Chimee Adịọha
Year Entered Program: Fall 2023
Research Interests: Composition theory & pedagogy, Anglophone African literature, digital rhetoric, studies in gender/sexuality/masculinities, migration & diasporas
Advisor(s): Jerry Won Lee
Sarah Abolail
Year Entered Program: Fall 2019
Research Interests: Contemporary literature, critical theory, visual studies, narrative theory, transnational studies, trauma, historical erasure, temporality, representations of violence, witnessing, memory, Marxist theory and political economy.
Advisor(s): Michael Szalay
Elia Agudo
Year Entered Program: Fall 2020
Research Interests: Identity, Queer Theory, African-American literature, Latinx literature, Gender and Sexuality, Afrofuturism, Harlem Renaissance
Advisor(s): Kyle Grady
Hannah Elizabeth Bacchus
Year Entered Program: Fall 2021
Research Interests: 20th century African American literature, postcolonial theory, historical materialism, and globalization
Advisor(s): Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan
Librecht Baker
Year Entered Program: Fall 2021
Research Interests: Global Black Rhetorics (cultural rhetorics), Black Feminisms, and Ifa (spirituality & religion)
Advisor(s): Daniel M. Gross
Sheryl Barbera
Year Entered Program: Fall 2020
Research Interests: 17th and 18th centuries, the early novel, and narrative theory
Advisor(s): Jayne Lewis
Isabel Bartholomew
Year Entered Program: Fall 2023
Research Interests: Marxism, feminism, psychoanalysis, the novelAdvisor(s): Annie McClanahan
Alex Bernstein
Year Entered Program: Fall 2024
Research Interests: 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-Century American, Poetry/Poetics, Critical Theory; African American Studies; Gender and Sexuality; Fanon and Lacan; Marxist and Hegelian literatures; (re)cognition.
Advisor(s): Virginia Jackson
Sharece Lia Boghozian
Year Entered Program: Fall 2021
Research Interests: Modernism, Literary and Critical Theory, Deconstruction, Avant-Garde and Experimental Literature and Theatre, Aesthetics of Disgust.
Advisor(s): Martin Harries
Maya Bornstein
Year Entered Program: Fall 2022
Research Interests: 20th and 21st century American, documentary poetry, mimesis and representation, literary historiography, mythopoeia, bio- and necropolitics, Marxism, philology. philology.
Advisor(s): Oren Izenberg
Jiyon Byun
Year Entered Program: Fall 2018
Research Interests: Asian American literature, global studies, cultural studies, modernities, and women's writing.
Advisor(s): Joseph Jeon
Buddy Cassidy
Year Entered Program: Fall 2017
Research Interests: Shakespeare, Shakespeare and Performance, Early Modern poetry and drama, John Milton, Margaret Cavendish, history of ideas, performance studies, poetry and poetics, prosody, horror film, long 18th C. British, American Romanticism, queer theory
Advisor(s): Julia Reinhard Lupton, Elizabeth Allen
Rebeka (Beka) Castro
Year Entered Program: Fall 2023
Research Interests: Research interests: Medieval literature including legends, travel narratives, and writings by women during the period as well as Arthurian romance and medieval religious culture. Additionally, theories of phenomenology and hermeneutics, and themes of curiosity, empathy, authority of women, aging, and age beliefs.
Advisor(s): Elizabeth Allen
Yvonne Cha
Year Entered Program: Fall 2022
Research Interests: modernism & postmodernism, contemporary lit, aesthetics, Asian American lit, experimental immigrant narratives, lost literature, translation, transnationalism, creative writing, autofiction, genre theory
Advisor(s): Joe Jeon
Mina Choi
Year Entered Program: Fall 2025
Research Interests: Asian American literature, global Asias, and translation
Advisor(s): Joseph Jeon
Michael Corbin
Year Entered Program: Fall 2024
Research Interests: The short story, literary-critical forms, creative writing, narratology, aesthetics, 20th- and 21st-century U.S. literature, 20th- and 21st-century Japanese literature, 20th- and 21st-century Russian literature, philosophy of language, Marxist theory and political economy.
Advisor(s): Chris Fan
Amanda Cruz
Year Entered Program: Fall 2024
Research Interests: Queer gothic literature, Folk Horror, Queer Theory/Studies, Feminist Theory, Horror
Advisor(s): Jayne Lewis
Emily Dearborn
Year Entered Program: Fall 2020
Research Interests: 20th and 21st century American fiction; form and aesthetics; postmodernism; experimental narratives, with emphasis on autofictions and metafictions; figures of collectivity; critical race studies; queer theory; literary journalism and travel writing.
