2020, MA English, Boston College
2016, BA English, Case Western Reserve University
I study twentieth-century American and Russophone literature with a focus on urban experience. I am also interested in film!
2019, BA Philosophy and Religious Studies, Manhattan College
2021, MA English and American Literature, New York University
2021, MLIS Rare Books and Special Collections, Long Island University
Tim Gress is a PhD student and Graduate Teaching Fellow in the department of English & Comparative Literature. His research focuses primarily on the literary and cultural history of Britain during the 19th century, especially as it relates to the history of the book. Other interests include lesser-known woman writers of the late-Romantic and early-Victorian periods, the history and development of the novel in English, descriptive bibliography, and book collecting. Tim also works as a Graduate Assistant in the Rare Book Collection at Wilson Special Collections Library.
2020, BA English, George Washington University
Ryan Carroll is a PhD candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature. He researches information theory and narrative aesthetics in 19th-century British and American literature. He studies how narrative texts, including sensation novels, encyclopedic fictions, epic poems, slave narratives, and undercover journalistic writing, engaged with the phenomenon of information overload, experimenting with information in aesthetic form to produce intense affective responses, like anxiety, thrill, dread, amusement, despair, and exultation.
Ryan also writes in public outlets on topics including contemporary literature, translation, sitcom family politics, liberation theology, and more.
Aesthetics | 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 | Comparative Literature | Media Studies | Modernism | Narrative Theory | The Novel | Transatlantic Studies
2019, MA English, George Washington University
2012, BA Humanities, Columbia International University
Elisabeth is a PhD candidate studying American literature of the long 19th century and the health humanities. Her dissertation, “Power Play: Games, Jokes, and Performance in Nineteenth-Century American Asylum Narratives” investigates the modes by which asylum patients creatively contested medical authority through memoirs, exposés, poetry, and newspaper writing.
African American Literature | American Literature from 1789 to 1900 | American Literature to 1900 to the present | Asian American Literature | Depictions Of The Child | Disability Studies | History of the Book | Literature and Religion | Literature and Science | Literature, Medicine and Culture | Poetry and Poetics | Southern Literature | The Novel | Women Writers
2020, BA English, Georgia State University
Ariannah Kubli is a third-year PhD student in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at UNC Chapel Hill, where she specializes in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature. Her scholarly interests include American literary realism and naturalism; Marxist theory; intellectual history; critical pedagogy; and the public humanities. Her current work explores the interplay between fiction, labor movements, and radical politics in the United States from 1870-1920. She’s particularly attentive to the ways literature encouraged and informed agitation for more equitable economic, political, and social systems, and the ways inequitable systems in turn inflected the period’s literary output.
African American Literature | American Literature from 1789 to 1900 | Asian American Literature | Critical Theory and Cultural Studies | Feminist Theory And Gender & Sexuality Studies | Genre Theory | Literature and History | Literature and Philosophy | Pedagogy | The Novel | Women Writers
2018, MA English, Wake Forest University
2016, BA English, Drexel University
Krysten Voelkner is a PhD candidate in the department of English and Comparative Literature. Her primary interests reside at the intersection of environmental humanities and contemporary Latinx literature. Recent publications of hers can be found in Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, The Trumpeter: Journal of Ecosophy, and Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures. She is currently at work on her dissertation, which investigates the ways in which Latinx writers experiment with aesthetics of horror, dread, anxiety, and other ‘bad’ affects associated with the climate crisis. In this regard, she hopes to explore the affective ecologies of Latinx environmental literature and film as they offer ways of thinking within and beyond the Anthropocene.
American Literature to 1900 to the present | Comparative Literature | Contemporary American Literature | Contemporary Multiethnic American Literature | Critical Race Studies | Critical Theory and Cultural Studies | Latina / Latino Literature | Literature and Philosophy | Literature and Science | Literature of the Americas | Post-Colonial Literature and Theory | Posthumanism | The Novel | Transatlantic Studies
2019, BA English, Boston College
Brendan is a PhD student studying 20th century American literature. His interests lie at the nexus of literature and phenomenology, exploring how writers across genres represent consciousness and perception in their writing.
Aesthetics | American Literature to 1900 to the present | Contemporary American Literature | Contemporary Multiethnic American Literature | Digital Humanities | Literature and History | Literature and Philosophy | Media Studies | Modernism | Narrative Theory | Philosophy Of Language | Southern Literature | The Novel
2012, BA English, Saint Michael’s College
2018, MA English, University of Colorado at Boulder
Erica studies women’s literature from the Romantic era and the American Civil War with a focus on infrastructure, the history of the book, memory and trauma studies, and intellectual history.
2019, Honors BA English Literature and History, Marquette University
Katherine Stein is a doctoral candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill studying Victorian literature, with a special focus on historiography and the figure of the child. Reaching forward from the Victorian period into the early twentieth century, her research is both interdisciplinary and transhistorical, with additional interests in historical fiction (both past and present), national identity, children’s literature, and juvenilia. Katherine’s work – both inside and outside the university – is deeply invested in publicness and the public humanities.
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.
