A

Name: Samuel Alexander

Year: 4th

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; the representation of space and place; travels, particularly in the Middle East

B

Name: Michalina Bajda-Pawlikowska

Year: 4th
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: 4th

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

C

Name: Ryan Carr
Year: 3rd

Area of Interest: American literature

Name: Natachi Chukumerije

Year: 1st

Area of Interest: Twentieth-Century American prose and poetry, modernism

Name: Emily Coit

Year: ABD

Areas of Interest: 19th-century prose, especially the novel; aestheticism; George Eliot, Henry James, Edith Wharton; literature and economics

Dissertation Topic: "The Trial of Abundance: Consumption and Morality in the Anglo-American Novel, 1871-1907"

Advisors: Ruth Bernard Yeazell and Catherine Labio

Name: Samuel Cross

Year: 5th

Area of Interest: Modernism

Dissertation Topic: "Necessary Fictions: Character and the Modern Novel"

Advisors: Peter Brooks and Pericles Lewis

Name: David Currell

Year: 5th

Areas of Interest: Classical studies, Renaissance studies, Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, psychoanalysis

Dissertation Topic: "Epic Satire from Homer to Dryden"

Advisor: David Quint

D

Name: Anthony Domestico
Year: 3rd
Areas of Interest: Modernist fiction and poetry; post-1945 American fiction (Marilynne Robinson, Flannery O'Connor, Saul Bellow); theology and literature

Name: Anna Dubenko

Year: 1st

Areas of Interest: 20th-Century Jewish American literature

E

Name: Megan Eckerle
Year: 3rd

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: Renaissance poetry and poetic theory, epic, classical reception and translation

Name: Molly Farrell

Year: 5th

Areas of Interest: Writing in and about early America; The history of population theory; problems of sovereignty; captivity and adoption narratives; Caribbean studies; children's literature;  postcolonialism and African literature
Dissertation Topic: "Counting Bodies:
Imagining Population in the New World"
Advisor: Wai Chee Dimock

Name: Julia Fawcett

Year: 5th

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: 3rd
Areas of Interest: American literature and culture; the history of the book; presidential rhetoric

Name: Denis Ferhatovic

Year: 7th

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: "An Early English Poetics of the Artifact"
Advisor: Roberta Frank

G

Name: Edgar Garcia

Year: 2nd

Areas of Interest: Early American republic; civic texts, oratory, constitutional writing; Adams and Jefferson

Name: Ruth Gilligan

Year: 1st

Areas of Interest: 20th Century

Name: Colin Gillis

Year: 7th

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: ABD

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: 4th

Areas of Interest: Lyric poetry and poetics, 20th-century literature, literary theory, political philosophy

Name: Jean Elyse Graham
Year: 3rd

Area of Interest: 20th-century American literature

Name: Patrick Gray

Year: 6th (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: 4th

Areas of Interest: Modern drama, contemporary Irish drama, contemporary American drama, performance studies, monologue form in drama and poetry
Dissertation Topic: "Performing Confession: American Poetry, Performance, and New Media since 1959"
Advisors: Amy Hungerford and Joseph Roach

Name: Daniel Gustafson

Year: 5th

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: "Stuart Restorations: History, Memory, Performance"

Advisors: Joseph Roach and Elliott Visconsi

Name: Len Gutkin

Year: 2nd

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: 6th

Areas of Interest: 20th century and contemporary novel, Critical race and media studies, African-American literature, experimental forms, 18th century and Victorian novel, Literary Theory, border literature (geographic and generic), ethics and aesthetics of violence and historical trauma.

Dissertation Topic: "Tales Twice Told: Encounters with Sound Technology in Twentieth-Century American Fiction"

Advisor: Amy Hungerford

Name: Gabriele Hayden

Year: ABD

Areas of Interest: Twentieth Century Literature; Transnational Moderisms; African American and Diasporic literatures; Latino/a Literatures; Translation and Material Culture; Feminist and Queer Theory
Dissertation Topic: "Modernism's Spanish: Translation, Collaboration, Experimentation"

Advisor: Langdon Hammer and Wai Chee Dimock

Name: Andrew Heisel

Year: 5th

Areas of Interest:

Dissertation Topic: "Reading in Darkness: Sacred Text and Aesthetics in Eighteenth-Century Literature"