Advisor(s): Chris Fan
Misael De La Rosa
Year Entered Program: Fall 2022
Research Interests: Latinx Literature: specifically, poetry, comics, and graphic novels; Translation Studies; identity formation; hybrid forms of literature
Advisor(s): Valentina Montero Román, Virginia Jackson
Eliana De La Torre
Year Entered Program: Fall 2024
Research Interests: 20th and 21st century Chicanx/Latinx Literature, Post-colonial Theory, Ethics, Religious Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Creative Writing
Advisor(s): Valentina Montero Román
Digang Fan
Year Entered Program: Fall 2022
Research Interests: Transatlantic romantic poetry, poetic form, and critical race theory
Advisor(s): Virginia Jackson
Lucy Zi Wei Fang
Year Entered Program: Fall 2022
Research Interests: Asian American literature, historical materialism, the novel
Advisor(s): Chris Fan, Joseph Jeon
Jack Fixa
Year Entered Program: Fall 2022
Research Interests: Early modern drama and poetry (especially Shakespeare and Milton), utopian literature, pastoral literature, travel narratives, colonial literature, Black Studies, environmental humanities
Advisor(s): Julia Lupton
Sarah Goeppner-Kallungi
Year Entered Program: Fall 2019
Research Interests: Early Modern, Poetry/Poetics, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Advisor(s): Julia Reinhard Lupton
Lawrence Hall
Year Entered Program: Fall 2023
Research Interests: 20th-century social/political thought, double-consciousness, dialectics, deconstruction, event identity, self-identification, and critical theory.
Advisor(s): Georges Van Den Abeele
Vincent Hiscock
Year Entered Program: Fall 2018
Research Interests: Poetry; modernisms; modern thought; intersections of literature, art history, film & media studies; the 20th century.
Advisor(s): Oren Izenberg, Martin Harris
Madeline Hurst
Year Entered Program: Fall 2024
Research Interests: Early Modern Literature and Culture; Memory Arts and Embodiment; Jewish Studies, Law, and Mysticism; Feminist Epistemologies and Histories of the Body; Gender, Authorship, and Material Texts
Advisor(s): Julia Lupton
Michael Jimenez
Year Entered Program: Fall 2024
Research Interests: Sound studies, 20th century African American literature, Afrofuturism, speculative fiction, literary and critical theory
Advisor(s): Cole Morgan
Kelana Celine Johnson
Year Entered Program: Fall 2021
Research Interests:
Advisor(s): Virginia Jackson
Aditi Kumar
Year Entered Program: Fall 2022
Research Interests: Postcolonial
Advisor(s): Michael Szalay
Chelsea Lee
Year Entered Program: Fall 2020
Research Interests: Early Modern literature and culture; Medical Humanities; Death--The intersection of life and death in the human experience; The human body as/in literature, anatomy, and decomposition
Advisor(s): Julia Lupton
Ricardo Lopez
Year entered program: Fall 2023
Research interests: Latinx literature, Gender & Sexuality, Queer Theory, Transnational literature, and Genre/Narratology
Advisor(s): Valentina Montero Román
Gema Ludisaca
Year Entered Program: Fall 2019
Research Interests: Contemporary Latinx Literature, YA Fiction, Gothic/Horror, Speculative Realism, Queer Indigeneity, and Intersectionality
Advisor(s): Jonathan Alexander
Jan Leonard Maramot Rodil
Year Entered Program: Fall 2019
Research Interests: 19th, 20th, and 21st century American Poetry, Queer Theory, Queer Archives, History of American Poetry and Poetics, History of Criticism, Lyric Theory, Queer Lyric/Lyric Queerness
Advisor(s): Virginia Jackson
Letizia Mariani
Year Entered Program: Fall 2020
Research Interests: Twentieth and twenty first century poetry and poetics, transnationalism, multilingualism, modernism and postmodernism.Advisor(s): Oren Izenberg
Patrick McBurnie-Nicolay
Year Entered Program: Fall 2019
Research Interests: Transnational Studies, Material History, Labor Studies, 19th Century American Literature, 20th Century American Literature
Advisor(s): Sri Basu and Michael Szalay
Na'amit Nagel
Year Entered Program: Fall 2021
Research Interests: American Jewish literature, Minority literatures and women's writing
Advisor(s): Irene Tucker
Bridget O'Reilly
Year Entered Program: Fall 2017
Research Interests: Modernism, James Joyce, Genetic study of Joyce, 20th century British, American, Irish novel, 20th century Irish and American Drama, Irish post-colonial history, the Plays of Brian Friel
Advisor(s): Martin Harries
Larissa Parra
Year Entered Program: Fall 2025
Research Interests: Anaïs Nin, psychoanalysis, diaries, memoir, life writing, critical theory, feminist literature, 20th-century literature.
