Graduate Student Directory
All email addresses share brandeis.edu as their domain name unless otherwise listed.
Charlotte Alcon
PhD Student
calcon@
Expertise: Victorian literature, medical humanities, nineteenth-century studies, gender and sexuality studies, archives
Paul Argenti
ABD, PhD Candidate 2027
paulargenti@
Expertise: American Literature, focused on commerce and the moral imagination.
Amarachi Attamah-Ugwu
PhD - Second Yearamarachiau@
Expertise: Igbo Chant Traditions, African American Spirituals, Orality and Sonic Memory, Performance and Embodiment, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Black Atlantic Studies, Digital Humanities, Community-Based Archiving, African and African Diasporic Cultures, Cultural Memory and Preservation, Ethnomusicology, Language and Heritage Studies.
Sreemoyee Bhattacharyya
4th year, PhD
moyeeb@
Expertise: Elegy, New Materialisms, Feminist Theory, decolonial methods, Environmental humanities, Children’s Literature, poetry and medicine
Anik Chartrand
ABD, PhD
anikchartrand@
Expertise: Settler colonialism, Indigenous studies, postcolonialism, early American
Sungkyung Cho
ABD, PhD
skcho@
Expertise: Later 18th-c and Romantic literature; politics, religion, and intellectual history in Hanoverian Britain; poetry and society
Tali Cohen
ABD, PhD
taliacohen@
Expertise: Early modern Britain, ecocriticism, botanical poetics, ecopedagogy, biblical exegesis
Rachel Dale
ABD, PhD
Graduate Representative
rdale@
Expertise: Contemporary Anglophone literature, trauma theory, postcolonialism, decolonial pedagogy, gender & sexuality, archives
Jennifer Factor
ABD, PhD
jfactor@
Expertise: Pan-Atlantic eighteenth century media history, Black bibliography, poetry, gaming
Savita Maharaj
ABD, PhD
savitamaharaj@
Expertise: Contemporary and eighteenth-century Caribbean history and literature, archival theory, critical histories of race and gender, decolonial methods, postcolonial theory
Chukwudaru Immaculata Michael
3rd year, PhD
cmichael@
Expertise: Postcolonial African literature, ecocriticism, media ecologies
Sahid Mondal
ABD, PhD
sahidmondal@
Expertise: Postcolonialism, transnational and postnational studies, religion and secularity, diasporic and migrant Muslim identities
Ishan Mukhopadhyay
3rd year, PhD
imukhopadhyay@
Expertise: Environmental humanities, postcolonial studies, toxic ecofiction, migration and diaspora literature, history of science, translation studies, South Asian literature, posthumanism
Miranda Peery
ABD, PhD
mpeery@
Expertise: Late medieval and early modern British literature, particularly religion and magic in MedRen europe; gender/sexuality studies, critical race studies, genre and horror studies, public humanities, digital humanities
Jonathan Schaffer
MA
jschaffer@
Expertise: Educational agendas in teaching literature and language, adult education, Medieval studies
Iana Seerung
4th year, PhD
iseerung@
Expertise: Victorian literature, new formalism, philosophy and literature
Esha Senchaudhuri
MA Studentesenchaudhuri@
Expertise: Aesthetic Education; The Industrial Novel; Eclogues & Pastoralism; Political Economy; Eighteenth Century; Nineteenth Century
Himanshu Singh
2nd year, PhDhimanshusingh@
Expertise: Postcolonial Studies, Critical Caste Studies, Dalit and Minority Studies, Diaspora and Migration Literature, South Asian Literature, Trauma and Memory Studies, Critical Theory
Aurora Soriano
4th year, PhD
asoriano@
Expertise: Nineteenth-century studies, disability studies, queer theory
Leon Wang
ABD, PhD
leonwang529@
Expertise: British Romanticism
Madison Yarbrough
English & Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (M.A.)
Expertise: Feminist and Reproductive Horror, Modern Horror Cinema and Literature