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Kara Rush

Degrees

2022, MA English, Virginia Tech

2019, BA English, Virginia Commonwealth University

Bio

Kara Rush is a first-year Ph.D. student specializing in early modern literature. In particular, Rush is interested in how early modern author’s used nature, elements, and bodies to speak against political authority norms and to interrogate the parameters of British national identity. Other interests include adaptation studies, late medieval literature, post-colonial theory, and critical race studies.

Awards

  • Caroline Pace Chermside Award for Best Master’s Thesis: Virginia Tech, 2022

Curriculum Vitae / Resume

Contact

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Office: Dey 340

Research Interests

British Literature from 1485 to 1660 (including Milton) | British Literature from its beginning to 1485 | Critical Race Studies | Drama | Early Modern Literature And Culture | Feminist Theory And Gender & Sexuality Studies | Film and Media Studies | Literature and History | Literature and Science | Post-Colonial Literature and Theory | Queer Theory | Women Writers