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.
2010, MA English, DePaul University
2008, BA English, Birmingham-Southern College
Originally from LaGrange, GA, Paul is primarily interested in American literature from 1865 to the present and its intersections with the health humanities, especially literary trauma studies. He is primarily interested in the ethical and political implications of depictions of trauma in literature and other media, especially acts of violence and atrocity for both perpetrators and survivors. In addition to his scholarly work, he also teaches sections of ENGL 105 and ENGL 105i: Writing in Health and Medicine, has tutored for the athletic department, has served for several years as the Fiction Editor for The Carolina Quarterly, and currently serves as the Co-Director for UNC’s Literature, Medicine, and Culture Colloquium (LMCC), https://lmcc.web.unc.edu/. He also writes original pieces of fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, and drama as well as scripts for promotional videos and short narrative or documentary films.
American Literature to 1900 to the present | Contemporary American Literature | Creative Writing | Critical Theory and Cultural Studies | Digital Humanities | Digital Rhetorics | Disability Studies | Film and Media Studies | Literature and Science | Literature, Medicine and Culture | Modernism | Pedagogy | Social Justice
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
2018, BA English, Davidson College
Erin Piemont studies nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States poetry with a special interest in intersections between poetry and the visual arts. Her research explores art-historical considerations of self-portraiture as an alternative to the literary-critical category of lyric.
Aesthetics | African American Literature | American Literature from 1789 to 1900 | American Literature to 1900 to the present | British Literature from 1789 to 1900 | British Literature from 1900 to the Present | Critical Theory and Cultural Studies | Genre Theory | Modernism | Poetry and Poetics | Visual Culture and Arts
2016, M.A.T. Secondary English Education, Duke University
2013, M.A. Slavic Languages and Literatures, UNC-Chapel Hill
2011, B.A. Slavic Languages and Literatures, UNC-Chapel Hill
Jessica’s research focuses on late 19th and early 20th century Russian and German fiction, with special interests in the depictions of animals and death in literature. Key authors for her include Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Kafka, and Mann. She has been studying Russian since 2007 and has studied in St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Kiev. She has taught Russian language courses and TA’d for Russian and German culture courses in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, as well as tutors for the new UNC Russian Flagship Program.
Comparative Literature | Literature and History | Literature and Philosophy | Modernism | Narrative Theory | Posthumanism | The Novel
2017, BA English, Bellarmine University
2017, BA Spanish, Bellarmine Univesity
Leslie Rowen studies 20th Century American literature with a focus on the literature of war. Her research concentrates on under-studied soldier writing, with a particular interest in race, gender expression, and trauma. By nature this work relies heavily on the archive, and occasionally extends into the field of medical humanities.
African American Literature | American Literature to 1900 to the present | Asian American Literature | Contemporary American Literature | Contemporary Multiethnic American Literature | Critical Race Studies | Digital Humanities | Literature, Medicine and Culture | Modernism | Pedagogy | Social Justice | Southern Literature | Transatlantic Studies | Women Writers
2014, BA English, Brigham Young University
2017, MFA Creative Writing, Colorado State University
Kylan Rice studies nineteenth and twentieth-century American poetry and poetics.
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Aesthetics | American Literature from 1789 to 1900 | American Literature to 1900 to the present | Creative Writing | Modernism | Poetry and Poetics | Women Writers
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.
American Literature to 1900 to the present | Contemporary American Literature | Critical Theory and Cultural Studies | Early Modern Literature And Culture | Italian Literature And Culture | Literature and History | Literature and Religion | Modernism | Narrative Theory | The Novel
B.A., Plan II and English Honors, The University of Texas at Austin (2011)
English PhD student studying late nineteenth and early twentieth century British literature with a focus on the theory and history of knowledge, women’s writing, and novel studies.
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2014, BA English & Psychology, Wesleyan University
Rachel Warner is a PhD candidate and teaching fellow in the Department of English and Comparative Literature. Her research interests include twentieth-century American literature, women’s and gender studies, queer of color critique, and animal studies. She has completed two peer-reviewed publications: one explores Black feminist theories of embodiment and nature in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, forthcoming from Society & Animals; and the other offers an archival analysis of Zora Neale Hurston’s brief tenure at UNC and NCCU, published by North Carolina Literary Review in May 2020. Rachel also co-directs the graduate working group Literature, Medicine and Culture Colloquium (LMCC) which explores topics in health humanities. Finally, Rachel regularly teaches courses in rhetoric and composition, LGBTQIA+ literature and culture, and the history of horror literature and cinema. She is currently working on her dissertation, a literary and cultural history of female masculinity in American modernism.
“Zora Neale Hurston in North Carolina: Drama, Education, and Contemporary Activism.” North Carolina Literary Review, no. 29, August 2020.
“‘A Winged but Grounded Bird’: Morrison’s Mixed Treatment of Animality in The Bluest Eye.” Society & Animals: Journal of Human-Animal Studies. (forthcoming spring 2021)
“A Crisis in (Female) Masculinity: My Ántonia & the Imaginative Recreation of the Western Frontier.” The Routledge Companion to Masculinity in American Literature and Culture, edited by Lydia Cooper and Joana Conings. (forthcoming spring 2021)
““The Poems and the Dances of the Shades’: Destabilizing Psychological Theories of Grief in The Year of Magical Thinking.” Death Within the Text: Social, Philosophical and Aesthetic Approaches to Literature, edited by Adriana Teodorescu (2018): 10-27.
Eliason Dissertation Summer Research Fellowship, 2020
MLA COVID-19 Emergency Grant, Modern Language Association, 2020
Graduate Student Travel Fund, ECL Department, 2020
Paul Green Prize, North Carolina Literary Review, 2019
Student Learning Circle Grant, UNC Center for Global Initiatives, 2019
Winchester Fellowship, Wesleyan University, 2018
Deborah W. Shelton Endowment for Graduate Travel Awards, ECL Department, 2018
Winchester Fellowship, Wesleyan University, 2017
Albrecht B. Strauss SAMLA Awards Fund, 2016
Graduate Student Travel Fund, ECL Department, 2016
African American Literature | American Literature to 1900 to the present | Critical Race Studies | Critical Theory and Cultural Studies | Feminist Theory And Gender & Sexuality Studies | Literature, Medicine and Culture | Modernism | Post-Colonial Literature and Theory | Queer Theory | Women Writers
