Graduate Students in English
Ackley, David
Research Interests: 19th-Century British literature; folklore and historicism; poetry and poetics
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Al-Attabi, Qussay
Research Interests: Comparative Literary Theory/Criticism; neoclassical poetry; stylistics
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Babcock, David
Research Interests: 20th-Century British and Anglophone literature; globalization; postmodernism; post-1945 humanisms and anti-humanisms
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Barnes, Lucy
Research Interests: Late 19th- and 20th-Century Drama
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Baumgarthuber, Christine
Research Interests: 19th- and 20th-Century British and German literature
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Ben-Merre, David
Research Interests: Aesthetics; poetics; hermetics
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Blizard, Dawn
Research Interests: Modernism in literature and the visual arts; aesthetics
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Block, Daniel
Research Interests: 18th- and 19th-Century British poetry; aesthetics; transatlanticism; the romantic novel
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Brady, Lindy
Research Interests: Medieval literature, particularly Arthurian literature and Beowulf
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Brocklebank, Lisa
Research Interests: The Victorian Novel; 19th-Century psychology; the history of reading
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Carassai, Mauro
Research Interests: Contemporary American literature; new media; narrative theory
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Carter, Leighton
Research Interests: 18th-Century literature
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Cervenak, Alexandra
Research Interests: Early American literature
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Chander, Manu
Research Interests: British romanticism, empire, and poetics
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Covington, Jeffrey
Research Interests: 20th-Century British literature; memory, war & literature; aesthetics & politics
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Ettensohn, Derek
Research Interests: Postcolonial literature; early 20th-Century American literature; gender theory
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Flynn, Paul
Research Interests: Late 19th- and early 20th-Century British and American literature; theory of the novel
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Funchion, John
Research Interests: 19th- and early 20th-Century U.S. literature; regional writing; cultural theory; memory and aesthetics
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Genette, Adriane
Research Interests: African literature with specific emphasis on post-apartheid South African Fiction; postcolonial studies; literary theory
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Gonzalez, Khristina
Research Interests: Victorian and Modernist British literature, especially of the Fin de Siecle; Gothic and Horror literature; Sexuality and Gender Studies
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Gorman, Austin
Research Interests: 19th- and 20th-Century American Novel; critical theory
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Groeneveld, Dominique
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Gui, Weihsin
Research Interests: Postcolonial theory and anglophone literatures; post-1945 British literature; diasporas, transnationalism, and globalization
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Hasratian, Avak
Research Interests: American Literature from the 1890s to the 1940s; narrative theory; queer theory; gender theory
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Holmes, Christopher
Research Interests: 20th- and 21st-Century British literature; Postcolonial literatures, in particular, the post-Apartheid South African novel, the Indian novel in English, and literature and cosmopolitanism
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Holt, Kerin
Research Interests: Late 18th- and 19th-Century American literature, with a focus on regionalism
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Iacono, Jonna
Research Interests: Late 19th- and early 20th-Century US literature; history of affect; queer studies
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Katz, Debby
Research Interests: 20th Century and Contemporary American fiction; ethnic and Asian American; feminist inquiry; transnationalism
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Koelz, Stephen
Research Interests: 20th-Century poetry
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Lee, Jeannette Marianne Elizabeth
Research Interests: African American literature; Anglophone Caribbean literature; Anglophone African literature; Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Theory; Cultural Studies; Alternative Modernities
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Lee, Wendy Allison
Research Interests: 20th-Century American literature; African American literature; Asian American literature; narrative theory; cross-cultural representation
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Liao, David
Research Interests: Contemporary British and American literature (late 20th - early 21st century); memory; postmodernism.
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Malonzo, Michelle
Research Interests: Post-1945 American literature; postmodernism; mimeticism; popular culture
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McEleney, Corey
Research Interests: 16th- and 17th-Century English literature (esp. drama and romance); rhetoric and poetics; narrative theory; queer studies
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McLeer, Heather
Research Interests: Postcolonial studies, gender studies, British modernism
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Melson, John
Research Interests: 18th- and early 19th-Century American and transatlantic literature and culture
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Menendez, Lelia
Research Interests: Late 19th- and early 20th-Century literature of the Americas
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Neilson, Jeffrey
Research Interests: American Poetry; Religion and Literature; Lyric Traditions; Confession and Autobiography
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Osment, Sarah
Research Interests: Modernism; avant gardism; objects; critical theory
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Petracca, Eugene
Research Interests: Medieval literature; allegory and rhetoric
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Rayburn, Laurel
Research Interests: 20th-Century poetry; modernism; gender theory
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Rucavado, Gina
Research Interests: 19th- and early-20th Century American literature; U.S. labor history, class studies, and
proletarian literature/social criticism
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Schnepf, Jennifer
Research Interests: 20th-Century American literature
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Shaw, Alexandra
Research Interests: 20th-Century American & British literature; Literature & Science; Photography & Visual culture; the human sensorium
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Shaw, Julia
Research Interests: 19th- and 20th-Century U.S. literature; critical theory; queer studies
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Shepherd, Bethany
Research Interests: 19th-Century British literature and mass culture
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Sikorski, Hannah
Research Interests: 20th-Century British and American literature; science and literature
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Silyn Roberts, Sian
Research Interests: Late 18th- and early 19th-Century American literature; the gothic novel; Scottish Enlightenment philosophy
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Steinlight, Emily
Research Interests: 19th-Century British literature; the novel; mass politics, population science, and social theory; the human sciences; mass media and culture; critical theory
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Sultan, Raymond
Research Interests: 20th-Century American Novel
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Summerhays, Rebecca
Research Interests: 19th-Century British literature
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Sweeney, Brian
Research Interests: 19th-Century American literature; the novel; sentimentalism; liberalism; print culture
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Tilden, Stephanie
Research Interests: 19th-Century American literature
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Wernimont, Jacqueline
Research Interests: 16th- and 17th-Century British literature; poesis; rhetoric; relationship of the history of
mathematics and history of science to literary history
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Zysk, Jason
Research Interests: 16th- and 17th-Century English literature and culture, with an emphasis on drama
(Shakespeare, Middleton, Jonson); history of the body; early modern cookery books and domestic
guides; theories of space and social geography
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