Degrees

2019, BA Philosophy and Religious Studies, Manhattan College

2021, MA English and American Literature, New York University

2021, MLIS Rare Books and Special Collections, Long Island University

Bio

Tim Gress is a PhD student and Graduate Teaching Fellow in the department of English & Comparative Literature. His research focuses primarily on the literary and cultural history of Britain during the 19th century, especially as it relates to the history of the book. Other interests include lesser-known woman writers of the late-Romantic and early-Victorian periods, the history and development of the novel in English, descriptive bibliography, and book collecting. Tim also works as a Graduate Assistant in the Rare Book Collection at Wilson Special Collections Library.

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Publications:

• A Collector’s Zeal: Treasures from the DeCoursey Fales Collection at Manhattan College. (Riverdale, New York: Manhattan College, 2020).

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Awards

• William T. Buice III Scholarship, Rare Book School, University of Virginia, 2020
• Director’s Scholarship, Rare Book School, University of Virginia, 2019
• Edward Branigan Scholars Grant for Research in the Humanities, Manhattan College, 2018

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Degrees

2018, BA Classics, minors French & English, summa cum laude, University of Pennsylvania

Bio

I study classics and American poetry. My dissertation considers how and why Black American poets from the Revolutionary Era to the Harlem Renaissance received the classics. Through case studies of four poets, Phillis Wheatley, George Moses Horton, Countee Cullen, and Melvin Beaunorus Tolson, I argue that, over time, Black writers naturalized the classics, encoded as a White discourse in earlier American traditions, as Black, thus demonstrating the spaces within classics that resonated with Black experiences and exposing the construction of classics as White.

My general interests are in poetry and poetics (American; 19^th– and 20^th– centuries French; and ancient Greek and Latin lyric) and classical receptions, especially Black classicisms.

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Publications:

Scholarship:

• “Review of The Oxford Handbook of Emily Dickinson.” Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin 35.1 (2023), 19-20.

Poems et al.:

• “On Hudson River.” Bayou (forthcoming).
• “My Mother Says.” Rattle 83 (2024).
• “Flux.” BlazeVOX: Fall 2021, 412-18.
• “Lai-jee.” Indiana Review 43.1 (2021), 85-92.

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Teaching Awards

• Doris Betts Award for Excellence in Teaching Composition, 2023

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Awards

External:

• Graduate Student Conference Paper Award, Ralph Waldo Emerson Society, 2023
• Dickinson Critical Institute Grant, Emily Dickinson International Society, 2022

Internal:

• Bain Award (Excellence in Pre-1900 American Lit.), UNC-CH DOECL, 2023
• Travel Grant, UNC-CH DOECL, 2023
• Transportation Grant, UNC-CH Graduate School, 2022
• Travel Award, UNC-CH Graduate & Professional Student Government, 2022
• Booker Fellowship, UNC-CH DOECL, 2021
• Inclusive Excellence Top-Up, UNC-CH Graduate School, 2021

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Curriculum Vitae / Resume

Degrees

2020, BA English, George Washington University

Bio

Ryan Carroll is a PhD candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature. He researches information theory and narrative aesthetics in 19th-century British and American literature. He studies how narrative texts, including sensation novels, encyclopedic fictions, epic poems, slave narratives, and undercover journalistic writing, formally experimented with coordinating information to produce intense affective responses, like anxiety, thrill, dread, amusement, despair, and exultation.

Ryan also writes in public outlets on topics including contemporary literature, translation, sitcom family politics, liberation theology, and more.

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Publications:

• “Revision and the Politics of Truth-Telling in The Autobiography of Juan Francisco Manzano.” Victorian Studies, forthcoming.
• “The Form of Information and Informational Form in The Woman in White.” Studies in the Novel, forthcoming.
• “Is the Information Age a ‘Crisis of Narration’?” Review of Byung-chul Han trans. Daniel Steuer, The Crisis of Narration. NCR, September 2024.
• “The Future Isn’t Now: Impossible Action in Political Scholarship.” Lateral, 13.1, Spring 2024.
• “A Translation the Size of the World.” Review of Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey and Olga Tokarczuk trans. Croft, The Books of Jacob. Public Books, April 2024.
• “‘Looking together united them’: Communal and Multivalent Affects in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse.” Virginia Woolf Miscellany, no. 97, Spring-Summer 2021.
• “The Pilgrim’s Book.” The Jesuits, 2021.
• “Fragments of the Eschaton.” Macrina Magazine, 2021.
• “An Ongoing Revelation: Endings and Poetics of Missingness in the Novels of Virginia Woolf and Gabriel García Márquez.” Portals: A Journal in Comparative Literature, 2020.

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Teaching Awards

• 2024 AI. Curricular Excellence Award
• 2023 Earl Hartsell Award for Excellence in Teaching

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Awards

• 2024 Eliaison Early Stages Departmental Dissertation Fellowship
• 2023 North American Victorian Studies Association Sally Mitchell Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper
• 2022 Ruth Rose Richardson Award for First-Year Achievement

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Degrees

2019, MA English, George Washington University

2012, BA Humanities, Columbia International University

Bio

Elisabeth is a PhD candidate studying American literature of the long 19th century and the health humanities. Her dissertation, “Power Play: Games, Jokes, and Performance in Nineteenth-Century American Asylum Narratives” investigates the modes by which asylum patients creatively contested medical authority through memoirs, exposés, poetry, and newspaper writing.

