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Graduate Students in the Department of English

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Abedeen, Lydia

she/they
3rd-year MFA+MA
Field
: Poetry
Areas of Interest: Trauma theory, Caruthian literary analysis, ancient Greek mythology, fairy tale, classics and ancient history, cult and religious studies, effects of war on women, psychoanalysis, Bangladeshi identities, motherhood

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Abraham, George

he/him/his, they/them/theirs
3rd-year MFA+MA
Field
: Poetry
Areas of Interest: Anti-colonial Poetics, Palestinian Poetry, Southwest Asian & North African Diasporic Poetry, Experimental Poetic Forms, Digital Humanities, Horror and Speculative Fiction 

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Ady, Elisa

2nd-year MFA+MA
Field
: Fiction
Areas of Interest: magical realism, borderlands, the queer uncanny, domestic dread, the un/inhuman (monsters, ghosts, robotic bodies)

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Aftel, Samuel

1st-year PhD
Areas of Interest
: 20th- and 21st-century American literature and culture, affect theory, postcolonialism, Marxism, and queer theory

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Anowe, JK

he/they
1st-year MFA+MA
Genre
: Poetry

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Balooni, Agam

4th-year PhD
Field: 19th-century British literature

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Barcelona, Dawn

1st-year MFA+MA
Genre
: Poetry

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Bellaart, Elena

she/her/hers
PhD Candidate

Field: American literature
Areas of Interest: 19th-century American women’s writing, 19th-century representations of gender, labor, and domesticity

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Bergh, Rio

PhD candidate
Field: American literature
Areas of Interest: 18th- and 19th-century American literatures; environmental humanities; Indigenous studies; material textual studies

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Bianchi, Andrea

she/her/hers
2nd-year MFA+MA
Field
: Creative Nonfiction
Areas of Interest: memoir, lyric essay, relationship and family dynamics

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Boyden, Kayla

3rd-year PhD
Field
: African American Literature
Areas of Interest
: Black contemporary poetry and poetics, Black feminist thought, and critical theory

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Browne, Kaitlin

PhD Candidate
Field: Medieval literature
Areas of Interest: medical and digital humanities, the construction of race in the middle ages, corporeal literacy, sociolinguistics, authorial theory

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Chase, Kai

they/them/theirs
PhD Candidate

Field: Contemporary American Literature
Areas of Interest: Black feminist theory; Indigenous studies; gender and sexuality; Latin American and Caribbean literature; decolonial literature and theory; Marxism

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Cohen, Emma

she/her/hers
3rd-year PhD
Field
: Early Modern literature
Areas of Interest: illness and embodiment, epistemologies of the sickbed, theorizations of capacity, affect, disability studies

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Comerford, Jennifer

she/her/hers
PhD Candidate
Field: 18th-century British literature
Areas of Interest: the novel, epistolarity, cross-channel exchange, representations of consciousness, and women's writing

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Cornejo Griffin, María José

she/her/hers
1st-year PhD
Areas of Interest
: Early Modern Literature, Early Modern Drama, Literature and Science, Literature and Imperialism

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Corning-Myers, Michaela

she/her/hers
4th-year PhD

Field: American literature
Areas of Interest: 19th-century American literature, medicine in literature, naturalism, modernity, and gender and sexuality 

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Dugas, May

she/her/hers
3rd-year MFA+MA
Field
: Creative Nonfiction
Areas of Interest: Fiction and nonfiction focusing on psychological aspects of trauma and grief, the intersection of consciousness with quantum physics, speculative fiction, fantasy, and epistolary forms

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Ellefson, Philip

he/him/his
PhD Candidate

Field: American literature
Areas of Interest: 19th/20th century American literature, urban fiction, architecture and housing

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English, Samantha

she/her/hers
PhD Candidate

Field: American literature
Areas of Interest: contemporary aftermaths of the 19th century Anglo-American novel, literary form and adaptation, queer theory, girlhood studies 

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Feero, Eliza

she/her/hers
4th-year PhD

Field: Medieval literature
Areas of Interest: Pre-modern critical race studies; European representations of Islam and blackness; conversion and the body in pre-modern literature; manuscript studies and history of the book; textual afterlife

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Gibeily, Allison

she/her/hers
4th-year PhD

Field: Global 18th century literature
Areas of Interest: 18th century Arabic and English travel writing; postcolonial studies; archive studies; medical humanities

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Goddu, Charlotte

3rd-year PhD

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Graves, Harrison

PhD Candidate
Field: 20th/21st-c African American Literature
Areas of Interest: 20th/21st-c African American Literature; American Literature and Culture (Post-1945); Black Film (Post-1965); Black Studies and Black Critical Theory; Black Masculinities and Black Gender Theory; Psychoanalytic Theory; Prison Studies
Dissertation: “Dark Gardening in the Vertigo Cold: Black Masculinities and Ungendering in the Contemporary Literary and Cultural Imagination,” which studies post-1965 literature and films that address Black masculinities post-Civil Rights and after the publication of The Moynihan Report

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Griffith-Gorgati, Isabel

she/her/hers
2nd-year PhD

Field: 20th/21st-century transatlantic literature
Areas of Interest: Women’s writing, Gender and Sexuality Studies, war and nationalism

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Gutierrez-Lowe, Mariana

she/her/hers
PhD candidate
Field: American literature
Areas of Interest: Latinx literature, indigenous studies, postcolonial feminisms, borders and citizenship, decolonization, and motherhood

