Paku received her PhD from Harvard University and began teaching at SUNY Geneseo in 2008. She teaches courses primarily in 18th-century literature and literary disability studies, and has published articles for Oxford University Press Handbooks Online and Eighteenth-Century Life. She received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2013, the 2023 Academic Affairs award for Outstanding Commitment to Learning, the 2021 and 2024 Student Association Professor Recognition award, the 2012-2013 American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Innovative Course Design Prize, and a Folger Institute / American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowship in 2008.
Paku recently chaired the college working group on an antiracist writing curriculum, is the faculty sponsor for Geneseo’s chapter of the Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society, and in 2025 was selected for the inaugural cohort of the SUNY Accessibility Advocates & Allies Faculty Fellowship program.
