Department of English

Current Graduate Students

  • Photo of Saoirse

    Saoirse

    Research Interests Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, American Literature and Culture, Literary and Culture Theory , Poetry and Poetics, Race and Ethnicity, 20th-Century and Contemporary, Queer Theory
  • Photo of Arnav Adhikari

    Arnav Adhikari

    Research Interests Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Literary and Cultural Theory, 20th-Century and Contemporary, Film and Media, South Asia, Race and Ethnicity, Studies in the Novel
  • Ilan

    Ilan Ben-Meir

    Research Interests American Literature and Culture, Literary and Cultural Theory, Poetry and Poetics, Studies in the Novel, 20th-Century and Contemporary, Media Theory
  • Photo of Leah Brooksher

    Leah Brooksher

    Research Interests Eighteenth-Century Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Literary and Cultural Theory, Poetry and Poetics, Queer Theory/Gay and Lesbian Studies, Race and Slavery, Romantic and Victorian, Transatlantic Studies, Ethics
  • Photo of Curtis Browne

    Curtis Browne

    Research Interests African American Studies and the Black Atlantic, American Literature and Culture, Literary and Cultural Theory, Studies in the Novel, 20th-Century and Contemporary
  • Photo of Ashmita Chatterjee

    Ashmita Chatterjee

    Research Interests Decolonization and Postcolonial Studies, Affect Theory, Gender and State , Race and Ethnicity, 20th Century and Contemporary
  • Photo of Katherine J. Chen

    Katherine Chen

    Research Interests Henry James, Detective Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary and Cultural Theory, Race and Ethnicity, Theory of the Novel
  • Photo of Choa Choi

    Choa Choi

    Research Interests 20th-Century and Contemporary, World/Global/Glocal Literature, U.S. Multiethnic Literatures, Asian/Asian American/Asian Diaspora Literatures, Latino/a/x/Literatures, Native American and Indigenous Literatures, History and Theory of the Novel, The Global Novel, Postcolonial Studies, Relational Ethnic Studies, Genre Studies, Food Studies
  • Photo of Grace Clawson

    Grace Clawson

    Research Interests Digital Humanities, History of the Book, Literary and Cultural Theory, Literature and Cognitive/Psychological Science, Poetry and Poetics, Queer Theory/Gay and Lesbian Studies, Renaissance and Early Modern
  • Photo of Devon Clifton

    Devon Epiphany Clifton

    Research Interests African American Studies and the Black Atlantic, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Literary and Cultural Theory, Queer Theory/Gay and Lesbian Studies, Race and Slavery, Psychoanalysis
  • Photo of Jason Collins

    Jason Emmett Collins

    Research Interests Nineteenth Century , Eighteenth Century , Romantic and Victorian, Literary and Cultural Theory, Religious studies, Music and musicology
  • MJ

    M.J. Cunniff

    Research Interests Gender and Sexuality Studies, Poetry and Poetics, Queer Theory/Gay and Lesbian Studies, Science Fiction & Fantasy
  • Juan

    Juan Gallardo

    Research Interests African American Studies and the Black Atlantic, American Literature and Culture, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer Theory/Gay and Lesbian Studies, Race and Slavery, 20th-Century and Contemporary, Afro-Pessimism
  • Photo of Alex Gjaja

    Alexandra Gjaja

    Research Interests African American Studies and the Black Atlantic, American Literature and Culture, Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Renaissance and Early Modern, 20th-Century and Contemporary
  • Photo of Antonia Halstead

    Antonia Halstead

    Research Interests American Literature and Culture, Race and Slavery, Studies in the Novel, Environmental Humanities
  • Photo of Tara Holman

    Tara Melody Holman

    Research Interests African American Studies and the Black Atlantic, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Poetry and Poetics, Race and Slavery, 20th-Century and Contemporary, Literary and Cultural Theory, Queer Theory/Gay and Lesbian Studies
  • Photo of Chenxuan Hu

    Chenxuan Hu

    Research Interests 19th-Century, Romanticism , Postcolonial Studies , Queer Theory, Psychoanalysis
  • Photo of Scott Jackshaw

    Scott Jackshaw

    Research Interests Black Studies, Queer Theory, Feminist Theory, Continental Philosophy, Political Theology, Literary and Cultural Theory, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Poetry and Poetics, 20th Century and Contemporary
  • Photo of Arunav Jain.

