Mo Brower (English) Research Interest: 16th and 17th century literature, colonial propaganda, pastoral, allegory, legal geography, landscape history, labor.
Beka Castro (English) Research interests: Medieval literature including legends, travel narratives, and writings by women during the period as well as Arthurian romance and medieval religious culture. Additionally, theories of phenomenology and hermeneutics, and themes of curiosity, empathy, authority of women, aging, and age beliefs. Advisor: Elizabeth Allen
Roy Cherian (Culture & Theory) Research interests: anti-Blackness, secularity, violence, modernity, religion, race, philosophy of science, medicine
Peter Cibula (English) Dissertation topic: vulnerability and social grace in medieval and early modern England.
Thomas Cosgrove (English) Research interests: Shakespeare, primitive accumulation, early modern economies, historical phenomenology, and early modern self-experience.
Vanina D’Ambrosio (Visual Studies)
Melissa DePierro (Visual Studies) Interests: Cross cultural interactions between Persian and Greco-Roman empires, animals in antiquity, Roman mosaics, Roman North Africa, Achemenid Egypt, Late antiquity. Advisor: Matthew Canepa.
Jack Fixa (English)
Sarah Fugfugosh-Munoz (Visual Studies) Research interests: Early modern art, visual culture and gender studies in Italy and France. Early modern subjectivity, social identity construction and corporeality in art, literature and natural philosophy; 16th and 17th century female artistic production, portraiture, and epistolary culture.
Sara Goeppner-Kalungi (English)
Talia Gordon (Visual Studies) Interests: Byzantine eastern Europe, micro-mosaics in Italy, cross cultural exchange in wider medieval Europe; Advisor: Roland Betancourt
Zachary Korol-Gold (Visual Studies) Research Interest: Ecological art, contemporary art, alternative agriculture, ecocriticism, political ecology
Chelsea Lea (English) Research Interests: Early modern literature, specifically interdisciplinary work focusing on death, medicine, and the body as it relates to literature and how such things are portrayed in art, etc. This comes with an interest in the medical humanities. Recently work has focused on death in early modern performance and how death influences identity during the period. Outside of the early modern period, enjoys research in the 19th century as a whole.
Emily Parise (Drama) Research Interests: Early modern theater and literature, with an emphasis on the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Work examines themes of metatheatre, performance and performativity, politics, and popular culture in early modern English theater. Other interests include early modern working women, representations of madness, and Shakespeare's history plays.
Oliva Rall (English) Research Interests: Early modern literature; political theology; religious studies; Shakespeare; Walter Benjamin; ceremony and ritual
Jamie Rawn (English)
Kathryn Schubert (English) Research Interests: Early modern literature, Shakespeare, gender and sexuality, political theory, vulnerability and embodiment, ethics
Saiham Sharif (English) Research Interests: Studies how Shakespeare has influenced the literary imagination of contemporary authors of color. Keywords for research include early modern literature, subjectivity, the psychic life of power, and cognitive dissonance.
Arielle Steimer-Barragan (History) 2023-24 Early Cultures Graduate Student Fellow; Research Interest: The role of women printers in the early modern transatlantic Iberian world, with a particular focus on Mexico and Spain in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Sara Sisun (Visual Studies) Research Interests: Early Modern art and corporeality, critical theory, medical humanities, history of science, posthumanism
Margaret Speer (English with Visual Studies and Critical Theory emphases) Dissertation topic: a project in Queer Time that brings feminist thought and queer theory to bear on literature and history (Renaissance and 19th century). She is also organizer of the Queer Theory Reading Group.
Holly Weaver (Political Science)