Graduate Students
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Aditya Bahl
Research Interests: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, Marxism, Critique of Political Economy, Negative Dialectics, Continental Philosophy, French Philosophy
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Aaron Begg
Research Interests: 20th- and 21st-century American poetry; poetics of the long downturn
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Royce Best
Research Interests: Early Modern and Eighteenth-Century Literature and Drama, Disability Studies, Performance Studies, the Dumb Show, Shakespeare
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Joel Childers
Research Interests: Romanticism and modernism; modernity and intellectual history
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Mitchell Cram
Research Interests: 20th-century poetry, Marxism and theory, science fiction
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Nathan Doherty
Research Interests: Early Modern studies as seen through the lense of current eco-political discourse(s) surrounding the Anthropocene and the porous montage of topics parametized therein
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Noelle Dubay
Research Interests: 19th C American spiritualism; contemporary queer investments in the occult
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Sophia Fanchi
Research Interests: Modernist literature, Global Modernism, theory of the novel, critical theory
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Joseph Aurelio Giardini
Research Interests: 20th Century Poetics, Political Economy, Queer Theory
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John Hoffmann
Research Interests: Global Modernism; British, American, German Modernism; Aesthetics; Critical Theory; Romanticism and the Counter-Enlightenment; History of Ideas; Film and Media Studies
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Tobias Huttner
Research Interests: 20th- and 21st-century poetry and poetics; poetry and political economy; poetry and social struggle; critical race studies; the 21st-century University
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Gloria Jirsaraie
Research Interests: African American literature; critical race theory; black feminism; intellectual history
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Samreen Kazmi
Research Interests: Postcolonial and Comparative literatures, British literature (Victorian and early 20th century), narratology, novel theory, genre theory, Marxism, South Asia
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Sungmey Lee
Research Interests: Nineteenth-Century British Novel, Sensational Novel, Gender, Affect, Modernity, Religion and Secularization
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Alex Lewis
Research Interests: Renaissance literature, Milton, Shakespeare, Nashe, history and theory of allegory, 19th/20th century Russian literature and critical theory, poetry and poetics
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Evan Loker
Research Interests: 19th and 20th century American; Mexican and Brazilian Literature; Political Economy; History of Capitalism; Sports and Social History
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Alexandra Lossada
Research Interests: 20th-Century American literature, with emphasis on Southern literature and writer Tennessee Williams
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Atesede (Sede) Makonnen
Research Interests: Shakespeare, comedy, violence, transformative fiction, race and gender studies
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Thai Matthews
Research Interests: Medieval folktale and literature, the British Empire as reflected in literature, anti-colonial historicism
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Daniel McClurkin
Research Interests: Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, Genre Theory, Classical Reception, John Milton, Melancholy, Medicine and Literature
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Xavier Oliver
Research Interests: 20th c. American literature, especially literature of the Great Depression; Marxist philosophy of language; dialogism; cryptonymic psychoanalysis; French critical theory; hermeneutics; liminality and narrative construction of the self
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Samanda Robinson
Research Interests: African American literature, Women's and Gender studies, Feminist/womanist literature, speculative fiction, magical realism and Afrofuturism
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Sarah Ross
Research Interests: nineteenth-century British literature; women, gender, sexuality; material and book history
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Connie Scozzaro
Research Interests: Early modern literature, issues of feminism and critical theory
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Alex Streim
Research Interests: Poetry and Poetics, 20th and 21st Century American Literature
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Erica Tempesta
Research Interests: American Literature, African American Literature, Naturalism, Law & Legal Studies, Labor Literature
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Robert Tinkle
Research Interests: early modernity, drama, performance theory, religion and literature
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Jarvis Young
Research Interests: 19th and 20th century American and African American Literature; genre theory, abjection and paralysis, black body politics
