Current Graduate Students
Name |
Previous Institutions |
Program and Fields |
|---|---|---|
| Emily Artiano |
University of California, Davis (BA), University of Cambridge |
PhD; Colonial and early American literature, 18th and 19th century transatlantic literature, composition pedagogy Dissertation title |
| Neval Avci |
University of Massachusetts-Boston (MA), Fatih University, Turkey (BA) |
PhD; 18th century literature, children’s literature, early American literature |
| Paul Babin |
Clark University (MA), Wheaton College (BA) |
PhD; Film, 17th Century English Literature, Conrad |
| Kathryn Bloom |
University of Toronto (MA), Hebrew College (MJLS), Rutgers University (BA) |
PhD; middlebrow studies, intersection between philosophy and literature |
| Frank Capogna | Adelphi University (BA) | PhD; Modernism, poetics, performance, and philosophy |
| Gregory Cass |
Wheelock College (BS) | PhD; 18th and 19th century American literature, particularly how poetry and the transatlantic print culture fueled emerging nationalism in North America Dissertation title |
| Tabitha Clark |
Carnegie Mellon University (MA), University of Maine Farmington (BA) | PhD; Dissertation title |
| Sarah Connell |
Bates College (BA) | PhD; medieval and early modern historical texts, Irish studies. Dissertation title |
| Lana Cook |
University of New Hampshire (BA) | PhD; American modernism, postmodernism, film, cultural studies, alternative realities, affect. Dissertation title |
| Jeffrey Cottrell |
University of Oregon, Portland State University (BA) | PhD; 18th and 19th century American and Transatlantic literature, Atlantic colonialism, Antebellum literature and culture, Native American literature. Dissertation title |
| Mary Crawley |
University of Massachusetts-Boston (MA), Mass College of Liberal Arts (BA) |
PhD; Dissertation title |
| Nicole Keller Day | Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College (MA), Vassar College (AB), |
PhD; Victorian Literature, the Rise of the Novel, the History of Science, Women’s Scientific Writing, Romanticism, Digital Humanities |
| Michael Dedek |
University at Buffalo (BA) | PhD; rhetoric and composition, public writing, new media, ethics. Dissertation title |
| Benjamin J. Doyle | Northeastern University | PhD; 18th and 19th century American print and performance cultures |
| Dania Dwyer |
Clark University (MA), University of the West Indies (BA), Mico University College (Dip.Ed) |
PhD; Caribbean literature and Postcolonial literature and theory |
| Jacob Erickson |
UCLA (BA) | MA; Contemporary Literature, Post-Modernism, Romanticism, Humor |
| Brigid Flynn |
URI (BA, MA) | PhD; |
| Erin Frymire |
Skidmore College (BA) | PhD; Language Politics, Legal and Social Justice Rhetorics, Composition, Visual Studies |
| Aleks Galus |
Elmhurst College (BA) | MA; 19th Century through contemporary American literature, gender studies |
| Shannon Garner-Balandrin | Northeastern University (MA), University of Utah (BA) | PhD; Early modern British Romance, Shakespeare, ecocritical and ecomaterial approaches to Medieval and early modern literature |
| Masoud “Kasra” Ghorbaninejad | University of Tehran (BA, MA); University of Edinburgh | PhD; early modern period (specifically, Uncle Bill); the Romantic in literature (British and American Romanticisms), William Butler Yeats, Romantic Imagination/critics (Northrop Frye and Harold Bloom); cultural materialism, neo-Marxist theory, Terry Eagleton, cultural criticism, literary theory, post-colonial criticism, cultural and media studies, comparative and multidisciplinary studies; the practice of ‘English’ as a liberating art. |
| Genie Giaimo |
Clark University (BA, MA) | PhD; Contemporary American Literature, cognitive studies, life writing, visual culture. Dissertation title |
| Kristi Girdharry |
University of Massachusetts-Boston (MA), University of Massachusetts-Amherst (BA) | PhD; Multimodal Composition, Multilingual Learners, Ethnography |
| Brent Griffin |
