Jordan Williamson

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.
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.
2016, M.A.T. Secondary English Education, Duke University
2013, M.A. Slavic Languages and Literatures, UNC-Chapel Hill
2011, B.A. Slavic Languages and Literatures, UNC-Chapel Hill
Jessica’s research focuses on late 19th and early 20th century Russian and German fiction, with special interests in the depictions of animals and death in literature. Key authors for her include Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Kafka, and Mann. She has been studying Russian since 2007 and has studied in St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Kiev. She has taught Russian language courses and TA’d for Russian and German culture courses in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, as well as tutors for the new UNC Russian Flagship Program.
Comparative Literature | Literature and History | Literature and Philosophy | Modernism | Narrative Theory | Posthumanism | The Novel
2016, BA Liberal Arts, Sarah Lawrence College
Emma is a Comparative Literature student interested in ancient Greek philosophy. Her work explores the relationship between philosophy and poetry in Plato and Aristotle. She is also interested in language, specifically metaphor and simile.
Comparative Literature | Creative Writing | Drama | Literature and Philosophy | Philosophy Of Language | Poetry and Poetics | The English Language
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
2018, BA German Literature, Philosophy, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin
I study twentieth-century German, Russian, and American literature & film. My current research interests lie in Horror and Liminality, Critical Theory, and Film Studies. Currently I am researching depictions of space and time, as they relate to constructions of gender and sexuality.
2016, BA French and Comparative Literature, Binghamton University
Chloe Hamer is a third-year graduate student focusing on 20th Century Francophone Caribbean literature and memory studies.
2017, M. A. Pennsylvania State University
I’m a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. My research focuses primarily upon early modern literature and in particular, the intersections of poetics and performance, the fool figure, ballads and politics. My dissertation, “Changeling Humorists: The Speech Acts of the Early Modern English Fool,” traces the intellectual history of the fool figure through the seventeenth century. It explores how the fool democratizes an access to public voice and transfers a form of sovereignty to its audience. Currently, I am also editing Robert Armin’s Quips upon Questions for Digital Renaissance Editions.
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British Literature from 1485 to 1660 (including Milton) | Comparative Literature | Drama | Early Modern Literature And Culture | History of the Book | Irish Literature | Literature and History | Literature and Philosophy | Literature and Religion | Literature, Medicine and Culture | Pedagogy | Performance Studies | Poetry and Poetics | Transatlantic Studies | Travel Writing
2016, BA in English and Comparative Literature, summa cum laude, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
My research focuses on exchanges among literature, science, philosophy, and theology in early modern Europe.
2014, BA English and French Literature, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
My research focuses on gender, sexuality, and sensuality in the cinemas of the Maghreb and the Maghrebi diaspora in France. I’ve taught a variety of courses, including French, Arabic, film, and queer literature and culture, and I have experience teaching ESL and English composition to non-native speakers. As a Comparative Literature student, I enjoy doing interdisciplinary work through different departments at UNC, including English and Comparative Literature, Romance Studies, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, and African Studies.
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emilio Jesús Taiveaho Peláez is a first-generation migrant and a PhD. student—in that order—through the Department of English & Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. As both poet and scholar, their work engages the intersection of aesthetic experience and political discipline, blending critical, creative, and archival inquiry. Focusing on 20th-century hemispheric experimental poetry, their dissertation (tentatively titled Ojos de Hierba: Walt Whitman’s Children & the American Lyric) probes the shared literary and philosophical history of the Américas through the lens of Neobaroque aesthetics, tracing dissonant and dissident relations in the life and work of figures such as Federico García Lorca, Langston Hughes, Allen Ginsberg, Néstor Perlongher, and Cecilia Vicuña. emilio’s first book of poetry, landskips (words are a hard look), a latinX exploration of the sonics and optics of our contemporary American Landscapes, is forthcoming through The Concern Newsstand.
Aesthetics | American Literature to 1900 to the present | Comparative Literature | Contemporary American Literature | Contemporary Multiethnic American Literature | Critical Race Studies | Critical Theory and Cultural Studies | Film and Media Studies | Latina / Latino Literature | Literature and Philosophy | Literature of the Americas | Modernism | Performance Studies | Poetry and Poetics | Queer Theory | Visual Culture and Arts