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Publications:

• “‘Send the little patient to the Hospital at once:’ Early Eugenics at the North Carolina State Hospital’s Epileptic Colony,” in The Biopolitics of Childhood in the Long American 19^th Century, edited by Lucia Hodgson and Allison Giffen (Routledge, forthcoming in 2025). https://www.routledge.com/The-Biopolitics-of-Childhood-in-the-Long-American-19th-Century/Hodgson-Giffen/p/book/9781032563527
• “Conversion and Countermemory: Jarena Lee, Maria Stewart, and the Spiritual Motherhood of Mary Magdalene,” in Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Theologies of the Afterlife: A Step Closer to Heaven, edited by Emily Hamilton-Honey and Jennifer McFarlane Harris, Routledge, 2021.

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Awards

• Dissertation Completion Fellowship, UNC Graduate School, 2024-2025
• Eliason Early Stages Dissertation Fellowship, UNC English Department, 2023
• C. Hugh Holman Award for a dissertation in 19th century American Literature, UNC English Department, 2023
• Dissertation Prospectus Fellowship, Wilson Library at UNC, 2022
• Robert Bain Award for scholarship in 19th century American Literature, UNC English Department, 2021
• Southern Futures Graduate Award, UNC Center for the Study of the American South, 2020
• McCandlish Endowment Fellowship, GWU, 2017-2019

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Degrees

2008, BA English, James Madison University

2020, MA English, James Madison University

Bio

I am a doctoral candidate and teaching fellow in the Department of English & Comparative Literature at UNC. I am currently at work on my dissertation, tentatively titled “No Judgment: The Aesthetics of Neutrality in the Postwar American Novel,” which examines the productive tension that arises between neutral narrators and snobby characters in the decades immediately following the Second World War. More broadly, my research concerns expressions of taste and aesthetic judgment in American literature and film as they relate to discourses on race, gender, sexuality, and class. I also work on topics, including climate change and posthumanist aesthetics, related to the environmental humanities, and have taught courses on contemporary literature, film, and composition.

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Curriculum Vitae / Resume

Degrees

2019, MA English, College of Charleston

2001, BA Mass Communications, Emory & Henry College

Bio

My research focuses on the role of women and the circulation and reception of women’s health during the American botanical healing movement of 1830-1860. Using archival material, I consider popular print culture of the time, including periodicals, medical literature, and domestic science/economy texts written by women.

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Publications:

• Buchanan-King, Mindy. “Architecture as Precarity: Edith Wharton’s Haunted Hudson River Bracketed.” Edith Wharton Review, vol. 38, no. 1, 2023, pp. 1-20.
• Buchanan-King, Mindy. “Joan Crawford: Problematizing the (Aging) Female Image and Sexuality in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?” Quarterly Review of Film and Video, vol. 37, no. 5, 2019, pp. 408-30.

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Teaching Awards

• Latina/o Studies Teaching Award Recipient (Fall 2021)

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Awards

• 2024-2025 Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society
• 2023-2024 McLendon-Thomas Research Fellowship, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Nineteenth-century Rare Books Collection, History of Medicine)
• Robert Bain Award for Excellence Achieved by a Second-Year Student in Pre-1900 American or Southern Literature (April 2022)

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Curriculum Vitae / Resume

Degrees

2020, BA English, Georgia State University

Bio

Ariannah Kubli is a third-year PhD student in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at UNC Chapel Hill, where she specializes in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature. Her scholarly interests include American literary realism and naturalism; Marxist theory; intellectual history; critical pedagogy; and the public humanities. Her current work explores the interplay between fiction, labor movements, and radical politics in the United States from 1870-1920. She’s particularly attentive to the ways literature encouraged and informed agitation for more equitable economic, political, and social systems, and the ways inequitable systems in turn inflected the period’s literary output.

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Awards

• Arlene Feiner Memorial Research Grant for Women’s Studies, Working Men’s Institute, 2022
• Maynard Adams Fellowship for the Public Humanities, Carolina Public Humanities, 2021
• James E. Routh Outstanding English Major Award, Georgia State University, 2020

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Degrees

2015, BA English, Davidson College

2018, MA English, New York University

Bio

I like to read and write about transatlantic literature of the long nineteenth century and modernism.

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Degrees

2012, B.A. English, University of Vermont

2014, M.A. Modern Literature, CUNY, Graduate Center

2017, M.F.A. Creative Writing, Poetry, New York University

 

Bio

Colin Dekeersgieter studies modern poetry, poetics, and aesthetics with a focus on domesticity. His work has appeared in the North American Review, Greensboro Review, Green Mountains Review, and elsewhere.

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Publications:

• Opium and Ambergris (Kent State University Press, forthcoming 2024)

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Awards

• Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, selected by Marilyn Chin
• Goldwater Fellowship, New York University
• Global Research Initiative Fellowship, New York University

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Degrees

2012, BA English, Saint Michael’s College

2018, MA English, University of Colorado at Boulder

Bio

Erica studies women’s literature from the Romantic era and the American Civil War with a focus on infrastructure, the history of the book, memory and trauma studies, and intellectual history.

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