2017, BA English, Bellarmine University
Leslie Rowen’s focuses her research on 19th & 20th Century American Literature, with a particular interest in war and legacy. Other topics include crime, violence, trauma studies, and memory.
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.
2013, BA English and Plan II Honors, The University of Texas at Austin
Travis is broadly invested in postwar American fiction, film, and visual art. His research specifically clusters around portrayals of the HIV/AIDS epidemic from the 1980s to the present in literary, filmic, and theoretical domains. Travis is particularly interested in the extent to which scripts governing racial representation inform these portrayals.
Student Undergraduate Teaching Award, Spring 2017
Short Term Fellowship, The Huntington Library, 2019
Summer Research Grant, Provost’s Committee on LGBTQ Life, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2018
Graduate Student Research Award, Program in Sexuality Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2018
Ruth Rose Richardson Award for Outstanding Record in the First Year of Graduate Study, Department of English, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2015
Dean’s Distinguished Graduate, College of Liberal Arts (12 students chosen from 2,983 graduates), The University of Texas at Austin, 2013
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.
2012, BA English, University of Michigan
Aesthetics | American Literature to 1900 to the present | Comparative Literature | Contemporary American Literature | Creative Writing | Critical Theory and Cultural Studies | Feminist Theory And Gender & Sexuality Studies | Film and Media Studies | Literature and History | Literature and Philosophy | Media Studies | Modernism | Narrative Theory | The Novel | Visual Culture and Arts | Writing In The Disciplines
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
2013, BA Critical Studies (in English Cultures, Literatures, and Film) & Latin American Studies, University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire.
Emilio Taiveaho was born in Quito, Ecuador, to a Finnish Father and Ecuadorian Mother, and spent his childhood prehending—and being prehended by—the beatific and magnanimous Andes. A first-generation immigrant, Emilio moved to the United States to further his education, finishing his High School career in Winona, Minnesota, and graduating from the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire in 2017. He is currently pursuing a PhD. in literature from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, where he specializes in twentieth- and twenty-first-century poetry and poetics across the Américas, and is interested in the intersection of aesthetics, biopolitics, performance, and visual art.
Aesthetics | American Literature to 1900 to the present | Comparative Literature | Contemporary American Literature | Contemporary Multiethnic American Literature | Creative Writing | Critical Race Studies | Critical Theory and Cultural Studies | Feminist Theory And Gender & Sexuality Studies | Latina / Latino Literature | Literature and History | Literature and Philosophy | Literature of the Americas | Modernism | Performance Studies | Poetry and Poetics | Post-Colonial Literature and Theory | Travel Writing | Visual Culture and Arts
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
BA English, University of Colorado
MFA Fiction, University of Pittsburgh
I study the intersections between place, space and identity in contemporary literature, with a particular focus on the Southwest and indigenous writers, gentrification and the city, and liminality.
Contemporary American Literature | Contemporary Multiethnic American Literature | Critical Race Studies
2017, BA Literature, BA Spanish, University of North Carolina Asheville
Marcy Pedzwater studies twentieth-century North and Latin American literature. Her current research interests include the intersections of race, gender, and colonialism/imperialism in the Americas. She is also interested in the function of memory, archive, and trauma in twentieth-century texts. She currently teaches Spanish 105.
Comparative Literature | Contemporary American Literature | Contemporary Multiethnic American Literature | Critical Theory and Cultural Studies | Feminist Theory And Gender & Sexuality Studies | Latina / Latino Literature | Literature of the Americas | Post-Colonial Literature and Theory