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AName: Samuel Alexander Year: 3rd Areas of Interest: British modernism, 19th-20th century novel and intellectual history, narrative theory
Name: Elizabeth Appel Year: 4th Dissertation Topic:"Deviant Signs: The Heroine's Plot" Advisors: Paul Fry and Margaret Homans
Name: Thomas Ashley Year: 3rd Areas of Interest: The long Nineteenth Century, from the Romantics to WW1 - especially Ruskin, Tennyson, Dickens and George Eliot; travellers in the Middle East; Shakespeare BName: Michalina Bajda-Pawlikowska Year: 3rd
Name: Michaela Bronstein Year: 3rd Areas of Interest: The modernist novel (especially James, Conrad, and Faulkner); Milton CName: Ryan Carr Area of Interest: American literature
Name: Anna Chen Year: 7th Area of Interest: Medieval literature
Name: Emily Coit Year: 5th Areas of Interest: 19th-century prose, especially the novel; aestheticism; George Eliot, Henry James, Edith Wharton; literature and economics Dissertation Topic: "The Trial of bundance: Consumption and Morality in the Anglo-American Novel, 1871-1907" Advisors: Ruth Bernard Yeazell and Catherine Labio
Name: Samuel Cross Year: 4th Area of Interest: Modernism Dissertation Topic: "Necessary Fictions: Character and the Modern Novel" Advisors: Peter Brooks and Pericles Lewis
Name: David Currell Year: 4th Areas of Interest: Greek and Roman epic, 17th century, poetics, textual criticism, psychoanalysis Dissertation Topic: "Epic Satire from Homer to Dryden" Advisor: David Quint DName: Anne DeWitt Year: 7th Areas of Interest: The Victorian novel and Victorian science (particularly physical science); gothic, sensation and adventure fiction Dissertation Topic: "Physical Science and the Realist Fiction of George Eliot, Thomas Hardy and H.G. Wells" Advisor: Linda Peterson
Name: Anthony Domestico
Name: Irina Dumitrescu Year: 6th Areas of Interest: Medieval poetry and prose (Old and Middle English, Old French, Old Norse, Middle High German, Latin); epic and the poetics of warfare; pedagogical texts; Milton; African-American lit; the depiction of foreign language learning in literature; performance studies; sex, violence and humour in the Middle Ages Dissertation Topic: "The Instructional Moment in Anglo-Saxon Literature" Advisor: Roberta Frank EName: Megan Eckerle Area of Interest: Epic and romance; Chaucer; the history of reading; philosophy and literature; memory; medievalism; folklore and mythology; 20th-century poetry (especially Auden, Eliot, and Yeats); the novel (especially Austen, James, Hardy, Tolstoy, Woolf, O'Connor, Dostoevsky, and the Brontės) FName: Samuel Fallon Year: 1st (English & Renaissance Studies) Areas of Interest:
Name: Molly Farrell Year: 4th Areas of Interest: American literature, gender, political theory, African literature Dissertation Topic: "Fertility and Extinction: Race and Population Dynamics in American Literature" Advisor: Wai Chee Dimock
Name: Julia Fawcett Year: 4th Areas of Interest: Drama from all periods, particularly Renaissance, Restoration, and 20th century; African-American drama; performance theory; avant-garde drama; the rise of the novel Dissertation Topic: "Overwriting the Self: Actors' Autobiographies, Shandyism, and Self-Effacement in Eighteenth-Century England" Advisors: Joseph Roach and Jill Campbell
Name: Craig Fehrman
Name: Denis Ferhatovic Year: 6th Areas of Interest: Early and late medieval poetry (Old English, Middle English, Old French, Middle High German); mysticism; interactions of word and image; post-1945 poetry; Central and Eastern European literature; postcolonialism Dissertation Topic: "Aesthetics of Spolia in Old English Poetry" Advisor: Roberta Frank
GName: Edgar Garcia Year: 1st Areas of Interest: Early American republic; civic texts, oratory, constitutional writing; Adams and Jefferson
Name: Colin Gillis Year: 6th Areas of Interest: Late nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and U.S. literature; literary and cultural modernism; history of sexuality and queer studies; medical science and the arts Dissertation Topic: "Forming the Normal: Sexology and the British Novel, 1890-1939" Advisors: Pericles Lewis and Laura Frost
