PhD Students
Andie Ferniany
she/her/hers M.A., University of Alabama in Huntsville B.A., Auburn University Areas of Interest: Research interests include Restoration and eighteenth-century literature and culture, historical poetics, feminist criticism, gender studies, and ecocriticism
Ira Sen
she/her/hers Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Studies and Research, Ashoka University B.A., Hons., English, Ashoka University Areas of Interest: Adaptation, Shakespeare, the body in performance, reading and re-imagining, creative political resistance to authoritarianism
Loren Samons
she/her/hers B.A., English, University of Central Arkansas Areas of Interest: Teaching and research interests include poetry and poetics, war literature, Southern literature, Romanticism, 20th century film and film theory.
Nicholas Sabo
he/his/him Areas of Interest: sound, radio, and media studies, aesthetic philosophy, Gothic literature, 20th century popular media, and contemporary formats B.A., English and Computer Science, Rice University, 2018
Kara Russell
she/her/hers M.A., English, TESOL certificate, East Tennessee State University, 2018 B.A., English and French & Francophone Studies, Earlham College, 2013 Areas of Interest: Lesbian feminist literature, modernism, southern literature
Margaret Pless
she/her/hers Areas of Interest: 20th century and contemporary American literature, the memoir, theory of identity, criticism that incorporates the personal M.A., University of Mississippi B.A., Vanderbilt University
Kacee McKinney
she/her/hers Areas of Interest: In my current graduate research, I am interested in posthumanist theory, ecocriticism, and literature from the American and Global South M.A., Literature and Cultural Theory, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee B.A., English, Oklahoma Baptist University https://kaceemckinney.wordpress.com/
Kimberly Kotel
she/her/hers Areas of Interest: Research interests include 19th-21st century literature; aesthetics; cultural studies; genre; material culture; media studies; pedagogy; poetics; sexuality and gender; spatial theory. M.F.A., Creative Writing, Chapman University M.A., English, Chapman University B.A., Creative Writing, University of Arizona
Patrick W. Gregory
he/him/his Areas of Interest: Research interests include 19th and 20th century American literature; U.S. Southern literature and culture; Native American literature and culture; postcolonial theory. M.A., English and American Literature, Boston University B.A., English, Dartmouth College
Maggie Graber
she/her/hers M.F.A., Southern Illinois University Carbondale B.A., Indiana University maggiegraber.com