Degrees

2012, B.A. English, University of Vermont

2014, M.A. Modern Literature, CUNY, Graduate Center

2017, M.F.A. Creative Writing, Poetry, New York University

 

Bio

Colin Dekeersgieter is a poet and Ph.D. candidate in English and Comparative Literature invested in modern poetry, poetics, and (neuro)aesthetics. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the North American Review, Green Mountains Review, The Worcester Review, and elsewhere.

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Awards

• Goldwater Fellowship, New York University, 2017

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Degrees

2019, Honors BA English Literature and History, Marquette University

Bio

Katherine Stein is a first-year PhD 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.

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Degrees

2019, BA English, Hampshire College.

Bio

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.

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Awards

• DLC Research Fellowship, UNC, 2019-20.
• Digital Humanities Launch Program, UNC, 2019-20.

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Degrees

M.L.A. Humanities, University of North Carolina Asheville, 2010

B.A. History, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, 2006

Bio

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.

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Publications:

“Human to Humus: Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s Cré na Cille and Eco-linguistics as a Decolonialist Strategy,” Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities, forthcoming

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Teaching Awards

2019 Equity in Teaching Institute, Center for Faculty Excellence, UNC CH

2017 Senior Teaching Fellowship, Department of English, UNC

2016 Erika Lindemann Award for Excellence in Teaching Literature, UNC

2015 Future Faculty Fellowship, Center for Faculty Excellence, UNC

2015 Professional Development Award, English Department, UNC

2014 Presidential Scholars Program Distinguished Teacher Award

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Awards

2019 NeMLA Graduate Student Travel Award

2019 Arts Everywhere Fellowship, UNC Chapel Hill

2019 Graduate Student Conference Travel Grant, UNC Chapel Hill

2019 Summer Dissertation Research Fellowship, UNC Chapel Hill

2019 NeMLA Summer Research Fellowship Award

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Curriculum Vitae / Resume

Degrees

2018, BA English, University of Tulsa

Bio

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.

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Curriculum Vitae / Resume

Degrees

2012, AB, Georgetown University

Bio

Teaching Fellow, Dept. of English and Comparative Literature

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