Christina Gilligan

Assistant Director of Academic Success and Bar Passage

Christina Gilligan joined the School of Law in 2025. She was previously a Visiting Assistant Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies at Brown University, where she also earned her Ph.D. in English Literature in 2023. Her academic research centers around questions of difference in the nineteenth-century British novel. Prior to pursuing her Ph.D., Dr. Gilligan received her J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she edited the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender. She then spent three years as an associate at Jenner & Block in New York, working primarily on white-collar investigations. At Loyola, Dr. Gilligan supports students as a member of the Academic Success and Bar Passage team.

Education

Ph.D. (English), Brown University, 2023
A.M. (English), Brown University, 2019
J.D., Harvard Law School, 2014
B.A., Indiana University Bloomington, 2011