2015, MA English, Ohio University
2013, BA English and Religion, Denison University
Emily Sferra’s interests center on British women writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and their depictions of masculinity.
Humanities Professional Pathway Award, UNC, Summer 2018
British Literature from 1789 to 1900 | Feminist Theory And Gender & Sexuality Studies | The Novel | Women Writers
BA of English Literature, Auburn University, 2017
My area of study lies in 20th century African American literature with a focus on gender and sexuality studies. I like to say I live in Harlem Renaissance, but I’m also poking out into the later 20th century as well as into film of the 21st.
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
BA English, Clemson University
Matt Duncan is a second-year PhD student and teaching fellow at the UNC Chapel Hill. His research explores the unique role of digital tools in shaping the composition classroom, with an emphasis on a low-bridge approach to the application of technology in writing curriculum. He is also Co-Editor of Fiction for Carolina Quarterly and is a Carolina Digital Humanities Initiative Project Management Fellow.
2014, BA English and Piano Performance, Lawrence University
Andrew Kim is a third-year doctoral student with interests in contemporary transnational literature and film, East Asian studies, critical race studies, and postcolonial studies.
Looking Back on Colonial Korea: Nostalgia and Anti-Nostalgia in Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden, Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, forthcoming early 2019
American Literature to 1900 to the present | Asian American Literature | British Literature from 1789 to 1900 | British Literature from 1900 to the Present | Comparative Literature | Critical Race Studies | Critical Theory and Cultural Studies | Feminist Theory And Gender & Sexuality Studies | Film and Media Studies | Literature and History | Literature and Religion | Post-Colonial Literature and Theory | Posthumanism | The Novel
2009, BA English, Kenyon College
2011, MA Humanities with English focus, University of Chicago
Michele Robinson is pursuing a minor in Women’s and Gender studies and her dissertation focuses on the role of space and gender in nineteenth century literature. She has enjoyed teaching courses like English 105, 123 Into to Fiction: Gendered Politics of Madness and Mental Illness, and 129 Literature and Cultural Diversity.
2014, BA English and French Literature, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
While my interests are varied–from British Modernism to North African Cinema to RPG tabletop and videogames–my current research focuses on gender and sexuality in French and North African Film. While I usually teach French language classes, I also have a background in Women’s and Gender Studies, Global Cinema, Middle Eastern Studies, and Arabic. As a Comparative Literature student, I enjoy doing interdisciplinary work through different departments at UNC, including English and Comparative Literature, Romance Studies, Asian Studies, and African Studies.
Arabic Literature | British Literature from 1789 to 1900 | Comparative Literature | Critical Theory and Cultural Studies | Feminist Theory And Gender & Sexuality Studies | Film and Media Studies | Post-Colonial Literature and Theory | Queer Theory | Visual Culture and Arts | Women Writers
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
B.A., Plan II and English Honors, The University of Texas at Austin (2011)
English PhD student studying late nineteenth and early twentieth century British literature with a focus on the theory and history of knowledge, women’s writing, and novel studies.
2012, B.A. English, Lawrence University
I am a PhD candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and I specialize in British literature of the long eighteenth century and the history of the novel. My dissertation project considers shifting discourses surrounding accidental events throughout the eighteenth century, framing the analysis around fictional representations of carriage accidents in texts like Tobias Smollett’s Humphry Clinker, Frances Burney’s Evelina, Mary Hays’s Memoirs of Emma Courtney, and Jane Austen’s Love and Friendship.