Graduate Students

Ciara Alfaro MFA candidate	Nonfiction
Layal Almosa MA candidate	Medieval and early modern studies
David Andrews PhD candidate	Dissertation in progress: "Through Either End of the Telescope: Exilic Aesthetics and Ethics of Scale"
Edwin Banks MFA candidate	Nonfiction
Sonia Beltz MFA candidate	Nonfiction
Bridget Bergin PhD candidate	19th-century literature
Isabel Bethke PhD candidate	Postcolonial, 20th-21st century British, transatlantic studies
Clara Biesel PhD candidate	Early modern, Shakespeare
Maria Bowler MFA candidate	Poetry
Christopher Bowman PhD candidate	Dissertation in progress: "Climate Change of Mind: Revisiting Dust Bowl Narratives in a Time of Anthropogenic Climate Change"
Danielle Brown MFA candidate	Fiction
Adam Burchard PhD candidate	17th-century English, early American
Kayla Carden PhD candidate	18th- and 19th-century literature
Patrick Carthey PhD candidate	Cultural politics, political cultures
Frances Ogamba Chidebere MFA candidate	Fiction
Eunkyung Cho PhD candidate	Dissertation in progress: "The Theme of the Prodigal Son and the Meta-theater in the City Comedy in the Age of Shakespeare"
Moinak Choudhury PhD candidate	18th- and 19th-century literature and philosophy; educational thought and practice; social movements and historical materialism.
Sarah Cowan MA Candidate	Medieval and early modern literature
Jonathan Crowl MFA candidate	Fiction
Natalie Dalea MFA Candidate	Nonfiction
Stacey Decker PhD candidate	19th- and 20th-century literature, particularly trans-Atlantic modernism(s); gender and modernism; literary theory; the Harlem Renaissance; Irish studies; history of medicine
Stephen Ellis PhD candidate	20th- and 21st-century literature; poetry; literature and landscape studies
Nicole Emanuel PhD candidate	Ecocriticism; animal studies; queer ecology
Keelia Estrada Moeller PhD candidate	18th- and 19th-century literature
Olivia Fantini MFA candidate	Fiction
Thomas Forrest PhD candidate	20th- and 21st-century literature
Merle Geode MFA candidate	Poetry
Morgan Graham PhD candidate	18th- and 19th-century studies
Brandon Hackbarth MFA candidate	Poetry
Bradley Hagen MFA candidate	Nonfiction
Sachiko Hamada PhD candidate	20th-century African American literature; spatial theory; Black geographies
Noel Haines MFA Candidate	Fiction
Andrew Hamilton PhD candidate	Modernism
Margaret Heeschen PhD candidate	Old English, language, literature and material culture
K Ho MFA candidate	Fiction
Matthew Hodapp PhD candidate	19th-century American literature, indigenous literature
Jennifer Jodell PhD candidate	Dissertation in progress: "The Mediatrix and the Mechanization of Affect in Early Science Fiction"
Emily Jones PhD candidate	20th- and 21st-century literature
Hannah Jorgenson PhD candidate	Dissertation in progress: "Bound by Contract: Fictional Representations of Women's Legal Autonomy, 1656–1814"
GeonLyung Kim PhD candidate	Early modern studies
Gregory Langen MFA candidate	Fiction
John LaPine MFA candidate	Poetry
Chi Kyu Lee MFA candidate	Poetry
Heejoon Lee PhD candidate	Anglo-American modernism; queer theory; narrative theory
Lyla Lee MA candidate	20th- and 21st-century studies
Katie Miller MFA candidate	Nonfiction
Saeide Mirzaei PhD candidate	Dissertation in progress: "American Islamophobia: Hijacking Islam in Law, Politics, and Life"
Paula Molina Acosta MFA candidate	Fiction
Caleb Molstad PhD candidate	Middle English
Laura Moltz PhD candidate	20th century; dance performance
Scott Nelson PhD candidate	Native American and postcolonial literature
Nyla Numan PhD candidate	20th- and 21st-century literature
Lily Osler MFA candidate	Nonfiction
Jacqueline Patz-DiPiero PhD candidate	Dissertation in progress: "In the Air: Atmospheric Totality and the Death of Plot"
Leah Raimondi PhD candidate	Nonfiction
Nen Ramirez MFA candidate	Poetry
Julia Richards PhD candidate	20th- and 21st-century literature
Kyle Riper PhD candidate	Early modern literature
Emily Schoenbeck PhD candidate	Early Modern drama
Mercedes Sheldon PhD candidate	18th-19th century studies
Sung Jin Shin PhD candidate	18th- and 19th-century British literature; Romantic Poetry; science and literature; epistemology
Brett Sigurdson PhD candidate	Dissertation in progress: "We Know Jack! On the Road with the Fans, Haters, Family, and Influencers Shaping the Legacy of America's Most Misunderstood Author"
Aleisha Smith-Thornton MA candidate	Nonfiction
Karen Soto PhD candidate	Old English, Old Norse
Anne Marie Spidahl PhD candidate	The novel in the 20th and 21st centuries; theories of ideology, aesthetics, and metaphysics; Lacanian psychoanalysis; fiction writing
Kaitlyn Sterr PhD candidate	19th-century, cognitive approaches to literature
Jesse Stratton PhD candidate	Old and early Middle English
Sarah Sukardi MFA candidate	Nonfiction
Amalia Tenuta MFA candidate	Poetry
Alexandra Thek PhD candidate	19th- and 20th-century Anglo-American women's writing; genre fiction/popular fiction; detective/crime fiction; comparative studies of genre fiction in Japan and the US
Kerstin Tuttle PhD candidate	20th- and 21st-century literature
John VanOverbeke PhD candidate	American, regionalism, nationalisms
Andrea Waldrep PhD candidate	Old English; Medieval studies
Chaun Webster MFA candidate	Poetry
Jordan Young MFA candidate	Nonfiction
Kachina Yeager MFA candidate	Poetry
Ali Zimmerman PhD candidate	Dissertation in progress: "'I Will Not Be a Monster': Revising the Fairy-Tale Witch"