Degrees

2019, BA English, Davidson College
2023, MA English, Georgetown University

Bio

Mitch Losito is a twentieth and twenty-first century and critical games scholar interested in thinking about how speculative fiction games, the people who play them, and their representations imagine alternative futures.

---

Degrees

2024, Master of Arts in English Literature, Auburn University

2020, Bachelor of Arts in English-Liberal Arts, Francis Marion University

2020, Bachelor of Arts in Biology, Francis Marion University

Bio

Devin Gregg is a doctoral student and Teaching Fellow in the English and Comparative Literature Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has a vested interest in feminist and queer theories and methodologies and specializes in multiethnic literature in the global south. She is particularly interested in how African American, Caribbean, and Latina/o literatures reveal the intricacies of identity, theorize and explore spatiotemporality, and negotiate historical memory.

 

---

Awards

• Graduate Teaching Fellowship, English and Comparative Literature Department, UNC Chapel Hill, Fall 2024-Present
• Noel Polk Award, Society for the Study of Southern Literature, 2024
• Travel Grant, Department of English, Auburn University, Fall 2023
• Travel Grant, Department of English, Auburn University, Spring 2023
• Graduate Student Tuition Fellowship, Department of English, Auburn University, Fall 2022-Spring 2024
• Francis Marion University English Award, 2021

---

Curriculum Vitae / Resume

Degrees

2022, BA English, University of Richmond

Bio

I am interested in global modernism, especially transatlantic literary experiments in the early twentieth century and its transformation in the latter half of the century.

---

Degrees

University of Pennsylvania, M.A., Liberal Studies
Palm Beach Atlantic University, B.A., Religious Studies

Bio

Emily Waller Singeisen is a PhD student and teaching fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a graduate of the Masters of Liberal Arts program at the University of Pennsylvania where her research concentrations included the ancient literature and its reception, gender and queer theory, and psychoanalysis. Her published work has examined the formation of gendered subjectivity in the ancient novel through the framework of Freud’s female Oedipus complex, and she continues to investigate the ways in which contemporary theory might enrich our reading of ancient literature. Her current research focuses on receptions of classical literatures from the early twentieth century to the present that mobilize ancient texts for the representation of bodies and sexualities that defy heteronormative ideals.

---

Publications:

Peer Reviewed Articles

Waller Singeisen, E. (November 2024). “Watched Men and Phallus-Wielding Women: Aubrey Beardsley’s Reception of Juvenal’s Sixth Satire” in Classical Receptions Journal.

Waller, E. (June 2022). “Gender Constitution and Reversible Potentiality: The Making of the Masculine Subject in Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe” in differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 33, no. 1.

Essays

Waller Singeisen, E. (June 2024). “Trojan Horse Universities: How Tech Billionaires and Alt-Right Figures Legitimise Intolerance in Classics.” Working Classicists. https://www.workingclassicists.com/post/trojan-horse-universities-how-tech-billionaires-and-alt-right-figures-legitimise-intolerance-in-cla.

---

---

Awards

UNC Graduate Essay Prize in Comparative Literature, 2024.

Society for Classical Studies’ Ancient Worlds, Modern Communities Grant Recipient, 2022.

Lambda Classical Caucus Graduate Student Paper Award Nominee, 2021.

University of Pennsylvania Liberal and Professional Studies Award for Outstanding Achievement in a Capstone Project, 2021.

---

Curriculum Vitae / Resume

Degrees

2019, BA in English Literature, Georgia College & State University
2021, MA in English Literature, University of Maryland, College Park

Bio

Dana Maller is a PhD student studying European Modernism. Her interests lie in the image, form, and affect.