Advisors: Jill Campbell and Elliott Visconsi

Name: Matthew Hunter

Year: 1st

Areas of Interest: The Renaissance and Its reception; Victorian criticism; poetics; lyric; genres of drama; the elegy

I

J

Name: Leslie Jamison
Year: 3rd
Areas of Interest: 20th-century American literature, literature and poverty

Name: Daniel Jump

Year: 1st

Areas of Interest: Romantic poetry, hermeneutics, phenomenology, theology, the struggle between allegory and symbol

K

Name: Andrew Karas

Year: 4th

Areas of Interest: lyric poetry; 20th Century American literature

Dissertation Topic: "Modern Poetics and the Problem of Multiple Versions"

Advisors: Langdon Hammer and Paul Fry

Name: Andrew Kau

Year: 2nd (English & Renaissance Studies)

Areas of Interest: Early modern (particularly seventeenth-century) lyric and epic; Milton; Shakespeare; history of criticism; law and literature

Name: James Knabe

Year: 2nd

Areas of Interest: Poetry; medieval literature, medievalisms; Chaucer, the history of Chaucer criticism; nonsubstantive nonsense (non-imparting pattern), noetics; Gillian Rose

Name: Thomas Koenigs

Year: 2nd

Areas of Interest: 20th century American literature; nature writing; the politics of form

Name: Michael Komorowski

Year: 4th (English & Renaissance Studies)

Areas of Interest: early modern poetry, Milton, Dryden, history of political thought, literature and economics, law and literature, early modern reception of the classics
Dissertation topic: "Interested Citizens: Commercial Society, Self-Interest, and
the Development of the Modern State in England, 1640-1700"
Advisors: David Quint and John Rogers

Name: Andrew Kraebel

Year: 2nd

Areas of Interest: Poetry, biblical exegesis, and literary theory in the Middle Ages; textual editing; palaeography and codicology

L

Name: Sebastian Lecourt

Year: 5th

Areas of Interest: Nineteenth-century British and American literature; Victorian social sciences, theology, and intellectual history; religion and secularization; history of liberalism

Dissertation Topic: "Race and the Secular in Victorian Literature"

Advisors: Linda Peterson and Katie Trumpener

Name: Madeleine Lipshie-Williams

Year: 2nd (English & African American Studies)

M

Name: James Ross Macdonald

Year: 4th (English & Renaissance Studies)

Areas of Interest: Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, Milton, the Scientific Revolution, transatlantic puritanism, heresy and dissent

Name: Sarah Mahurin

Year: 6th

Areas of Interest: The 20th-century American novel; African-American literature, Southern literature

Name: Erica Levy McAlpine

Year: 6th

Areas of Interest: Lyric poetry, 20th-century literature, American literature, Romanticism
Dissertation Topic: "Lyric Elsewhere: Strategies of Poetic Remove"
Advisors: David Bromwich and Langdon Hammer

Name: Hilary Menges

Year: 5th

Areas of Interest: Restoration and 18th-century literature; 17th-century literature; poetry; the rise of the novel; satire;  print culture; the history of the book

Dissertation Topic: "Monumental Remains: The Author and the Book in Early Modern English Literature"

Advisors: Jill Campbell and John Rogers

Name: Erica Miao

Year: 2nd

Areas of Interest: 18th-century literature, satire, music and literature, historical sociolinguistics, stylistics, the history of the book, punctuation and typography in the 18th-century novel

Name: Laura Saetveit Miles

Year: 5th

Areas of Interest: Middle English devotional, visionary and anchoritic writing; manuscript studies; Syon Abbey and the Carthusians; textual editing; Old English; Old Norse
Dissertation Topic: "Scenes of Reading, Devotion, and Vision: The Annunciation in Middle English Literature"

Name: Melina Moe

Year: 2nd

Name: John Muse

Year: 6th

Areas of Interest: Modern drama and modernism in Europe and America; performance studies; avant-garde drama; twentieth-century drama; short form

Dissertation Topic: "Short Attention Span Theaters: Modernist Shorts Since 1880"

Advisors: Joseph Roach and Marc Robinson

Name: Matthew Mutter

Year: ABD

N

Name: Sarah Elliott Novacich

Year: 5th

Areas of Interest: Old and Middle English poetry, Middle English Cycle Drama, Historiography, Religion, and the New World
Dissertation Topic: Ark, Hell, and Heart: Narrative Borderlands in Medieval and Early Modern Texts

