Our Staff

Jennifer Greiman is the director of the Humanities Institute and a Professor of English. Greiman joined the Wake Forest faculty in 2016 and has served as the co-director of the MA program in English. She is a scholar of American literature, with specializations in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Atlantic literatures, democratic theory, and the work of Herman Melville. She is the author of Democracy’s Spectacle: Sovereignty and Public Life in Antebellum American Writing (2010) and Melville’s Democracy: Radical Figuration and Political Form (2023), and she is the associate editor of Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies.

Aimee joined the Humanities Institute in July 2013 as Program Coordinator. She was promoted to Assistant Director in July 2016 and to Associate Director in July 2021. She oversees the Humanities Institute’s Story, Health, and Healing initiative, which provides programming in Narrative Medicine to the Wake Forest and Winston-Salem communities. Originally from Dearborn, Michigan, she is a graduate of Albion College and earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Washington University in St. Louis. She has taught creative writing workshops at Indiana University, Washington University in St. Louis, Salem College, and Wake Forest University. Her work has appeared in Hobart, Meridian, River Styx, among others, and has also been performed twice by Liars’ League NYC, a live literary journal featuring professionally trained actors reading original short stories by writers.

Kimberly Thornton Scholl became the Administrative Assistant for the Humanities Institute in September 2015. She serves as the primary contact person for the institute and performs a variety of duties for the institute including budget participation as well as organizing all administrative functions that support the Humanities Institute. After many years as a musical theatre performer, with roles ranging from classics to modern jazz opera, Kimberly transitioned into parenthood and into Montessori education and is an American Montessori Society-certified Early Childhood Educator. Before coming to HI, she was LGBTQ Center Project Assistant, charged with coordinating the inaugural Rising Voices: A Wake Forest LGBTQIA Alumni conference.