2019, BA in English Literature, Georgia College & State University
2021, MA in English Literature, University of Maryland, College Park
Dana Maller is a PhD student studying European Modernism. Her interests lie in the image, form, and affect.
Aesthetics | Critical Theory and Cultural Studies | Feminist Theory And Gender & Sexuality Studies | Modernism | Poetry and Poetics | The Novel
MA in Literature, Wayne State University, April 2020
BA in English, with Teacher’s Certification, Minor: Medieval Studies, Eastern Illinois University, cum laude, with University Honors, May 2009
Originally from central Illinois, Lindsay is a PhD candidate and teaching fellow focusing on post-conquest (c. 1100-1300) medieval literature. Previous research has focused on food in medieval literature, early modern broadside ballads, and perceptions of mental illness in medieval Europe. Currently, Lindsay is working on sorrow as an affect in later medieval dream visions. Outside of medieval literature, Lindsay is also interested in teaching pedagogy and taught high school English and special education before returning to academia. She has also worked extensively with a group of instructors at UNC who design coursework focusing on publication in the PIT Journal.
Miller, Lindsay, Sarah Chapman and Lynn Losh 2019. Going beyond Lear: Performance and Taming of the Shrew. Dividing the Kingdoms:Interdisciplinary Methods for Teaching King Lear to Undergraduates: Performance: Wayne State University. https://guides.lib.wayne.edu/folgerkinglear/performance
Ragle-Miller, Lindsay et. Al. The Warrior Women Project: Wayne State University. https://s.wayne.edu/warriorwomen/
Erika Lindemann Teaching Award in Composition and Literature, 2024
British Literature from 1485 to 1660 (including Milton) | British Literature from its beginning to 1485 | Children’s Literature | Disability Studies | Early Modern Literature And Culture | Feminist Theory And Gender & Sexuality Studies | History of the Book | Literature and Education | Literature, Medicine and Culture | Pedagogy | Queer Theory | Writing In The Disciplines
2020, BA English, Indiana University
2020, BA Anthropology, Indiana University
2022, MA English, Syracuse University
My area of focus is on horror, race, gender, and sexuality and how the these intersecting ties are utilized within popular media throughout American history. Specifically within film, television, novels, and video games, I am interested in how these various mediums relay American history through a horror/gothic lens.
2022, MA English, Virginia Tech
2019, BA English, Virginia Commonwealth University
Kara Rush is a first-year Ph.D. student specializing in early modern literature. In particular, Rush is interested in how early modern English authors use threatening nature and femininity to mediate anxieties concerning the preservation and contamination of English national identity. Other interests include adaptation studies and late medieval literature.
2020, MA English, Texas Christian University
2019, BA English, Texas Christian University
Andreley Bjelland is a PhD candidate and teaching fellow. Her research interests include crime, gender, and religion in the early modern period. Her dissertation explores representations of children and crime in early modern English literature, drama, pamphlets, and ballads.
British Literature from 1485 to 1660 (including Milton) | British Literature from 1660 to 1789 | Creative Writing | Depictions Of The Child | Drama | Early Modern Literature And Culture | Feminist Theory And Gender & Sexuality Studies | Literature and Religion | Pedagogy | Travel Writing | Women Writers | Writing In The Disciplines
2022, BA English, Meredith College
Krista Telford is a second-year PhD student at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research examines forms of prayer in medieval and early modern literature as well as the impact of form on medieval depictions of the afterlife. She aims to take an interdisciplinary approach in her research, considering the performative aspect of many poems and prayers and drawing on musicological research. Krista’s recent and ongoing work includes a project exploring resistance to transcendence in the ending of Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, which examines Chaucer’s reading of Boethius, and a paper exploring the polyphonic and dialogic nature of Francesco Suriano’s underexamined 15th century treatise on the Holy Land, Il trattato di Terra Santa e dell’Oriente.
