Graduate Students

Note: unless indicated otherwise, all email
addresses end in @northwestern.edu

PhD Students
Name	E-Mail	Areas of Interest
Priya Bhan	p-bhan	Medieval/Early Modern literature
Rachel Blumenthal	rachel.blumenthal	American literature
Ariel Bookman	a-bookman	Global Anglophone/Post-Colonial literature
Christopher Clary	c-clary	Early modern literature
Shane Clauser	ShaneClauser2014 @u.northwestern.edu	Renaissance literature
Vanessa Corredera	v-corredera	Renaissance/Early Modern
Melissa Daniels	m-daniels	American and African American literature
Anna Fenton-Hathaway	afh	Victorian literature and age studies
Chanelle Fillion	chanelle.fillion @u.northwestern.edu	Victorian literature
Leah Flack	l-culligan	Comparative Modernism (American, Russian, Irish), Literature and National Identity, Poetics
Christie Harner	c-harner	Victorian literature
Carissa Harris	carissa-harris	Medieval literature & obscenity
Tasha Hawthorne	t-hawthorne	African American literature
Carolina Hotchandani	c-hotchandani	Modern poetry and literature
Emily Izenstein	emily.izenstein @u.northwestern.edu	19th- & 20th-c. transatlantic literature, cultural studies, gender studies
Maha Jafri	m-jafri	Victorian literature, Postmodernism
Peter Jaros	p-jaros	Early and Antebellum American literature and culture, transatlantic 18c literature and culture, critical theory
Heidi Kim	heidikim	20th century U.S. literature, Asian/other ethnic American literature and studies, science and literature, American Francophony
Sarah Lahey	sarah-lahey	19th-c. American literature, Civil War literature
Greg Laski	g-laski	19th and 20th century American and African American literature, temporality, psychoanalysis, political philosophy, critical race theory
Nathan Leahy	n-leahy	19th and 20th century American literature, cultural studies, globalization
Jenny Lee	jenny-lee	Medieval literature
Jason Lusthaus	j-lusthaus	Victorian literature
Jason Malikow	j-malikow	Narrative theory, radical politics, and pedagogy in the American canon
Liz McCabe	lizmccabe	Victorian literature; Darwin, evolutionism, and Victorian anthropology; teaching writing
Hugh McIntosh	h-mcintosh	American literature
Lorna Mellon	lmellon	20th-c literature
Sarah Mesle	s-mesle	American literature
Brent Mix	b-mix	American literature; Free Jazz and Improvisation, American and European
Jacquelyn Murdock	j-murdock	Medieval literature
Laura Passin	l-passin	20th-century literature, contemporary poetry, modernism, gender studies, poetics
Melvin Peña	melvin	18th-c. novel (British and American) at the confluences of moral philosophy, sentiment, sympathy, and religion.
Wendy Roberts	wendy-roberts	Early American poetry and religion
Wanalee Romero	wromero	19th and 20th century American literature, Ethnic feminisms, Latina/o and Chicana/o literature, folklore, sentimentality, hybridity, and border theory
Chris Shirley	c-shirley	Renaissance/Early Modern literature; gender and sexuality studies
Michael Slater	m-slater	Renaissance/Early Modern literature
Nathaniel Small	n-small	Early Modern Literature and Culture
Joshua Smith	j-smithj	Medieval literature
Elizabeth Sterzinger	nwu-ems825	20th-c. literature
Whitney Taylor	whitney.taylor @u.northwestern.edu	Renaissance literature
Abram Van Engen	a-vanengen	American literature; Religion and Literature
Jade Werner	nwu-wjw212	Victorian literature