Sarah Abolail
Year Entered Program: Fall 2019
Research Interests: Contemporary literature, critical theory, visual studies, narrative theory, transnational studies, trauma, historical erasure, temporality, representations of violence, witnessing, memory, Marxist theory and political economy.
Advisor(s): Michael Szalay
Elia Agudo
Year Entered Program: Fall 2020
Research Interests: Identity, Queer Theory, African-American literature, Latinx literature, Gender and Sexuality, Afrofuturism, Harlem Renaissance
Advisor(s): Kyle Grady
Hannah Elizabeth Bacchus
Year Entered Program: Fall 2021
Research Interests: 20th century African American literature, contemporary African American literature, and Black diaspora literature
Advisor(s): Cole Morgan
Librecht Baker
Year Entered Program: Fall 2021
Research Interests: Rhetoric and composition, identity and language, Black feminist theory.
Advisor(s): Daniel M. Gross
Sheryl Barbera
Year Entered Program: Fall 2020
Research Interests: 17th and 18th centuries, the early novel, and narrative theory
Advisor(s): Irene Tucker
Sharece Lia Boghozian
Year Entered Program: Fall 2021
Research Interests: Modernisms, Literature and Art, Art History, Postmodernism, Literary and Critical Theory, Poetry/Poetics, Avant-Garde, Rhetoric and Composition
Advisor(s): Virginia Jackson
Maya Bornstein
Year Entered Program: Fall 2022
Research Interests: 20th and 21st century literature; modernisms; poetry/poetics; critical theory; mythopoeia; bio- and necropolitics; diaspora studies; Marxism and post-Marxism; philology.
Advisor(s): Oren Izenberg
Claire Burdick
Year Entered Program: Fall 2017
Research Interests: Poetics (historical, eco, necro); American and British Romanticism; Native American Literature; Settler colonialism; the American frontier; Performance studies; Feminist theory
Advisor(s): Virginia Jackson
Jiyon Byun
Year Entered Program: Fall 2018
Research Interests: Asian American literature, global studies, cultural studies, modernities, and women's writing.
Advisor(s): Joseph Jeon
Buddy Cassidy
Year Entered Program: Fall 2017
Research Interests: Shakespeare, Shakespeare and Performance, Early Modern poetry and drama, John Milton, Margaret Cavendish, history of ideas, performance studies, poetry and poetics, prosody, horror film, long 18th C. British, American Romanticism, queer theory
Advisor(s): Julia Reinhard Lupton
Yvonne Cha
Year Entered Program: Fall 2022
Research Interests: modernism & postmodernism, contemporary lit, aesthetics, Asian American lit, experimental immigrant narratives, lost literature, translation, transnationalism, creative writing, autofiction, genre theory
Advisor(s): Joe Jeon
Megan Cole
Year Entered Program: Fall 2019
Research Interests: transatlantic modernism and postmodernism; climate fiction, speculative fiction and science fiction; petromodernity; Marxist theory; literary journalism and literary nonfiction
Advisor(s): Annie McClanahan
Emily Dearborn
Year Entered Program: Fall 2020
Research Interests: 20th and 21st century literature; genre theory; poetics; postmodernism; aesthetics; rhetorical studies; existentialism; queer theory; environmental narratives and food writing; autofiction; artists' books.