British Literature from 1485 to 1660 (including Milton) | British Literature from its beginning to 1485 | Digital Humanities | Early Modern Literature And Culture | Feminist Theory And Gender & Sexuality Studies | Literature and Philosophy | Literature and Religion | Travel Writing | Women Writers
2019, BA English, North Carolina State University
Cate Rivers is a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature. She graduated from North Carolina State University in 2019 with a BA in English and minors in history and Japan studies. Her main area focuses are the Southern United States and Japan. Her interests span trauma studies, nationalism, memory, gender and critical race theories, modernism, cultural representations of mental illness, mysticism, and Buddhist literature. Her ongoing research project frames 20th century Japanese novels and novels from the Southern Renaissance as social histories, with particular attention to war memory, family history, culpability, the construction of “family,” and the relation between national identity and self-conception.
African American Literature | American Literature to 1900 to the present | Asian American Literature | Comparative Literature | Contemporary American Literature | Contemporary Multiethnic American Literature | Critical Race Studies | Disability Studies | Feminist Theory And Gender & Sexuality Studies | Literature and History | Literature and Religion | Literature, Medicine and Culture | Modernism | Narrative Theory | Pedagogy | Post-Colonial Literature and Theory | Social Justice | Southern Literature | Transatlantic Studies
2010, B.A. (Hons) Literae Humaniores, University of Oxford
2018, M.A. Ancient Greek and Latin, Boston College
Everett Lang studies Ancient Greek and Latin literature, primarily from the Roman Imperial period, and its later reception in Early Modern Britain and northern Europe.
Aesthetics | British Literature from 1485 to 1660 (including Milton) | British Literature from 1660 to 1789 | Comparative Literature | Critical Race Studies | Critical Theory and Cultural Studies | Digital Humanities | Disability Studies | Early Modern Literature And Culture | Feminist Theory And Gender & Sexuality Studies | History of the Book | Literature and Science | Pedagogy
2019, BA English, Mount Holyoke College
My scholarly interests naturally converge around questions of trauma, ethics, affect, and divergent subjectivities in narratives of resistance and reconciliation. My work is grounded in an intersectional feminist hermeneutic lens to explore the role of gender, sexuality, and settler colonialism in texts by contemporary American multiethnic women writers. I am also interested in speculative imagery and it’s significance in illuminating historically silenced facets of subjectivity. Psychoanalytic criticisms surrounding haunting and trauma, in conjunction with an exploration of queer women’s psyches as sites for potential violence or intimacy are also uniquely compelling to me. My work asks how/why ‘deviant affects’ are labeled as such, and why the burden of silencing those affects largely falls on “marginalized” folks, i.e. queer and trans women of color?
African American Literature | American Literature to 1900 to the present | Contemporary American Literature | Contemporary Multiethnic American Literature | Critical Race Studies | Critical Theory and Cultural Studies | Feminist Theory And Gender & Sexuality Studies | Literature, Medicine and Culture | Posthumanism | Queer Theory | Social Justice | Women Writers
2018, BA Classics, minors French & English, summa cum laude, University of Pennsylvania
I study poetry and poetics of the United States in the (very) long 19th century. My specializations within this area are in classical receptions and multiethnic authors. I am currently at work on my dissertation, tentatively titled Snatching the Laurel: Misdirection in Black American Neoclassical Poetry, 1750 – 1950, which considers the role of misdirection in Black American poets’ receptions of the classics from Phillis Wheatley to Melvin B. Tolson. Investigating the various narratorial shifts, puns, misattributions, fabrications, and pseudo-allusions in early Black poets’ adaptations of ancient Greco-Roman literature and culture, I argue that there is a strong tradition of misdirection in Black American poets’ reworking of the classics that serves to obscure their poems’ commentaries on race. Thus, my project evaluates the use of classical discourse as a vehicle for Black expression under censorship and considers the topic of double-consciousness in an understudied portion of the African American poetic corpus.
I am also developing other ideas for future projects, including the influence of Neoplatonism on Ralph Waldo Emerson’s poetic theory, Emily Dickinson’s interest in Vesuvius as a site of epistemological contestation, and the importance of Hellenism to Emma Lazarus’s understanding of Jewish diaspora.
I earned my B.A. in Classics (Latin and Greek) summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, where I also spent a semester abroad studying classical philosophy at Cambridge. As an undergrad, I wrote on the development of ethnography in the Hippocratic text On Airs, Waters, Places (Peri Aerōn Hudatōn Topōn) and on the power of the cult of Isis in Apuleius’s The Golden Ass (Metamorphoses).
Outside of my studies, I dabble in writing poems.
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