2019, BA English, Ithaca College
I am a first-year PhD student in the Department of English & Comparative Literature. My interests include 20th and 21st century American literature, transatlantic modernism, and critical theory.
2010, MA English, DePaul University
2008, BA English, Birmingham-Southern College
Originally from LaGrange, GA, Paul is primarily interested in American literature from 1865 to the present and its intersections with the health humanities, especially literary trauma studies. He is primarily interested in the ethical and political implications of depictions of trauma in literature and other media, especially acts of violence and atrocity for both perpetrators and survivors. In addition to his scholarly work, he also teaches sections of ENGL 105 and ENGL 105i: Writing in Health and Medicine, has tutored for the athletic department, has served for several years as the Fiction Editor for The Carolina Quarterly, and currently serves as the Co-Director for UNC’s Literature, Medicine, and Culture Colloquium (LMCC), https://lmcc.web.unc.edu/. He also writes original pieces of fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, and drama as well as scripts for promotional videos and short narrative or documentary films.
American Literature to 1900 to the present | Contemporary American Literature | Creative Writing | Critical Theory and Cultural Studies | Digital Humanities | Digital Rhetorics | Disability Studies | Film and Media Studies | Literature and Science | Literature, Medicine and Culture | Modernism | Pedagogy | Social Justice
2011, BA English, University of Colorado at Boulder
2018, MA English, University of Colorado at Boulder
I am interested in questions which look at memory and nostalgia and the way in which shifts in technology, political borders and intellectual thought have changed literature’s relationship to both. I’m broadly interested in modernism, 20th century literature, immigrant literature, memory studies, materiality, gender and sexuality, Jewish studies, the interplay of image and language, and critical theory.
American Literature to 1900 to the present | Critical Theory and Cultural Studies | Feminist Theory And Gender & Sexuality Studies | Literature and History | Literature and Philosophy | Literature and Religion | Literature and Science | Modernism | Transatlantic Studies | Visual Culture and Arts | Women Writers
2018, BA English, Davidson College
Erin Piemont studies nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States poetry with a special interest in intersections between poetry and the visual arts. Her research explores art-historical considerations of self-portraiture as an alternative to the literary-critical category of lyric.
Aesthetics | African American Literature | American Literature from 1789 to 1900 | American Literature to 1900 to the present | British Literature from 1789 to 1900 | British Literature from 1900 to the Present | Critical Theory and Cultural Studies | Genre Theory | Modernism | Poetry and Poetics | Visual Culture and Arts
B.A. English, 2010, University of Delhi
M.A. English, 2012, University of Delhi
M.Phil, English Literature, 2014, University of Delhi
My research focuses on environmental justice in the Anthropocene. I am interested in the convergences in the fields of ecocriticism, post-colonial theory and global socioeconomics, to examine how the effects of climate change, displacement, toxic and electronic waste, and resource extraction are differentially experienced across the Global North and South. I am also interested reading in environmental advocacy through the the intersections between art and activism in grassroots movements. I study gobal anglophone literature, with a focus on environmental justice movements in India and the U.S.A.
American Literature to 1900 to the present | Asian American Literature | Comparative Literature | Contemporary Multiethnic American Literature | Critical Race Studies | Digital Humanities | Film and Media Studies | Literature and Science | Post-Colonial Literature and Theory | Posthumanism | Science Fiction | Science Writing | Social Justice
2017, BA English, Bellarmine University
2017, BA Spanish, Bellarmine Univesity
Leslie Rowen studies 20th Century American literature with a focus on the literature of war. Her research concentrates on under-studied soldier writing, with a particular interest in race, gender expression, and trauma. By nature this work relies heavily on the archive, and occasionally extends into the field of medical humanities.
African American Literature | American Literature to 1900 to the present | Asian American Literature | Contemporary American Literature | Contemporary Multiethnic American Literature | Critical Race Studies | Digital Humanities | Literature, Medicine and Culture | Modernism | Pedagogy | Social Justice | Southern Literature | Transatlantic Studies | Women Writers
2014, BA English, Brigham Young University
2017, MFA Creative Writing, Colorado State University
Kylan Rice studies nineteenth and twentieth-century American poetry and poetics.
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Aesthetics | American Literature from 1789 to 1900 | American Literature to 1900 to the present | Creative Writing | Modernism | Poetry and Poetics | Women Writers
2013, BA English, Hendrix College
2016, MA Social Sciences, University of Chicago
My work centers on questions of subjectivity, agency, and desire in twentieth-century American literature and global cinema. Most recently, I have become interested in the relationship between debt and desire as dual economic and psychological forces that structure contemporary experience. Living and teaching abroad (most recently, Brazil) has shaped my approach to literature and film and has enabled me to explore transatlantic cultural and aesthetic influences on literary and cinematic forms.
2014, BA English, University of Oregon
I study late medieval English and Italian literature, focusing primarily on the works of Dante and Chaucer. I’m also especially interested in folk music, vernacular and vulgar literary traditions, and religion.
American Literature to 1900 to the present | Contemporary American Literature | Critical Theory and Cultural Studies | Early Modern Literature And Culture | Italian Literature And Culture | Literature and History | Literature and Religion | Modernism | Narrative Theory | The Novel
2016, MA English, University of Virginia
2013, BA English, University of California Berkeley
Stephanie Kinzinger is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of English and the Game Studies Initiative Project Manager in the Digital Literacy and Communications (DLC) Lab Gaming Initiative. She focuses on American literature, science, technology, and critical game studies and teaches courses in literature, video games, and multimodal composition and rhetoric. Broadly conceived, her research investigates experiments in the gamification of reality avant la lettre by considering select authors and game designers from the mid nineteenth century to the present who not only depict otherworldly fictions but also insist that such endeavors have the potential to make the world otherwise. Her dissertation –“Playing Reality: The Promise and Peril of Compositional Realities”– uses literary theory, play studies, and critical game studies to explore how the formal and political possibilities of video games are anticipated—and sometimes preemptively challenged—by American literature from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, and to interrogate how the limits and possibilities of contemporary experiments in Virtual Reality offer new vistas for potentially recodifying current social structures.
