A

Name: Samuel Alexander

Year: 3rd

Areas of Interest: British modernism, 19th-20th century novel and intellectual history, narrative theory

Name: Elizabeth Appel

Year: 4th
Areas of Interest: British, French and American modernism, Tragedy, Feminist Theory, Narrative Theory, Visual Culture

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

B

Name: Michalina Bajda-Pawlikowska

Year: 3rd
Area of Interest: Nineteenth century poetry and prose (especially Thomas Hardy and the Pre-Raphaelites), Modernism, visual perception and literature, aestheticism, the history of art (Nineteenth century), Polish literature

Name: Michaela Bronstein

Year: 3rd

Areas of Interest: The modernist novel (especially James, Conrad, and Faulkner); Milton

C

Name: Ryan Carr
Year: 2nd

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

D

Name: 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
Year: 2nd
Areas of Interest: 19th- and 20th-century novel (Bellow, Faulkner, Woolf, Joyce, Proust, Flaubert); 20th-century poetry; modernism and realism; British Romantic poetry

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

E

Name: Megan Eckerle
Year: 2nd

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 Brontës)

F

Name: 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

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
Year: 2nd
Areas of Interest: Early modern and medieval literature; literary theory; meta-professional issues

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"

G

Name: 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
Year: 2nd

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

H

Name: 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

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
Areas of Interest: Restoration-era and 18th-century culture; poetry and the early novel; women's writing; neoclassicism; literature and history; film and film theory

Dissertation Topic: "Civic Affections: The Ovidian Heroine and the Politics of the Passions, 1680-1773"

I

J

Name: Leslie Jamison
Year: 2nd
Areas of Interest: 20th-century American literature, literature and poverty

K

Name: 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

L

Name: 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:

M

Name: 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

N

Name: Sarah Novacich

Year: 4th

Areas of Interest: Old and Middle English poetry, Middle English cycle drama, historiography, religion

O

Name: Jean Otsuki

Year: 6th

P

Name: Erin Peterson

Year: 6th

Areas of Interest: 16th- and 17th-century poetry and drama; devotional lyric; soliloquy; reception of classical poetry; Spenser; Chaucer.

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:

Q

R

Name: 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:

S

Name: 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

Name: Nathan Suhr-Sytsma

Year: 3rd

Areas of Interest: British, Irish, and global Anglophone

T

Name: 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:

U

V

Name: 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

W

Name: William Weber
Year: 2nd

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

X

Y

Name: Julia Yost

Year: 3rd

Areas of Interest: Nineteenth century (Newman, Hopkins, Pater, Austen, Dickens); Aestheticism; religion

Z

Name: Jordan Zweck

Year: 6th

Areas of Interest: Old English, Middle English, Old Norse

Dissertation Topic: "Epistolary Forms in Early English Literature"

Advisor:  Roberta Frank