2019, BA English, Samford University
Emily Youree is a PhD student studying medieval British literature. She is especially interested in reception and adaptations of Roman texts and traditions in medieval works.
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
2019, BA English, Ithaca College
I am a first-year PhD student in the Department of English & Comparative Literature. My interests include 20th and 21st century American literature, transatlantic modernism, and critical theory.
Doug Stark is a PhD student in the English program at UNC, Chapel Hill. His research appraises the role of play and experimentation across literature, film, video games, and new media. Drawing on his background in game studies, Germanophone media theory, and continental philosophy, Doug’s thinking concerns the conditions of possibilities for forms of play transhistorically and transculturally. He asks: what are the epistemic, cultural, and technical preconditions for the emergence of forms of play? For example, why do we have computer game play as we know it today? Why the ostentatious play of baroque wigs in the late eighteenth century? Across time and space, Doug contends, we can see a complex enmeshment of cultural values, forms of knowledge, and technical development refracted through the medium of play. Currently focusing on post-war aleatory aesthetics, Doug is particularly interested in forms of play that seem to operate in excess of epistemic paradigms of thought.
Doug also has forthcoming work on video game literature and Afrofuturism.
Prospective ENGL 105 students should know that the content of the course will engage in some way with games and play.
Aesthetics | American Literature to 1900 to the present | Contemporary American Literature | Critical Race Studies | Critical Theory and Cultural Studies | Digital Humanities | Disability Studies | Film and Media Studies | Literature and Philosophy | Literature and Science | Media Studies | Posthumanism | Science Fiction | Visual Culture and Arts
B.A, Humanities, Houghton College. Houghton, NY. 2014
I am a PhD candidate in English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where I study American literature of the long nineteenth century (1830-1914). My research focuses on prose narratives (fiction and non-fiction) in relation to science, critical theory, biopolitics, and race. More broadly, too, I am interested in genre fiction (especially horror, science fiction, and weird fiction), intellectual and social history, and the history of science.
My dissertation centers on literature and discourses of crowd psychology at the turn of the century. Considering novels, short stories, essays, and scientific writing, I argue that American writers between the end of Reconstruction and the start of WWI found in the complicated notion of the crowd a means to justify as well as to resist racial inequality. Whether claimed as the embodiment of democracy itself or shamed as a primitive resurgence, the crowd was for both white and black constituencies a pliable, powerful instrument.
My research on related topics has been published in Mississippi Quarterly and Configurations. Other writing, including essays and reviews, appears with The Millions, PopMatters, boundary2 online, symploke, Gulf Coast, Full Stop, and The Carolina Quarterly. (Visit my website for links to my writing.)
As a Teaching Fellow in the English department, I regularly teach courses in composition and rhetoric. I have also taught ENGL 144: Popular Genres, served as a Teaching Assistant for ENGL 268: Literature, Medicine, and Culture, and been a Graduate Research Consultant for ENGL 344: Literature of the American West and CMPL 142: Visual Culture.
Additionally, I have served in various editorial positions and am currently an editorial assistant for the journal American Literature.
Hobby Dissertation Fellowship, UNC Department of English, Fall Semester, 2019
Summer Research Dissertation Fellowship, UNC Graduate School, 2019
African American Literature | American Literature to 1900 to the present | Critical Race Studies | Critical Theory and Cultural Studies | Literature and History | Literature and Philosophy | Literature and Science | Modernism | Posthumanism | Science Fiction | Science Writing | Southern Literature | The Novel | Transatlantic Studies
2016, MA English, University of Missouri at Columbia
2014, BA English (French minor), Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge
I focus on nineteenth-century American poetry with special attention to critical animal studies, transatlantic language theories, historical poetics, Native American poetry, and the history of science.
Aesthetics | American Literature from 1789 to 1900 | American Literature to 1900 to the present | British Literature from 1789 to 1900 | Literature and History | Literature and Philosophy | Literature and Science | Philosophy Of Language | Poetry and Poetics | Posthumanism | Science Writing
2011, BA English, University of Colorado at Boulder
2018, MA English, University of Colorado at Boulder
I am interested in questions which look at memory and nostalgia and the way in which shifts in technology, political borders and intellectual thought have changed literature’s relationship to both. I’m broadly interested in modernism, 20th century literature, immigrant literature, memory studies, materiality, gender and sexuality, Jewish studies, the interplay of image and language, and critical theory.
American Literature to 1900 to the present | Critical Theory and Cultural Studies | Feminist Theory And Gender & Sexuality Studies | Literature and History | Literature and Philosophy | Literature and Religion | Literature and Science | Modernism | Transatlantic Studies | Visual Culture and Arts | Women Writers
2015, M.A. Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff University
2013, B.A. English, University of Central Florida
Christine is a doctoral student who studies critical theory, environmental literature, and science fiction. Her current research interests include literary and visual expressions of posthumanism, political theory, questions of community, and theories of space and/or place.
M.A. English, University of Virginia
B.S. Computer Science (with a minor in Applied Mathematics), University of Virginia
As a doctoral candidate in English at UNC-Chapel Hill, I’m completing my dissertation entitled “The Aesthete’s Idea of History.” I’m the Assistant Editor and Software Architect at the William Blake Archive. And my interests include 19th-century British literature, Aestheticism, philosophy of history, poetry and poetics, literary theory, and the digital humanities.
Humanities
Computer Science
2016, B.A. English modified with Philosophy, minor in Ethics, Dartmouth College
Carly Schnitzler is a graduate teaching fellow in Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy Studies in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on the compositional junctures between experimental contemporary American poetry and visual art and how they shape rhetorical uses of form and material, both physical and digital.
Aesthetics | Contemporary American Literature | Creative Writing | Critical Theory and Cultural Studies | Digital Humanities | Digital Rhetorics | History of the Book | Literature and Philosophy | Literature and Science | Media Studies | Philosophy Of Language | Poetry and Poetics | Rhetoric, Composition and Literacy | Visual Culture and Arts