PhD Students
Anthony Gottlich
he/him/his Areas of Interest: Research interests include Literature of the US South, the Global South, Latin American Literature, Indigenous Literature, Postcolonialism, and other literary depictions of the plantation. B.A., English and Hispanic Languages and Literature, Boston University
Caroline Brandon
she/her/hers Areas of Interest: 20th and 21st century American literature, Southern literature, and the relationship between contemporary literature and previous historical narratives M.A., Mississippi State University B.A., Millsaps College
Bridget M. Bartlett
Areas of Interest: Research interests include early modern literature, disability studies, and phenomenology. M.A., University of Oklahoma B.A., Central Washington University
Stacey Balkun
she/her/hers Areas of Interest: Research interests include 20th & 21st century & poetry, particularly texts by women writers, fairy tales & mythology, fabulism, eco-poetry, & environmental criticism. M.F.A., Creative Writing, Fresno State University, 2014 B.A. English and American Studies, Rutgers University, 2009 www.staceybalkun.com
Sarah Margaret Pittman
B.S.B.A., Finance, University of Arkansas Research interests include Victorian literature, gender studies, Gothic literature, political economy smpittma@go.olemiss.edu
Joshua Nguyen
he/him/his M.F.A., The University of Mississippi B.S.A., The University of Texas at Austin Areas of Interest: Asian American literature, hybrid historial retellings, and the contemporary quotidian www.joshua-nguyen.com
Stuart Mullet
Stuart Mullet B.A. in English from Grace College Research interests include mid-20th century Southern literature, particularly texts by women writers, the body in literature, disability studies, and environmental criticism
Regina Young
she/her/hers B.A., University of Kentucky Areas of Interest: Teaching and research interests include 20th-century American literature, medical humanities, disability studies, southern literature, gender and sexuality studies, literary modernism, and ecocriticism.
Laura Wilson
Laura Wilson M.A., English Literary Studies, University of Exeter B.A., English Language and Literature, University of Oxford William Faulkner and the American South; sexuality and gender; censorship and obscenity; environmentalism; Lost Generation and expatriate Modernism; material culture; Foucault and post-structuralism
Alicia Marie Venchuk
Alicia Marie Venchuk B.A., University of Michigan Research interests include African-American Literature, Twentieth Century American Literature, Gender Studies, and Cultural Studies (music in particular)