Meet Our Students

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

Grad Studies: Tuning in to Narrative Polyphonies

PhD student Joy Burhan Mazahreh examines Victorian and Modern Arabic novels with similar motifs, keeping an eye on Edward Said’s theoretical frameworks.

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Grad Studies: Infusing Human Experience into Narratives of Immigration Law

PhD student Isabel Bethke’s dissertation topic combines literature, law, and immigration policy.

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Grad Studies: Finnish Immigrants, Co-Operative Agriculture, and Land Ethics

PhD student Roma Lucarelli received a fellowship to explore the Immigration History Research Center’s Minnesota archives.

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Grad Studies: Exploring the Physical Archive, Including its Gaps

PhD student Addison Cox’s ventures into a unique collection of African American literature have stretched her ideas of what literature is and what it encompasses.

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Grad Studies: Creating Community Around Dissertation Writing

A writing retreat helped PhD student Emily Jones gain momentum with her dissertation project.

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PhD Candidate Wins Teaching Award

Graduate student Andrew Hamilton takes teaching inspiration from professors--and the television show THE BEAR!

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PhD Candidate Wins Graduate School Teaching Award

Doctoral student Nyla Numan sees the work of scholarship and teaching as inextricably intertwined.

Learning About Alternative Careers After the PhD

A two-week Humanities Without Walls workshop provided PhD student Morgan Graham with information about career options and the tools to explore them.

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The Joys of Research: Unexpected Discoveries and Alternative Viewpoints

PhD candidate Stephen Ellis' dissertation writing supported by the Ruth Drake Dissertation Fellowship.

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Grad Studies: Writer-Reader Relationships and 19th-Century Literature

PhD student Morgan Graham received an inaugural Early Career PhD Merit Grant.