Current Graduate Students
| Name | Field | Dissertation |
|---|---|---|
| Stephanie Anderson | 20th-Century American Poetry and Poetics; History of the Book (Small Press Publishing) |
Dating the Poem, 1930-80: Toward a Calendrical Poetics |
| 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 | |
| Jason Bartulis | Art, Mind, Religion, and Politics--in that order. (Order subject to change.) |
A Secular Form of Life: Art and Criticism, 1933-2011 |
| James Bassett | History of the Book; Occasional Literature; Poetics; Gender and Sexuality |
American Poetics and the Crisis of Millennialism: 1861-1876 |
| Rowan Bayne | 20th-Century American Literature; Gender and Sexuality; Political Theory | |
| Ingrid Becker | ||
| 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 |
Ambivalent Subjects: Disinterest, Affect, and the Psychological Body of Late Victorian Literature |
| Lauren Caldwell | 18th-Century British Literature |
Trifling Sums: The Economic Imagination of Restoration and Eighteenth Century Drama |
| Oscar Chavez | Modern/Postmodern American Literature | |
| Darrel Chia | Postcolonial Literature and Theory, 19th- and early 20th- Century American Cultural History, Global America |
Strange Friends: Intimate Diplomacy in the Age of New Imperialism (1865-1914) and the Extension of International Law |
| Hannah Christensen | Medieval Literature | |
| Michael Dango | 20th Century and Contemporary Literature; Queer Studies; Aesthetics; History of Literary Theory; Systems Theory | |
| 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 |
Credible Typologies: Calvinist Theology, Commerce, and the Early English Novel, 1660-1750 |
| 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 |
Reading the Postcolonial Cosmopolitan Novel: Ethical Encounters with the Literature of Incediary Circumstances |
| Paul Durica | 19th- and 20th-Century American Literature with an Emphasis on Tramps and Tramping |
Flux Americana: Tramps and Tramping in American Literature |
| Margaret Fink | 20th-Century American Literature; Graphic Narrative (especially Alternative Comics); Ordinariness and Everyday Life; Disability Studies | |
| Katia Fowler | 16th- and 17th-Century British Literature; Textual Criticism; Book History; Religion and Literature; Philosophy and History of Science; Early Modern Women Writers. | |
| Mary Gibbons | 19th Century British Literature | |
| Philip Goldfarb | Renaissance Literature |
Local Habitations: Settings and Politics in Shakespeare's Plays |
| Michael Hansen | Nineteenth-Century British Literature; Poetry and Poetics |
Poetic Thinking, Victorian Prosody |
| Daniel Harris | 18th- and 19th-Century British Literature |
Experiments in Individuation: Physiological, Perceptual and Evolutionary Processes in Victorian Fiction, 1850-1907 |
| John Havard | 18th-Century British Literature |
Literature and the Party System in Britain, 1760-1830 |
| Megan Heffernan | Early Modern Poetry and Drama; Book History; Poetics |
'Eche part togeather sought': Inventing the Poetry Collection in Early Modern England |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
| Kevin Kimura | Postcolonial Literature and Theory; Minority Studies | |
| Laura Kolb | 16th- and 17th-Century Poetry and Drama |
Outward Worth: Money, Credit, and Intimacy in Early Modern Drama |
| Katherine Krywokulski | Colonial, 18th, and 19th century American literature; the transatlantic Enlightenment; Anglo-American religious history | |
| Sarah Kunjummen | 16th and 17th century British literature; Religion and Literature; Poetry and Poetics; Early Modern Letters and Letter-Writing | |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
| Peter McDonald | Game studies; 20th Century North American literature; Post-modernity; Cultural studies; Marxism | |
| 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; Modernism; Aesthetics | |
| 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 |
| Rebecca Oh | Postcolonial Literature/Theory; Global Anglophone Literature; Feminist Theory; Human Rights; Nationalism/Nation-State; Intersections of the Literary, Political, and Juridical. | |
| Nell Pach | Modernist Fiction; 20th-century British and Irish Literature; Magical Realism; Drama; Feminist Theory | |
| Stephen Pannuto | Romanticism; Critical and Aesthetic Theory | |
| 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 |
| Eric Powell | 20th Century Anglo-American Poetry and Poetics; Semiotics; Materialism and Materiality; Marxist Aesthetics; Phenomenology; Animality. | |
| Aleks Prigozhin | 19th- and 20th-Century British Novel, theory and history of realism, theories of affect |
The Arrival of the World: Immediation-Effects and the Modernist British Novel |
| 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 | |
| Michael Sauve | Medieval Literature |
Ethics and Error in 14th Century Literature |
| Michael Savitz | 20th-Century American Poetry |
Poetics of Experience: Pragmatism and Poetry Discourse |
| Lauren Schachter | Romantic Literature; History of Lyric Forms | |
| Jonathan Schroeder | Late-19th-Century American Literature; Modernism; History; Memory; Melodrama |
Historical Attention and the Art of American Nostalgia, 1886-1936 |
| Tristan Schweiger | British Romanticism and the 18th Century; Nationalism; Empire; Modern Economics |
Planters, Mariners, Nabobs, and Squires: Masculine Typology and Imperial Ideology, 1719-1818 |
| Henry Scotch | 19th- and Early-20th-Century American Literature and Visual Culture |
Oceanic America: A Literary Geography |
| Sophia Sherry | Anglophone and Francophone Modernism; Transnationalism; Critical Theory; Historicism, Memory, and Trauma; Literature and Philosophy; Psychoanalysis | |
| Amanda Shubert | The Victorian Novel and Literary Culture; Fin-de-Siècle Modernism; Modern Drama; Realism; Photography and Proto-Cinematic Technologies; Visual Culture | |
| 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 |
Ecology, Economy and the Contemporary African Novel |
| Amanda Swain | 20th and 21st century American Literature; Literature and Ethics; Post-Millennial American Culture; Media Studies | |
| Suzanne Taylor | 18th-Century Literature & Moral Philosophy |
Character, Action, Virtue |
| Allison Turner | Eighteenth-Century British Literature | |
| Megan Tusler | 20th Century American Literature and Photography; the American City; Citizenship, Sovereignty, and Indigeneity |
American Snapshot: Urban Realism from New Deal to Great Society |
| Joshua Weiss | Transatlantic Modernism; Psychoanalysis; Queer Theory; Theology; Film; Science Fiction; Comic Books |
Modernist Ecstasy: Religion, Sexuality, Faith |
| Chalcedony Wilding | Poetry and Poetics; Theories of the Sublime | |
| Johanna Winant | 20th-Century Poetry; Modernist Fiction; Romantic Poetry; Poetry and Poetics |
Literary Coherence |
| Sophia Withers | 20th-Century British and Irish Literature; Modernism; Early Cinema | |
| David Womble | 18th- and 19th-century British Novel Culture | |
| Andrew Yale | 19th-Century American Literature; Experimental Film; Politics of Intellectual and Other Sorts of Labor |
Accreting History in the American Twentieth Century |