Meet Our Students

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

With the help of a GRPP grant, PhD candidate Yon Ji Sol traveled to the UK to do dissertation research and present a paper

PhD candidate Bomi Jeon explores Black Caribbean cultural identity within colonial spaces.

A grant fostered PhD candidate Melissa Merte's research in Victorian narrative.

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

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

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

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

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

Where did research interests take our doctoral candidates in 2018?

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

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