Advisor(s): Rebecca Davis
Thomas Ramirez
Year Entered Program: Fall 2025
Research Interests: 20th & 21st century American, Modern, Postmodern, Narrative & the Novel, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies
Advisor(s):Theodore Martin
Jamie Rawn
Year Entered Program: Fall 2023
Research Interests: Early Modern, Gender and Sexuality, Embodiment Theory, Shakespeare, Disability Studies.
Advisor(s):Julia Reinhard Lupton
Francisco Reyes Betancourtt
Year Entered Program: Fall 2022
Research Interests: 20th/21st C. African-American and Latinx Literature; Digital Media, Electronic Literature, Video Games, and Race/Internet; Postcolonialism; Attachment Theory; Narrative Theory; Philosophy of Mind
Advisor(s): Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan
Rachel Rose
Year Entered Program: Fall 2020
Research Interests: 19th Century British Literature, Romanticism, Law and Literature, "Fear" and Trauma Theory, Eco-pessimism, Critical Theory, Aestheticism, and Novel Theory.
Advisor(s): Jayne Lewis
Dalton Salvo
Year Entered Program: Fall 2017
Research Interests: Rhetorical Ontology and Ecology, Digital Rhetoric, Visual Rhetoric, Phenomenology, New Media Studies, Virtuality, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Game Design and AnalysisAdvisor(s): Jonathan Alexander, Daniel M. Gross
Kathryn Schubert
Year Entered Program: Fall 2020
Research Interests: Early modern literature, Shakespeare, gender and sexuality, political theory, vulnerability and embodiment, ethics
Advisor(s): Julia Lupton
Leah Senatro
Year Entered Program: Fall 2019
Research Interests: rhetoric and composition, medical humanities, digital multimodality, the sensorium, the rhetoric of pain, the rhetoric or mourning, the body
Advisor(s): Daniel M. Gross
Saiham Sharif
Year Entered Program: Fall 2021
Research Interests:
Advisor(s): Kyle Grady
Mel Stevens
Year Entered Program: Fall 2024
Research Interests: Old and Middle English Literature, Indigenous Studies, Environmental Humanities, Feminist New Materialisms, Ecocriticism, Postcolonial and Decolonial Theories, Feminist and Queer Theories, Disability Studies, Honeybees, Wonder, Ceremony, and Time and Temporality.
Advisor(s): Virginia Jackson
Yipu Su
Year Entered Program: Fall 2023
Research Interests: Slavery and ex-slave narratives, nineteenth-century American literature, Abolitionism in the nineteenth century, labor history, labor and body, intersectionality of race and gender, black feminism, domestic reproduction theoryAdvisor(s): Srimayee Basu McCall, Virginia Jackson
Haley Youn-Ju Suh
Year Entered Program: Fall 2021
Research Interests: Victorian literature and culture, novel and narrative theory, and Marxist literary and cultural studies
Advisor(s): Jami Bartlett
Jo Sweetnam
Year Entered Program: Fall 2023
Research Interests: postcolonial and global anglophone literature, modernism, poetics, literary and critical theory
Advisor(s): Michael Szalay
Martha Tesfalidet
Year Entered Program: Fall 2022
Research Interests: Contemporary literature, feminism, Black studies
Advisor(s): Theodore Martin
Noelle Viger
Year Entered Program: Fall 2022
Research Interests: 18th century literature, political theory, Indigeneity
Advisor(s): Jayne Lewis
James Vitiello
Year Entered Program: Fall 2023
Research Interests: Police militarization & abolition, racial capitalism, crisis theorie(s), Marxism & Marxist-feminism, horror, cinema.
Advisor(s): Theodore Martin
Alex Yim
Year Entered Program: Fall 2025
Research Interests: Asian American literature, History and theory of the novel, Northeast Asian political economy, World-systems theory, Realism, Global Asias
Advisor(s): Chris Fan