Graduate Students

Name	Specialties
Edwin Banks MFA candidate	Nonfiction
Brie Barron PhD student	20th- and 21st-century American literature; science and technology in literature; environmental humanities
Sonia Beltz MFA candidate	Nonfiction
Bridget Bergin PhD candidate	19th-century literature
Isabel Bethke PhD candidate	Postcolonial, 20th-21st century British, transatlantic studies
Adam Burchard PhD candidate	17th-century English, early American
Kayla Carden PhD candidate	18th- and 19th-century literature
Emily Chase MFA candidate	Nonfiction
Morgan Coleman PhD student
Addison Cox PhD student	20th and 21st-century American literature; Black women's writing; religious/spiritual embodiment and experiences; liberation theologies
Frances Ogamba Chidebere MFA candidate	Fiction
Nicole Emanuel PhD candidate	Ecocriticism; animal studies; queer ecology
Thomas Forrest PhD candidate	20th- and 21st-century literature
Morgan Graham PhD candidate	18th- and 19th-century studies
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
Mykelin Higham PhD student	18th- and 19th-century British literature; genre theory; literature and history; feminist and gender studies
Abigail Hinrichs PhD student	Medieval and early modern women's works
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
Heejoon Lee PhD candidate	Anglo-American modernism; queer theory; narrative theory
Roma Lucarelli PhD student	Postcolonial literature; immigration; ecocriticism; 20th- and 21st-century literature
Gunnar Lundberg PhD student	Modernism; ecocriticism; nature writing; travel writing
Sandra Yailin Del Rio Madrigal MFA candidate	Poetry
Joy Mazahreh PhD student	Feminist postcolonialism, Arab women's writings, 20th and 21st century Anglophone literatures
Paula Molina Acosta MFA candidate	Fiction
Okwudili Nebeolisa MFA candidate	Fiction
Scott Nelson PhD candidate	Native American and postcolonial literature
Andrew Nicholson MFA candidate	Fiction
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"
Juliet Pearce PhD student
Leah Raimondi PhD candidate	Nonfiction
Kyle Riper PhD candidate	Early modern literature
Cassandra Rae Rodenbaugh MFA candidate	Poetry
Emily Schoenbeck PhD candidate	Early Modern drama
Mercedes Sheldon PhD candidate	18th-19th century studies
Anna Simonton MFA candidate	Nonfiction
Karen Soto PhD candidate	Old English, Old Norse
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
Julia Oschwald Tilton MFA candidate	Nonfiction
Kerstin Tuttle PhD candidate	20th- and 21st-century literature
Chaun Webster MFA candidate	Poetry
Austin Witt MA candidate	20th Century American Literatures and Poetry; Queer, Feminist, and Gender Studies
Olivia Wood MFA candidate	Fiction
Jordan Young MFA candidate	Nonfiction
Kachina Yeager MFA candidate	Poetry
Isabel Zacharias MFA candidate	Poetry