Meet Our Students

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

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.

Doctoral student Clara Biesel at Folger Shakespeare Library

Transcribing the Writing Body

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This doctoral student received a Mellon fellowship to decipher handwriting from the Elizabethan era.

Grad Studies: Writing in Wartime

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Doctoral student Yon Ji Sol looks at soldiers and citizenship in 19th-century novels.

Image of doctoral candidate Christopher Bowman

Grad Studies: Climate Change Literature

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PhD student Christopher Bowman studies literary trends during the 1930s Dust Bowl, and now.

Image of doctoral candidate Amy Fairgrieve

Grad Studies: A Thing of Joy Is a Beauty

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Is literary scholarship (meant to be) a joyful pursuit? This doctoral student is looking at the connection between literary knowledge and critical affect.

From Archive to Prison: Grad Student Research

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Where did research interests take our doctoral candidates in 2018?

Uneasy Lies the Head: Grad Student Marc Juberg

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In Shakespeare's mix of elusive language and subversive satire, this doctoral candidate finds questions enough to fuel a dissertation--and a career.

Into the Archives, and Beyond: Grad Student Projects

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What are our grad students researching in 2017-18? Shakespeare comic books, Thomas Carlyle, 18th-century colonial northern India, and racial microagressions