Graduate Student Directory

N.B.: all email addresses share brandeis.edu as their domain name unless otherwise listed.

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Ana Albinson
2nd year, MA
alalbin@

Areas: folktales

Alexia Antoniadou
2nd year, MA
alex86@

Areas: Modernism, contemporary fiction, science fiction, the gothic

Jodie Austin
ABD, PhD
jaustin@

Areas: Renaissance Literature, issues of translation and digital culture

Working Dissertation Title: "The Poetics of Pestilence: Plague-time in Early Modern London and the Writing Culture It Produced"

B

Lily Beaumont
1st year, JT MA
lilybmnt@

Areas: the Victorian novel, feminist theory 

C

Kyley Caldwell
2nd year, JT MA
caldweky@

Areas: 20th-/21st-century American literature, contemporary cultural studies, transnational feminism, social and political discourses in post-9/11 America, critical theory

Margaret Carkeet
ABD, PhD
mcarkeet@

Areas: Late Victorian/early Modernist literature, colonial literature, narrative theory, the novel

Kurt Cavender
2nd year, PhD
kcavende@

Areas: Digital media, 20th-/21st-century American literature, the political novel, violence and revolution

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Daniel Vincent Donatacci [personal website]
ABD, PhD
ddonatac@

Areas:  Modernism; poetry and poetics; Gothic and irreal fiction; the supernatural and the paranormal; performance theory; divination; esoteric studies; consciousness studies; queer theory; philosophy and literature; dialogues between the modern and the pre-modern

Working Dissertation Title: "'The Immaculate Disclosure of the Secret': Esoteric Thought, the Gothic and Performance in Modernist Negotiations of the Real"

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Erin Erhart
 ABD, PhD
eerhart@

Areas: Digital humanities, Victorian writing practices, Native (Cherokee) literature and critical theory, comic book theory, queer and trans-literature and theory

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Lydia Fash
ABD, PhD
lfash@

Areas: 19th-century American literature, 19th-century British literature, Anglo-American (ideational and physical) interactions, notions and constructions of space, book and media history, narrative theory, the tale, the sketch

Emily Fine
3rd year, PhD
efine@

Areas: Early Modern, religious literature, gender studies

Jesse Foster-Stout
5th year, PhD
fstout@

Areas: 19th-century British literature, theory of the novel, poetics, history of philology

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Diana George
ABD, PhD
dgeorge@

Areas: 20th-century fiction, comparative literature, narrative theory, queer theory


Melissa-Leigh Gore
2nd year, JT MA
mlgore@

Areas: American women poets, African-American literature, feminist/womanist literary theory, critical race theory, construction of the Divine in the poems of American women

Sarabeth Grant
4th year, PhD
sbgrant@

Areas: Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature, satiric poetry, the sublime

H

Megan Lynne Hamilton
ABD, PhD
mhamilto@

Areas: 20th-century American, short stories, children in literature and children's literature

Michaela Henry
3rd year, PhD
mhenry@

Areas: Postcolonial theory and literature, 20th-century to contemporary literature

Laura Hill
ABD, PhD
lvhill@

Areas: 20th-century American literature, disability studies

Nathaniel Hodes
ABD, PhD
nhodes@

Areas: Hyper-, counter-, and para-canonicity; 17th-century French topiary narratives; Glandeco-Angellinian tragicomedy; strategies of reading cant; poststructural mucosal liquidity

Jamie Hood
4th year, PhD
jdhood@

Areas:  Feminist/queer theory, 19th- and 20th-century women writers, narratives of trauma, folklore and fairytales

I

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Luigi Juarez
4th year, PhD
lajuarez@

Areas:  Modernism, 20th-century American and Latin-American literature

K

Doug Kirshen
ABD, PhD
dkirshen@

Areas: late Victorian theatre, dramatic literature, Modernism, visual culture

L

Lauren Laperriere
1st year, MA
lauren91@

Areas: late 18th-century British literature and poetry, 19th-century British and American literature and poetry 


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Ashley Manchester
2nd year, JT MA
amanche5@

Avi Mendelson
4th year, PhD
amendel@

Areas:  Renaissance, Shakespeare, history of medicine/disease, animal studies

Scott Moore
ABD, PhD
semoore@

Areas: American prose/fiction, 19th-century American, the novel

Martin Moraw
ABD, PhD
moraw@

Areas: Renaissance Literature

Vinodini Murugesan
ABD, PhD
vino@

Areas: Medieval, Renaissance, gender studies

N

Cory Elizabeth Nelson
ABD, PhD
cen@

Areas: Modern and contemporary drama, 20th-century American fiction and film

Brittany Norton
2nd year, JT MA
bnorton3@

Areas: children's literature, literary theory, the Victorian novel

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David Pass
3rd year, PhD
dpass@

Areas:  American literature; 19th- and 20th-century critical race studies; feminist, gender, and queer studies, with emphasis on African American masculinity studies; cultural studies

Maxwell Patchet
1st year, MA
mpatchet@

Areas: literary criticism, the role of art, and responses to literature 

Steven Plunkett
ABD, PhD
swp10@

Areas: 18th-century fiction and British Romanticism

Gina Pugliese
2nd year, PhD
gpuglies@

Areas: Postcolonial theory, gender studies, modern through contemporary fiction (primarily U.S. and Caribbean)

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R

Maria Francesca Raggi
1st year, MA
mfraggi@

Areas: British and American Modernism, Romanticism, the city in literature, visual arts 

David Razor
 5th year, PhD
drazor@

Areas: 19th-century American, transatlantic Romanticism, theory

Lisa Rourke
ABD, PhD
lrourke@

Areas: the Victorian novel

Adam Rutledge
ABD, PhD
rutledge@

Areas: Modernism, medieval English and Latin literature, aesthetics, theology/philosophy and literature

S

Shayna Skarf
ABD, PhD
sskarf@

Areas: Modernism, gender studies, ethnography/anthropology

Jonathan Sudholt
4th year, PhD
sudholtj@

Areas: 19th-century American literature, narrative and ethics, rhetoric

T

Jennifer Thomas
1st year, PhD
jthomas@

Areas: 20th-century American, Modernism, ecocriticism, literary theory 

U

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Nicholas Van Kley
ABD, PhD
nvankley@

Areas: Late 19th- and 20th-century American literature, the American social novel

Tina Van Kley
ABD, PhD
tvankley@

Areas: Long 18th-century British literature, religion and literature

W

Christopher Wells
ABD, PhD
christopherwells@depauw.edu

Joe Wensink
ABD, PhD
jwensink@

Areas: Late 19th- and 20th-century American literature, political and social theory, literary institutions, philanthropy

Julia Wexler
ABD, PhD
jmwexler@

Areas: Composition theory, gender and sexuality studies, postcolonial literature


Conley Wouters
4th year, PhD
wouters@

Areas: Modernism, contemporary American fiction, technology and digital culture, digital humanities

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Byeongkee Yang
2nd year, PhD
bkyang@

Areas: Renaissance, Reformation, Modernity, Occultism, Magic, Alchemy, History of Science, Colonial New England

Z

Jeanna Kadlec Zaubi
2nd year, PhD
jkadleczaubi@

Areas: British Romanticism, the novel as social critic, literature and revolution, political theory, feminist theory, fairy tales