Current Graduate Students
| Name | Field | Dissertation |
|---|---|---|
| David Alworth | 20th-Century American Literature; Postwar American Cultural and Intellectual History; Modern and Contemporary Visual Art; Media Studies |
Site Reading: Postwar Fiction, Visual Art, and Social Form |
| Stephanie Anderson | 20th-Century American Poetry and Poetics; History of the Book (Small Press Publishing) | |
| Jose Arellano | Late 19th- to mid-20th- century American and African American Literature; Social Movement Theory; Literary Theory | |
| Laura Aydelotte | Medieval and Renaissance literature, literature and visual culture |
Monumental Visions: Architecture and Literature from Chaucer to Ben Jonson |
| Hadji Bakara | 20th century literature, the global cold war, the 1960s, the new left and countercultures, history of science, history of medicine, psychiatry and anti-psychiatry, literature and war | |
| Rosie Banks | 20th-Century American Literature; Psychology and Literature; Religion and Literature |
Writing Hygiene: The Literature of the U.S. Mental Hygiene Movement and the Creation of a Healthy-Minded Public, 1908-1950 |
| Melissa Barton | 20th-Century American Literature; African American Literature and Race Studies; Modern Drama |
Staging Liberation: Race, Radical Democracy, and Forms of American Theater, 1934-1964 |
| Jason Bartulis | Art, Mind, Religion, and Politics--in that order. (Order subject to change.) | |
| James Bassett | History of the Book; Occasional Literature; Poetics; Gender and Sexuality | |
| Chris Bench | 20th-Century American Literature; Science and Literature; Media Studies; Phenomenologies of Reading | |
| Jeffrey Boggs | 19th-Century American Literature; Henry James | |
| Andrew Broughton | Eighteenth-Century British Literature, History and Theory of the Novel, Romanticism, Critical Theory |
Before Distraction |
| Dustin Brown | 19th-Century British Literature and Culture; Marxism; Psychoanalysis | |
| Lauren Caldwell | 18th-Century British Literature | |
| Oscar Chavez | Modern/Postmodern American Literature | |
| Darrel Chia | Postcolonial Literature and Theory, 19th- and early 20th- Century American Cultural History, Global America | |
| Hannah Christensen | Medieval Literature | |
| Amanda Davis | Late-19th- and 20th-Century Literature; Architecture; Representation; Posthumanism | |
| Moacir de Sa Pereira | 20th-Century American Novels; Community; Geography; Identity; Race; Nationality; Sexuality |
Sic Transit America: Novels In, Of, Beyond, and Below the United States, 1928-1941 |
| Robert Devendorf | 19th-Century British Novels; Literature and Literary Authority; Literary Sensibility and the Body in Time and Space |
The Misfit in the Country House; or, Occasions in a Technology of Literary Authority |
| David Diamond | Restoration and 18th-Century British literature | |
| James Duesterberg | Modern and Postmodern Literature; Contemporary Film; Aesthetics and Affect; Critical Theory | |
| Ian Duncan | Literature and/of the British Empires (1880-2000); Postcolonial Literature and Theory; South African Literature | |
| Paul Durica | 19th- and 20th-Century American Literature with an Emphasis on Tramps and Tramping |
Flux Americana: Tramps and Tramping in American Literature |
| Rachel Eisendrath | Renaissance literature and philosophy, contemporary aesthetics, classics |
Renaissance Ekphrasis and the Objects of History |
| Margaret Fink Berman | 20th-Century American Literature; Graphic Narrative (especially Alternative Comics); Ordinariness and Everyday Life; Disability Studies | |
| Mary Gibbons | 19th Century British Literature | |
| Philip Goldfarb | Renaissance Literature | |
| Michael Hansen | Nineteenth-Century British Literature; Poetry and Poetics | |
| Daniel Harris | 18th- and 19th-Century British Literature | |
| John Havard | 18th-Century British Literature | |