    Arunav Jain

    Research Interests Postcolonial theory antiquities, Global Anglophone literatures, Ethics, value, belief
  • Ifrah

    Ifrah Javaid

    Research Interests Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Literary and Cultural Theory, Studies in the Novel, 20th-Century and Contemporary
  • Photo of Aislinn Kelly

    Aislinn Kelly

    Research Interests American Literature and Culture, Asian American Studies, Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
  • Photo of Melanie Kessinger

    Melanie Kessinger

    Research Interests Renaissance and Early Modern, Literary and Cultural Theory, Gender and Sexuality, Queer Theory/Gay and Lesbian Studies, Classical Reception
  • Olivia

    Olivia Anne Lafferty

    Research Interests Asian American Studies , American Literature and Culture, Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Literary and Cultural Theory, Race and Slavery, Race and Ethnicity, 20th-Century and Contemporary, Gender and Sexuality Studies, African American Studies and the Black Atlantic
  • Photo of Christopher Lasasso

    Christopher M. Lasasso

    Research Interests Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Literary and Cultural Theory, Race and Slavery, Renaissance and Early Modern, Transatlantic Studies
  • Photo of Chi Le

    Chi Le

    Research Interests Poetry and Poetics, Postcolonial and the Global South, 20th and 21st Century, Race and Ethnicity Studies , Critical Theory and Political Theory, Philosophy and Literature
  • Photo of Perry Levitch

    Perry Levitch

    Research Interests Queer Theory/Gay and Lesbian Studies , Poetry and Poetics, 20th-Century and Contemporary, Early Modern Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies
  • Photo of Alyssa Manansala

    Alyssa Manansala

    Research Interests Asian American Studies, African American Studies and the Black Atlantic, Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Literature and Cultural Theory , Poetry and Poetics, Gender and Sexuality Studies, 20th-Century and Contemporary, Visual Culture, Media Studies, Performance Studies
  • Brianna McNish

    Brianna McNish

    Research Interests African American Studies and the Black Atlantic, American Literature and Culture, Digital Humanities, Literary and Cultural Theory, Race and Ethnicity, Studies in the Novel, 20th-Century and Contemporary
  • Photo of Marah Nagelhout

    Marah Nagelhout

    Research Interests African American Studies and the Black Atlantic, American Literature and Culture, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Literary and Cultural Theory, Race and Slavery, Studies in the Novel, 20th-Century and Contemporary
  • Photo of Angel Ogoemesim

    Angel Ogoemesim they/them/theirs

    Research Interests African American Studies and the Black Atlantic, 20th-Century and Contemporary, Race and Slavery, Black Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Disability Studies
  • Goutam

    Goutam Piduri

    Research Interests Early Modern Literature and Culture, Colonialism and Imperialism , Translation and Adaptation
  • Nicholas

    Nicholas Pisanelli

    Research Interests Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Literary and Cultural Theory, Studies in the Novel, 20th-Century and Contemporary
  • Katherine

    Katherine E. Preston

    Research Interests African American Studies and the Black Atlantic, American Literature and Culture, Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Literary and Cultural Theory, Poetry and Poetics, Race and Ethnicity, 20th-Century and Contemporary
  • Erin

    Erin Prior

    Research Interests 20th-Century and Contemporary, Genre Fiction, Philosophy of Science, Religion
  • Photo of Grace Quast

    Grace Quast

    Research Interests Medieval, Renaissance & Early Modern, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Poetry & Poetics, Drama, Adaptation & Fan Studies, Queer Theory
  • Mina Quesen

    Research Interests Science Fiction & Fantasy, Asian American Studies, Latino Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, 20th Century and Contemporary Fiction
  • Jack Quirk

    Jack Quirk

    Research Interests Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Literary and Cultural Theory, Studies in the Novel, 20th-Century and Contemporary, Law and Literature, Jurisprudence, Race and Ethnicity, Legal Theory, Social Epistemology
  • Photo of Megan Robinson

    Megan Robinson

    Research Interests Poetry and Poetics, 20th Century and Contemporary, Science and Literature , Philosophy of Perception
  • Benjamin

    Benjamin Rosenberg

    Research Interests Romanticism, Transatlantic 18th-20th century literature and thought, Poetry , Theory, Environmental Studies, romanticism, transatlantic 18th-20th century literature and thought, poetry, theory, environmental studies
  • Prudence

    Prudence Ross

    Research Interests Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Literature and Cognitive/Psychological Science, Medieval, including Old English and Middle English, Poetry and Poetics, Renaissance and Early Modern, Trauma Theory, Science Fiction
  • Ula

    Ula Rutkowska

    Research Interests Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Race and Slavery, Studies in the Novel, 20th-Century and Contemporary
  • Photo of Benjamin Salt

    Benjamin Salt

    Research Interests Literature and Cognitive/Psychological Science, Poetry and Poetics, Renaissance and Early Modern, Romantic and Victorian
  • Photo Semilore Sobande

    Semilore Sobande

    Research Interests African American Studies and the Black Atlantic, Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Literary and Cultural Theory, Race and Slavery, Race and Ethnicity, 20th-Century and Contemporary, Studies in the Novel
  • Photo of Nishtha Trivedi

    Nishtha Trivedi

    Research Interests American Literature and Culture, 20th and 21st Century Literature, Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, African American Studies and the Black Atlantic, Film and Media, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Science and Literature, Poetry and Poetics
  • Photo of Meena Venkataramanan

    Meena Venkataramanan

    Research Interests Asian American Studies, Black Studies, Afro-Asian Studies, Race and Ethnicity, American Literature and Culture, Anglophone Caribbean, 20th Century and Contemporary, Law and Literature, Shakespeare and Race
  • Photo of Blythe Waite

    Blythe Waite

    Research Interests Romanticism, Postcolonial Studies, History of Science and Technology, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Media Studies, Poetry and Poetics, Science Fiction