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Discover the work our graduate students are doing at the University—and around the world.

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Grad Studies: The Prodigal Play

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PhD candidate Eunkyung Cho argues that a 1605 comedy satirizes its own reason for being.

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Grad Studies: Everyday Britain Through Modern Lit

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Inspired by the Brexit debate, PhD candidate Bomi Jeon is writing an award-winning dissertation.

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Grad Studies: Digital Age Narratives

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PhD candidate Jacqueline Patz DiPiero argues that contemporary storytelling emphasizes atmosphere above plot and characters.

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Grad Studies: Constructing Wilderness

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PhD candidate John VanOverbeke is researching the repercussions of John Muir’s belief in "untouched" nature.

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Grad Studies: Postwar Film Across Borders

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David Rodríguez-Martínez contributes to a transnational crime film anthology.

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Grad Studies: Dissenting Bodies

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PhD student Zoë Rodine argues that fictional monsters provide new frameworks for humanness.

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Cold War Connections: Grad Student's Interdisciplinary Project

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PhD candidate Stephen Ellis awarded a University-wide Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship for research on literary culture and law studies

PhD Alum Wins Mellon/ACLS Fellowship

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Jewon Woo lands in inaugural group of Community College Fellows with her project about the 19th-century Black press in Ohio.

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Grad Studies: Textiles and the Cause of Women

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This PhD candidate is researching the intersection of needlework and printing in early twentieth-century Ireland.

PhD student Jenna Dreier in red dress in front of full book shelves

Shakespeare Behind Bars

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PhD candidate Jenna Dreier won the prestigious Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for her research on prison performances of Shakespeare plays.

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