| Megan Heffernan | Early Modern Poetry and Drama; Book History; Poetics |
'Eche part togeather sought': Inventing the Poetry Collection in Early Modern England |
| Burke Hilsabeck | film, Stanley Cavell, modernism and modernity |
"Accidental Specificity: Slapstick Comedy and Its Medium" |
| Kerri Hunt | Victorian Literature and Culture; the Realist Novel; Material Culture |
Reality Effects |
| Sean Hutchison | 20th-Century American Literature; Cultural Studies; Film, Television, and Visual Culture; The History of Philosophy | |
| Andrew Inchiosa | Late-18th- and 19th-Century American Literature; Histories of the Senses; Law and Literature | |
| Alexander Jacobs | 19th-Century American literature and poetry | |
| Adam Jernigan | Postwar and Contemporary American Literature; Multiethnic Modernisms and Postmodernism; Materialist and Psychoanalytic Theory; Aesthetics and Affect |
Affective Realism: Economies of Feeling in Postwar American Fiction |
| Kristian Kerr | 18th- and 19th-Century British Literature; History and Theory of the Novel; Reception of Classical Literature |
Novel Classicism: British Historiography and the Empire of Prose |
| Thomas Kim | 19th and 20th century American Literature, Asian American Literature, Critical Theory |
Quasi-Oriental: Objects, Subjects, and Spaces in Early Asian America |
| Kevin Kimura | Postcolonial Literature and Theory; Minority Studies | |
| Laura Kolb | 16th- and 17th-Century Poetry and Drama | |
| Katherine Krywokulski | Colonial, 18th, and 19th century American literature; the transatlantic Enlightenment; Anglo-American religious history | |
| Rachel Kyne | Modernism; Renaissance; the history of lyric; poetics; aesthetic theories; visual arts and the historicity of vision; the city; photography; political subjectivities; sovereignty | |
| Salinda Lewis | 19th, 20th, & 21st Century Caribbean, African American, Latino and American Literatures & Cultures; Contemporary Global Literatures and Human Rights; Intersections among Literature, History, & Politics; Post-Colonial and Race Theories; African Diasporas; Global South |
Contested Cuba: Race, Torture, and Human Rights (1843-1912) |
| Peter Lido | 20th-Century Literature; Postwar American Literature; Late Classical Hollywood; Political Theory; Regionalisms and Style; Gender Studies | |
| Anthony Madrid | Poetics; 18th-Century British Prose Stylists; 21st-Century American Poetry |
The Warrant for Rhyme |
| Abigail Marcus | Early Modern English Poetry; Religion and Literature; Poetry and Poetics; the Early Modern Body | |
| Jett McAlister | Modern and Contemporary American Poetry, Poetics, Aesthetics, Twentieth-Century British Fiction, Philosophy and Literature, Creative Writing, Queer Theory, Medical Humanities |
Sublime Aesthetics and Contemporary American Poetry |
| Summer McDonald | Late-19th-Century through Contemporary American Literature; American Modernism and Postmodernism; Theories of African American Literature; Race Theory; Realism and Naturalism; Women's Literature |
California Dreamin': Region and Black Identity in the Post-Segregation United States |
| Michelle Menzies | 20th-Century Aesthetics; Critical Social Theory; Classical Film Theory; Modern and Postwar American Poetics; Early Cinema; Experimental Film; Photography; Contemporary Art; New Media Theory; Digital Aesthetics |
Archives of Experience: Toward a Digital Aesthetics |
| Carmen Merport | 20th-Century American Literature; Aesthetic Theory; Literature and Visual Art | |
| Andres Millan | Modernism and Medieval Literature | |
| Jose-Luis Moctezuma | Victorian Literature; Poetry and Image | |
| Patrick Morrissey | Poetry and Poetics; 19th and 20th-Century American Literature; Literature and Philosophy | |
| Kevin Murphy | Medieval Literature | |
| Erin Nerstad | Victorian Literature; Poetry and Poetics; Religion and Literature; Literature and Visual Arts |
