English Department - Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences: Northwestern University

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY // WEINBERG COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES

Graduate Students

	Areas of Specialization
Bhan, Priya (3rd-year Ph.D.) Field: Medieval literature p-bhan@northwestern.edu	Medieval literature
Blumenthal, Rachel (3rd-year Ph.D.) Field: American literature rachel.blumenthal@northwestern.edu	19th-century American literature
Bookman, Ariel (3rd-year Ph.D.) Field: 20th/21st-century literature a-bookman@northwestern.edu	Global Anglophone/Post-Colonial literature
Clary, Christopher (7th-year Ph.D.) Field: British literature, 1500-1650 c-clary@northwestern.edu	Curiosity collecting, Early Modern theatre
Clauser, Shane (2nd-year Ph.D.) Field: British literature, 1500-1650 ShaneClauser2014@u.northwestern.edu	Early Modern drama
Corredera, Vanessa (4th-year Ph.D.) Field: British literature, 1500-1650 v-corredera@northwestern.edu	Early Modern drama - body, gender, and race
Daly, Meghan (1st-year Ph.D.) Field: British literature, 1500-1650 meghandaly2015@u.northwestern.edu	Renaissance literature
Daniels, Melissa (5th-year Ph.D.) Field: American literature m-daniels@northwestern.edu	American and African American literature
Fenton-Hathaway, Anna (7th-year Ph.D.) Field: 19th-century British literature afh@northwestern.edu	Victorian literature, Age studies
Fillion, Chanelle (2nd-year Ph.D.) Field: 19th-century British literature chanellefillion2013@u.northwestern.edu	Victorian literature, narrative theory, religion & the novel
Harner, Christie (7th-year Ph.D.) Field: 19th-century British literature c-harner@northwestern.edu	Victorian literature, 19th-century colonial literature, science and literature, sensation fiction
Harris, Carissa (4th-year Ph.D.) Field: Medieval literature carissa-harris@northwestern.edu	Medieval literature
Hawthorne, Tasha (7th-year Ph.D.) Field: 20th/21st-century literature t-hawthorne@northwestern.edu	Late 19th- & 20th-century American literature, African American literature
Hotchandani, Carolina (3rd-year Ph.D.) Field: 18th-century British literature c-hotchandani@northwestern.edu	18th-century literature, 20th-century poetry
Izenstein, Emily (2nd-year Ph.D.) Field: American literature emily.izenstein@u.northwestern.edu	19th- & 20th-century transatlantic literature, cultural studies, gender studies
Jafri, Maha (3rd-year Ph.D.) Field: 19th-century British literature MahaJafri2013@u.northwestern.edu	Victorian literature
Kim, Heidi (7th-year Ph.D.) Field: American literature heidikim@northwestern.edu	20th-century U.S. literature, Asian/other ethnic American literature and studies, science and literature, American Francophony
Lahey, Sarah (5th-year Ph.D.) Field: American literature sarah-lahey@northwestern.edu	19th-century American literature, Civil War literature
Laski, Greg (4th-year Ph.D.) Field: American literature g-laski@northwestern.edu	19th- & 20th-century American and African American literature, temporality, psychoanalysis, political philosophy, critical race theory
Leahy, Nathan (5th-year Ph.D.) Field: American literature n-leahy@northwestern.edu	19th- & 20th-century American literature, U.S. economic history and foreign policy
Lee, Jenny (5th-year Ph.D.) Field: Medieval literature jenny-lee@northwestern.edu	Medieval literature
Lusthaus, Jason (3rd-year Ph.D.) Field: 19th-century British literature j-lusthaus@northwestern.edu	Victorian literature
Malikow, Jason (5th-year Ph.D.) Field: American literature j-malikow@northwestern.edu	Narrative theory, radical politics, and pedagogy in the American canon
McCabe, Elizabeth (7th-year Ph.D.) Field: 19th-century British literature lizmccabe@u.northwestern.edu	Victorian literature; Darwin, evolutionism, and Victorian anthropology; teaching writing
McIntosh, Hugh (4th-year Ph.D.) Field: American literature h-mcintosh@northwestern.edu	19th-century American literature, popular culture, the history of the book
Mellon, Lorna (3rd-year Ph.D.) Field: 20th/21st-century literature lmellon@northwestern.edu	20th-century literature
Mix, Brent (7th-year Ph.D.) Field: American literature b-mix@northwestern.edu	Free Jazz and Improvisation, American and European
Morrison, Garrett (1st-year Ph.D.) Field: American literature garrettmorrison2014@u.northwestern.edu	19th-century American lit
Murdock, Jacquelyn (4th-year Ph.D.) Field: Medieval literature j-murdock@northwestern.edu	Medieval lit, Scottish literature, history of the book/materials study
Passin, Laura (4th-year Ph.D.) Field: 20th/21st-century literature l-passin@northwestern.edu	20th-century literature, contemporary poetry, modernism, gender studies, poetics
Peña, Melvin (8th-year Ph.D.) Field: 18th-century British literature melvin@northwestern.edu	18th-century British literature
Rastogi, Raashi (1st-year Ph.D.) Field: Medieval literature raashirastogi2015@u.northwestern.edu	Medieval English literature
Roberts, Wendy (5th-year Ph.D.) Field: American literature wendy-roberts@northwestern.edu	Early American literature and religion, especially 18th-century Evangelicalism and poetry. History of the senses, oratory, sermons, and performance in relation to revivalism and poetry
Rodriguez, Elizabeth (1st-year Ph.D.) Field: British literature, 1500-1650 elizabethrodriguez2014@u.northwestern.edu	Renaissance drama
Romero, Wanalee (4th-year Ph.D.) Field: American literature wromero@northwestern.edu	19th- & 20th-century American literature, Ethnic feminisms, Latina/o and Chicana/o literature, folklore, sentimentality, hybridity, and border theory
Sands, Alicia (1st-year Ph.D.) Field: British literature, 1500-1650 aliciasands2013@u.northwestern.edu	Renaissance/Early Modern literature
Shirley, Christopher (3rd-year Ph.D.) Field: British literature, 1500-1650 c-shirley@u.northwestern.edu	Renaissance/Early Modern literature, gender and sexuality studies
Slater, Michael (4th-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 (5th-year Ph.D.) Field: British literature, 1500-1650 n-small@northwestern.edu	Early Modern literature
Smith, Joshua (6th-year Ph.D.) Field: Medieval literature j-smithj@northwestern.edu	Multilingualism and Literary Exchange between Wales and England in the Middle Ages
Sterzinger, Elizabeth (3rd-year Ph.D.) Field: American literature nwu-ems825@northwestern.edu	Americanist literature
Taylor, Whitney (2nd-year Ph.D.) Field: British literature, 1500-1650 nwu-wbt749@northwestern.edu	Renaissance literature
Van Engen, Abram (6th-year Ph.D.) Field: American literature a-vanengen@northwestern.edu	Early American literature; Puritanism, Sentimentalism, Religion, and Literature
Werner, Jade (3rd-year Ph.D.) Field: 19th-century British literature WinterWerner2008@u.northwestern.edu	Victorian literature
Zindulis, Holly (5th-year Ph.D.) Field: 20th/21st-century literature h-zindulis@northwestern.edu	20th-century literature

Graduate Students

Areas of Specialization