Graduate Student Directory

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

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Andrew Albin
ABD, PhD
albin@
Areas: late medieval/early modern, sound, music, theater, performance, the body
Working Dissertation Title: Sounding and Hearing Bodies in Late Medieval and Early Tudor England

Jodie Austin
3rd year, PhD
jaustin@
Areas: Renaissance Literature, issues of translation and digital culture

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Margaret Carkeet
3rd year, PhD
mcarkeet@
Areas: Late Victorian/early Modernist literature, colonial literature, narrative theory, the novel

Olivia Clayton Carter
2nd year, Joint MA in English and American Literature and Women's and Gender Studies
ocarter@
Areas: American Literature, Contemporary American Poetry, Feminist Theory, Multicultural Theory, Social Justice, Education

Brian Chalk
ABD, PhD
chalkbp@
Areas: Early Modern, Renaissance Literature

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Daniel Vincent Donatacci [personal website]
3rd year, PhD
ddonatac@
Areas:  Poetry, sexuality, gender and performance, theory, comparative literature (Italian, German), history of the book, magic, the supernatural and the sacred

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Amy Easton
5th year, PhD
aeaston@
Areas: 19th and 20th century American Literature

Erin Erhart
2nd year, 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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Roselyn A. Farren
ABD, PhD
farren@
Areas: Renaissance, Shakespeare

Lydia Fash
3rd year, 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

Jesse Foster-Stout
2nd year, PhD
fstout@
Areas: Victorian literature, British Modernism, rise of professionalism, and rhetoric

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Diana George
2nd year, PhD
diana.george <at> gmail.com
Areas: theory of the novel; transgender film; philosophers of speculative realism

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Megan Lynne Hamilton
4th year, PhD
mhamilto@
Areas: 20th century American, short stories, children in literature and children's literature

Njelle Hamilton
4th year, PhD
hellejn@
Areas: Postcolonial and Caribbean Literatures & Theory

Laura Hill
2nd year, 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; and poststructural mucosal liquidity.

Lauren Ellis Holm
ABD, PhD
holmla@
Areas: Victorian novels and plays, adaptation, copyright

Jamie Hood
1st yr, PhD
jdhood@
Areas:  Feminist/queer theory, 19th and 20th century women writers, narratives of trauma, folklore and fairytales

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Luigi Juarez
1st year, PhD
lajuarez@
Areas:  Modernism, 20th century American and Latin-American literature, Postcolonialism

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Doug Kirshen
ABD, PhD
dkirshen@
Areas: late Victorian theatre, dramatic literature, Modernism, visual culture

Ben Kolbe
2nd year, MA
bkolbe@

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Carlos Martinez
ABD, PhD
carlosm@
Areas: 20th C literature, Modernism

Avi Mendelson
1st year, PhD
amendel@
Areas:  Renaissance, Shakespeare, history of medicine/disease, animal studies

Scott Moore
3rd year, PhD
semoore@
Areas: American prose/fiction; 19th-cent American; the novel

Martin Moraw
4th year, PhD
moraw@
Areas: Renaissance Literature

Mike Murray
1st year, MA
mmurray1186 (at) yahoo.com
20th century American literature, Post-modernism, Marxist, feminist, and psychoanalytic theory

Vinodini Murugesan
3rd year, PhD
vino@
Areas: Medieval and renaissance, gender studies

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Cory Elizabeth Nelson
4th year, PhD
cen@
Areas: Modern and contemporary drama, 20th-century American fiction and film

Samuel Nicolosi
2nd year, Joint MA in English and American Literature and Women's and Gender Studies
lsnicolo@
Areas: Late Victorian/Edwardian, Novel, Drama

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Mikel Parent
ABD, PhD
parent@
Areas: 20th & 21st Century American Literature (with an emphasis on Poetry and Poetics), Film, Marxism, Psychoanalysis, History of Critical & Literary Theory

Steven Plunkett
ABD, PhD
swp10@
Areas: 18th century fiction and British Romanticism

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David Razor
2nd year, PhD
davidtrazor <at> hotmail.com
Areas: 19th Century American, Transatlantic Romanticism, Theory

Lisa Rourke
4th year, PhD
lyrourke <at> verizon.net
Areas: Victorian Novel

Adam Rutledge
4th year, PhD
rutledge@
Areas: Modernism, Medieval English and Latin Literature, Aesthetics, Theology/Philosophy and Literature

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Shayna Skarf
ABD, PhD
sskarf@
Areas: Modernism, Gender Studies, Ethnography/Anthropology

Jessie Stickgold-Sarah
ABD, PhD
jmss@
Area: 20th century American, science & literature, genetics

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April Trussell-Smith
2nd year, PhD
amtsmith@
Areas: Feminist theory, Linguistics, the novel

John Turner
ABD, PhD
jnt@
Areas: Modernism, philosophy & literature, theory

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Nicholas Van Kley
5th year, PhD
nvankley@
Areas: Late 19th and 20th Century American literature, the American social novel

Tina Van Kley
4th year, PhD
tvankley@
Areas: Long 18th Century British literature, religion and literature

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Joe Wensink
ABD, PhD
jwensink@
Areas: Late 19th- and 20th-century American literature, political and social theory, literary institutions, philanthropy

Ryan Wepler
ABD, PhD
rmwepler@
Areas: Late 19th and 20th century American literature, humor novels, realism

Julia Wexler
ABD, PhD
jmwexler@
Areas: composition theory, gender and sexuality studies, postcolonial literature

Kyle Wiggins
ABD, PhD
kwiggins@
Areas: 20th century American fiction, revenge tragedies, naturalism/realism

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