Degrees

2014, BA English, Harvard University

2015, postgraduate study, History of Design, Royal College of Art/ Victoria & Albert Museum

Bio

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.

Teaching Awards

• James R. Gaskin Award for Excellence in Teaching Composition, 2017

Awards

• Graduate Intern Fellowship, Ackland Art Museum, 2022-23
• Grant-in-aid, “Teaching Intermediate Paleography,” The Folger Shakespeare Library, 2022
• Jerry Leath Mills Grant, Studies in Philology, 2022
• William T. Buice III Scholarship, Rare Book School, 2022
• Newberry Renaissance Consortium Grant, “Teaching the Early Modern Book: Ways of Seeing, Ways of Thinking,” The Newberry Library, 2022
• Grant-in-aid, “Research and Writing the Early Modern Dissertation,” The Folger Shakespeare Library, 2021-22
• Donald Gilman Research Travel Grant, The Department of English and Comparative Literature, 2021
• Royster Society Fellowship, The Graduate School, 2016-21

Degrees

2014, MA English, Florida Gulf Coast University

2011, BA English, Florida Gulf Coast University

Bio

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.

Awards

• Folger Shakespeare Library Grant-in aid, After the Great Instauration taught by Reid Barbour, 2018
• Folger Shakespeare Library Grant-in aid, Introduction to English Paleography taught by Heather Wolfe, 2016
• Folger Shakespeare Library Grant-in aid, Scale of Catastrophe taught by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, 2015

Degrees

2017, MA English, University of Virginia

2014, BA English, The College of William and Mary

Bio

Rory Sullivan studies late medieval English literature, art, and culture, and is completing a Ph.D. in English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He teaches courses on speculative fiction, visual narrative, and composition, while also working at the Writing and Learning Center as a Writing Coach. Rory’s scholarly work is interested in the lived experiences and devotional practices of late medieval people. His dissertation, “The Virtual Imagination and the Self in Late Medieval England,” investigates the interactions between individuals and art objects, poems, performances, and manuscripts in order to understand how individuals cultivated devotional practices and experiences.

Teaching Awards

• Erika Lindemann Award for Excellence in Teaching Composition, 2022

Awards

• Breen Award for outstanding work in the field of Medieval Studies, 2019

• Balch Prize for a Masters Student in English, 2017

Curriculum Vitae / Resume