Name: Andrew Goldstone Year: 5th Areas of Interest: 20th-century literature; theory and history of criticism Dissertation Topic: "Modernist Fictions of Aesthetic Autonomy" Advisors: Langdon Hammer and Amy Hungerford
Name: David Gorin Year: 3rd Areas of Interest: Lyric poetry and poetics, 20th-century literature, literary theory, political philosophy
Name: Jean Elyse Graham Area of Interest: 20th-century American literature
Name: Patrick Gray Year: 5th (English & Renaissance Studies) Dissertation Topic: "The Passionate Stoic: Shakespeare, Montaigne, and the Search for a Wise Man" Advisors: Lawrence Manley and David Quint
Name: Christopher Grobe Year: 3rd Areas of Interest: Modern drama, contemporary Irish drama, contemporary American drama, performance studies, monologue form in drama and poetry
Name: Daniel Gustafson Year: 4th Areas of Interest: Restoration and eighteenth-century drama, fiction, and non-fiction prose; political theory and the history of political thought; autobiography and life-writing; early modern travel literature Dissertation Topic: Advisors: Joseph Roach and Elliott Visconsi
Name: Len Gutkin Year: 1st Areas of Interest: The Anglophone modernist novel (late James, Woolf, Joyce, Faulkner, etc.); "postmodern" American experimental fiction (e.g. Gaddis, Hawkes, Barthelme, Gass, etc.); the historical avant-garde and its legacies HName: K C Harrison Year: 5th Areas of Interest: Dissertation Topic: "Tales Twice Told: Encounters with Recording Technology in Twentieth-Century American Fiction" Advisor: Amy Hungerford
Name: Gabriele Hayden Year: 6th Areas of Interest: Transatlantic modernisms, Poetry and Poetics, 20th-Century Literature (particularly questions of race, class, and cultural difference), Translation Theory Dissertation Topic: "Offbeat Modernisms: Translation, Hispanophone Literature, and Race in U.S. Poetry" Advisor: Langdon Hammer and Wai Chee Dimock
Name: Andrew Heisel Year: 4th Areas of Interest: Dissertation Topic: "Reading in Darkness: Sacred Text and Aesthetics in Eighteenth-Century Literature" Advisors: Jill Campbell and Elliott Visconsi
Name: Susannah Hollister Year: 6th Areas of Interest: 20th-century American literature, lyric poetry Dissertation Topic: "Orders of Magnitude: The Poetry of Geography in Postwar America" Advisors: Langdon Hammer and Paul Fry
Name: James Horowitz Year: 7th Dissertation Topic: "Civic Affections: The Ovidian Heroine and the Politics of the Passions, 1680-1773" Advisor: Jill Campbell and Elliott Visconsi IJName: Leslie Jamison |
KName: Andrew Karas Year: 3rd Areas of Interest: lyric poetry; 20th-century American literature
Name: Andrew Kau Year: 1st (English & Renaissance Studies) Areas of Interest:
Name: James Knabe Year: 1st Areas of Interest:
Name: Thomas Koenigs Year: 1st Areas of Interest:
Name: Michael Komorowski Year: 3rd (English & Renaissance Studies) Areas of Interest: Early modern poetry; Milton; Petrarchism on the Continent and in England; literature and nationhood; imitation
Name: Andrew Kraebel Year: 1st Areas of Interest: Poetry, biblical exegesis, and literary theory in the Middle Ages; textual editing; palaeography and codicology LName: Benjamin LaBreche Year: 6th (English & Renaissance Studies) Areas of Interest: Early modern English and continental literature (especially lyric), classical literature and its reception, British history and politics, patronage, friendship Dissertation Topic: "Patronage, Literary Influence, and Politics in the Seventeenth-Century Friendship Lyric" Advisors: David Quint and John Rogers
Name: Sebastian Lecourt Year: 4th Areas of Interest: 19th-century British and American literature; transatlantic discipline-formation; religion and the social sciences Dissertation Topic: "Anthropology, Religion, and the Voice of the Critic in Victorian Literature, 1865-1900" Advisors: Linda Peterson and Katie Trumpener
Name: Madeleine Lipshie-Williams Year: 1st Areas of Interest: MName: James Ross Macdonald Year: 3rd (English & Renaissance Studies) Areas of Interest: Early modern poetry and prose, medieval and renaissance drama, history of science, theology
Name: Sarah Mahurin Year: 5th Areas of Interest: 19th-century American novel (plus some Victorianists thrown in, for fun) 19th- and 20th-century African-American literature
