Current Graduate Students
Abigail Adams
Graduate student
Education: MPhil, Medieval Literature, 2016, University of Cambridge
Interests: Middle English literature; book history; history of religion and mysticism
Aaron Akins
Graduate student
Interests: Early Modern drama; Dramatic representations of authority; Speech act theory
Samantha Allan
Graduate student
Interests: 20th and 21st century American poetry and experimental nonfiction, feminist and critical race theory, archival theory
Keerti Arora
Ph.D. Student
Education: M.A. English, City University of New York
Interests: African American Literature, Postcolonial Literature and Theory, Phenomenology, Queer Theory, Intersectionality, Affect Theory
Annie Bares
Graduate student
Interests: 20th and 21st century literature and culture, African American literature and culture, environmental and energy humanities, critical disability theory, critical race theory, visual culture, archives.
Micah Bateman
Graduate student
micah.bateman@utexas.edu |
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Interests: Nineteenth-century American literature, American poetry after Whitman, poetry and poetics, digital humanities, textual/book studies
Rhya Brooke
PhD Student
Education: MA English, Northeastern University
Interests: literatures of the African diaspora; postcolonial literature & theory; Black feminist theory; disability studies; critical race theory; affect theory; Black interiority
Colwill Brown
Graduate Student, E316 Teaching Assistant
Education: M.A. English Literature, Boston College
Zoe Bursztajn-illingworth
PhD Student
Interests: modern and contemporary poetry; poetic theory; lyric studies; film studies; visual culture; modernism; new approaches to formalism
Michal Calo
PhD Student
Education: BA & MA, Ben-Gurion University in the Negev
Interests: 20th century poetics; modernism; feminist & queer theory; embodiment; critical race theory; disability studies; history of medicine and sexuality
Ansley Colclough
Graduate student
Interests: continental philosophy, media theory, tactical media, the rhetoric of social movements, biopolitics/necropolitcs, solidarity and identification
Haley Eazor
Graduate student
Interests: 20th and 21st century poetry and poetics, contemporary literature and culture, environmental criticism, ecopoetics, multi-ethnic feminist theory, and critical race theory.
Brice Ezell
Ph.D. Candidate
Education: M.A, English, University of Texas
Interests: Modern and contemporary drama; philosophy and literature; film and television
Kaitlyn Farrell Rodriguez
Ph.D Candidate
Interests: 20th and 21st Century Drama; Performance Studies, Feminist Theater
Jane Fleming
Ph.D. Student
Education: B.A., English, University of Texas at El Paso
Interests: Nineteenth Century American Realism and Regionalism
Hannah Foltz
Assistant Instructor
Education: MA, Rhetoric & Writing, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Technical and professional communication, genre, critical theory, international development, infrastructure, visual rhetorics
Nina Gary
Graduate student
Education: B.A., English Literature, Marquette University
Interests: Late medieval English and French literature
Alexandra Gunnells
MA/MSIS Candidate, English and Information Studies
Education: M.A. in Humanities, University of Chicago
Interests: 19th/20th C American literature; women's writing; queer theory; theories of the archive; digital archives
Halah Salman Hadla
Graduate student
Education: PhD candidate, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Modern and contemporary literature, Trauma and War Literature. American studies. Middle Eastern studies.
Kirsten Hall
Graduate student
Interests: 18th century literature, the novel, Sterne, Austen, Richardson
Patrick Aaron Harris
Graduate student
Education: MLitt/MFA in Shakespeare & Performance, Mary Baldwin University
Interests: Shakespeare and early modern drama, adaptation theory, premodern critical race studies, postcolonial theory, diaspora studies, dramaturgy and performance studies
Melissa Heide
PhD Student
Education: M.A., University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Medieval literature and culture; social class; social inequity in the European Middle Ages; critical theory; progressive and feminist pedagogies.
Jennifer (Gray) Hemstreet
PhD Student
gray.hemstreet@utexas.edu |
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Education: M.A., University of Texas at Austin
Cindy-Lou Holland
Ph.D. Student
Interests: Cindy’s research interests include the critical posthumanities, Indigenous theories of agent ontology, and emergent figurations of subjectivity. She lives in a collaboratively built tiny house parked out in the country, where chickens, bobcats, dogs, coyotes, a husband, and bugs of startling size routinely make things happen.
