Graduate Students
Rebecca Aberle
Ecocriticism and Environmental Justice; 20th and 21st Century American Literature; Poetry and Poetics; Craft Studies
Inayah Avant
Contemporary African American Literature; Southern Studies; Ecocriticism
Omid Bagherli
The contemporary novel and film, the aesthetics of historical recovery (memory, archive, documentary), critical theory (psychoanalysis, Marxism).
Jacob Cartwright
19th century British and American Literature, Print Culture, Literature and Science
Neela Cathelain
Theory of the novel, migration, transnational literature
Kyung Seo Chung
Eighteenth century British Literature, Novel, Materialism and Culture
Charles Clements
20th-century Irish and British literature; novel form; minimalism; the grotesque; sexuality and transgression; women in surrealism; occultism and epistemology.
Paul Driskill
Paul received his MA from the University of Massachusetts Boston in 2017. He is interested in how nineteenth-century British literature and science represented humans and non-human animals. His dissertation considers how mixed-species individuals embodied anxieties about the post-Darwinian status of humans.
Morgan Easterly
Critical theory; literature and philosophy; feminist, gender & sexuality studies.
Gayathri Goel
In Gayathri's dissertation entitled "Entanglements: Radical Kinship for Ecological Liberation," she examines representations of inter-species interactions in World Literature. Her interests include Anglophone and World Literature, Environmental Literature, Ecocriticism, Political Ecology, Environmental Humanities, Interdisciplinary Studies.
Jordan Green
Research interests include long 19th century British literature, history of science and medicine, women’s writing, and gender and sexuality. More information can be found on her personal website.
Gursheen Guron
The long 19th century British literature; decolonial/post-colonial studies; spatial analysis; marginalization and liminality; aesthetics; critical race theory; gender and sexuality
Hannah Herndon
Multi-ethnic US literature; women’s writing about sexual violence; girlhood; sound studies and the politics of listening; race, gender & sexuality
Dissertation working title: "Listening to Survivors: Multiethnic American Women’s Writing about Sexual Violence (1797-2019).”
Publications include: "'Be wary the delusions of fancy': Silencing and Rape Culture in Foster's The Coquette" in #MeToo and Literary Studies: Reading, Writing, and Teaching about Sexual Assault and Rape Culture, eds. Heather Hewett and Mary Holland (Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming October 21, 2021) and Review of Adulthood and Other Fictions: American Literature and the Unmaking of Age by Sari Edelstein, Modern Language Review, vol. 115, no. 3, 2020, pp. 707-708.
Sarah Iuli
18th and 19th century British Literature, ecocriticism
Ketan Jain
Queer and critical theory; writings on history; negativity; film and visual studies; ecocriticism; postcolonial literatures.
Ciara Keogh
Science fiction; ecocriticism; poetry; contemporary African American literature
Spencer Lane
19th- and 20th-century American literature, ecocriticism, environmental aesthetics, ecological ethics
Jessica Maloney
Medieval literature; Arthuriana and chivalric romances; Ecofeminism; Feminine space in the natural environment
Kara McCabe
B.A. and M.A.T from Union College, M.A. from Middlebury College. Research interest include Early Modern literature, Shakespeare, cultural criticism, history of the book, race, and the female body and maternity.
Roshad Meeks
Black Literary Studies and Eco-Criticism (in English, Arabic and Spanish)
Lee Nevitt
The 19th-Century American Novel, Queer Theory, Regional Literatures, Sex and Sexuality, Architecture, and Cinema Studies
Iriowen Ojo
Memory; aesthetics; gothic studies; psychology
Casey O'Reilly
Victorian Literature, Gothic Literature, feminist theory, queer theory
Emily Palermo
Contemporary American literature, southern studies, affect theory, ecocriticism, and the sociology of literature
Ben Papsun
Literary theory; post-structuralism; humanism; improvisation; form
Taylor Parrish
Contemporary Anglophone and Environmental Literature, Ecocriticism, & Food Studies
Jared Pence
Ph.D. candidate specializing in nineteenth-century American literature. His scholarship focuses on urban literature, new materialism, thing theory, ecocriticism, and psychoanalysis. His dissertation explores nineteenth-century conceptualizations of space and place in American literature, particularly the city and urban space.
Genesis Perez
Miguel Rivera
Caribbean literature, 20-21st century American literature, Lacanian psychoanalysis, critical race theory, detective fiction, and other genre fiction
Zoe Perot
Turn of the century/modernist British and American literature, the novel, social psychology, transatlantic exchanges.
Publications include "Trains, Strains, and Constraints: Women and Trains in North and South, Middlemarch, and Tess of the D’Urbervilles" , published in The Rail, the Body and the Pen: Essays on Travel, Medicine and Technology in 19th Century British Literature, a book by McFarland Press (August 13th, 2021).
Rahul Sen
Psychoanalysis, queer studies, critical theory, modernisms
Bradley Smith
Renaissance literature; Edmund Spenser; the epic; allegory; materialism; animal studies.
Nicola Solly
Disability studies; women’s mental health; 20th and 21st century British literature; madness in literature; feminist theory
Bailey Spencer
20th century poetry and poetics; women in modernism; medical humanities; queer theory.
Rebekah Waalkes
Contemporary American literature; theories of reading; book history; literary theory; race, gender, and sexuality studies
Wenyuan "Iris" Wang
Transnational literature; post-structuralism; post-colonialism; multiculturalism/cross-cultural; migration and diaspora studies; multi-platform works
Brandon Wernette
B.A. and M.A. from New York University. Research interests: British Romanticism; aesthetics; negativity; lyric theory; poetry and poetics; critical theory; post-structuralism and deconstruction; sound studies; William Wordsworth
Ashley Wilcox
B.A. in English and B.A. in German Studies from The University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Research interests include 19th century novels and violence, trauma, and memory studies
Gillian Wood
19th century British literature