---

Curriculum Vitae / Resume

Degrees

2022, MA English, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

2016, BA Religious Studies, Wingate University

Bio

A North Carolina native, Joshua Cody Ward joined the program in Fall 2022. His field is Modern and Contemporary American literature broadly (1900-Present), and specifically Literature of the American South, the Appalachian South, and African American Literature. His research interests include the archive, textual studies, editorial scholarship, intertextuality, and the Novel, though he is also an avid scholar of Cormac McCarthy and of Thomas Wolfe. His prospective dissertation, Articulating Appalachia, argues that definitions of the region and its people are co-constructed across the 20th c. through both cultural representation (literature, film, music) and Regional and National projects for economic and social uplift.

He is currently a Digital Content Coordinator for the Latina/o Studies Program, a Senior Coordinator for the Critical Speakers Series, and a Board Member (2023-2026) for the Thomas Wolfe Society. He is an occasional Reviewer for the The Cormac McCarthy Journal. As a junior scholar, his work has been accepted or published in several journals and essay collections, and he has presented his work at over 20 academic conferences.

---

Publications:

• “Darkness on the Edge of Town: Beat Subject Formation, Black Ontology, and Fugitivity as Gnosis in Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree.” In This Country’s Hard on People: Cormac McCarthy and American Identity, edited by Vernon Cisney. Forthcoming.
• “Weird Object Relations, Ecology, and Apocalypse in Cormac McCarthy’s The Passenger and Stella Maris.” In New Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy: Encountering The Passenger and Stella Maris, edited by Jonathan Elmore and Rick Elmore. Forthcoming.
• “A Literary Ménage à Trois: An Analysis of the Elizabeth Lemmon Collection on Thomas Wolfe, 1934-1935.” Forthcoming.
• “Publishing the Black Arts Movement: Editors, Anthologies, and Canonization.” South Atlantic Review, vol. 88, no. 2-3, 2023, pp. 157-170.
• “From Commas to Cosmos: The Pervading Influence of Thomas Wolfe on Cormac McCarthy.” The Thomas Wolfe Review, vols. 44 & 45, nos. 1 & 2, 2020 & 2021, pp. 8-25.
• [album] The Boron Heist. Ridin’ Rough. Mystery School Records, April 6 2019.
• “Light and Darkness, Sight and Blindness: Religious Knowledge in Cormac McCarthy’s Outer Dark.” Wingate Research Review, issue 8, Fall 2016, pp. 87-106.
• “Raison d’être.” Wingate University Counterpoint, Spring 2013, p. 9.
• “On Testing.” Wingate University Counterpoint, Spring 2013, p. 23.

---

Awards

• Graduate Teaching Fellow, Fall 2022-Present, UNC Chapel Hill, English and Comparative Literature Department.
• Travel Grant, Fall 2023, UNC Chapel Hill, English and Comparative Literature Department.
• Emerging Scholar Award, Summer 2023, UNC Chapel Hill, Southern Futures program.
• John R. Bittner Student Literary Prize, May 27^th 2023, Thomas Wolfe Society Conference.
• LSP Teaching Fellowship, Spring 2023, UNC Chapel Hill Latina/o Studies Program.
• Graduate Student Transportation Grant, Spring 2023, UNC Chapel Hill, Graduate School.
• Languages & Literatures Graduate Student Paper Award Recipient, February 23^rd 2023, 44^th Annual SWPACA Conference.
• 2021 Graduate Student Essay Award Recipient, November 12^th 2022, SAMLA 94.
• Travel Grant, Fall 2022, UNC Chapel Hill, English and Comparative Literature Department.
• The Julian D. Mason Award for Excellence in Graduate Studies, April 29^th 2022, UNC Charlotte, English Department.
• Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Fall 2020-Spring 2022, UNC Charlotte, English Department.
• Wittliff Collections William Hill Research Award, 2021-2022, Texas State University, For archival research conducted July 2021 in the Cormac McCarthy Papers and Woolmer Collections.
• Anne Newman Graduate Student Travel Grant, Fall 2021, UNC Charlotte.
• Excellence in Philosophy Award, April 24^th 2016, Wingate University, Religious Studies Department.
• G. Byrns Coleman Award for Excellence in Religious Studies, April 24^th 2016, Wingate University, Religious Studies Department.
• University Honors, April 24^th, 2016, Wingate University.

