Graduate Student

Spencer Fugate

18th-Century British
Poetry

Katie Funderburg

Middle English
Renaissance and Early Modern
Gender & Sexuality Studies

Dylan Furcall

19th-Century American
20th- and 21st-Century American
Poetry

Autumn Gable

Old English
Middle English
Critical Theory
Textual Criticism
Cultural Studies
Gender & Sexuality Studies

Londiwe Gamedze

African American
African
Critical Theory
Narrative & the Novel

Christopher Geary

18th-Century British
Irish
Renaissance and Early Modern
Critical Theory
Narrative & the Novel
Atlantic

Andrew J Haas

Critical Theory
20th- and 21st-Century British
20th- and 21st-Century American
African American
Gender & Sexuality Studies

My research explores the relationship between global modernisms, dialectical thought, and critical social theory. My dissertation, Twilight of the Idle: Unemployment and the Crisis of Modern Representation, argues that systemic unemployment since the nineteenth century has undermined available modes of social self-representation, producing crises not only in political economy but in aesthetic and philosophical representations of society more broadly. Working across literary and visual modernisms—from Alice Neel’s portraiture to the novels of Claude...

Erika Higbee

20th- and 21st-Century American
Asian American
Chicanx and/or Latinx
Creative Writing
Cultural Studies
Poetry