Stephanie Ferguson, instructor, completed her B.A. in theater at Brenau University (2006) and M.A. in English at the University of Georgia (2010). She began teaching at Emmanuel in 2010. She worked with many theater companies as performer, playwright, technician and teacher, including Florida Studio Theater (Sarasota), the Gainesville Theater Alliance, and the Atlanta branch of Christian Youth Theater. Her interests include theater, the long nineteenth-century (especially Jane Austen), British Romanticism, Japanese and Korean literature and culture. She enjoys the integration of theater with the study of literature and the integration of Christian faith and the arts. She teaches for the children’s ministry at New Community (Hoschton, Ga.), where she is a member. She is originally from Gainesville, Ga., and lives on campus at Emmanuel.