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Graduate Students in English

Ackley, David
Research Interests: 19th-Century British literature; folklore and historicism; poetry and poetics
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Actis, Andrea
Research Interests: Contemporary poetics; social and political theory; comparative literature and ethics; affect; ambiguity
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Allan, Angela
Research Interests: 20th-Century American fiction
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Anderson, Devon
Research Interests: Contemporary British and American literature; gender and sexuality; trauma and memory; horror and the abject
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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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Baumgarthuber, Christine
Research Interests: 19th- and 20th-Century British and German literature
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Beaver, James
Research Interests: Early modern; metaphysical poets; mathematics and sciences; Walter Benjamin
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Block, Daniel
Research Interests: 18th- and 19th-Century British poetry; aesthetics; transatlanticism; the romantic novel
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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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Eun, Eunice
Research Interests: Old English & Renaissance English (literatures & cultures)
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Farley, Amy
Research Interests: Postmodernism; literature and place; film as literature; memory/identity as developed through or explored through literature
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Ford, Sachelle
Research Interests: African-American and Afro-Caribbean literature; postcolonial theory
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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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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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Hughes, Sarah
Research Interests: American and British modernism; gender and feminist analysis
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Hull, Perry
Research Interests: 20th-Century U.S. literature; race and ethnicity
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Hulme, Eliza
Research Interests: 19th Century, fantastic themes in literature, gender themes
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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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Keck, Sean
Research Interests: 19th- and 20th-Century American literature
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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 (20th and 21st century); memory; postmodernism; world literature
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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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Melson, John
Research Interests: 18th- and early 19th-Century American and transatlantic literature and culture
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Miller, Katherine
Research Interests: Modernism
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Mulligan, John
Research Interests: Romantic literature; literary theory
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Naughton, Andrew
Research Interests: 17th-Century British literature and culture; lyric poetry; aesthetics
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Neilson, Jeffrey
Research Interests: 19th- and 20th-Century American poetry; American Renaissance; Pragmatism and Literary Aesthetics; Religion and Literature
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Osment, Sarah
Research Interests: Modernism; avant gardism; objects; critical theory
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Pfaff, Sara
Research Interests: War and trauma in 20th-Century American literature; gender ambiguity in 20th-Century American literature
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Rayburn, Laurel
Research Interests: 20th-Century poetry; modernism; gender theory
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Regunathan, Swetha
Research Interests: Early modern literature and theories of modernity; Postcolonial theory and globalization; South Asian diaspora; film
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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, 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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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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Zysk, Jason
Research Interests: Early modern English drama and poetry; humanist rhetoric and poetics; literary and scientific histories of the body; early modern cookery books and how-to manuals; pedagogy and composition theory.
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