---

Curriculum Vitae / Resume

Degrees

2021, BA Liberal Arts, Sarah Lawrence College

Bio

Doctoral student and Teaching Fellow in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who studies late nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature.

---

Degrees

2020, MA English, Boston College

2016, BA English, Case Western Reserve University

Bio

I study twentieth-century American and Russophone literature with a focus on urban experience. I am also interested in film!

---

Teaching Awards

• UNC Latina/o Studies Program Teaching Award
• On the Books Teaching Fellowship, UNC-CH, 2022

---

Degrees

2019, BA English, North Carolina State University

Bio

Cate Rivers is a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature. She graduated from North Carolina State University in 2019 with a BA in English and minors in history and Japan studies. Her main area focuses are the Southern United States and Japan. Her interests span trauma studies, nationalism, memory, gender and critical race theories, modernism, cultural representations of mental illness, mysticism, and Buddhist literature. Her ongoing research project frames 20th century Japanese novels and novels from the Southern Renaissance as social histories, with particular attention to war memory, family history, culpability, the construction of “family,” and the relation between national identity and self-conception.

---

Degrees

2018, BA Classics, minors French & English, summa cum laude, University of Pennsylvania

Bio

I study poetry and poetics of the United States in the (very) long 19^th century. My specializations within this area are in classical receptions and multiethnic authors. I am currently at work on my dissertation, tentatively titled Snatching the Laurel: Misdirection in Black American Neoclassical Poetry, 1750 – 1950, which considers the role of misdirection in Black American poets’ receptions of the classics from Phillis Wheatley to Melvin B. Tolson. Investigating the various narratorial shifts, puns, misattributions, fabrications, and pseudo-allusions in early Black poets’ adaptations of ancient Greco-Roman literature and culture, I argue that there is a strong tradition of misdirection in Black American poets’ reworking of the classics that serves to obscure their poems’ commentaries on race. Thus, my project evaluates the use of classical discourse as a vehicle for Black expression under censorship and considers the topic of double-consciousness in an understudied portion of the African American poetic corpus.

I am also developing other ideas for future projects, including the influence of Neoplatonism on Ralph Waldo Emerson’s poetic theory, Emily Dickinson’s interest in Vesuvius as a site of epistemological contestation, and the importance of Hellenism to Emma Lazarus’s understanding of Jewish diaspora.

I earned my B.A. in Classics (Latin and Greek) summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, where I also spent a semester abroad studying classical philosophy at Cambridge. As an undergrad, I wrote on the development of ethnography in the Hippocratic text On Airs, Waters, Places (Peri Aerōn Hudatōn Topōn) and on the power of the cult of Isis in Apuleius’s The Golden Ass (Metamorphoses).

Outside of my studies, I dabble in writing poems.

---

Publications:

Scholarship:

• “Review of The Oxford Handbook of Emily Dickinson.” Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin 35.1 (2023), 19-20.

Poems et al.:

• “On Hudson River.” Bayou (forthcoming).
• “My Mother Says.” Rattle 83 (2024).
• “Flux.” BlazeVOX: Fall 2021, 412-18.
• “Lai-jee.” Indiana Review 43.1 (2021), 85-92.

---

Teaching Awards

• Doris Betts Award for Excellence in Teaching Composition, 2023

---

Awards

External:

• Graduate Student Conference Paper Award, Ralph Waldo Emerson Society, 2023
• Dickinson Critical Institute Grant, Emily Dickinson International Society, 2022

Internal:

• Bain Award (Excellence in Pre-1900 American Lit.), UNC-CH DOECL, 2023
• Travel Grant, UNC-CH DOECL, 2023
• Transportation Grant, UNC-CH Graduate School, 2022
• Travel Award, UNC-CH Graduate & Professional Student Government, 2022
• Booker Fellowship, UNC-CH DOECL, 2021
• Inclusive Excellence Top-Up, UNC-CH Graduate School, 2021

---

Curriculum Vitae / Resume