2009, BA English, The Catholic University of America
2012, MA English, George Washington University
Craig Mariconti focuses on Early Modern literature, with an interest in drama and religious culture.
2014, BA English, Harvard University
2015, postgraduate study, History of Design, Royal College of Art/ Victoria & Albert Museum
Lanier’s research interests include early modern drama, material culture studies, and the history of the book. Her dissertation examines the epistemological value of the documentary medium in Elizabethan and Jacobean England by asking how, when, and why early moderns decided to trust the documents they encountered. Reading references to documents in period literature through the lens of contemporary material texts, she argues that the vocabulary of documents offered playwrights and poets an invaluable framework with which to explore social, political, and spiritual uncertainties.
2014, MA English, Florida Gulf Coast University
2011, BA English, Florida Gulf Coast University
I’m a Ph.D. student in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at UNC Chapel Hill studying medieval and early modern literature. I’m specifically interested in early modern encyclopedias, epistemology, and the history of science. I’m also interested in insects, gastropods, gender and sexuality, power dynamics, amphibians and amphibiousness, fungi, and the confluence of natural philosophy/magic/religion.
British Literature from 1485 to 1660 (including Milton) | British Literature from 1660 to 1789 | British Literature from its beginning to 1485 | Digital Humanities | Drama | Early Modern Literature And Culture | Literature and History | Literature and Religion | Literature and Science | Queer Theory
2010, BA English, Washington University in St. Louis
At UNC-Chapel Hill, I study the development of Early Modern thought (roughly 1500 AD – 1700 AD) in England, France, and Italy with Reid Barbour and Jessica Wolfe. I combine traditional and computational research methods to try to understand how revolutionary changes in science and theology in this period were received and interpreted in the different national literary traditions.
2017, PhD Merit Fellowship, UNC-Chapel Hill
2017, MA English, University of Virginia
2014, BA English, The College of William and Mary
Rory Sullivan studies late medieval English literature, art, and culture, and is completing a Ph.D. in English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He teaches courses on speculative fiction, visual narrative, and composition, while also working at the Writing and Learning Center as a Writing Coach. Rory’s scholarly work is interested in the lived experiences and devotional practices of late medieval people. His dissertation, “The Virtual Imagination and the Self in Late Medieval England,” investigates the interactions between individuals and art objects, poems, performances, and manuscripts in order to understand how individuals cultivated devotional practices and experiences.
Breen Award for outstanding work in the field of Medieval Studies, 2019
Balch Prize for a Masters Student in English, 2017
Aesthetics | British Literature from 1485 to 1660 (including Milton) | British Literature from its beginning to 1485 | Early Modern Literature And Culture | Film and Media Studies | Literature and History | Literature and Philosophy | Literature and Religion | Science Fiction | Visual Culture and Arts