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Happe, Nat

2nd-year MFA+MA
Field
: Creative Nonfiction

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Hirsi, Mariam

2nd-year MFA+MA
Field
: Fiction

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Hu, Jinjia

MA student
Areas of Interest
: Early Modern lit, Gender and Sexuality Studies

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Ibarra, Alexandra

she/her/hers
PhD candidate
Field: American literature
Areas of Interest: Latinx literary and cultural studies

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Johnson, Lauren

2nd-year PhD
Field
: 20th/21st-c American lit
Areas of Interest: African American literature, jazz studies, critical race and ethnic studies, and gender and sexuality studies

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Johnson, Mitchell

2nd-year MFA+MA
Field
: Creative Nonfiction

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Jones-Torregrosa, Paulina

she/her/hers
PhD Candidate

Field: 20th/21st-century American literature
Areas of Interest: Latinx literatures and cultures, women of color feminisms, gender and sexuality studies, multiethnic U.S. American literatures since 1900

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Kim, Irene

she/her/hers
PhD Candidate

Field: 20th/21st-century American literature
Areas of Interest: race and ethnic studies, affect, aesthetics, poetics, media theory, and visual culture

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McGrath, Jackson

he/him/his
3rd-year MFA+MA
Field
: Creative Nonfiction

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Mercer, Harris 

he/him/his
PhD Candidate

Field: British literature, 1500-1650
Areas of Interest: Economic and social history and other historicisms; disability, queer, and gender studies; political philosophy

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Milner, Surya

3rd-year MFA+MA
Field
: Creative Nonfiction

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Narayan, Govind

PhD Candidate
Field: 19th Century British and Contemporary Indian Anglophone Literatures
Areas of Interest: Comparison, Energy, Empire, and Postcolonial Studies

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Nhu, Ryan

3rd-year PhD
Field: 20th/ 21st-century American literature
Areas of Interest: Autobiography Studies, Comparative Race and Ethnicity, Poetry and Poetics, Psychoanalysis, Queer Theory

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Nisenson, Sarah

she/her/hers
3rd-year PhD
Field
: 20th/ 21st-century American literature
Areas of Interest: post-1945 American literature, feminist new materialism, eco-criticism

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Pan, Phoebe

3rd-year PhD
Field
: Renaissance/early modern literature
Areas of Interest: poetry & poetics, posthumanism, queer ecologies, trans* studies

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Ramirez, Jessica

PhD Candidate
Field: 20th/21st-century Anglophone literature
Areas of Interest: Latinx studies and multiethnic poetry, interdisciplinary approaches to race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality studies

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Rips, Avey

PhD Candidate
Field: American literature

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Scharfenberg, Katherine

PhD Candidate
Field: American literature
Areas of Interest: Early/19th-century American literatures, Indigenous studies, geography, narrative incoherence, nationalism

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Schell, Cameron

PhD Candidate
Field: 18th-century/Romantic British literature

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Sears, Sof

1st-year MFA+MA
Genre
: Fiction

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Shou Li, June

1st-year PhD
Field
: Contemporary American literature
Areas of Interest: critical theory, liberatory affects, play/indulgence and racial orientations

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Singh, Angad

3rd-year PhD

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Syvertsen, Adam

PhD Candidate
Field
: American literature
Areas of Interest: 18th/19th-century utopian fiction, 18th/19th-century political economy, critical theory, history/philosophy of science

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Talbott, Tyler

PhD Candidate
Field: 19th/20th-century British literature
Areas of Interest: Victorian and postcolonial British literature, ethnonationalism, postcolonial studies, undisciplining Victorian studies, theories of writing and pedagogy

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Taveras, Emely

1st-year MFA+MA
Genre
: Fiction

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Vieytez, Maria

PhD candidate
Field: Medieval literature
Areas of Interest: Narratology, critical race studies, and affect theory

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Williams, Heather

1st-year PhD
Areas of Interest
: Medieval lit., Material Texts/History of the Book, Animal Studies

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Winter, Elizabeth

she/her/hers
PhD candidate
Field: 19th-century British literature
Areas of Interest: transatlantic literary exchange, feminist theory, and critical race theory

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Xu, Han

MA student
Areas of Interest
: Early Modern lit., Critical Race Studies, Critical Theory

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Xu, Olivia Lingyi

PhD Candidate
Field: 19th-century British literature
Areas of Interest: 19th-century British Literature; Modern Chinese Literature; Translation Studies; History of the Novel; Asian Diasporic Studies; Global Anglophone and Sinophone Studies; Critical Race Studies; Postcolonial Studies

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Yarberry, Smith

they/them/theirs
PhD Candidate

Field: Poetry & Poetics
Areas of Interest: prosody, romanticism, Blakean studies, twenty-first century poetry & poetics, trans(gender) literature, avant-garde traditions

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Yen, Sreddy

they/them/theirs
PhD Candidate

Field: 20th/21st-century Anglophone literature
Areas of Interest: contemporary African literatures, humanism, relationality, identity politics

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Yoon, Yasmin

she/her/hers
3rd-year PhD
Field
: Contemporary Asian American literature
Areas of Interest: Eco-criticism, New Materialism, Affect Theory, Posthumanism

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Zalokostas, Anna

she/her/hers
PhD Candidate
Field: 20th/21st-century American literature
Areas of Interest: multiethnic US literature and culture since 1900, especially post-1965, Marxist theory, especially feminist theories of social reproduction, transnational labor and migration

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