Advisor(s): R. Radhakrishnan
Misael De La Rosa
Year Entered Program: Fall 2022
Research Interests: Latinx Literature: specifically, poetry, comics, and graphic novels; Translation Studies; identity formation; hybrid forms of literature
Advisor(s): Rodrigo Lazo
Digang Fan
Year Entered Program: Fall 2022
Research Interests: 19th Century, American Literature, Literature and Law, Race, the Novel
Advisor(s): Georges Van Den Abbeele
Lucy Zi Wei Fang
Year Entered Program: Fall 2022
Research Interests: Asian American literature, transpacific studies, representations of artifice and the fake
Advisor(s): Jerry Won Lee
Juan Carlos Fermin
Year Entered Program: Fall 2019
Research Interests: Postcolonial theory, critical race theory, feminist theory, queer theory, Marxism, world literature, Asian American literature, diasporas literature, speculative fiction
Advisor(s): Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan
Jack Fixa
Year Entered Program: Fall 2022
Research Interests: Medieval romances, early modern literature, queer theory, gender theory
Advisor(s): Elizabeth Allen
Brian Flores
Year Entered Program: Fall 2017
Research Interests: Latino/a American Literature; Hemispheric American Studies; 20th and 21st Century American Literature, Transnational Identities; Cultural Studies
Advisor(s): Rodrigo Lazo
Sarah Goeppner-Kallungi
Year Entered Program: Fall 2019
Research Interests: Early Modern, Poetry/Poetics, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Advisor(s): Rebeca Helfer
Aditi Kumar
Year Entered Program: Fall 2022
Research Interests: Postcolonial
Advisor(s): Laura O'Connor
Charles Gunn
Year Entered Program: Fall 2018
Research Interests: 20th and 21st century American literature; Science Fiction; Political Economy; Marxism; Critical University Studies; History of Criticism and Theory; Book History; Conservative Thought
Advisor(s): Theodore Martin
Toni Hays
Year Entered Program: Fall 2017
Research Interests: 20th & 21st Century American Narratives, Global Asias, Asian/American Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Critical Mixed Race Studies, Land & Housing
Advisor(s): Joseph Jeon and Christopher T. Fan
Vincent Hiscock
Year Entered Program: Fall 2018
Research Interests: Poetry; modernisms; modern thought; intersections of literature, art history, film & media studies; the 20th century.
Advisor(s): Oren Izenberg and Martin Harris
Rachel Hoffer
Year Entered Program: Fall 2020
Research Interests: 19th Century British Literature, Romanticism, Law and Literature, "Fear" and Trauma Theory, Eco-pessimism, Critical Theory, Aestheticism, and Novel Theory.
Advisor(s): Jayne Lewis
Stephen Thomas Howard
Year Entered Program: Fall 2017
Research Interests: C20 American Poetry; Modernism; Historical Poetics; Black Poetics
Advisor(s): Virginia Jackson
Kelana Celine Johnson
Year Entered Program: Fall 2021
Research Interests:
Advisor(s): Annie McClanahan
Jung Soo Lee
Year Entered Program: Fall 2017
Research Interests: Science Fiction, disability studies, crip theory, queer theory
Advisor(s): Theodore Martin
Chelsea Lee
Year Entered Program: Fall 2020
Research Interests: Early Modern literature and culture; Medical Humanities; Death--The intersection of life and death in the human experience; The human body as/in literature, anatomy, and decomposition
Advisor(s): Julia Lupton
Tara Leederman
Year Entered Program: Fall 2012
Research Interests: Eighteenth century literature, ecocriticism, environmental science, medical science, ethics.
Advisor(s): Jayne Lewis
Jean Little
Year entered program: Fall 2017
Research interests: Victorian literature, history of mathematics and natural science, economics and literature, aestheticism, poetic form, and theory of the novel
Advisor(s): Andrea Henderson
Gema Ludisaca
Year Entered Program: Fall 2019
Research Interests: Contemporary Latinx Literature, YA Fiction, Gothic/Horror, Speculative Realism, Queer Indigeneity, and Intersectionality
Advisor(s): Jonathan Alexander
Jan Leonard Maramot Rodil
Year Entered Program: Fall 2019
Research Interests: 19th, 20th, and 21st century American Poetry, Queer Theory, Queer Archives, History of American Poetry and Poetics, History of Criticism, Lyric Theory, Queer Lyric/Lyric Queerness
Advisor(s): Virginia Jackson
Amanda Malone
Year Entered Program: Fall 2019
Research Interests: 20th & 21st c. American poetry, epic poetry, Marxist theory
Advisor(s): Oren Izenberg
Letizia Mariani
Year Entered Program: Fall 2020
Research Interests: Twentieth and twenty first century poetry and poetics, transnationalism, multilingualism, modernism and postmodernism.
Advisor(s): Oren Izenberg
Patrick McBurnie-Nicolay
Year Entered Program: Fall 2019
Research Interests: Transnational Studies, Material History, Labor Studies, 19th Century American Literature, 20th Century American Literature
Advisor(s): Sri Basu and Michael Szalay
Louise McCune
Year Entered Program: Fall 2018
Research Interests: Contemporary American literature and culture; political economy; critical theory and pedagogy.
