Degrees

2019, Honors BA English Literature and History, Marquette University

Bio

Katherine Stein is a doctoral student 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.

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Publications:

• “A Child’s History of England.”  The Literary Encyclopedia.  Edited by Grace Moore, 2023. https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=7216.
• Co-Editor, Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Selected Early Poems and Prose. Under contract with the Juvenilia Press of Sydney, Australia.  Edited with Laurie Langbauer, Beverly Taylor, and six others, 2023.

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Awards

• Juliet McMaster Award for Emerging Scholarship, International Society of Literary Juvenilia (2023)
• James Peacock REACH Fellowship, UNC Office of the Vice Provost for Global Affairs (2021)
• Maynard Adams Fellowship for the Public Humanities, UNC-Chapel Hill (2020)
• Outstanding Scholar of the Year, Marquette University English Department (2019)
• Walter C. Boden Award for Outstanding Scholarship, Marquette University History Department (2019)

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Degrees

2017, BA English, College of the Holy Cross

Bio

Jane McGrail is a PhD student in Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy Studies. Her research interests include the public humanities, cultural rhetorics, feminisms and rhetorics, community literacy studies, and engaged pedagogy.

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Degrees

2015, MA English, The Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies at The University of Alabama

2013, BA English, Angelo State University

Bio

Mandy L. Fowler is a PhD student specializing in early modern literature and the history of medicine. Her research interests include patient-caregiver exchanges, performances of care, and the material experiences of illness. She is more broadly interested in early modern approaches to human bodies (“be they alive or dead”) and the senses.

Her most recent presentations explore the role of the physician in Donne’s Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions the relationship between of olfaction and practices of reading in the sixteenth century.

Fowler is also interested in the medical humanities more generally and has a background in health sciences writing from her time as an editor and writer with The University of Alabama’s Institute for Rural Health Research.

She completed her master’s thesis, “They are gone to read upon me:” The Donnean Body-Text, with the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance studies.

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Degrees

2011, BA English, University of Colorado at Boulder

2018, MA English, University of Colorado at Boulder

Bio

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.

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Curriculum Vitae / Resume

Degrees

2015, M.Phil. Medieval and Renaissance Literature, Cambridge University

2014, Pedagogy, Brooklyn College (non-degree)

2013, A.B. English Literature & Theater, Brown University

Bio

Margaret Maurer’s research focuses on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature and science, especially alchemy and chymistry. She explores the interaction between literature and science through manuscript and print culture, the material book, and book history.

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Publications:

• “‘I Have Known’: Copying Personal Accounts in Early Modern Receipt Books,” The Recipes Project, 2022.
• “‘The undiscovered country’: Shakespeare, Star Trek, and Intertextual Narratives in Station Eleven,” Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction (vol. 48, issue 134, p. 32-44), November 2019.
• “Receiving Alchemical Knowledge”, The Recipes Project, 2018.

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Teaching Awards

• Student Undergraduate Teaching Award, UNC Chancellor’s Awards, Spring 2021
• Erika Lindemann Award for Demonstrated Excellence in Teaching, UNC English and Comparative Literature Department, Spring 2020
• Professional Development Award, UNC Writing Program, Fall 2018-Spring 2021

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Awards

• Allington Fellow, Science History Institute, 2022-2023
• Dissertation Fellowship, Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, 2022-2023
• Dean’s Fellowship, UNC Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Spring 2022
• Off-Campus Dissertation Fellowship, UNC Graduate School, Fall 2021
• Jerry Leath Mills Research Travel Grant, Studies in Philology, Spring 2020
• Medieval and Early Modern Studies Research Grant, UNC MEMS, Spring 2020
• Pre-Dissertation Exploration Award, UNC Center for Global Initiatives, Spring 2020
• The Languages of Nature: Science, Literature, and the Imagination Travel Grant, Folger Shakespeare Library, September 2019
• Ruth Rose Richardson Award for Outstanding Record in the First Year of Graduate Study, UNC Department of English and Comparative Literature, August 2018
• A Folger Orientation to Research Methods and Agendas Travel Grant, Folger Shakespeare Library, May 2018
• Incubator Award, UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries, 2018
• Digital Rolls and Fragments Graduate Workshop, Beineike Library, November 2017
• Medieval and Early Modern Studies Small Research Grant, UNC MEMS, 2017
• Millie Helen Hicks Premium, Brown University, 2013

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Degrees

2017, BA English, Bellarmine University

2017, BA Spanish, Bellarmine Univesity

Bio

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.