The Lyric Varieties of Religious Experience: Four Nineteenth-Century Poets |
| Caryn O'Connell | 16th- and 17th-Century British Literature; History and Philosophy of Science; Nonhuman Studies |
Horizons of Aliveness: Writing the Vegetal Life in Seventeenth-Century Britain |
| Nell Pach | Modernist Fiction; 20th-century British and Irish Literature; Magical Realism; Drama; Feminist Theory | |
| Stephen Pannuto | Romanticism; Critical and Aesthetic Theory | |
| Peggy Parmenter | 18th-Century American Literature and Culture; Epistolary Culture |
Trustworthy Letters, Epistolary Alchemies: Letterature and Literary Authority in Eighteenth-Century America |
| Andrew Peart | 20th- and 21st-Century Anglo-American Poetry and Poetics; Poetry and the Visual Arts; Critical Theory; New Media and Digital Aesthetics | |
| Cassidy Picken | Philosophy and Aesthetics; Friendship; Legacies of Romanticism; Theories of the Novel; Marxism | |
| Emily Ponder | 19th-Century British Literature; Non-Standard Language in Literature; Film Studies |
Nineteenth-Century Slang |
| Aleks Prigozhin | 19th- and 20th-Century British Novel, theory and history of realism, theories of affect | |
| Jonathan Proniewski | Romanticism, 18th- and 19th-Century aesthetics | |
| Martin Rayburn | Modern; Postmodern American Literature | |
| Sam Rowe | 18th-Century Literature; the History of Reading; the Novel; Literary Theory; late-20th-Century and contemporary visual, sound, and conceptual poetries | |
| Siddharth Satpathy | Postcolonial Literature and Theory |
A Literary History of the Pastoral Subject |
| Michael Sauve | Medieval Literature | |
| Michael Savitz | 20th-Century American Poetry |
Poetics of Experience: Pragmatism and Poetry Discourse |
| Jonathan Schroeder | Late-19th-Century American Literature; Modernism; History; Memory; Melodrama | |
| Tristan Schweiger | British Romanticism and the 18th Century; Nationalism; Empire; Modern Economics | |
| Henry Scotch | 19th- and Early-20th-Century American Literature and Visual Culture |
Oceanic America: A Literary Geography |
| Matthew Sims | 20th-Century American and British Literature; Urban Studies; Critical Theory | |
| Brady Smith | Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures; African Studies; Critical Theory; Political Ecology; Fictions of Childhood; Urban Studies | |
| Eirik Steinhoff | Early Modern English Poetry; Critical Theory; 20th-Century and Contemporary Anglophone Poetry |
Senses of Chance in Early Modern England: Wyatt, Marlowe, Milton |
| Amanda Swain | 20th and 21st century American Literature; Literature and Ethics; Post-Millennial American Culture; Media Studies | |
| Suzanne Taylor | 18th-Century Literature & Moral Philosophy | |
| Megan Tusler | 20th Century American Literature and Photography; the American City; Citizenship, Sovereignty, and Indigeneity | |
| Rachel Watson | Late 19th- and 20th-Century American Literature; African American Literature and Race Studies; Law and Literature; Detective Fiction |
Capturing the Individual: Race and Forensics in American Literature, 1894-1959 |
| Joshua Weiss | Transatlantic Modernism; Psychoanalysis; Queer Theory; Theology; Film; Science Fiction; Comic Books | |
| Chalcedony Wilding | Poetry and Poetics; Theories of the Sublime | |
| Karin Wimbley | Modern/Contemporary American Literature; African American Literature; Film; Theater and Performance Studies |
Framing the 'Art of Stereotypy': The Politics of Race and Representation in African American Visual and Performance Culture, 1985-2005 |
| Johanna Winant | 20th-Century Poetry; Modernist Fiction; Romantic Poetry; Poetry and Poetics |
Literary Coherence |
| Nathan Wolff | 19th-Century American Literature; Politics; Affect and Aesthetics |
Fits of Reason: The U.S. Political Romance, 1870 –1910 |
| Andrew Yale | 19th-Century American Literature; Experimental Film; Politics of Intellectual and Other Sorts of Labor |