Graduate Students

Name	Specialties
Aoife Arras PhD student
Edwin Banks MFA candidate	Nonfiction
Brie Barron PhD student	20th- and 21st-century American literature; science and technology in literature; environmental humanities
Bridget Bergin PhD candidate	19th-century literature
Isabel Bethke PhD candidate	Postcolonial; 20th-21st century British; transatlantic studies
Keona Blanks MFA candidate	Nonfiction
Adam Burchard PhD candidate	17th-century English, early American
Kayla Carden PhD candidate	18th- and 19th-century literature
Morgan Coleman PhD student	19th-century British literature; periodical studies; medical history and infectious disease; death studies
Malcolm Cooke MA student
Addison Cox PhD student	20th and 21st-century American literature; Black women's writing; religious/spiritual embodiment and experiences; liberation theologies
Fatima Elbadri MFA candidate	Poetry
Nicole Emanuel PhD candidate	Ecocriticism; animal studies; queer ecology
Thomas Forrest PhD candidate	20th- and 21st-century literature
Ayanda Gasela PhD student
Hannah Gregory MFA candidate	Fiction
Sachiko Hamada PhD student	20th-century African American literature; spatial theory; Black geographies
Andrew Hamilton PhD candidate	Modernism
Kathleen Higgins PhD student
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
Spencer Hupp PhD student	Early/mid 20th-century American poetry and criticism; late Renaissance/Early Modern poetry
Emily Jones PhD candidate	20th- and 21st-century literature
GeonLyung Kim PhD candidate	Early modern studies
Moriam Kolapo MFA candidate	Fiction
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	Comparative literature; World literature; Victorian and Modern Arabic novels
Eva Molina MFA candidate	Poetry
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
Juliet Pearce PhD student	Nineteenth-century literature; detective fiction; narrative theory
Leah Raimondi PhD student	Nonfiction
Cassandra Rae Rodenbaugh MFA candidate	Poetry
Mercedes Sheldon PhD candidate	18th-19th century studies
Anna Simonton MFA candidate	Nonfiction
Karen Soto PhD candidate	Old English, Old Norse
Shayne Tarquinio MFA candidate	Nonfiction
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
Gnesis Villar MFA candidate	Fiction
Erin West MA student
Austin Witt PhD student	20th Century American Literatures and Poetry; Queer, Feminist, and Gender Studies
Olivia Wood MFA candidate	Fiction
Isabel Zacharias MFA candidate	Poetry