Graduate Students: Department of English

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English Department Graduate Students
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English Department Graduate Students

Andrews, Erin

Ph.D. Candidate

Field: 20th/21st-century Modern literature
Areas of interest: Cultural studies, theory

ErinAndrews2013@u.northwestern.edu

Ayala, Uta

Ph.D. Candidate

Field: Medieval literature

ayala@u.northwestern.edu

Bangura, Fullamusu

2nd-year Ph.D.

Field: 20th/21st-century Anglophone literature

FullamusuBangura2020@u.northwestern.edu

Beeber, Matthew

3rd-year Ph.D.

Field: 20th/21st-century Modern literature

matthewbeeber2015@u.northwestern.edu

Blankenau, Katie

Ph.D. Candidate

Field: British literature, 1500-1650
Areas of interest: Early Modern drama, hospitality, travel literature, and framing texts

KatherineBlankenau2019@u.northwestern.edu

Bolt, Kellen

Ph.D. Candidate

Field: American literature
Areas of interest: Early and Nineteenth-century American literature and culture, ecocriticism and environmental literature, immigrant and nativism studies, political theory, new materialism

KellenBolt2017@u.northwestern.edu

Botz, Samantha

Ph.D. Candidate

Field: 18th-century/Romantic British literature

samanthabotz2020@u.northwestern.edu

Browne, Kaitlin

Field: Medieval literature

KaitlinBrowne2022@u.northwestern.edu

Caldwell, Casey

Ph.D. Candidate

Field: British literature, 1500-1650
Areas of interest: Early Modern Drama, History and ontology of money, labor and markets, disease discourse

wccaldwell@u.northwestern.edu

Černe, Sara

Ph.D. Candidate

Field: American literature
Areas of interest: 20th/21st-century American literature and culture, Southern literature, African American literature, literary environmental justice

SaraCerne2019@u.northwestern.edu

Chaskin, Hannah

Ph.D. Candidate

Field: 18th-century/Romantic British literature, Gender & Sexuality studies
Areas of interest: Feminist & queer theory, women's writing, and the novel

HannahChaskin2012@u.northwestern.edu

Cogswell, Clay

Ph.D. Candidate)

Field: 19th-century British literature

ClayCogswell2014@u.northwestern.edu

Collins, Corrine

Ph.D. Candidate

Field: 20th/21st-century Anglophone literature
Areas of interest: African diaspora

CorrineCollins2018@u.northwestern.edu

Collins, Jayme

3rd-year Ph.D

Field: 20th-century poetry and poetics

JaymeCollins2015@u.northwestern.edu

Dikcis, Maria

Ph.D. Candidate

Field: 20th/21st-century Poetry and Poetics
Areas of interest: multiethnic American literature and culture, critical race theory, media and technology studies, historical avant-garde, conceptual writing

MariaDikcis2014@u.northwestern.edu

Dubos, Bradley

3rd-year Ph.D.

Field: American literature
Areas of interest: Early and nineteenth-century American poetry and culture, religion and philosophy, phenomenology

BradleyDubos2020@u.northwestern.edu

Duprey, Annalese

Ph.D. Candidate

Field: Medieval literature, medical humanities

AnnaleseDupreyHenry2015@u.northwestern.edu

Edwards, Halle

2nd-year Ph.D.

Field: British literature, 1500-1650

HalleEdwards2021@u.northwestern.edu

Ellefson, Philip

Field: American literature

PhilipEllefson2022@u.northwestern.edu

Etherington, Bonnie

Ph.D. Candidate

Field: 20th/21st-century Anglophone literature
Areas of interest: Oceania, South East Asia, Indigenous literary studies, ecocriticism, transnational lit, disease

BonnieEtherington2014@u.northwestern.edu

Fayne, Rickey

Field: African-American literature

RickeyFayne2015@u.northwestern.edu

Fetus, Mohwanah

Ph.D. Candidate

Field: 20th/21st-century Anglophone literature
Areas of interest: Post-colonial literature and theory, Black Diaspora, Caribbean literature

MohwanahFetus2017@u.northwestern.edu

Full Name

Ph.D. Candidate

Field: American literature
Areas of interest: 19th-century American literature

MeaghanFritz2016@u.northwestern.edu

Godfrey, Johana

2nd-year Ph.D.

Field: 19th-century British literature

JohanaGodfrey2021@u.northwestern.edu

Graves, Harrison

1st-year Ph.D.

