2014, BA English, University of Oregon
I study late medieval English and Italian literature, focusing primarily on the works of Dante and Chaucer. I’m also especially interested in folk music, vernacular and vulgar literary traditions, and religion.
Early Modern Literature And Culture | Italian Literature And Culture | Literature and History | Literature and Religion
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, The Catholic University of America
2012, MA English, George Washington University
Craig Mariconti focuses on Early Modern literature, with an interest in drama and religious culture.
2015, BA English with Teaching Licensure, Liberty University
I study hip-hop and African-American literature post-1940, particularly how hip-hop’s compositional processes work within the spectrum of orality and literacy. I also write about religion and hip-hop inflected through post-secular theory with a focus on evangelicalism and contemporary mainstream hip-hop.
2015, BA English and History, Grinnell College
Eleanor Griggs is a Ph.D. student studying medieval literature, embodiment, and ecology.
British Literature from its beginning to 1485 | Literature and Religion | Literature and Science
BA English and Classics with high distinction, University of Virginia, 2015
Originally from Allentown, PA, Matthew Diem completed a BA in English and Classics at the University of Virginia in 2015, and has been a PhD student in English at UNC since August of that year. His research interests include translations and adaptations of the Bible in Old and Middle English, and Latin and vernacular satire in the Middle Ages.
British Literature from its beginning to 1485 | Literature and Religion | The English Language
2012, M. Div., Duke University
2007, BA Fundamentals: Issues and Texts, University of Chicago
Eric studies 19th and early 20th Century American Literature with a particular focus on Civil War literature and its impact on American cultural identity. He is also interested in the intersections of race, religion, and empire.
Rachael Isom is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She studies the intersections of religious and poetic identity in nineteenth-century British women’s writing, with particular interest in Romantic-era discourses of enthusiasm, reflection, and feminine restraint. Her dissertation project, “Enthusiastic Poetics and the Woman Writer, 1806-1856,” traces the development of the female enthusiast from Mary Shelley to Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Isom’s work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Essays in Romanticism, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Studies in Romanticism, and the Keats-Shelley Review. Currently, she serves as Managing Editor of the Keats-Shelley Journal and works as a Project Assistant for the William Blake Archive.
2014, MA English, Florida Gulf Coast University
2011, BA English, Florida Gulf Coast University
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.
British Literature from 1485 to 1660 (including Milton) | British Literature from 1660 to 1789 | British Literature from its beginning to 1485 | Digital Humanities | Drama | Early Modern Literature And Culture | Literature and History | Literature and Religion | Literature and Science | Queer Theory
2015, BA English and French, Harding University
2017, MA English, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
Eric Bontempo is a third-year PhD student and Graduate Teaching Fellow in the Department of English & Comparative Literature. His interests include nineteenth-century poetics, British Romanticism, aesthetic theory, and postsecular studies.
Aesthetics | British Literature from 1789 to 1900 | Literature and Philosophy | Literature and Religion | Poetry and Poetics