Amy Chan

Degrees
2018, BA Classics, University of Pennsylvania
Bio
Awards
- Booker Fellowship, 2021
- Inclusive Excellence Top-Up, 2021
2018, BA Classics, University of Pennsylvania
2020, BA English, George Washington University
Ryan Carroll is a PhD student in the Department of English and Comparative Literature. He is interested in mediation, information culture, documentary storytelling, and truth-telling in 19th-century British and Transatlantic literature. His interests also include modernism, literary theory and aesthetics, hermeneutic phenomenology, queer theory, and magical realism.
Outside of academia, Ryan writes on theology, particularly queer and liberation theology. His work has been published by theology publications and the Jesuit Conference of Canada and North America.
Carroll, Ryan. “The Pilgrim’s Book.” The Jesuits, https://www.jesuits.org/stories/the-pilgrims-book/, 2021.
Carroll, Ryan. “Fragments of the Eschaton: Queer Christian Soteriology.” Macrina Magazine, https://macrinamagazine.com/issue-8-general/guest/2021/09/11/fragments-of-the-eschaton-queer-christian-soteriology/, September 11, 2021.
Carroll, Ryan. “An Ongoing Revelation: Endings and Poetics of Missingness in the Novels of Virginia Woolf and Gabriel García Márquez.” Portals: A Journal in Comparative Literature, July 12, 2020.
Aesthetics | African American Literature | American Literature from 1789 to 1900 | British Literature from 1789 to 1900 | British Literature from 1900 to the Present | Comparative Literature | Critical Race Studies | Critical Theory and Cultural Studies | Digital Humanities | Film and Media Studies | Genre Theory | History of the Book | Literature of the Americas | Media Studies | Modernism | Narrative Theory | Post-Colonial Literature and Theory | Queer Theory | The Novel | Transatlantic Studies | Visual Culture and Arts
2016, BA English, Princeton University
Nathan possesses a strong interest in late 20th and 21st century American literature, with a particular focus on contemporary works with magical realist and “hysterical realist” elements. This interest has led him in the direction of postsecular theory and the philosophy of language.
American Literature to 1900 to the present | British Literature from 1900 to the Present | Contemporary American Literature | Contemporary Multiethnic American Literature | Critical Theory and Cultural Studies | Digital Humanities | Literature and History | Literature and Philosophy | Literature and Religion | Post-Colonial Literature and Theory | Science Fiction | The Novel
2015, BA English, Davidson College
2018, MA English, New York University
I like to read and write about transatlantic literature of the long nineteenth century and modernism.
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
Colin Dekeersgieter is a poet and Ph.D. candidate in English and Comparative Literature invested in modern poetry, poetics, and aesthetics with a focus on domesticity. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the North American Review, Green Mountains Review, The Worcester Review, and elsewhere.
Aesthetics | American Literature from 1789 to 1900 | American Literature to 1900 to the present | British Literature from 1900 to the Present | Creative Writing | Feminist Theory And Gender & Sexuality Studies | Literature and Philosophy | Modernism | Poetry and Poetics | Queer Theory
2019, Honors BA English Literature and History, Marquette University
Katherine Stein is a third-year PhD student whose work is absorbed in the lines between historical fact and fictional narrative, with a special focus on Victorian historiography and the figure of the child. Reaching forward from the Victorian period into the early twentieth century, she has interests in historical fiction, national identity, and children’s literature. Katherine’s work is invested in the public humanities; at UNC, she works with the Jane Austen Summer Program, a public humanities outreach program, and also works in various public-facing communications roles.
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.
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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