Graduate Students

Areas of Specialization

Altman, Toby (1st-year Ph.D.)

Field
: British literature, 1500-1650
TobyAltman2017@u.northwestern.edu
Early Modern Literature
Arora, Sonia (M.A. student)

SoniaArora2012@u.northwestern.edu
African American, urban, and postcolonial studies
Blumenthal, Rachel (5th-year Ph.D.)

Field
: American literature
rachel.blumenthal@northwestern.edu
19th-century American literature
Bookman, Ariel (5th-year Ph.D.)

Field
: 20th/21st-century literature
a-bookman@northwestern.edu
Global Anglophone/Post-Colonial literature
Clauser, Shane (4th-year Ph.D.)

Field
: British literature, 1500-1650
ShaneClauser2014@u.northwestern.edu
Early Modern drama
Corredera, Vanessa (6th-year Ph.D.)

Field
: British literature, 1500-1650
v-corredera@northwestern.edu
Early Modern drama - body, gender, and race
Daly, Meghan (3rd-year Ph.D.)

Field
: British literature, 1500-1650
meghandaly2015@u.northwestern.edu
Renaissance literature
Daniels, Melissa (7th-year Ph.D.)

Field
: American literature
m-daniels@northwestern.edu
American and African American literature
Duprey, Annalese (2nd-year Ph.D.)

Field
: Medieval literature
AnnaleseDupreyHenry2015@u.northwestern.edu
Medieval literature
Eltahawy, Nora (2nd-year Ph.D.)

Field
: American literature
noraeltahawy2015@u.northwestern.edu
American ethnic literature
Fall, Rebecca (2nd-year Ph.D.)

Field
: British literature, 1500-1650
RebeccaFall2015@u.northwestern.edu
Renaissance/Early Modern literature, gender and sexuality, poetry and poetics
Fayne, Rickey (2nd-year Ph.D.)

Field
: American literature
RickeyFayne2015@u.northwestern.edu
American and African American literature
Fenton-Hathaway, Anna (9th-year Ph.D.)

Field
: 19th-century British literature
afh@u.northwestern.edu
Victorian literature, Age studies
Fritz, Meaghan (1st-year Ph.D.)

Field
: American literature
MeaghanFritz2016@u.northwestern.edu
19th-century American Lit.
Greenberg, Aaron (2nd-year Ph.D.)

Field
: British literature, 1500-1650
agreenberg@u.northwestern.edu
Renaissance & Early Modern literature
Gregersen, Chanelle (4th-year Ph.D.)

Field
: 19th-century British literature
chanellefillion2013@u.northwestern.edu
Victorian literature, narrative theory, religion & the novel
Harris, Carissa (6th-year Ph.D.)

Field
: Medieval literature
carissa-harris@u.northwestern.edu
medieval literature, history, & culture, obscenities past & present, gender & sexuality, manuscript studies, Chaucer, Middle Scots
Hawthorne, Tasha (9th-year Ph.D.)

Field
: 20th/21st-century literature
t-hawthorne@northwestern.edu
Late 19th- & 20th-century American literature, African American literature
Hengstebeck, Eric (1st-year Ph.D.)

Field
: American literature
EricHengstebeck2016@u.northwestern.edu
19th-century American literature
Hickey, Alanna (2nd-year Ph.D.)

Field
: American literature
AlannaHickey2015@u.northwestern.edu
19th-century American poetry
Hotchandani, Carolina (5th-year Ph.D.)

Field
: 18th-century British literature
c-hotchandani@northwestern.edu
18th-century literature, 20th-century poetry
Izenstein, Emily (4th-year Ph.D.)

Field
: American literature
emily.izenstein@u.northwestern.edu
19th- & 20th-c. American Literature, cultural and gender studies
Jafri, Maha (5th-year Ph.D.)

Field
: 19th-century British literature
MahaJafri2013@u.northwestern.edu
Victorian literature, gossip, the novel, narrative, psychoanalysis, theories of community and sociability, etiquette and manners
Johnson, Kara (2nd-year Ph.D.)

Field
: American literature
KaraJohnson2015@u.northwestern.edu
19th-century American literature, theatre and dance studies, women's correspondence, performance, and patronage
Kapucija, Christina (1st-year Ph.D.)

Field
: 19th-century British literature
ChristinaKapucija2015@u.northwestern.edu
19th-century British literature
Kraft, Victoria (M.A. student)

vkraft@u.northwestern.edu
19th-century British literature
Krienke, Hosanna (2nd-year Ph.D.)

Field
: 19th-century British literature
krienke@u.northwestern.edu
Victorian and Romantic literature, cognitive theory
Lahey, Sarah (7th-year Ph.D.)

Field
: American literature
sarah-lahey@northwestern.edu
19th-century American literature, Civil War literature
Laski, Greg (6th-year Ph.D.)

Field
: American literature
g-laski@northwestern.edu
Nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American literature, African American literature, critical race theory, political philosophy, cultural studies
Leahy, Nathan (7th-year Ph.D.)

F ield
: American literature
n-leahy@northwestern.edu
19th- & 20th-century American literature, U.S. economic history and foreign policy
Lee, Jenny (7th-year Ph.D.)

Field
: Medieval literature
jenny-lee@northwestern.edu
Confessional poetics, classical and medieval literature
Leone, Carli (1st-year Ph.D.)