University of Maine (MA), SUNY Brockport (BS) | PhD; 20th century American literature (proletarian/depression-era fiction), Marxist literary and cultural criticism. Dissertation title |
| Haley Hamilton | Reed College (BA) | MA; 20th Century – contemporary American literature, gender theory, creative nonfiction, narratology, composition |
| Laura Hartmann | Virginia Tech University (MA), St. Louis University (BA, MA) | PhD; Transatlantic Modernism: British and American Poetry and Novel, 1914-1945 Postmodern and Contemporary American Poetry and Novel, 1945-2002 20th Century Visual Studies. Dissertation title |
| Sarah Hastings | Northeastern University (MA), University of Delaware (BA) | PhD; 18th century British novel/Rise of the Novel, Enlightenment rhetoric and philosophy, gender studies, early modern feminist rhetoric, the history of marriage. Dissertation title |
| Elizabeth Hopwood | Salem State University(MA), Connecticut College (BA) | PhD; 18th and 19th century American and transatlantic, Caribbean literature, Digital Humanities, women and gender studies, foodways. Dissertation title |
| Dana Horton |
Temple University (BA) | African American Literature, Caribbean Literature, Multi-Ethnic Literature, Postcolonial Literature |
| Steven Kapica |
Appalachian State University (BA, MA) | PhD; Composition, rhetoric, and new media; women’s and gender studies. Dissertation title |
| Tabitha Kenlon | King’s College London (MA), University of Maryland (BA) | PhD; Shakespeare, 18th-century English novel and theatre, performance studies. Dissertation title |
| Shun Kiang |
Stetson University (MA), University of Florida (BA) |
PhD; Victorian and early Modernist novels, queer and postcolonial thought, and friendship. Dissertation title |
| Anne Kingsley |
City College of New York (MA), University of California San Diego (BA) | PhD; Women’s studies, visual studies, feminist archival theory, post Civil War through contemporary American poetry. Dissertation title |
| Laurie Kladky |
Barnard College at Columbia University (BA) | PhD; Modernism and Translation |
| Lauren Kuryloski | Temple University (BA) | PhD; 20th century American literature and life writing, 20th century Caribbean literature, feminist theory, visual culture |
| Charlie Lesh |
University at Buffalo (BA) | PhD; Composition and Rhetoric, Critical Theory, Public Writing, Utopian fiction |
| Rachel Lewis |
Northeastern University (MA), University of Massachusetts-Amherst (BA) | PhD; |
| Colin McCormack | Providence College (BA) | MA; |
| James McGrath | Northeastern University (MA), Marist College (BA) | PhD; Dissertation title |
| Hope Middleton | University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth (BA) | MA; 20th Century American Literature; Contemporary American Literature, Digital Humanities, gender and sexuality |
| Aparna Mujumdar | Indraprastha College, Delhi University (BA, MA, MPhil) | PhD; Dissertation title |
| Christopher Myers | SUNY Buffalo (MA), University of Southern California (BA) | PhD; |
| Jessica Nelson |
Naropa University (MFA), Gustavus Adolphus College (BA) |
PhD; 19th and 20th century British novel, theory of empire, literary categorization and canonization, gender studies, theory of the novel, pop culture, creative nonfiction and the essay. Dissertation title |
| Duyen Nguyen |
Canisius College (BA) | PhD; 18th century British novel, 19th century British Literature, postcolonial studies. Dissertation title |
| Asimina Ino Nikolopoulou | Columbia University (MA), Aristotle University, Greece (BA) |
PhD; Contemporary American literature, modernism and postmodernism, gender studies, African American and Caribbean literature, Latino literature, cinema studies and visual studies, cultural studies and literary theory |
| David Ober |
Northeastern University (MA), Wittenberg University (BA) | PhD; Law and literature as it pertains to mid to early 19th century American literature; mid-twentieth century film, especially film noir and its representations of the city space. Dissertation title |
| Victoria Papa |