Name: Erica Levy McAlpine Year: 5th Areas of Interest: 20th-century Lyric poetry, Romantic poetry, American poetry, Latin poetry
Name: Hilary Menges Year: 4th Areas of Interest: Late-17th and 18th-century literature; poetry; the rise of the novel; print and book history Dissertation Topic: "Monumental Remains: The Author and the Book in Early Modern English Literature" Advisors: Jill Campbell and John Rogers
Name: Erica Miao Year: 1st Areas of Interest:
Name: Laura Saetveit Miles Year: 4th Areas of Interest: Middle English religious prose, especially mystical and anchoritic writing; manuscript studies; Syon Abbey and the Carthusians; textual editing; Old English
Name: Melina Moe Year: 1st Areas of Interest:
Name: Caroline Murphree Year: 3rd Areas of Interest: 19th-century novel (especially Austen and Eliot), Old English, Arthurian Epic, Milton
Name: John Muse Year: 5th Areas of Interest: Modern drama and modernism in Europe and America; performance studies; avant-garde drama; twentieth-century drama; short form Dissertation Topic: "Modernist Theatrical Shorts since 1880" Advisors: Joseph Roach and Marc Robinson
Name: Matthew Mutter Year: 6th NName: Sarah Novacich Year: 4th Areas of Interest: Old and Middle English poetry, Middle English cycle drama, historiography, religion OName: Jean Otsuki Year: 6th PName: Erin Peterson Year: 6th Areas of Interest: 16th- and 17th-century poetry and drama; devotional lyric; soliloquy; reception of classical poetry; Spenser; Chaucer. Dissertation Topic: "The Intrusive Voice of God in 17th-Century Devotional Lyric" Advisor: John Rogers
Name: Edward Pickering Year: 4th Areas of Interest: 18th-century, Romanticism, nature writing Dissertation Topic: "A World of Natural Facts: Natural History Writing and Romantic Subjectivity from Gilbert White to W.H. Hudson" Advisors: Paul Fry and Linda Peterson
Name: Tessie Prakas Year: 1st Areas of Interest: QRName: Patrick Redding Year: 6th Areas of Interest: 20th-century poetry; modernism, aesthetics, moral and political philosophy, biography and memoir Dissertation Topic: "Varieties of Democratic Imagination in Modern American Poetry" Advisors: David Bromwich and Langdon Hammer
Name: Fiona Robinson Year: 2nd Areas of Interest: SName: Glyn Salton-Cox Year: 1st Areas of Interest:
Name: Jesse Schotter Year: 4th Areas of Interest: Modernist fiction and poetry in Britain and America; Melville and 19th century American literature; film Dissertation Topic: "The Hieroglyphic Imagination: Symbolism and the Legibility of the World in the Modern Novel" Advisors: Peter Brooks and Pericles Lewis
Name: Emily Setina Year: 6th Areas of Interest: 20th-century literature; visual culture; photography criticism and history; lyric and minority language poetry Dissertation Topic: Modern Optics: Popular Photography and Literary Invention Advisors: Langdon Hammer and Pericles Lewis
Name: Justin Sider Year: 1st Areas of Interest:
Name: Nathan Suhr-Sytsma Year: 3rd Areas of Interest: British, Irish, and global Anglophone TName: Stephen Tedeschi Year: 4th Areas of Interest: Romanticism, 19th-century poetry, poetics, literary theory Dissertation Topic: "The Mind's Place: The City in English Romantic Poetry" Advisors: Paul Fry and Christopher R. Miller
Name: J. Antonio Templanza Year: 1st (English & Renaissance Studies) Areas of Interest: UVName: Matthew Valdiviez Year: 5th Areas of Interest: Milton and 17th-century literature, epic, Romanticism (especially Blake), theology and biblical studies, phenomenology and hermeneutics
Name: Nienke Christine Venderbosch Year: 3rd
Name: Matthew Vernon Year: 4th WName: William Weber
Name: Jerry Weng Year: 5th
Name: Nathalie Wolfram Year: 2nd
Name: Nicole Wright Year: 5th Areas of Interest: Literary adjudication in the long eighteenth century, Restoration drama, scientific enquiry in literature, the Anglo-Irish novel, modernism, imagist poetry, narratology, "realism" and aesthetics, emerging literary forms, race and class, postcolonial fiction XYName: Julia Yost Year: 3rd Areas of Interest: Nineteenth century (Newman, Hopkins, Pater, Austen, Dickens); Aestheticism; religion ZName: Jordan Zweck Year: 6th Areas of Interest: Old English, Middle English, Old Norse Dissertation Topic: "Epistolary Forms in Early English Literature" Advisor: Roberta Frank |