Graduate Student

Marian Homans-Turnbull

Middle English
Cultural Studies

Isabella Huang

John Patrick James

18th-Century British
19th-Century British
Critical Theory
Poetry

My research focuses on Romanticism and late-enlightenment literature and culture, with a particular emphasis on poetry and poetics. I am especially interested theories of the earth, ranging from theological discourse in the Restoration to the then-emergent science of geology during the Romantic era, as well as in the notion of "environment" as conceived through aesthetics and philosophy of mind over the long eighteenth century. I have written most recently on William Blake and John Clare, and am researching the Scottish poet James Thomson. That said, my interests range widely, vectoring...

Leonardo Johansson-Lebrón

Renaissance and Early Modern
20th- and 21st-Century American
Caribbean

Libby Kao

20th- and 21st-Century American
Asian American
Pacific
Cultural Studies
Narrative & the Novel

Libby Kao is a Ph.D. Candidate in English at 91¶¶Òõ Berkeley. Her dissertation studies paid and unpaid types of gendered caregiving labor in Taiwan and Asian American cultural production as an experiment in foregrounding social reproduction across scales of Asian economic exemplarity (the Tiger/Dragon miracle, the model minority) amid global care crisis. Her work has been published in and the Princeton Journal of Asian...

Naima Karczmar

18th-Century British
19th-Century American
African American
Creative Writing
Critical Theory

Anthony Kendrick

Hyungtae Kim

African American
Critical Theory

Maddie Kim

Asian American

Andrew David King

My current research pertains to disability, class, and the history of medicine and technology. I'm interested in how debates about formalism in literary culture, the life sciences, and clinical practice have shaded into, or served as proxies for, sites for the negotiation of what it means to be an embodied being. Part of this work involves recuperating and reconfiguring the history of medicine for disability studies. A longstanding concern in which these interests have found some traction is the science, social construction, and aesthetic representation of pain--as a non-object that...