2019, BA English Literature and History, Marquette University
Katherine Stein is a first-year graduate student absorbed in pursuing the lines between historical fact and fictional narrative. Her interests include Victorian literature, Irish literature, children’s literature, reception studies, and contemporary historical fiction.
2019, BA English, Hampshire College.
Bailey Fernandez is a writer and scholar who works deeply with the poetics of British Romanticism (especially William Blake) and widely with literature’s intersection with philosophy, theology, and linguistics. He is also deeply interested with the history of the avant-garde up until the present day , which he believes begins in the Romantic period.
Aesthetics | British Literature from 1789 to 1900 | British Literature from 1900 to the Present | Comparative Literature | Creative Writing | Critical Theory and Cultural Studies | Digital Humanities | History of the Book | Irish Literature | Literature and Philosophy | Literature and Religion | Literature of the Americas | Modernism | Narrative Theory | Philosophy Of Language | Poetry and Poetics | The English Language | The Novel | Visual Culture and Arts
2014, BA English and Piano Performance, Lawrence University
Andrew Kim is a third-year doctoral student with interests in contemporary transnational literature and film, East Asian studies, critical race studies, and postcolonial studies.
Looking Back on Colonial Korea: Nostalgia and Anti-Nostalgia in Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden, Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, forthcoming early 2019
American Literature to 1900 to the present | Asian American Literature | British Literature from 1789 to 1900 | British Literature from 1900 to the Present | Comparative Literature | Critical Race Studies | Critical Theory and Cultural Studies | Feminist Theory And Gender & Sexuality Studies | Film and Media Studies | Literature and History | Literature and Religion | Post-Colonial Literature and Theory | Posthumanism | The Novel
B.A., Plan II and English Honors, The University of Texas at Austin (2011)
English PhD student studying late nineteenth and early twentieth century British literature with a focus on the theory and history of knowledge, women’s writing, and novel studies.
2012, MA English, Brandeis University.
2007, BA English and Philosophy, Columbia University.
My research interests are 20th and 21st Century Experimental Narratives, particularly African-American Fiction.
African American Literature | American Literature to 1900 to the present | British Literature from 1900 to the Present | Contemporary American Literature | Contemporary Multiethnic American Literature | Critical Race Studies | Critical Theory and Cultural Studies | Literature and Philosophy | Modernism | Philosophy Of Language
Dwight Tanner is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He works in 21st century American/British literature with a focus on multiethnic literature and critical race theory. His current research focuses on the role of social criticism in apocalyptic narratives. He also studies posthumanism, drama, and performance theory.
2012, MA English, University of Virginia
2010, BA English, Tulane University
Kenneth is a specialist in 20th- and 21st-century American fiction, with interests in genre, film, and the literary moment after postmodernism. His dissertation focuses on the re-invention of the tropes of film noir and hard-boiled crime fiction of the 1930s and 40s in mainstream contemporary American literature. His solo-taught literature classes so far have included a version of the Contemporary Literature class titled “Alternatives to Realism” and a version of the Popular Genres class focused on detective fiction, science fiction, graphic novels, horror, and children’s literature. He managed to successfully teach House of Leaves in a 100-level undergraduate class. In his spare time, he has written reviews of over 1,000 films.
African American Literature | American Literature to 1900 to the present | British Literature from 1900 to the Present | Contemporary American Literature | Contemporary Multiethnic American Literature | Film and Media Studies | Genre Theory | Media Studies | Science Fiction | The Novel | Visual Culture and Arts | Women Writers
2007, BA, Davidson College
Laura Broom is currently working on her dissertation, which examines representations of trans identity in contemporary Anglophone novels. She is also interested in body studies, particularly contested notions of gender, race, and personhood in literature and culture. Her teaching experience includes many composition courses, as well as literature classes focused on diversity, race, literary genres, and contemporary novels. She is currently working on two pedagogy articles for publication, one on teaching trans texts and theories in the undergraduate classroom and the other on service-learning experiences at the university level.
American Literature to 1900 to the present | British Literature from 1900 to the Present | Contemporary American Literature | Contemporary Multiethnic American Literature | Creative Writing | Critical Race Studies | Critical Theory and Cultural Studies | Disability Studies | Drama | Feminist Theory And Gender & Sexuality Studies | Literature, Medicine and Culture | Pedagogy | Performance Studies | Post-Colonial Literature and Theory | Queer Theory | Southern Literature | Women Writers
2014, MA Linguistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2012, BA German & Latin, Hillsdale College
I am a comparative modernist scholar specializing in Anglo-American and European poetry and poetics. My dissertation focuses on the poetic epiphany in modernist and secular aesthetic frameworks in Anglo-American and German traditions, with particular attention given to William Carlos Williams, T. S. Eliot, and Rainer Maria Rilke. My analytical framework draws on literary, religious, and philosophical traditions as I examine the phenomenon of the secular epiphany in the twentieth century. In addition to my research, I recently received an award for excellence in teaching English rhetoric and composition at UNC. For this class, I employ a genre-awareness approach that emphasizes interdisciplinary skills such as research, developing a writing process through peer review and revision, and digital literacy; I have particularly enjoyed developing units on film analysis and career readiness.
Aesthetics | 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 | Comparative Literature | Film and Media Studies | Literature and Philosophy | Literature and Religion | Modernism | Philosophy Of Language | Poetry and Poetics