Graduate Students in the Department of English
(click for listings of students in Comparative Literary Studies below)
Abedeen, Lydia
she/they
2nd-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
Abraham, George
he/him/his, they/them/theirs
2nd-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
Ady, Elisa
1st-year MFA+MA
Field: Fiction
Areas of Interest: magical realism, borderlands, the queer uncanny, domestic dread, the un/inhuman (monsters, ghosts, robotic bodies)
Balooni, Agam
3rd-year PhD
Field: 19th-century British literature
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
Bergh, Rio
PhD candidate
Field: American literature
Areas of Interest: 18th- and 19th-century American literatures; environmental humanities; Indigenous studies; material textual studies
Bianchi, Andrea
she/her/hers
1st-year MFA+MA
Field: Creative Nonfiction
Areas of Interest: memoir, lyric essay, relationship and family dynamics
Boyden, Kayla
2nd-year PhD
Field: Contemporary African American Literature
Areas of Interest: Black contemporary poetry and poetics, Black feminist thought, and Critical Theory
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
Chase, Kai
they/them/theirs
3rd-year PhD
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
Cohen, Emma
she/her/hers
2nd-year PhD
Field: Early Modern literature
Areas of Interest: embodiment, affect, illness
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
Corning-Myers, Michaela
she/her/hers
3rd-year PhD
Field: American literature
Areas of Interest: American women’s writing, gender and sexuality, poetics, and domestic economies
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Dugas, May
she/her/hers
2nd-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
Ellefson, Philip
he/him/his
PhD Candidate
Field: American literature
Areas of Interest: 19th/20th century American literature, urban fiction, architecture and housing
English, Samantha
she/her/hers
3rd-year PhD
Field: 19th century Anglo-American literature
Areas of Interest: aftermaths of the 19th century, multi-ethnic contemporary literature, literary form and adaptation, queer theory, girlhood studies
Feero, Eliza
she/her/hers
3rd-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
Gibeily, Allison
she/her/hers
3rd-year PhD
Field: 18th-century British literature
Areas of Interest: travel narratives; medical humanities; women's writing; Ottoman and Middle Eastern studies; disease discourse
Goddu, Charlotte
2nd-year PhD
Godfrey, Johana
PhD Candidate
Field: 19th-century British literature
Areas of Interest: response of formal aspects of emergent genres to imperial and urban expansion, material culture, and social and intellectual history
Graves, Harrison
PhD Candidate
Field: 20th/21st-century Anglophone literature
Areas of Interest: African American literature, the intersections of race, spatial confinement, and spectacular punishment in 19th/20th-century prison literature, narratives of confinement, and visual & print culture
Griffith-Gorgati, Isabel
she/her/hers
1st-year PhD
Field: 20th/21st-century transatlantic literature
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
Happe, Nat
1st-year MFA+MA
Field: Creative Nonfiction
Hirsi, Mariam
1st-year MFA+MA
Field: Fiction
Ibarra, Alexandra
she/her/hers
PhD candidate
Field: American literature
Areas of Interest: Latinx literary and cultural studies
Jiang, Nancy
she/her/hers
PhD candidate
Field: Medieval literature
Areas of Interest: Confession, Penitential literature, lay piety, medieval mercantilism, and History of the Book
Johnson, Lauren
she/her/hers
1st-year PhD
Field: 20th/21st-century American literature
Areas of Interest: African American literature, jazz studies, critical race and ethnic studies, and gender and sexuality studies
Johnson, Mitchell
1st-year MFA+MA
Field: Creative Nonfiction
Jones-Torregrosa, Paulina
she/her/hers
PhD Candidate
Field: 20th/21st-century American literature
Areas of Interest: multiethnic American literatures since 1900, especially Latinx and African-American literatures, feminist, gender, and sexuality studies, critical race and ethnic studies
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
Lombardo, Christopher
he/him/his
3rd-year MFA+MA
Field: Fiction
Areas of Interest: speculative, weird, and Gothic fiction; trauma theory; media studies and theories of play; and apocalypse and eschatology
McGrath, Jackson
he/him/his
2nd-year MFA+MA
Field: Creative Nonfiction
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
Milner, Surya
2nd-year MFA+MA
Field: Creative Nonfiction
Narayan, Govind
3rd-year PhD
Field: 19th-century British literature
Areas of Interest: Victorian literature, empire, and environmental humanities
Nhu, Ryan
2nd-year PhD
Field: 20th/ 21st-century American literature
Areas of Interest: Autobiography Studies, Comparative Race and Ethnicity, Poetry and Poetics, Psychoanalysis, Queer Theory
Nisenson, Sarah
she/her/hers
2nd-year PhD
Field: 20th/ 21st-century American literature
Areas of Interest: new media and aesthetics, environmental justice, memorializations of trauma
Pan, Phoebe
2nd-year PhD
Field: Renaissance/early modern literature
Areas of Interest: poetry & poetics, consciousness, queer ecologies
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
Rips, Avey
4th-year PhD
Field: American literature
Scanlon, Suzanne
3rd-year MFA+MA
Field: Fiction
Scharfenberg, Katherine
PhD Candidate
Field: American literature
Areas of Interest: Early/19th-century American literatures, Indigenous studies, geography, narrative incoherence, nationalism
Schell, Cameron
PhD Candidate
Field: 18th-century/Romantic British literature
Singh, Angad
2nd-year PhD
Smith, Katana
3rd-year MFA+MA
Field: Poetry
Areas of Interest: Queer theory, critical race theory, visual culture, narrative poetry
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
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
Tucker, Kira
she/her/hers, they/them/theirs
3rd-year MFA+MA
Field: Poetry
Areas of Interest: dreams, mythologies, queer theory, traditions of the American South, BIPOC voices, Russian poetry and poetics
Vieytez, Maria
PhD candidate
Field: Medieval literature
Areas of Interest: Narratology, critical race studies, and affect theory
Winter, Elizabeth
she/her/hers
PhD candidate
Field: 19th-century British literature
Areas of Interest: transatlantic literary exchange, feminist theory, and critical race theory
Xu, Olivia Lingyi
PhD Candidate
Field: 19th-century British literature
Areas of Interest: Nineteenth-Century British literature; Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature; History of the Novel; Translation Theories; Literary Theory; Postcolonial Studies; Visual Arts and Nineteenth-century Aesthetic Theories
Yarberry, Smith
they/them/theirs
3rd-year PhD
Field: Poetry & Poetics
Areas of Interest: prosody, romanticism, Blakean studies, twenty-first century poetry & poetics, trans(gender) literature, avant-garde traditions
Yen, Sreddy
they/them/theirs
PhD Candidate
Field: 20th/21st-century Anglophone literature
Areas of Interest: contemporary African literatures, humanism, relationality, identity politics
Yoon, Yasmin
she/her/hers
2nd-year PhD
Field: Contemporary Asian American literature
Areas of Interest: Eco-criticism, New Materialism, Affect Theory, Posthumanism
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
