Student Directory

Nineteenth century; history and theory of the novel; Romanticism and the gothic; aesthetic theory; literature and philosophy; religion and modernity; psychoanalysis

19th - 21st Century African American and Black Diasporic Literature; Black Political Thought; Critical Archival Studies

Early modern literature; John Milton; seventeenth century religion; history of the university; scholasticism; literature and philosophy

20/21st century, race, gender and sexuality, capitalism, film and media, Asian diaspora, affect and emotions

History of the Novel; Critical Theory; Narrative Theory; 19th/20th Century; Literature, Nation, and Empire; Domestic Fiction; Media Theory + Digital Humanities

Romantic/18th-Century Poetry; Ecocriticism; Cultures of Exhaustion 

Shakespeare; Early Modern Drama; History of Race; Whiteness Studies; Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies; Renaissance

Renaissance epic; chivalric romance; feminist theory and sexuality studies; premodern race studies; early modern military history; elegy; memorial studies; fantasy and science fiction; wilderness literature; animal studies

20th and 21st century African American literature, contemporary American literature, Black political thought

Queer materiality; Thing theory; The Fin de Siecle; Object relations; The city and the flaneur; Collecting; Sexuality and sexology; Cinema and visual modernisms

Irish Literature, Literary Modernism, Linguistics

Early Modern Literature; Restoration/18th-century Drama; Theater and Performance Studies; Shakespeare Adaptation and Performance History; Enlightenment Theories of Knowledge Formation; Spectacle in Theater and Politics

20th-century American literature; race, gender, sexuality & capitalism; protest literature

Theory; religion & modernity; aesthetics

20/21st Century American Literature, History of Reading and Emotions, Post-1945 novel, Psychoanalysis, History of Criticism, Poetry

American literary history and legal history, especially the 20th century; social protest movements and cultural production.

gender and sexuality; reproductive failure; affect; posthumanisms; film and media; 20th- / 21st-century American

Critical theory, Marxism, 19th-century British literature, the novel, psychoanalysis, political economy, labor, and empire

20th Century South(ern) African Newspapers and Periodicals, South African Jazz Culture, Black Femininities in Visual Productions

20th century American literature, Milton, Early Modern Studies

Asian American literature; 19/20th century American literature; 19/20th century British literature; ethnic studies

Thus far, my research has explored how the codicological construction of medieval manuscripts can raise unexpected hermeneutic implications for their constituent texts. I am also fascinated by courtly love poetry as it pertains to theories of the lyric and literary personhood, and the often-complex relationships between epistemology, literary agency and formal style. I welcome questions and guidance on any of these topics! 

18th-Century/Romantic poetry and drama; intellectual history; theater and performance studies; theories of tragedy; print culture and archives 

20th/21st century American poetry and poetics; late modernism, lyric theory; materialism, class, capitalism, taste; gender, race, sexuality; formalism, visual art, aesthetic theory

20th/21st century African American and American literature; Black aesthetics; print culture; modernism; feminism

19th century British literature; contagious disease; the Black Atlantic; gender & sexuality

Old English & medieval Latin; Victorian poetry; poetics & aesthetics; philosophies of mind

Criticism & Theory, Aesthetics, 19th and 20th century American Literature, Black Studies, Philosophy of Language