Graduate Students in the Department of English
(click for listings of students in Comparative Literary Studies below)
Aftel, Samuel
3rd-year PhD
Areas of Interest: 20th- and 21st-century American literature and culture, affect theory, postcolonialism, Marxism, and queer theory
Aghamohammadi, Temperance
she/her
2nd-year PhD
Field: Poetry & Poetics
Areas of Interest: (the long history of) radical poetry & poetics, sound studies, erotics, the feminine auteur, trans* studies & praxis, image-text, religion & occultism, phenomenologies
Allan, Maggie
she/her/hers
2nd-year PhD
Field: 20th and 21st Century American Literature
Areas of Interest: Science Fiction, Marxism, Ecocriticism, Critical Theory, Popular Culture Studies
An, William
1st-year MFA+MA
Genre: Poetry
Aston, Eric
2nd-year PhD
Balooni, Agam
PhD candidate
Field: 19th-century British literature
Barcelona, Dawn
3rd-year MFA+MA
Genre: Poetry
Bianchi, Andrea
she/her/hers
3rd-year MFA+MA
Genre: Creative Nonfiction
Areas of Interest: memoir, lyric essay, relationship and family dynamics
Boyden, Kayla
PhD candidate
Field: African American Literature
Areas of Interest: Black contemporary poetry and poetics, Black feminist thought, and critical theory
Butsch, Lucy
MA student
Areas of Interest: Critical theory, 20th/21st-c American literature, gender and sexuality studies
Chase, Kai
they/them/theirs
PhD candidate
Field: Contemporary American Literature
Areas of Interest: Black feminist theory; Indigenous studies; Abolition; Trans Studies; Latin American and Caribbean literature
Cho, Hayon
2nd-year PhD
Clarke, McKenzie
1st-year PhD
Areas of Interest: Gender and sexuality studies, African American literature, film/television/new media
Cohen, Emma
she/her/hers
PhD candidate
Field: Early Modern literature
Areas of Interest: illness and embodiment, epistemologies of the sickbed, theorizations of capacity, affect, disability studies
Cornejo Griffin, María José
she/her/hers
3rd-year PhD
Areas of Interest: Early Modern Literature, Early Modern Drama, Literature and Science, Literature and Imperialism
Corning-Myers, Michaela
she/her/hers
PhD candidate
Field: American literature
Areas of Interest: 19th-century American literature, medicine in literature, naturalism, modernity, and gender and sexuality
Elhanbaly, Zeina
1st-year MFA+MA
Genre: Fiction
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
Feero, Eliza
she/her/hers
PhD candidate
Field: Medieval and Early Modern literature
Areas of Interest: Medieval and early modern English literature; racial, national, and religious identity; premodern critical race studies; conversion narratives; English representations of Islam; post-medieval uses of the Middle Ages; manuscript studies and history of the book
Gibeily, Allison
she/her/hers
PhD candidate
Field: Global 18th century literature
Areas of Interest: 18th century Arabic and English travel writing; postcolonial studies; archive studies; medical humanities
Gillig, C.
1st-year MFA+MA
Genre: Creative Nonfiction
Goddu, Charlotte
PhD candidate
Goetz, Callum
he/him/his
2nd-year PhD
Field: 20th/21st-century American literature
Areas of Interest: Surrealism, Deconstruction, Postmodernism, Ideology & the History of Ideas, Modern Arabic Literature
Griffith-Gorgati, Isabel
she/her/hers
PhD candidate
Field: 20th/21st-century transatlantic literature
Areas of Interest: Gender and sexuality studies, postcolonial studies, Irish literature, war and nationalism
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
Howard, Annie
2nd-year MFA+MA
Genre: Creative Nonfiction
Ibarra, Alexandra
she/her/hers
PhD candidate
Field: American literature
Areas of Interest: Latinx literary and cultural studies
Jennings, Alex
1st-year MFA+MA
Genre: Fiction
Johnson, Lauren
PhD candidate
Field: 20th/21st-c American lit
Areas of Interest: African American literature, jazz studies, critical race and ethnic studies, and gender and sexuality studies
Kottathodika, Afnan Hussain
1st-year PhD
Areas of Interest: Post-colonial/diaspora, South Asian literature, comparative/global Anglophone literature
Lee, Jon
2nd-year MFA+MA
Genre: Poetry
Narayan, Govind
PhD candidate
Field: 19th Century British and Contemporary Indian Anglophone Literatures
Areas of Interest: Comparison, Energy, Empire, and Postcolonial Studies
Ngu, River
they/them/theirs
2nd-year PhD
Field: Contemporary Anglophone literature
Areas of interest: Asian American studies, queer/trans studies, aesthetics, narrative, affect, childhood, sports/games, Marxism, psychoanalysis
Nhu, Ryan
he/they
PhD candidate
Field: 20th-century American literature
Areas of Interest: Baldwin, Didion, feminist and queer theory, poetry and poetics, psychoanalysis, the question of mourning
nisenson, sarah
she/her/hers
PhD candidate
Field: 20th/ 21st-century American literature
Areas of Interest: post-1945 American literature, feminist new materialism, eco-criticism
Okafor, Anthony Chidera
he/they
3rd-year MFA+MA
Genre: Poetry
Ortiz, James
MA student
Pan, Phoebe
PhD candidate
Field: Renaissance/early modern literature
Areas of Interest: poetry & poetics, posthumanism, queer ecologies, trans* studies
Qiao, Wenshu
2nd-year PhD
Field: Poetry & Poetics
Areas of Interest: Romanticism, affect studies, history of emotions, cognitive literary studies
Rips, Avey
PhD candidate
Field: American literature
Rose, Ronnie
2nd-year MFA+MA
Genre: Creative Nonfiction
Savitz, Sam
she/her/hers
MA student
Areas of Interest: Early Modern literature, gender and sexuality studies, art & art history
Sears, Sof
Seiler, Robin
2nd-year MFA+MA
Genre: Poetry
Shou Li, June
3rd-year PhD
Field: Contemporary American literature
Areas of Interest: systems theory, urban infrastructure studies, political affect, narratorial subjunctivity
Singh, Angad
PhD candidate
Snell, Alaia
she/her/hers
2nd-year PhD
Field: 20th/21st-century American literature
Areas of Interest: Indigenous studies, environmental humanities, science and speculative fiction, multiethnic literature and counterstory, decolonial praxis
Stewart, Samantha
1st-year MFA+MA
Genre: Fiction
Symes, Aliyah
1st-year PhD
Areas of Interest: African American literature, Fiction/Narrative, 20/21st-c American literature, speculative fiction
Taiwo, Marvellous
1st-year PhD
Areas of Interest: Environmental humanities, post-colonial/diaspora, African literature, climate fiction p>
Taveras, Emely
Vieytez, Maria
PhD candidate
Field: Medieval literature
Areas of Interest: Narratology, critical race studies, and affect theory
Waldman, Avi
she/her
2nd-year PhD
Williams, Heather
1st-year PhD
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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
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
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
PhD candidate
Field: Contemporary Asian American literature
Areas of Interest: Eco-criticism, New Materialism, Affect Theory, Posthumanism
Zhu, Ruiyi
2nd-year PhD
Field: Early Modern/Renaissance literature and drama
Areas of Interest: Affect theory; Psychoanalytic theory; BIPOC/global/de-colonial Shakespeares; Gender and sexuality; Excess, waste, and literary excess; Abjection