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Teaching Awards

• Professional Development Teaching Award, Department of English & Comparative Literature, Spring 2021, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Latina/o Studies Program Teaching Award, Fall 2020, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

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Awards

• Center for the Study of the American South Summer Research Grant, Summer 2021, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• James Peacock REACH Fellowship, Center for Global Initiatives, Summer 2020, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

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Curriculum Vitae / Resume

Degrees

2015, MA English, Ohio University

2013, BA English and Religion, Denison University

Bio

Emily Sferra’s research considers depictions of adolescent women who fail to follow the expected trajectory of domestication and their relationships with other young women. She is a doctoral candidate and teaching fellow, and she is also completing a graduate certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies.

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Publications:

•   “One of her delusions”: Maternity, Selfhood, and Voice in Mr. Rochester. Victorians Institute Journal 17 December 2021; 48 (1): 43–64. doi: https://doi.org/10.5325/victinstj.48.2021.0043

• “Portsmouth, Eveline.” The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women’s Writing. Edited by Lesa Scholl. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02721-6_325-1.

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Teaching Awards

• Erika Lindemann Award for Excellence in Teaching Composition in English 105 (award Fall 2020)

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Awards

• Early Stages Departmental Dissertation Fellowship, UNC Department of English and Comparative Literature (awarded Spring 2022)
• Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia (BSUVA) Scholarship, Rare Book School (awarded January 2020)
• Travel Grant, UNC Department of English and Comparative Literature (awarded Fall 2019)
• Arts Everywhere Fellow for PlayMakers Repertory Company, UNC (awarded Fall 2020)
• Humanities for the Public Good Fellowship for PlayMakers Repertory Company, UNC (awarded Fall 2019)
• Humanities Professional Pathway Award, UNC (awarded Summer 2018)
• Outstanding Master’s Essay Award, Ohio University (awarded Spring 2016)
• Distinguished Leader Award, Denison University (awarded Spring 2013)
• A. Blair Knapp Award for Dedication to the Liberal Arts, Denison University (awarded Spring 2013)
• Vinton R. Shepard Memorial Scholarship, Denison University (awarded Fall 2012)
• Mary Carr Endowed Scholarship, Denison University (2009-2013)

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Degrees

2014, BA English, Brigham Young University

2017, MFA Creative Writing, Colorado State University

Bio

Kylan Rice studies nineteenth and twentieth-century American poetry and poetics.

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Publications:

Books:

• An Image Not a Book (Free Verse Editions, forthcoming 2023)
• Primer, co-authored with Dan Beachy-Quick (Free Poetry Press, 2023)
• Incryptions (Spuyten Duyvil, 2021)

Anthologies:

• Southern Lights: 75 Years of the Carolina Quarterly, co-edited with Sophia Houghton and Daniel Wallace (UNC Press, forthcoming 2023)

Articles:

• “‘Bird, Jewel, or Flower?’: On the Tokenization of Nineteenth-Century Women’s Poetry,” ELH (forthcoming)
• “A ‘Correspondence of Eyes with Eyes’: Edwin Arlington Robinson, Empathy, and Literary Naturalism,” CR: The New Centennial Review, vol. 20, no. 3, December 2020, pp. 179 – 205.
• “‘In Couples, In Small Companies’: On Robert Duncan and Sentimental Modernism.” Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, & Theory, vol. 76, no. 2, Summer 2020, pp. 87-113.
• “‘Some Other’s Text’: Dan Beachy-Quick, Moby-Dick, and the Poetics of Reading.” Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, vol. 21, no. 2, June 2019, pp. 83-103.
• “‘Light—enabling Light’: Emily Dickinson and the Apparatus of the Poet’s I.” Women’s Studies, vol. 47, no. 3, 2018, pp. 317-332.

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Teaching Awards

• Student Undergraduate Teaching and Staff Award, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2023.

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Awards

• Lyle V. Jones Dissertation Fellowship, awarded within the Royster Society of Fellows, 2022-23.
• Graduate Student Fellowship, Emily Dickinson International Society, 2023
• Early Stages Departmental Dissertation Fellowship, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Summer 2021
• Bain Award for outstanding academic performance in the second year of graduate study, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2019
• Ruth Richardson Award for outstanding academic performance in the first year of graduate study, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2018

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Curriculum Vitae / Resume

Degrees

2016, BA French and Comparative Literature, Binghamton University

Bio

Chloe Hamer is a third-year graduate student focusing on 20th Century Francophone Caribbean literature and memory studies.

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Degrees

2009, BA English, Kenyon College

2011, MA Humanities with English focus, University of Chicago

Bio

Michele Robinson is pursuing a minor in Women’s and Gender studies and her dissertation focuses on the role of space and gender in nineteenth century literature. She has enjoyed teaching courses like English 105, 123 Into to Fiction: Gendered Politics of Madness and Mental Illness, and 129 Literature and Cultural Diversity.

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Awards

• Julius Sylvester Hanner Memorial Fellowship
• Ruth Rose Richardson Prize

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