Field: African American literature

WilliamGraves2021@u.northwestern.edu

Gschwendner, Patricia

D.A.A.D. Visiting Scholar

Areas of interest: 0th century literature, Post-colonial literature and theory, humor studies

PatriciaGschwendner2018@u.northwestern.edu

Hengstebeck, Eric

Ph.D. Candidate

Field: American literature

EricHengstebeck2016@u.northwestern.edu

High, Ean

Ph.D. Candidate

Field: American literature
Areas of interest: Early American literature and religion

EanHigh2012@u.northwestern.edu

Infante, Chad

Ph.D. Candidate

Field: 20th/21st-century Anglophone literature
Areas of interest: African Diasporic literatures and Native American literature, political and postcolonial theories of vengeance and violence, critical race theory

ChadInfante2016@u.northwestern.edu

Jiang, Nancy

2nd-year Ph.D.

Field: Medieval literature
Areas of interest: Medieval vernacular devotional writing, history of the book

HaijingJiang2021@u.northwestern.edu

Keener, Andrew

Ph.D. Candidate

Field: British literature, 1500-1650
Areas of interest: Renaissance literature, book history, digital humanities

AndrewKeener2018@u.northwestern.edu

Kumavie, Delali

Ph.D. Candidate

Field: 20th/21st-century Anglophone literature

FranciscaKumavie2019@u.northwestern.edu

Larkin, Ilana

Ph.D. Candidate

Field: American literature
Areas of interest: 19th-century American literature, children's literature, childhood studies, medical humanities, psychoanalysis

IlanaLarkin2020@u.northwestern.edu

Leone, Carli

Ph.D. Candidate

Field: American literature
Areas of interest: Early American literature and medicine

CarliLeone2011@u.northwestern.edu

Mason, Sarah

3rd-year Ph.D.

Field: 19th-century British Literature

SarahLusher2015@u.northwestern.edu

Mercer, Harris

2nd-year Ph.D.

Field: British literature, 1500-1650
Areas of interest: Economic history; political philosophy; ecological and animal studies; and drama as a socially engaged practice

harris.mercer@u.northwestern.edu

Moon, Nina

3rd-year Ph.D.

Field: 18th-century/Romantic British literature

ninamoon@u.northwestern.edu

Morrison, Garrett

Ph.D. Candidate

Field: American literature
Areas of interest: 19th-century American literature, print culture, regionalism

GarrettMorrison2014@u.northwestern.edu

Nordgren, Todd

Ph.D. Candidate

Field: 20th/21st-c Modern literature
Areas of interest: modernism, gender & sexuality, and literary theory

ToddNordgren@u.northwestern.edu

Nyi, Simon

Ph.D. Candidate

Field: British literature, 1500-1650
Areas of interest: Early Modern and 18th-century literature; political theory

SimonNyi2016@u.northwestern.edu

Osenbaugh, Annie

Master's Student

Areas of interest: Victorian Literature, the Gothic novel, epic poetry

anneosenbaugh2018@u.northwestern.edu

Papanikolas, Tony

Ph.D. Candidate

Field: American literature

AntonioPapanikolas2018@u.northwestern.edu

Pederson, Alicia

Ph.D. Candidate

Field: British literature, 1500-1650
Areas of interest: Renaissance/Early Modern literature; ecocriticism/posthumanism; Italian; pastoral; biopolitics; history of human/animal; literary theory

AliciaSands2013@u.northwestern.edu

Pentz, Stephanie

Field: Medieval literature

StephaniePentz2012@u.northwestern.edu

Pierce, Will

Ph.D. Candidate

Field: British literature, 1500-1650

WilliamPierce2018@u.northwestern.edu

Ramirez, Jessica

1st-year Ph.D.

Field: 20th/21st-century Anglophone literature
Areas of interest: U.S. Latinx studies and multiethnic American poetry, interdisciplinary approaches to race and ethnicity, twentieth-century and early twenty-first century literary studies, critical theory, gender studies, identity construction, magical realism, and the Gothic

JessicaRamirez2023@u.northwestern.edu

Rodriguez, Elizabeth

Ph.D. Candidate

Field: British literature, 1500-1650
Areas of interest: Early Modern literature; gender and sexuality; discourses of sexual and political consent; reading law as literature

ElizabethRodriguez2014@u.northwestern.edu

Sacks, Susanna

Ph.D. Candidate

Field: 20th/21st-century Anglophone literature
Areas of interest: African literature; performance poetry; (post)colonial literary politics; and language policy

SusannaSacks2019@u.northwestern.edu

Scharfenberg, Katherine

2nd-year Ph.D.

Field: American literature

kscharfenberg@u.northwestern.edu

Schell, Cameron

3rd-year Ph.D.

Field: 18th-century/Romantic British literature

CameronSchell2015@u.northwestern.edu

Syvertsen, Adam

1st-year Ph.D.

Field: American literature
Areas of interest: 19th-century American literature, New Materialisms, posthumanisms, history of science

AdamSyvertsen2025@u.northwestern.edu

Talbott, Tyler

1st-year Ph.D.

Field: 19th-century British literature
Areas of interest: The Victorian novel, transnational literature, and British emigrant writing in colonial spaces

TylerTalbott2023@u.northwestern.edu