Graduate Students in the Department of English
(click for listings of students in Comparative Literary Studies below)
Abedeen, Lydia
she/her/hers
1st-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
1st-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
Balooni, Agam
2nd-year PhD
Field: 19th-century British literature
Beeber, Matthew
PhD Candidate
Field: 20th/21st-century Modern literature
Areas of Interest: Proletarian and radical literature of the 1930s, institutions of literary production
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
3rd-year PhD
Field: American literature
Areas of Interest: development of consumerism and capitalism as it intersects with early American literature, particularly in the 18th- and 19th-centuries
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
Boyden, Kayla
1st-year PhD
Chase, Kai
they/them/theirs
2nd-year PhD
Field: 20th/21st-century Anglophone literature
Areas of Interest: Latin American and Caribbean studies; diasporic Latinx literature; indigenous studies; gender and sexuality studies; critical race studies; Marxism; decolonial literature and theory
Cohen, Emma
she/her/hers
1st-year PhD
Field: Early Modern literature
Areas of Interest: embodiment, affect, illness
Collins, Jayme
she/her/hers
PhD Candidate
Field: Poetry & Poetics
Areas of Interest: poetry and poetics since 1945 of the US, the UK, and Canada; environmental humanities
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
Coomes, Nina Li
3rd-year MFA+MA
Field: Creative Nonfiction
Areas of Interest: History, memory, and translation in essay
Corning-Myers, Michaela
she/her/hers
2nd-year PhD
Field: American literature
Areas of Interest: American women’s writing, gender and sexuality, poetics, and domestic economies
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Dubos, Bradley
he/him/his
PhD Candidate
Field: American literature
Areas of Interest: Early/19th-century American poetry and culture, Indigenous studies, religion and philosophy, phenomenology
Dugas, May
she/her/hers
1st-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
2nd-year PhD
Field: 19th-century British and American literature
Areas of Interest: The novel, women's writing, transatlantic literary exchange, and commodity culture
Feero, Eliza
she/her/hers
2nd-year PhD
Field: Medieval literature
Areas of Interest: Medieval literature and otherness; Islam and medieval Europe; race and the Middle Ages; textual afterlife; manuscript studies and history of the book; affect theory; history of reading
Gibeily, Allison
she/her/hers
2nd-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
1st-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
Gutierrez-Lowe, Mariana
she/her/hers
3rd-year PhD
Field: American literature
Areas of Interest: Latinx literature, indigenous studies, postcolonial feminisms, borders and citizenship, decolonization, and motherhood
Ibarra, Alexandra
she/her/hers
3rd-year PhD
Field: American literature
Areas of Interest: Latinx literary and cultural studies
Jiang, Nancy Haijing
PhD Candidate
Field: Medieval literature
Areas of Interest: Confession, Penitential literature, lay piety, medieval mercantilism, and History of the Book
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
3rd-year PhD
Field: 20th/21st-century American literature
Areas of Interest: race and ethnic studies, affect, aesthetics, poetics, media theory, and visual culture
Larkin, Ilana
PhD Candidate
Field: American literature
Areas of Interest: 19th-century American literature, children's literature, childhood studies, medical humanities, psychoanalysis
Lee, Michelle Goun
she/her/hers
3rd-year MFA+MA
Field: Fiction
Areas of Interest: memory and loss, diaspora, body and illness, animal studies
Lombardo, Christopher
he/him/his
2nd-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
1st-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
1st-year MFA+MA
Field: Creative Nonfiction
Moon, Nina
she/her/hers
PhD Candidate
Field: 18th-century/Romantic British literature
Areas of Interest: women's writing; travel narratives; transatlantic literature; feminist studies; postcolonial studies
Narayan, Govind
2nd-year PhD
Field: 19th-century British literature
Areas of Interest: Victorian literature, empire, and environmental humanities
Neil, Brittany
she/her/hers
MA Student
Field: British literature
Areas of Interest: Women's literature; gender and sexuality; Gothic literature
Nhu, Ryan
1st-year PhD
Nisenson, Sarah
she/her/hers
1st-year PhD
Field: 20th/ 21st-century American literature
Areas of Interest: new media and aesthetics, environmental justice, memorializations of trauma
Pan, Phoebe
1st-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
Richardson, Matthew
3rd-year MFA+MA
Field: Fiction
Rips, Avey
3rd-year PhD
Field: American literature
Scanlon, Suzanne
2nd-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
1st-year PhD
Skipper, Samantha
3rd-year PhD
Field: American literature
Smith, Katana
2nd-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
2nd-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
3rd-year PhD
Field: Medieval literature
Areas of Interest: Middle English romance, subject formation theories, and gender
Weihl, Harrington
PhD Candidate
Field: 20th/21st-century Modern literature
Winter, Elizabeth
she/her/hers
3rd-year PhD
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: the intersection of the 19th-century English novel, visual arts and aesthetic theories
Yarberry, Smith
they/them/theirs
2nd-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
he/him/his, they/them/theirs
3rd-year PhD
Field: 20th/21st-century Anglophone literature
Areas of Interest: contemporary African literatures, universality and identity politics, relationality and Relation, diaspora and migration, human rights
Yoon, Yasmin
she/her/hers
1st-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