Advisor: Michael Szalay
Violet Erin Moon
Year Entered Program: Fall 2020
Research Interests: Critical theory; liminal space and studies; postmodernism; metaphysics; hybridity; rhetorical studies
Advisor(s): Daniel M. Gross
Na'amit Nagel
Year Entered Program: Fall 2021
Research Interests: American Jewish literature, Immigrant literature, feminist studies, motherhood and maternity, 19th century British literature
Advisor(s): Irene Tucker
Sarah O'Dell
Year Entered Program: Fall 2019
Research Interests: Medical Humanities; The Long Eighteenth Century; British Romanticism; Medieval Literature & Medievalisms; Rhetoric; the Gothic; History of Psychiatry; Religious Studies; Inklings Studies
Advisor(s): Jayne Lewis
Bridget O'Reilly
Year Entered Program: Fall 2017
Research Interests: Modernism, James Joyce, Genetic study of Joyce, 20th century British, American, Irish novel, 20th century Irish and American Drama, Irish post-colonial history, the Plays of Brian Friel
Advisor(s): Martin Harries
Olivia Rall
Year Entered Program: Fall 2017
Research Interests: Early modern literature; political theology; religious studies; Shakespeare; Walter Benjamin; ceremony and ritual
Advisor(s): Julia Reinhard Lupton
Madeleine Read
Year Entered Program: Fall 2017
Research Interests: 20th- and 21st-century theater / political theory / utopianisms / aesthetics and performativity / space: extralegal, urban, public, theatrical
Advisor(s): Martin Harries
Francisco Reyes-Betancourtt
Year Entered Program: Fall 2022
Research Interests: 20th and 21st Century American Literature & Culture; Postmodernism; Latinx-American/Chicanx Literature; African-American Literature & Diasporic Studies; Science/Speculative Fiction; Critical Theory; Narrative Theory; Attachment Theory & Psychoanalysis; Critical Race Theory; Philosophy of Mind
Advisor(s): Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan
Dalton Salvo
Year Entered Program: Fall 2017
Research Interests: Rhetorical Ontology and Ecology, Digital Rhetoric, Visual Rhetoric, Phenomenology, New Media Studies, Virtuality, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Game Design and AnalysisAdvisor(s): Jonathan Alexander and Daniel M. Gross
Kathryn Schubert
Year Entered Program: Fall 2020
Research Interests: Early modern literature, Shakespeare, gender and sexuality, political theory, vulnerability and embodiment, ethics
Advisor(s): Julia Lupton
Leah Senatro
Year Entered Program: Fall 2019
Research Interests: rhetoric and composition, medical humanities, digital multimodality, the sensorium, the rhetoric of pain, the rhetoric or mourning, the body
Advisor(s): Daniel M. Gross
Dominique Shank
Year Entered Program: Fall 2019
Research Interests: Blackness, critical race theory, speculative fiction, metaphor theory, and performativity
Advisor(s): Joseph Jeon
Saiham Sharif
Year Entered Program: Fall 2021
Research Interests:
Advisor(s): Kyle Grady
Margaret Speer
Year Entered Program: 2015
Research Interests: Queer theory, the long Nineteenth Century, modernism, the Victorian novel, feminism, monstrosity and asceticism
Advisor(s): Andrea Henderson
Haley Youn-Ju Suh
Year Entered Program: Fall 2021
Research Interests: 19th century British literature, fin-de-siècle literature and modernity, novel and narrative theory, psychoanalysis and affect theory, Marxist theory, and Empire studiesAdvisor(s): Andrea Henderson
Martha Tesfalidet
Year Entered Program: Fall 2022
Research Interests: Identity, African American Literature, Contemporary Literature, Narrative Theory, Critical Theory
Advisor(s): Theodore Martin
Allie Harrison Vernon
Year Entered Program: Fall 2020
Research Interests: Contemporary American Literature and Culture, Political Economy, Racial Capitalism, Black Marxism, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Sports
Advisor(s): Christopher Fan
Noelle Viger
Year Entered Program: Fall 2022
Research Interests: 18th century literature, political theory, Indigeneity
Advisor(s): Julia Lupton
MacKenzie Weeks-Mahoney
Year Entered Program: Fall 2014
Research Interests: contemporary American literature and popular culture; vocality, polyvocality, and sound in the novel; critical theory; horror studies.
Advisor(s): Michael Szalay
Elizabeth Wyatt
Year Entered Program: Fall 2021
Research Interests: Environmental humanities, historical poetics, geoscience, ecocriticism
Advisor(s): Laura O'Connor