2009, BA English, The Catholic University of America
2012, MA English, George Washington University
Craig Mariconti focuses on Early Modern literature, with an interest in drama and religious culture.
2015, MA English, Claremont Graduate University
2012, BA English Literature and Political Science, Loyola Marymount University
Eddie is currently a PhD candidate and Teaching Fellow at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. A scholar of British literature of the long eighteenth century, he has particular interests in: authenticity, experimentation with literary form and genre, the Gothic, the history of the novel, influences of popular culture, the material book, and narrative performance.
His dissertation project, entitled Creating Enchantment: a History of the Gothic and Inspiring Interactive Reading, explores the history of intellectual influences on the Gothic, the creative possibilities that writers have found in the genre, and how these writers subsequently experimented with the genre to create a particular reading experience. Bringing together archival research, narrative theory, reader-response theory, and sociological history of reading practices in the long-eighteenth century, he hopes to produce a project that examines how authorial innovation, alongside history of the material book—its paratextual elements, decisions made by publishers, and popular readership—have mediated interactive reading experiences of the Gothic novel in the long eighteenth century.
Aesthetics | American Literature to 1900 to the present | British Literature from 1660 to 1789 | British Literature from 1789 to 1900 | British Literature from 1900 to the Present | Depictions Of The Child | Drama | Film and Media Studies | Genre Theory | History of the Book | Irish Literature | Literature and Education | Literature and History | Literature and Religion | Literature and Science | Narrative Theory | Pedagogy | Performance Studies | Science Fiction | The Novel | Transatlantic Studies | Visual Culture and Arts
2014, BA English, Harvard University
2015, postgraduate study, History of Design, Royal College of Art/ Victoria & Albert Museum
Lanier’s research interests include early modern drama, material culture studies, and the history of the book. Her dissertation examines the epistemological value of the documentary medium in Elizabethan and Jacobean England by asking how, when, and why early moderns decided to trust the documents they encountered. Reading references to documents in period literature through the lens of contemporary material texts, she argues that the vocabulary of documents offered playwrights and poets an invaluable framework with which to explore social, political, and spiritual uncertainties.
2014, MA English, Florida Gulf Coast University
2011, BA English, Florida Gulf Coast University
I’m a Ph.D. student in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at UNC Chapel Hill studying medieval and early modern literature. I’m specifically interested in early modern encyclopedias, epistemology, and the history of science. I’m also interested in insects, gastropods, gender and sexuality, power dynamics, amphibians and amphibiousness, fungi, and the confluence of natural philosophy/magic/religion.
British Literature from 1485 to 1660 (including Milton) | British Literature from 1660 to 1789 | British Literature from its beginning to 1485 | Digital Humanities | Drama | Early Modern Literature And Culture | Literature and History | Literature and Religion | Literature and Science | Queer Theory
