2019, BA English Literature and History, Marquette University
Katherine Stein is a first-year graduate student absorbed in pursuing the lines between historical fact and fictional narrative. Her interests include Victorian literature, Irish literature, children’s literature, reception studies, and contemporary historical fiction.
2019, BA English, Hampshire College.
Bailey Fernandez is a writer and scholar who works deeply with the poetics of British Romanticism (especially William Blake) and widely with literature’s intersection with philosophy, theology, and linguistics. He is also deeply interested with the history of the avant-garde up until the present day , which he believes begins in the Romantic period.
Aesthetics | British Literature from 1789 to 1900 | British Literature from 1900 to the Present | Comparative Literature | Creative Writing | Critical Theory and Cultural Studies | Digital Humanities | History of the Book | Irish Literature | Literature and Philosophy | Literature and Religion | Literature of the Americas | Modernism | Narrative Theory | Philosophy Of Language | Poetry and Poetics | The English Language | The Novel | Visual Culture and Arts
M.L.A. Humanities, University of North Carolina Asheville, 2010
B.A. History, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, 2006
Moira Marquis is an eco-critical decolonialist studying contemporary Anglophone novels. Her dissertation, The Dialectic of Myth: Creating Meaning in the Anthropocene, examines how contemporary Anglophone novelists are using traditional myths to tell stories about ecological destruction and climate change which offer alternatives to techno-fix futures or the apocalypse. She is also interested in the Irish language and other minor languages abilities to foster ecological understanding. Her interests are in decolonialism, eco-criticism and environmental humanities, eco-linguistics and myth.
2017 Senior Teaching Fellowship, Department of English, UNCCH
2016 Erika Lindemann Award for Excellence in Teaching Literature, UNCCH
2015 Future Faculty Fellowship, Center for Faculty Excellence, UNCCH
2015 Professional Development Award, English Department, UNCCH
2014 Presidential Scholars Program Distinguished Teacher Award
2013-2017 UNC Chapel Hill Teaching Fellowship
2018, BA English, University of Tulsa
As a Ph.D. student, I study Medieval and Early Modern British literature, but my interests vary widely. I like the Classics, Romanticism, folklore, Gothic, Neo-Gothic, Dystopian, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, and fairytale retellings. I’m particularly interested in the overlap between cultures and time periods, such as Anglo-French interactions, medieval themes reflected in contemporary work, or the transitional periods between arbitrary temporal divisions. In past research projects, I have traced heroes, examined loyalty, and explored and experienced the sublime in literature and in real life, such as paragliding through clouds over the French Alps, where I worked this summer as an au pair. I have studied French, Latin, some Old-English, and beginning Gaelic. I want to learn Italian, German, Norwegian, and possibly many more languages. In my free time, I write, craft, watch and collect Disney and Marvel movies, bake (my superlative in my undergraduate writing club was “most likely to be held hostage for her brownie recipe”), sing, and travel.
British Literature from 1485 to 1660 (including Milton) | British Literature from 1660 to 1789 | British Literature from 1789 to 1900 | British Literature from its beginning to 1485 | Drama | Early Modern Literature And Culture | History of the Book | Irish Literature | Literature and History | Philosophy Of Language | Poetry and Poetics | Science Fiction | The English Language | The Novel
2012, AB, Georgetown University
Teaching Fellow, Dept. of English and Comparative Literature