O

Name: Jean Otsuki

Year: 7th

P

Name: Erin Peterson

Year: 7th

Areas of Interest: 16th- and 17th-century poetry and drama; devotional lyric; soliloquy; reception of classical poetry; Spenser; Chaucer
Dissertation Topic: "On Intrusion and Interruption: An Exploration of an Early Modern Literary Mode"

Advisor: John Rogers

Name: Edward Pickering

Year: 5th

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: 2nd

Areas of Interest: Renaissance and early modern poetry and prose (especially 17th-century devotional poetry), Classical literature and the Classical inheritance, 19th-century prose (Collins, Dickens, Kingsley)

Name: Natalie Prizel

Year: 1st

Areas of Interest: Modernism, 20th-Century literature of the American South, sexuality, Jewish culture, public humanities, literature and identity

Q

R

Name: Patrick Redding

Year: 7th

Areas of Interest: 20th-century poetry; modernism, aesthetics, moral and political philosophy, biography and memoir

Dissertation Topic: "A Distinctive Equality: The Democratic Imagination in Modern American Poetry"

Advisors: David Bromwich and Langdon Hammer

Name: Fiona Robinson

Year: 3rd

S

Name: Glyn Salton-Cox

Year: 2nd

Name: Madeleine Saraceni

Year: 1st

Areas of Interest: Late-Medieval literature (Middle English, Italian and French), dream-visions, vernacular interpretations of classical traditions, manuscript studies

Name: Jesse Schotter

Year: 5th

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: 7th

Areas of Interest: 20th-century literature; visual theory
Dissertation Topic: "Modern Optics: Photography and Literary Invention"

Advisors: Langdon Hammer and Pericles Lewis

Name: Justin Sider

Year: 2nd

Areas of Interest: 19th century poetry; the Pre-Raphaelites; modernism; aesthetics and aestheticism; John Ruskin; Walter Pater; Wallace Stevens

Name: Joseph Stadolnik

Year: 1st

Name: Sarah Stone

Year: 1st

Areas of Interest: Poetry

Name: Nathan Suhr-Sytsma

Year: 4th

Areas of Interest: 20th- and 21st-century poetry, especially post-'45 Irish and global anglophone; 20th- and 21st-century British, Irish, and global anglophone fiction; postcolonial book history; Irish studies; religion

Dissertation Topic: "Provinces and Postcolonies: Anglophone Poetry after 1950"
Advisors: Langdon Hammer and Wai Chee Dimock

T

Name: Stephen Tedeschi

Year: 5th

Areas of Interest: Romanticism; Victorian literature; Preromantic poetry and thought; literary theory; poetics

Dissertation Topic: "Metropolitan Culture and Romantic Poetry"

Advisors: Paul Fry and Christopher R. Miller

Name: J. Antonio Templanza

Year: 2nd (English & Renaissance Studies)

Areas of Interest: Poetry; Milton; the epic; sacred texts; histories of idealism, aesthetics

U

V

Name: Matthew Valdiviez

Year: 6th

Areas of Interest: Milton and 17th-century literature, epic, Romanticism (especially Blake), theology and biblical studies, phenomenology and hermeneutics, Marxism

Dissertation Topic: "Ikon of the Invisible
God: Natural Theology and Christology in Early Modern English Literature"

Advisor: John Rogers

Name: Nienke Christine Venderbosch

Year: 4th

Name: Matthew Vernon

Year: 5th

W

Name: William Weber
Year: 3rd

Name: Eric Weiskott

Year: 1st

Areas of Interest: Medieval literature

Name: Jerry Weng

Year: 6th
Areas of interest: Romanticism, 18th-century poetry and philosophy, literature and religion
Dissertation Topic: "Natural Religion and Its Discontents"
Advisors: Leslie Brisman and Paul Fry

Name: Nathalie Wolfram

Year: 3rd

Areas of Interest: Restoration and 18th-century drama; novel theory; Gothic fiction

Name: Nicole Wright

Year: 6th

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: 4th

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

Z

Name: Jordan Zweck

Year: 7th

Areas of Interest: Medieval language and literature (especially Old English, Middle English, and Old Norse), history of the English language, history of the book, and medieval medicine.

Dissertation Topic: "Letters from Heaven in the British Isles, 800-1500"

Advisor:  Roberta Frank