Degrees

2024, Master of Arts in English Literature, Auburn University

2020, Bachelor of Arts in English-Liberal Arts, Francis Marion University

2020, Bachelor of Arts in Biology, Francis Marion University

Bio

Devin Gregg is a doctoral student and Teaching Fellow in the English and Comparative Literature Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has a vested interest in feminist and queer theories and methodologies and specializes in multiethnic literature in the global south. She is particularly interested in how African American, Caribbean, and Latina/o literatures reveal the intricacies of identity, theorize and explore spatiotemporality, and negotiate historical memory.

 

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Awards

• Graduate Teaching Fellowship, English and Comparative Literature Department, UNC Chapel Hill, Fall 2024-Present
• Noel Polk Award, Society for the Study of Southern Literature, 2024
• Travel Grant, Department of English, Auburn University, Fall 2023
• Travel Grant, Department of English, Auburn University, Spring 2023
• Graduate Student Tuition Fellowship, Department of English, Auburn University, Fall 2022-Spring 2024
• Francis Marion University English Award, 2021

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Degrees

2022, BA English, University of Richmond

Bio

I am interested in global modernism, especially transatlantic literary experiments in the early twentieth century and its transformation in the latter half of the century.

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Degrees

2021, MA English, Winthrop University

2020, BA English, Winthrop University

Bio

Faith Rush is a PhD student and Teaching Fellow in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is a two-time graduate of Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina. During her time there, she became interested in 19th and 20th-century American Literature with an emphasis on Black Southern writers. Faith’s research utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to analyze literature’s role in forming and reforming the Black identity. Unpacking well-known and lesser-known works by Black authors, she argues for their insertion into the racialized American literary canon.

Her current research interest is the first-known African American novelist Hannah Crafts and her autobiographic novel The Bondwoman’s Narrative. She hopes to further comprehend Crafts’s literary contributions to American literature and advocate for her placement within academic discourse.

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Publications:

• Lift Up. (Rock Hill: The Anthology: Winthrop University Arts & Literary Magazine, 2021).
• Mama Said. (Rock Hill: The Anthology: Winthrop University’s Arts & Literary Magazine, 2021).
• Death of Divorce. (Rochester Hills: Oakland Arts Review, 2020).
• Songs for the People: Music’s Recreation of the Black Identity in the Works of Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin. (Rock Hill: Showcase of Undergraduate Research and Creative Endeavors, 2020).

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Degrees

2015, BA English, University of Georgia

2022, MA English, Georgia State University

Bio

I work among the intersections of critical theory, ecology, and nineteenth-century American literature.

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Publications:

• “‘The State of Their Stomachs’: the Politics of Consumption in Edgar Allan Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym.” Poe Studies: History, Theory, Interpretation, vol. 57 (2024)

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Awards

• 2022 Nichols Graduate Award for Best Graduate Student Paper, British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference

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Degrees

2023, BS English and Environmental Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Bio

Steve is a PhD student researching conviviality, energy, and degrowth. His research revolves around how the humanities can be applied as a force for social change. In particular, he’s been working to develop pathways for individuals and communities to move away from violent patterns of capitalist extraction and accumulation.

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Degrees

2021, BA in Comparative Literature with an emphsasis in World Literature, University of California Irvine
2021, BA in Philosophy, University of California Irvine
Cum Laude

Bio

Audrey is a first year PhD student from Los Angeles, California. Audrey currently focuses in visual and cultural studies with particular interest in representation of the body politic. Her past research has explored nationalism within American superhero comics, specifically within various Captain America series. In her research with the COMICS research team at the University of Ghent, she studied colonial imagery within tropes of the mythologized west and cowboy imagery in francophone comics, primarily focusing on Franco-Belgian publications from the 1940s to 1980s. Audrey intends to continue her work within visual narratives in her studies by analyzing what constitutes heroic bodies in media.

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Publications:

“Captain America: Disassembling Traditional Narratives” Johns Hopkins’ Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Journal

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Awards

Fulbright Fellowship Grantee 2022 – 2023
Phi Beta Kappa, University of California Irvine 2021
Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research, University of California Irvine 2021

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Degrees

2017, BA English, University of Florida

2021, MA English, University of Colorado Boulder

Bio

My scholarship explores how trauma, mental illness, and suicide affect intrafamilial and interpersonal relationships. Working with representations of the American generational family in popular media, I examine the ways by which narrative-based signifying practices in contemporary American culture harness generic discourses of horror and its adjacent genres to reify interpersonal trauma through depictions of extreme violence and negative affect.

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Degrees

University of Pennsylvania, M.A., Liberal Studies
Palm Beach Atlantic University, B.A., Religious Studies

Bio

Emily Waller Singeisen is a PhD student and teaching fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a graduate of the Masters of Liberal Arts program at the University of Pennsylvania where her research concentrations included the ancient literature and its reception, gender and queer theory, and psychoanalysis. Her published work has examined the formation of gendered subjectivity in the ancient novel through the framework of Freud’s female Oedipus complex, and she continues to investigate the ways in which contemporary theory might enrich our reading of ancient literature. Her current research focuses on receptions of classical literatures from the early twentieth century to the present that mobilize ancient texts for the representation of bodies and sexualities that defy heteronormative ideals.

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Publications:

Peer Reviewed Articles

Waller Singeisen, E. (November 2024). “Watched Men and Phallus-Wielding Women: Aubrey Beardsley’s Reception of Juvenal’s Sixth Satire” in Classical Receptions Journal.

Waller, E. (June 2022). “Gender Constitution and Reversible Potentiality: The Making of the Masculine Subject in Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe” in differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 33, no. 1.

Essays

Waller Singeisen, E. (June 2024). “Trojan Horse Universities: How Tech Billionaires and Alt-Right Figures Legitimise Intolerance in Classics.” Working Classicists. https://www.workingclassicists.com/post/trojan-horse-universities-how-tech-billionaires-and-alt-right-figures-legitimise-intolerance-in-cla.

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Awards

UNC Graduate Essay Prize in Comparative Literature, 2024.

Society for Classical Studies’ Ancient Worlds, Modern Communities Grant Recipient, 2022.

Lambda Classical Caucus Graduate Student Paper Award Nominee, 2021.

University of Pennsylvania Liberal and Professional Studies Award for Outstanding Achievement in a Capstone Project, 2021.

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Curriculum Vitae / Resume

Degrees

2018, BA English, University of Florida

Bio

Kyle Cunningham is a doctoral student at UNC Chapel Hill. His research explores the intersections of platform studies, fan studies, and narrative and literary theory, focusing on how communities reproduce themselves through digital communication infrastructures. He is particularly interested in tracing the organizational logics and discursive practices of online communities that develop around decentralized, peer-produced narratives and hermeneutic practices.

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Curriculum Vitae / Resume

Degrees

2018, BA Literature, the representative of the graduates, Waseda University

2020, MA Education, Waseda University

Bio

Satoshi Ohnishi is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of English and Comparative Literature.  His research focuses on the relationship between 19th-century American literature and visual media, including the camera obscura and early photographic media. Additionally, he is currently interested in the representation of aging in American literature and African American literature.

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Awards

• Okuma Memorial Scholarship, Waseda University, 2018
• Fulbright Scholarship (Fulbright Foreign Student Program), the Japan-United States Educational Commission, 2023-2025
• Graduate Tuition Incentive Scholarship, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2024–25

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