SUNY Albany (MA), Saint Anselm College (BA) | PhD; Modern and postmodern literature, trauma studies, visual theory, and gender studies. Dissertation title |
| Bryanna Parker | College of Charleston (BA) | MA; 19th and 20th century American literature, Feminist theory, Queer studies, 18th century British “Orientalist” novels |
| Alicia Peaker |
Eastern Washington University (BA) | PhD; 19th and early 20th century British and American Literature, women writers, Victorian literature, gender and sexuality studies, art history, cultural geography. Dissertation title |
| Arjun Poudel |
Pokhara University (MPhil), Tribhuvan University (BA, MA) |
PhD; Anglophone postcolonial writing, 20th century British novel. Dissertation title |
| James Richie |
Boston College (MA), Boston University (BA) | PhD; Dissertation title |
| Jefferson Riordan | University of Massachusetts-Boston (MA), Boston University (BA), Northeastern University, Berklee College of Music |
PhD; Dissertation title |
| Peter Roby |
Drexel University, Northeastern University |
MA; |
| Nitzan Rotenberg | McGill University (MA), University of Toronto (BA) | PhD; |
| Kevin Ruby |
Gonzaga University (BA) | MA; Feminist Theory, Marxism, 20th Century/Contemporary Literature |
| Amanda Runyan | California State University Chico (BA, MA) | PhD; 18th and 19th century American and transatlantic literature, Native American literature, African American literature, gender theory, critical race theory. Dissertation title |
| Jenna Sciuto |
Brown University (BA), Boston University (MA), Oxford University, Boston College | PhD; Early African American Literature, 19th century American Literature, 20th century American Literature, Caribbean Literature, Postcolonial Literature, Faulkner and American Southern Literature, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Dissertation title |
| Patricia “Kate” Simpkins |
New York University (MA), City College, CUNY (MA), University of Arkansas (MFA), Agnes Scott College (BA), |
PhD; Long Nineteenth Century American Literature; Transatlantic Literature; the Early Caribbean and Antebellum South; Diasporic visual cultures. Dissertation title |
| Danielle Skeehan | Mills College (MA), Boston University (BA) |
PhD; 17th-19th century literature of the Americas, 17th-19th century British literature, Atlantic studies, women’s literature, material culture studies, commercial history of the 18th century Atlantic, Diaspora studies. Dissertation title |
| Jennifer Sopchockchai Bankard | Brown University (BA) | PhD; The Victorian Novel, Theories of the Novel, Twentieth Century British Novel and Film. Dissertation title |
| James Stanfill |
Kansas State University (BS), Washburn University | PhD; Figuring Bioethics in Animal Studies, Activism and Writing: Activist Research Methodologies in Community Literacy and Community Research, and Rhetorics of the Body |
| Meg Tarquinio Roche | SUNY Albany (MA), Northeastern University (BS) | PhD; Cognitive approaches to literature/art, adaptation studies, the digital humanities, multimodal criticism and composition, film theory, contemporary film and television, contemporary Irish poetry, British literature and film, music and literature, D. H. Lawrence Studies. Dissertation title |
| Kathryn Templeton | University College London (MA), UMASS Boston (BA) |
PhD; Modern American Literature, photography and visual culture, Marxist Aesthetic Theory. Dissertation title |
| Lauren Thacker | College of the Holy Cross (BA) | PhD; Irish Studies, Visual Culture, and 20th Century Poetry |
| Michael Turner |
PhD; | |
| Max White |
University of Delaware (BA), New York University | PhD; 18th and 19th century American Literature, political theory, history and historiography. Dissertation title |
| Ethan Whittet |
Rutgers University (MA), Gordon College (BA) | PhD; 19th century American literature, New England, Regionalism, periodical culture, political philosophy, aesthetics, canonization. Dissertation title |
| Art Zilleruelo |
Wichita State University (MFA), Penn State University (BA) |
PhD; Dissertation title |