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Ph.D. Students in Early Cultures

Graduate
NameMajor/Dept.
Kelly CorwinEnglish
Stuart drama, political theory, women's studies

Hartenburg Gary

Shayda Hoover
The Long, Long Eighteenth Century: epistolarity, sensibility, anti-slavery discourses, religious discourse, The Novel

Dissertation topic (early stages): English Enthusiasm in the Eighteenth Century
Chair: Robert Folkenflik

Nicole LaBouff
Stuart England, clothing and textiles, gender/the body, textile production and trade.

Emily LiuEnglish
The long eighteenth century, novelty and the novel, experience

Nichole E. MillerEnglish
Dissertation in progress: The Politics of Exception in Renaissance Drama

Research interests: Elizabethan and Jacobean literature; political theologies as related to genres (particularly tragedy and historiography); gender and sexuality studies

Glenn OdomComparative Literature
Dissertation in progress: "Staging Resistance: DIscourses of Power and Metatheatricality in Euripides, Johnson, and Soyinka"
Research interests: transnational / transhistorical drama

Jennifer RustEnglish
Dissertation in progress: "Imagining the Theo-Political Body in Early Modern Literature."
Research interests: political theology in 16h-17th century; Catholicism and recusancy in Reformation England.

Donovan ShermanDrama
Renaissance theatre, childhood studies, trauma theory

Margaret SmithComparative Literature
Women and gender from antiquity to late medieval period; Plutarch; translation theory; exemplarity and the translation of virtues

Shaina TrapedoEnglish
Reanissance / Early Modern Studies; socio-economic theory

Walter WadiakEnglish
Romance, critical theory, theories of the gift.

Sara Cassidy Wheaton
Early Modern Studies, Rhetoric, Lyric Poetry, Religious Studies
Dissertation topic: Rhetorics of Religious Poetry in Early Modern England

Jared WhiteSpanish Department
: Spain’s Siglo de Oro, theatrical performance, critical theory, comparative studies

Jeff WilsonEnglish
Seventeenth-century British literature and intellectual history

Catherine WiniarskiComparative Literature

 
Alumni
NameMajor/Dept.
Sabiha Ahmad KhanEnglish (U of Michigan)
Early modern drama and prose; early modern histories of science, medicine, and technology, science studies

Dissertation title:
The “Small Body” Moving in the “Great World”:
Technologies of Mettle and Metal in Early Modern English Literature

The UCI Group for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies (GREMS) welcomes new members and old to indicate their interest in presenting talks, papers, chapters, etc. during this coming academic year. Our group includes graduate students and faculty and meets roughly twice a quarter to respond to graduate student and faculty works-in-progress. Contact swheaton@uci.edu

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