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
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.
Caroline B Barta
Graduate student
Education: M.A., Boston College
Interests: bibliography and textual studies; history of the cookbook
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; 20th and 21st century literature; neo-slave narratives; speculative fiction; disability studies; postcolonial literature & theory; critical race theory; feminist theory
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
Amber Clark
Graduate student
Interests: Medieval literature; cartography; saints’ lives; travel narratives; literary representations of geography, space, and place
Ansley Colclough
Graduate student
Interests: continental philosophy, media theory, tactical media, the rhetoric of social movements, biopolitics/necropolitcs, solidarity and identification
Jake Cowan
Graduate student
Interests: continental philosophy; psychoanalysis; social media ecology; the metaphysics of online presence; Joyce, Kubrick, Žižek
Loren Cressler
Ph.D. Candidate
Education: PhD, The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Early modern drama; genre theory; Shakespeare; classical reception; early modern religious toleration; politics and aesthetics.
Haley Eazor
Graduate student
Interests: 20th and 21st century poetry and poetics, contemporary literature, environmental criticism, feminist theory, critical race theory
Reid Echols
Ph.D. Candidate
Interests: Modern British Literature, Irish Poetry and Drama, Religion and Literature, Conflict Studies
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
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
John D Fry
Assistant Instructor, Department of English
Education: M.F.A. in Creative Writing (Poetry), Texas State University
Interests: Middle English; Chaucer and his afterlives; medieval drama; lay spirituality and vernacular theology; the cult of saints; periodization; historiography; artes memorativa; queer theory; affect; temporality; archive theory; psychoanalysis; contemporary poetry and poetics.
James Garner
Postdoctoral Lecturer
Education: Ph.D, The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: The history of rhetoric, public political rhetoric, conversational writing, toleration, metadiscourse in student writing, tolerance in the college classroom
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
Justin Hatch
Graduate student
Interests: Rhetoric and Writing, Public Deliberation, The Black Freedom Struggle, and Digital Writing Pedagogy.
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 Hemstreet
Graduate student
gray.hemstreet@utexas.edu |
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Interests: Long 18th Century; Classics and Neoclassicism; literary eternization; Pope, Swift, and the Scriblerians
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
Cody Jarman
PhD Student
Education: MA in Irish Writing & Film, University College Cork
Interests: Irish literature; African-American literature; Global modernism; Postcolonial theory; Cultural revivalism; Critical Whiteness studies
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: early modern literature, travel writing, utopias, environmental humanities
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
Amrita Mishra
Graduate student
Education: Doctoral Candidate, The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Indentured labor, slavery, Caribbean studies, migration and postcolonial studies, Third World feminisms, global south-south connections, novel theory
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
Alexandrea Pérez Allison
PhD Candidate
Interests: U.S. Latinx/a/o Literature, Decoloniality, Latina Feminism, the Archive
Michelle Rabe
Graduate student
Interests: 20th and 21st century American fiction, creative non-fiction/memoir, disability studies
Adena Rivera-Dundas
PhD Candidate
Interests: Contemporary American experimental nonfiction; academic and personal narrative; 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
Sierra Senzaki
English -- Doctoral Candidate
Interests: British Modernist literature, British Victorian literature, Environmental Humanities, science and literature, genre
Zachary Sharp
Graduate student
zsharp@utexas.edu |
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Interests: Renaissance rhetoric and poetics; Puritanism; ethics and literature.
Valerie Sirenko
Ph.D. Candidate
Interests: American literature, literature and the law, object studies, cultural studies
Megan Snell
Graduate student
Education: Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Early modern literature; drama
Emma Train
PhD Candidate
Education: MFA in creative writing, poetry, University of California Davis
Interests: 20th and 21st century American poetry and poetics; queer theory; ecocriticism and environmental theory; feminism; critical 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
Erin Yanota
Graduate student
Education: MA in English Literature, UT Austin
Interests: Transatlantic modernisms; poetry & poetics; women's writing; religion & literature; classical reception & folklore studies
