Graduate Students in the Department of English
(click for listings of students in Comparative Literary Studies below)
Ayala, Uta
PhD Candidate
Field: Medieval literature
Balooni, Agam
1st-year PhD
Field: 19th-century British literature
Barker, Jeremiah
3rd-year MFA+MA
Field: Creative Nonfiction
Areas of Interest: queer theory, cultural criticism, auto-fiction, life writing, ecocriticism, biopolitics
Batra, Rishika
3rd-year MFA+MA
Field: Poetry
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
3rd-year PhD
Field: American literature
Areas of Interest: 19th-century American women’s writing, 19th-century representations of gender, labor, and domesticity
Bergh, Rio
2nd-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
Blankenau, Katie
PhD CandidateField: British literature, 1500-1650
Areas of Interest: Early Modern drama, hospitality, travel literature, and framing texts
Botz, Samantha
PhD CandidateField: 18th-century/Romantic British literature
Browne, Kaitlin
4th-year PhD
Field: Medieval literature
Areas of Interest: medical and digital humanities, the construction of race in the middle ages, corporeal literacy, sociolinguistics, authorial theory
Chan, Min Li
3rd-year MFA+MA
Field: Creative Nonfiction
Areas of Interest: the essay form, cultural criticism, media and technology, critical theory, queer theory
Chase, Kai
they/them/theirs
1st-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
Cogswell, Clay
PhD Candidate
Field: 19th-century British literature
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
3rd-year PhD
Field: 18th-century British literature
Areas of Interest: the novel, epistolarity, cross-channel exchange, representations of consciousness, and women's writing
Coomes, Nina Li
2nd-year MFA+MA
Field: Creative Nonfiction
Areas of Interest: History, memory, and translation in essay
Corning-Myers, Michaela
she/her/hers
1st-year PhD
Field: American literature
Areas of Interest: American women’s writing, gender and sexuality, poetics, and domestic economies
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Dikcis, Maria
she/her/hersPhD Candidate
Field: 20th/21st-century American Literature
Areas of Interest: poetry and poetics; African American, Asian American, and Latinx literature; critical race and ethnic studies; media aesthetics; film and television; critical prison studies
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
Ellefson, Philip
he/him/his
PhD Candidate
Field: American literature
Areas of Interest: 19th and 20th century American literature, urban fiction, architecture and housing
English, Samantha
she/her/hers
1st-year PhD
Field: 19th-century British literature
Areas of Interest: The novel, women's writing, feminist poetics, animality studies
Feero, Eliza
she/her/hers
1st-year PhD
Field: Medieval literature
Areas of Interest: Textual afterlife, history of the book, manuscript studies, gender and sexuality studies
Gibeily, Allison
she/her/hers
1st-year PhD
Field: 18th-century British literature
Areas of Interest: travel narratives; medical humanities; women's writing; Ottoman and Middle Eastern studies; disease discourse
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- and 20th-century prison literature, narratives of confinement, and visual & print culture
Gutierrez-Lowe, Mariana
she/her/hers
2nd-year PhD
Field: American literature
Areas of Interest: Latinx literature, indigenous studies, postcolonial feminisms, borders and citizenship, decolonization, and motherhood
Hengstebeck, Eric
PhD CandidateField: American literature
Areas of Interest: 19th-century American literature
Hughes, Erica
3rd-year MFA+MA
Field: Poetry
Ibarra, Alexandra
she/her/hers
2nd-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
3rd-year PhD
Field: 20th/21st-century Modern literature
Areas of Interest: African-American and Latinx literatures, critical race and ethnic studies, border and diaspora studies, feminist, gender, and sexuality studies
Kim, Irene
she/her/hers
2nd-year PhD
Field: 20th/21st-century American literature
Areas of Interest: comparative race and ethnicity, visual culture, assemblage, aesthetic and spatial theories, new media
Larkin, Ilana
PhD CandidateField: American literature
Areas of Interest: 19th-century American literature, children's literature, childhood studies, medical humanities, psychoanalysis
Lee, Michelle Goun
she/her/hers
2nd-year MFA+MA
Field: Fiction
Areas of Interest: memory and loss, diaspora, body and illness, animal studies
Lombardo, Christopher
he/him/his
1st-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
Mason, Sarah
PhD Candidate
Field: 19th-century British Literature
Areas of Interest: Victorian literature, sound and technology studies, medical humanities, disease discourse
Mercer, Harris
PhD Candidate
Field: British literature, 1500-1650
Areas of Interest: Economic and social history and other historicisms; disability, queer, and gender studies; political philosophy
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
1st-year PhD
Field: 19th-century British literature
Areas of Interest: Victorian literature, material culture, and environmental humanities
Papanikolas, Tony
PhD CandidateField: American literature
Pierce, Will
PhD CandidateField: British literature, 1500-1650
Areas of Interest: Reformation and Counter-Reformation; theology and literature; surveillance studies
Ramirez, Jessica
4th-year PhD
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
2nd-year MFA+MA
Field: Fiction
Richardson, Natalie Rose
3rd-year MFA+MA
Field: Poetry
Areas of Interest: Latin American literature, magical realism, critical race studies, contemporary narrative poetry
Rips, Avey
2nd-year PhD
Field: American literature
Scanlon, Suzanne
1st-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
Simpson, Serena
3rd-year MFA+MA
Field: Creative Nonfiction
Areas of Interest: memory, place, and the overlap, interstices, and interplay between them
Skipper, Samantha
3rd-year PhD
Field: American literature
Smith, Katana
1st-year MFA+MA
Field: Poetry
Areas of Interest: Queer theory, critical race theory, visual culture, narrative poetry
Syvertsen, Adam
4th-year PhD
Field: American literature
Areas of Interest: 18/19th-century utopian fiction, 18/19th-century political economy, critical theory, history/philosophy of science
Talbott, Tyler
4th-year PhD
Field: 19th-century British literature
Areas of Interest: the Victorian novel, transnational literature, and British emigrant writing in colonial spaces
Tucker, Kira
she/her/hers, they/them/theirs
1st-year MFA+MA
Field: Poetry
Areas of Interest: limitations, dreams, gender and sexuality, mental health narratives, traditions of the American South, BIPOC voices, Russian poetry and poetics
Vieytez, Maria
2nd-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
2nd-year PhD
Field: 19th-century British literature
Areas of Interest: transatlantic literary exchange, feminist theory, and critical race theory
Xu, Olivia Lingyi
3rd-year PhD
Field: 19th-century British literature
Areas of Interest: the intersection of the 19th-century English novel, visual arts and aesthetic theories
Yarberry, S.
they/them/theirs
1st-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
2nd-year PhD
Field: 20th/21st-century Anglophone literature
Areas of Interest: contemporary African and Caribbean literatures, global modernisms, queer studies
Zalokostas, Anna
4th-year PhD
Field: 20th/21st-century Anglophone literature