Hannah Hopkins
Ph.D. Student
Education: MA English/MS Information Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Speculative rhetorics, technical communication, data infrastructures, science and speculative fiction, environmental humanities, digital humanities
Isaac B. Hopkins
Ph.D. Student
Education: MFA Playwriting, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Transatlantic Drama, Performance and Coloniality, Early American South(s), Adaptation, and New Play Dramaturgy
Cody Jarman
PhD Candidate
Education: MA in Irish Writing & Film, University College Cork
Interests: Irish literature; African-American literature; Global modernism; Postcolonial theory; Cultural revivalism; Critical Whiteness studies
Myles Jeffrey
Ph.D. Student
myles.jeffrey@utexas.edu |
Zoom Office available by email request
Education: M.A. in English, Claremont Graduate University
Interests: Screenplays as Literature, Narrative Theory, Novel Theory, Film and Popular Culture, Modernism
Robert W Jones
Graduate student
Interests: Shakespeare Studies, Renaissance Drama, Modern Drama, Contemporary Performance, Film Criticism
Martha Karnes
Assistant Director of Lower-Division Writing
Interests: feminist disability studies, rhetoric of health and medicine, inclusive pedagogy, advocacy, technical communication, video games
Alfredo Khoshnood
Graduate student
Education: B.A., English, The University of Iowa
Interests: Milton, early modern poetry and poetics, monism/materialism, early modern religious poetry
Raffi Robert Kiureghian
Ph.D Student
Interests: 16th and 17th century literature; grammar, rhetoric, and emotion
Jakapat Koohapremkit
Graduate student
Education: MA in English Literature, University of Pennsylvania
Interests: Victorian Literature, Oscar Wilde, Race and Empire, Gender and Sexualities, Friedrich Nietzsche
Maria Roxana Loza
Ph.D. Student
Interests: Children’s and Young Adult literature, Latinx Studies, Critical Disability Studies, Critical Race Theory
Rosy Mack
Graduate student
Education: Doctoral Student, Department of English, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Late 20th Century Feminist Publishing, Print Culture, Queer Theory, Feminist Theory, Genre Fiction, Social Movement Cultures, Legal Theory
Regina Marie Mills
PhD Candidate
Interests: Latinx Literature, Literature of the African Diaspora, US Immigrant Literature (particularly of the Central American diaspora), Human Rights, Refugee Studies
Lauren Nelson
PhD Student
laurenlnelson@utexas.edu |
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Education: M.A., University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Caribbean literature, postcolonial theory, environmental criticism, posthumanism, ontology, materialisms
Nigel O'Hearn
Graduate student
Education: M.A., University of Chicago
Interests: modern – contemporary drama; genre theory; institutional practice; sociohistorical activity theory
Alexandrea Pérez Allison
PhD Candidate
Interests: U.S. Latinx/a/o Literature, Decoloniality, Latina Feminism, the Archive
Michelle Rabe
PhD Candidate
Education: MA English, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: 20th and 21st century fiction, creative non-fiction/memoir, disability studies
Bethany Radcliff
MA in English + MS in Information Studies Candidate; GRA at the Harry Ransom Center
Interests: digital humanities, intimate archives, sound, metadata, critical data studies, life writing, creative nonfiction, confessional poetry
C Samuel Rees
Graduate Student with the New Writers Project
Interests: Eco-poetry, ecology, horror films, hauntology, trauma studies, the Anthropocene, queer theory, fairy tales, fabulism & speculative fiction.
Iana Robitaille
PhD Student
Interests: 20th- and 21st-century literature and culture; global Anglophone literature; American transnationalism; postcolonial literature and theory; narrative theory; rhetoric of humor
Gabriella Rodriguez
Graduate student
gabriella.rodriguez@utexas.edu |
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Interests: Caribbean Literature, African Diaspora Studies
Sarah Schuster
Ph.D Student
Interests: 19th century American literature, disability studies, animal studies
Ricky Shear
PhD Candidate, Assistant Instructor
Education: MA, Humanities Institute
Interests: Empathy in literature, modernism, American literature, community-engaged learning, social justice pedagogy, civic professionalism, narrative theory, war literature, literature of the American West
Emma Train
PhD Candidate
Education: MA in creative writing, poetry, University of California Davis
Interests: 20th and 21st century American poetry and poetics | queer and feminist theory | ecocriticism and environmental theory
Sarah Welsh
Graduate student
Education: MA, Liberal Studies and Digital Humanities, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Interests: Digital communication and rhetorical approaches to technology, reputation management, information ethics
Brie Winnega
Graduate student
Education: PhD Student, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Contemporary American literature, disability studies, health humanities, life writing
Erin Yanota
Graduate student
Education: MA in English Literature, UT Austin
Interests: Transatlantic modernisms; poetry & poetics; women's writing; religion & literature; classical reception
