Graduate Students in the Department of English
(click for listings of students in Comparative Literary Studies below)
Aftel, Samuel
4th-year PhD
Areas of Interest: 20th- and 21st-century American literature and culture, affect theory, postcolonialism, Marxism, and queer theory
Aghamohammadi, Temperance
she/her/hers
3rd-year PhD
Field: 20th/21st Global Anglophone Literarture & New Media
Areas of Interest: Sound Studies; Information Theory; Poetry & Poetics: Film & Video Art: Eroticism; the Feminine Auteur; Cybernetics; Materialisms
Allan, Maggie
she/her/hers
3rd-year PhD
Field: 20th and 21st Century American Literature
Areas of Interest: Science Fiction, Marxism, Ecocriticism, Critical Theory, Popular Culture Studies
An, William
2nd-year MFA+MA
Genre: Poetry
Aston, Eric
3rd-year PhD
Balooni, Agam
PhD candidate
Field: 19th-century British literature
Boyden, Kayla
PhD candidate
Field: African American Literature
Areas of Interest: Black contemporary poetry and poetics, Black feminist thought, and critical theory
Calhoun, TJ
1st-year PhD
Field:
Areas of Interest: Critical Theory, African American Literature, 20/21st c. American
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
3rd-year PhD
Clarke, McKenzie
2nd-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
PhD candidate
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
2nd-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 & early modern English lit; 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: Arabic literature; travel writing; manuscript studies; postcolonial theory; intellectual history
Gillig, C.
2nd-year MFA+MA
Genre: Creative Nonfiction
Goetz, Callum
he/him/his
3rd-year PhD
Field: 20th/21st-century American literature
Areas of Interest: Critical Theory, Deconstruction, 20th/21st-century Arabic literature, 20th/21st-century Anglophone literature, Postcolonial theory, Intellectual History
Gordon, Halle
1st-year PhD
Field:
Areas of Interest: African American lit, Medical Humanities, Poetry/Poetics
Griffith-Gorgati, Isabel
she/her/hers
PhD candidate
Field: 20th/21st-century transatlantic literature
Areas of Interest: Postcolonial studies, gender and sexuality studies, Irish literature, Caribbean literature
Gye, Eunsoo
1st-year PhD
Field:
Areas of Interest: Asian American lit, Indigenous/Native American lit, Post-Colonial/Diaspora
Howard, Annie
3rd-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
Kennedy, James
1st-year MFA+MA
Genre: Fiction
Kottathodika, Afnan Hussain
2nd-year PhD
Areas of Interest: Post-colonial/diaspora, South Asian literature, comparative/global Anglophone literature
Lee, Jon
3rd-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
3rd-year PhD
Field: Contemporary Anglophone literature
Areas of interest: contemporary Asian/American and Asian diasporic literature, postcolonial theory, lyric and narrative theory, psychoanalysis, memory and ritual, Marxism, queer and trans critique
Nhu, Ryan
he/they
PhD candidate
Field: 20th-century American literature
Areas of Interest: Didion, psychoanalysis, feminist and queer history and theory
nisenson, sarah
she/her/hers
PhD candidate
Field: 20th/ 21st-century American literature
Areas of Interest: speculative fiction; queer studies; environmental humanities; feminist new materialism; affect theory; food studies
Ortiz, James
MA student
Pan, Phoebe
PhD candidate
Field: Renaissance/early modern literature
Areas of Interest: poetry & poetics, posthumanism, queer ecologies, trans* studies
Pawul, Cassidy
she/her/hers
1st-year PhD
Field: Early Modern Literature
Areas of Interest: Lit./Crit./Cultural Theory, Epistemology, Poetics & Linguistics, Temporality/History, Affect, Exceptionalism, Ethics, and Prophets & Prophecy
Qiao, Wenshu
3rd-year PhD
Field: Poetry & Poetics
Areas of Interest: Romanticism, affect studies, history of emotions, cognitive literary studies
Rose, Ronnie
3rd-year MFA+MA
Genre: Creative Nonfiction
Seiler, Robin
3rd-year MFA+MA
Genre: Poetry
Shou Li, June
PhD candidate
Field: Contemporary American literature
Areas of Interest: urban geographies, global networks, contemporary literature
Singh, Angad
PhD candidate
Snell, Alaia
she/her/hers
3rd-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
Symes, Aliyah
2nd-year PhD
Areas of Interest: African American literature, Fiction/Narrative, 20/21st-c American literature, speculative fiction
Taiwo, Marvellous
2nd-year PhD
Areas of Interest: Environmental humanities, post-colonial/diaspora, African literature, climate fiction p>
Torres, Mirian
1st-year PhD
Field:
Areas of Interest: African American lit, American lit to 1900, Critical Race Studies
Vieytez, Maria
PhD candidate
Field: Medieval literature
Areas of Interest: Narratology, critical race studies, and affect theory
Waldman, Avi
she/her
3rd-year PhD
Wang, Tiffany Reymey
she/her/hers
1st-year PhD
Field: 18th-century & Romantic literature
Areas of Interest: natural history, environmental humanities
Williams, Heather
2nd-year PhD
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Yang, QQ
1st-year MFA+MA
Genre: Poetry
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
Zhang, Zhao
he/him/his
1st-year PhD
Field: Renaissance and early modern literature; poetry and poetics
Areas of Interest: aesthetics; form; philology; prosody; style; genre; reception studies; critical theory; history of literary criticism; critical methodology
Zhu, Ruiyi
3rd-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
Zou, Isabella
1st-year MFA+MA
Genre: Creative Nonfiction
