2018, MA English, New York University
2016, BA English, University of California, Los Angeles
Celeste is a graduate student in UNC’s English and Comparative Literature Department. They work as a teaching fellow for the department, an assistant at The William Blake Archive, and for the Jane Austen Summer Program. Celeste is currently interested in exploring ideas of apocalypse and ruin in the Long Nineteenth-Century.
2021, MA English, Brigham Young University
2019, MA Library and Information Science, University of Iowa
2017, BA English, Brigham Young University
As a PhD student at UNC-Chapel Hill, Rachel studies British Victorian literature. Specifically, she is interested in ruins, material culture, and imperialism in the Victorian era, interests which were shaped by her studies in literary tourism and heritage in her MLIS degree. She plans to expand her studies in these topics by exploring print media and culture, industrialization, commodity culture, memory, and nostalgia in nineteenth-century Britain.
Aesthetics | British Literature from 1789 to 1900 | Digital Humanities | History of the Book | Literature and History | Narrative Theory | The Novel | Travel Writing | Visual Culture and Arts
2021, English BA, Minor in Communication, Texas A&M University at College Station
As a relatively new student to rhetoric and composition, my research interests are ever-evolving. My undergraduate thesis examined the implications of metaphor as used in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder treatment texts, which was a study intended to dissect language as a tool that demands authorial sacrifice. Here, I found a fascination with how meaning “seeps” from figures of speech in ways both beneficial and harmful to the reader, as well as for how engaging with language offers a view into a site of endless, yet interesting, compromises.
While my thesis oriented me within health and disability studies, my interests extend to digital rhetorics, game studies, technology discourse, and film and tv. Some topics in these fields that encapsulate my interests include the study of review scores as aggregated on websites like Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes, observing the rhetorical nature of industry competition (MCU vs DCEU, XBox vs Playstation, Apple vs Samsung), and discussing accessibility in near-universal technologies like streaming services, smartphones, and gaming.
Digital Humanities | Digital Rhetorics | Disability Studies | Film and Media Studies | Literature and Science | Literature, Medicine and Culture | Media Studies | Rhetoric, Composition and Literacy | Science Fiction | Science Writing | The English Language | Visual Culture and Arts | Writing In The Disciplines
2020, BA English and Visual Arts, University of Richmond
Carson Watlington is a PhD student in the department of English & Comparative Literature and the Graduate Assistant for Film Studies. Her work is rooted in 20th/21st century American Literature, with a particular attention to minority and ethnic texts.
American Literature to 1900 to the present | Asian American Literature | Comparative Literature | Contemporary American Literature | Contemporary Multiethnic American Literature | Critical Race Studies | Digital Humanities | Film and Media Studies | Philosophy Of Language | Post-Colonial Literature and Theory | Queer Theory | Visual Culture and Arts | Women Writers
2021, BA English (Medieval and Renaissance), University of Virginia
Josy is interested in the history of criticism spanning from the Enlightenment to modern film and television.
Mellon Fellowship, 2021-2026
2005, BA English, Psychology, Plan II Honors, University of Texas
2008, MA Humanities, University of Chicago
I am doctoral candidate and teaching fellow in the Department of English & Comparative Literature at UNC, Chapel Hill. My research concerns contemporary television, narrative theory, science fiction, digital pedagogy, and cultural and media studies more broadly. My dissertation, Watching the Watchers: Contemporary Television, Complex Seriality, and Media Literacy, uses contemporary TV to address the proliferation of serialized storytelling—a form that dominates our media landscape. How did this phenomenon develop? In what ways does the serial form both shape and respond to both commercial and aesthetic demands? And why is serialized storytelling intoxicating?
This topic grew out of my passion for science fiction TV (especially Star Trek) and a recognition that we urgently need to encourage better media literacy. As an educator, I likewise encourage my students to leverage their natural curiosities toward their academic work. I have taught several composition courses at UNC, including Writing Across the Disciplines, Writing in the Social Sciences, and Writing in the Humanities, in addition to designing and teaching sections of Literature & Cultural Diversity and Film & Culture. I’ve also been afforded the opportunity to TA for Matthew Taylor’s Literature, Medicine, and Culture and Gregory Flaxman’s Film Analysis classes. My auxiliary interests in social justice, community education, music, and visual art also keep me busy with a number of UNC-affiliated and community-based groups and projects.
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, B.A. English modified with Philosophy, minor in Ethics, Dartmouth College
Carly Schnitzler is a PhD candidate and teaching fellow studying digital rhetoric and computational arts and poetics.
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
2012, BA in English and Correlate in Art History, Vassar College
My research stitches together questions from media studies, book history, and Victorian criticism. I am interested in the shifting relationships between print’s material and textual uses, particularly as it responds to new technologies of the book in the nineteenth century. In my research and teaching, I privilege diverse methods of critical agency. To this end, I engage with interdisciplinary approaches from material studies, book history, digital humanities, and literary criticism.
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