Department of English

Graduate Student Directory

All email addresses share brandeis.edu as their domain name unless otherwise listed.

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Julia Baier
2nd year, MA
Graduate Representative
juliabaier@
Expertise: Medievalism, Victorianism, queer studies, art history

Sreemoyee Bhattacharyya
1st year, PhD
moyeeb@
Expertise: Thing theory, poetry and poetics, postcolonial literature, feminist theory, queer aesthetics, theories of utopia, children’s literature

Jessi Brewer
4th year, PhD
jdbrewer@
Expertise: Victorian literature and empire, medical literature, carceral studies, public humanities

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Anik Chartrand
4th year, PhD
Graduate Representative
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

Ayla Cordell
2nd year, Jt MA
aylacordell@
Expertise: Feminist and queer theory, sex/gender studies, creative non-fiction, body & culture studies, embodiment

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Rachel Dale
4th year, PhD
rdale@
Expertise: Contemporary Anglophone literature, trauma theory, postcolonialism, decolonial pedagogy, gender & sexuality, archives

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Jennifer Factor
ABD, PhD
jfactor@
Expertise: Pan-Atlantic eighteenth century media history, Black bibliography, poetry, gaming

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Yi He
ABD, PhD
yyhe@
Expertise: Media theory, media ecology, early America

Ryan Hitchcock
ABD, PhD
ryanhitchcock@
Expertise: Literary modernism, poetry and poetics, religion and secularism, belle lettres, aesthetics, conversion narratives

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Nayoung ("Nai") Kim
PhD
nykim@
Expertise: 20th and 21st century Anglophone fictions, transoceanic fictions, environmental humanities, critical urbanism, public humanities, visual arts

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Bailey Ludwig
ABD, PhD
baileyludwig@
Expertise: Medieval Romance (Arthurian and Crusade), critical eating studies, genre, premodern critical race, gender/sexuality

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Savita Maharaj
2nd year, PhD
Graduate Representative
savitamaharaj@
Expertise: Contemporary and eighteenth-century Caribbean history and literature, archival theory, critical histories of race and gender, decolonial methods, postcolonial theory

Sahid Mondal
2nd year, PhD
sahidmondal@
Expertise: Postcolonialism, transnational and postnational studies, religion and secularity, diasporic and migrant Muslim identities

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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

Sarah Perkins 
ABD, PhD
sarahperkins@
Expertise: Poetry, modernism, religion and literature, secularization

Reza Pourmikail
ABD, PhD
rpourmikail@
Expertise: Early modern poetry, Milton, modernism, Irish literature, literature and philosophy

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Daniel Schwartz
4th year, PhD
danielschwartz@
ExpertiseModernism, poetics, philosophy

Sarina Schwartz
1st year, MA
sarinaschwartz@
Expertise: Romanticism, Victorianism, poetics and philosophy, music and literature

Iana Seerung
1st year, PhD
iseerung@
Expertise: Victorian literature, new formalism, philosophy and literature

Aurora Soriano
1st year, PhD
asoriano@
Expertise: Nineteenth-century studies, disability studies, queer theory

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Leon Wang
2nd year, PhD
leonwang529@
ExpertiseBritish Romanticism

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