Field
: American literature
CarliLeone2011@u.northwestern.edu
Early American literature
Lewis, Gabrielle (M.A. student)

gabriellelewis2013@u.northwestern.edu
 
Lusthaus, Jason (5th-year Ph.D.)

Field
: 19th-century British literature
j-lusthaus@northwestern.edu
Victorian literature, theology, philosophy of history, secularism
Malikow, Jason (7th-year Ph.D.)

Field
: American literature
j-malikow@northwestern.edu
Narrative theory, radical politics, and pedagogy in the American canon
McCabe, Elizabeth (9th-year Ph.D.)

Field
: 19th-century British literature
lizmccabe@u.northwestern.edu
Victorian literature; Darwin, evolutionism, and Victorian anthropology; teaching writing
McIntosh, Hugh (6th-year Ph.D.)

Field
: American literature
h-mcintosh@northwestern.edu
19th-century American literature, popular culture, the history of the book
Mellon, Lorna (4th-year Ph.D.)

Field
: 20th/21st-century literature
lmellon@northwestern.edu
20th-century literature
Mix, Brent (9th-year Ph.D.)

Field
: American literature
b-mix@northwestern.edu
Free Jazz and Improvisation, Idiomatic and non-Idiomatic, Literary Institutions
Morrison, Garrett (3rd-year Ph.D.)

Field
: American literature
garrettmorrison2014@u.northwestern.edu
19th-century American fiction and culture, African-American literature, regionalism
Murdock, Jacquelyn (6th-year Ph.D.)

Field
: Medieval literature
j-murdock@northwestern.edu
Medieval literature, Scottish literature, history of the book/materials study
Nyi, Simon (2nd-year Ph.D.)

Field
: British literature, 1500-1650
SimonNyi2016@u.northwestern.edu
Early Modern literature
Pantojan, Marie (2nd-year Ph.D.)

Field
: 19th-century British literature
MariePantojan2016@u.northwestern.edu
Victorian literature, the novel, gender and sexuality studies
Passin, Laura (5th-year Ph.D.)

Field
: 20th/21st-century literature
l-passin@northwestern.edu

20th--21st-century literature, contemporary poetry, confessional poetry, modernism, postmodernism, gender studies, poetics, lyric theory, creative writing

Rastogi, Raashi (3rd-year Ph.D.)

Field
: British literature, 1500-1650
raashi@u.northwestern.edu
Early Modern and medieval literature
Roberts, Wendy (7th-year Ph.D.)

Field
: American literature
wendy-roberts@northwestern.edu
Early American literature and religion, especially 18th century Evangelicalism and poetry theories of secularism, history of the senses, oratory, and sermons in relation to revivalism and poetry
Rodriguez, Elizabeth (3rd-year Ph.D.)

Field
: British literature, 1500-1650
elizabethrodriguez2014@u.northwestern.edu
Early Modern literature; gender and sexuality
Romero, Wanalee (6th-year Ph.D.)

F ield
: American literature
wromero@northwestern.edu
19th and 20th century American literature, Ethnic feminisms, Latina/o and Chicana/o literature, folklore, sentimentality, hybridity, and border theory
Roth, Sarah (1st-year Ph.D.)

Field
: 19th-century British literature
SarahRoth2011@u.northwestern.edu
19th-century British literature
Sands, Alicia (3rd-year Ph.D.)

Field
: British literature, 1500-1650
aliciasands2013@u.northwestern.edu
Renaissance/Early Modern literature
Shirley, Christopher (5th-year Ph.D.)

Field
: British literature, 1500-1650
c-shirley@u.northwestern.edu
Renaissance/Early Modern literature, gender and sexuality studies
Slater, Michael (6th-year Ph.D.)

Field
: British literature, 1500-1650
m-slater@northwestern.edu
Renaissance/Early Modern literature; history of science; science and literature; allegory
Small, Nat (7th-year Ph.D.)

Field
: British literature, 1500-1650
n-small@northwestern.edu
Early Modern literature
Sterzinger, Elizabeth (4th-year Ph.D.)

Field
: American literature
nwu-ems825@northwestern.edu
Americanist literature
Swanner, Seth (1st-year Ph.D.)

Field
: British literature, 1500-1650
sethswanner2017@u.northwestern.edu
Renaissance/Early Modern literature
Taylor, Whitney (4th-year Ph.D.)

Field
: British literature, 1500-1650
nwu-wbt749@northwestern.edu
Renaissance literature
Vachharajani, Tanushree (1st-year Ph.D.)

Field
: 20th-21st-century Modern literature
TanushreeVachharajani2016@u.northwestern.edu
 
Walker, Eric (M.A. student)

EricWalker2011@u.northwestern.edu
20th/21st c. lit, consumerism and cultural identity
Waller, Simone (1st-year Ph.D.)

Field
: British literature, 1500-1650
SimoneWaller2011@u.northwestern.edu
Culture & literary theory
Werner, Jade (5th-year Ph.D.)

Field
: 19th-century British literature
WinterWerner2008@u.northwestern.edu
Victorian literature, cosmopolitanism, missionaries and missionary culture
Wilson, Sarah (1st-year Ph.D.)

Field
: Medieval literature
SarahWilson2016@u.northwestern.edu
Medieval literature

 

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