Graduate Students
AY 2020-2021
PhD Candidates
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Lydia Craig
- Program Area: Nineteenth-Century Literature
- Research Interests: History of the Novel, Theories of Power and Subjection, and Textual Studies
- Degrees: BA in History and English from the University of Georgia, Franklin College (2011); MA in English from Loyola University Chicago (2015)
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Emily Datskou
- Program Area: Nineteenth-Century British Literature
- Research Interests: Digital Humanities, Modernism, Gothic, Queer Theory, and Gender Studies
- Degrees: BA in English from American University (2009); MA in English from Boston University (2012); Concentration in WSGS from Loyola University Chicago (2016)
Katie Dyson
- Program Area: Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Literature
- Research Interests: Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, and Modernist Aesthetics
- Degrees: BA in History and English from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (2011); MA in English from Loyola University Chicago (2012)
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Aleks Galus
- Program Area: Contemporary American Literature
- Research Interests: Haunted Houses, Ghosts, and Narrative Theory
- Degrees: BA in Art and English from Elmhurst College (2010);
Mary Harmon
- Program Area: Nineteenth-Century British Literature
- Research Interests: Victorian Poetry and Prose, Religion and Literature, and First-Year Composition and Pedagogy
- Degrees: BS in Biology and BA in English from Saint Ambrose University (2012); MA in English from Loyola University Chicago (2013)
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John Hawkins
- Program Area: Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Literature
- Research Interests: US Fiction and Media, Animal Studies, and Women's and Gender Studies
- Degrees: BA in Preseminary Studies from Cedarville University (2008); MA in English from Liberty University (2013)
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Xiamara Hohman
- Program Area: Modern Literature and Culture
- Research Interests: Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century American Poetry, Transnational Theory, American Poetry in China, and Chinese-American Literature
- Degrees: BA in English from the University of Dayton (2008); MA in English from the University of Dayton (2010)
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Tim Koppang
- Program Area: Modern Literature and Culture
- Research Interests: Literary Responses and Depictions of Failure, Affect Theory, and Postmodernism
- Degrees: BA in from the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign (2003); JD from DePaul University (2006); MA in British and American Literature from Northern Illinois University (2014)
Marcos Norris
- Program Area: Twentieth-Century Literature
- Research Interests: Continental Philosophy and Secularization
- Degrees: BS in Bible Theology from Multnomah Bible College (2009); MA in English from Idaho State University (2013)
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Brittany Rebarchik
- Program Area: Early Modern Literature
- Research Interests: Shakespeare, Ethics, Philosophy, and Drama
- Degrees: BA in English from Brigham University (2010); MA in English from Brigham University (2016)
Danielle Richards
- Program Area: Modern Literature and Culture
- Research Interests: British Modernism, Victorian Literature, Ecology, Object Oriented Ontology, Animal Studies, and Digital Humanities
- Degrees: BA in English Writing from Dordt University (2013); MA in Literature from Northern Arizona University (2016)
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Wren Romero
- Program Area: Modern and Contemporary American Literature
- Research Interests: Alternative Archives, Spectrality, Feminist Studies, and Voices of Women of Color
- Degrees: BA in English from Regis University (2015); BA in Peace and Justice Studies from Regis University (2015); MA in English from Loyola University Chicago (2017)
Emily L. Sharrett
- Program Area: Early Modern Literature
- Research Interests: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century British Literature, Shakespeare, Posthumanist Theory, and Performance Theory
- Degrees: BA in Political Science and English Literature from Miami University of Ohio (2016); MA in English from Loyola University Chicago (2017)
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Shelby Sleevi
- Program Area: Modern Literature and Culture
- Research Interests: Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Fiction, Modernism, Contemporary Literature, Narrative Theory
- Degrees: BA in English from Wheeling Jesuit University (2010); MA in English from Georgetown University (2012)
PhD Students
Joe Hansen
- Program Area: Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
- Research Interests: Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Early Modern Literature, Shakespeare, and Queer Theory
- Degrees: BA in English (Creative Writing emphasis) from Carthage College (2020); MA in English from Loyola University Chicago (expected 2021)
Emma Horst
- Program Area: Nineteenth-Century British Literature
- Research Interests: Gender and Feminist Studies of Victorian Novels and Sensation Fiction
- Degrees: BA in English and Secondary Education from Loras College (2016); MA in English from Loyola University Chicago (2020)
Rachel Kietzman
- Program Area: Nineteenth-Century Literature
- Research Interests: British and American Literature, Globalization, and Occult Studies
- Degrees: BA in Biblical Studies from Wheaton College (2014); MA in Creative Writing from Fairleigh Dickinson University (2016); MA in English from Loyola University Chicago (2018)
Samantha Lepak
- Program Area: Modern and Contemporary Literature
- Research Interests: Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Trauma Narratives
- Degrees: BA in English from the University of Minnesota, Duluth (2014); MA in English from the University of Minnesota, Duluth (2018)
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Jack O'Briant
- Program Area: Modern Literature and Culture
- Research Interests: Contemporary Literature, Religion and Secularity in Modernist and Postmodern Fiction
- Degrees: BA in Christian Studies from the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor (2014); MA in English from Azusa Pacific University (2019)
Abigail Palmisano
- Program Area: Medieval Literature
- Research Interests: Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Angelology and Hagiography
- Degrees: BA in English from Taylor University (2017); MA in English from Illinois State University (2019)
Anthony Shoplik
- Program Area: Modern and Contemporary American Literature and Culture
- Research Interests: Modernism, Literature and Identity, Poetry and Poetics
- Degrees: BA in English from John Carroll University (2018); MA in English from Loyola University Chicago (2019)
Courtney Walton
- Program Area: Modern Literature and Culture
- Research Interests: Twentieth-Century African American Literature, Critical Race Theory, and Critical Whiteness Studies
- Degrees: BA in English and Secondary Education from Eastern Illinois University (2015); MA in English from Eastern Illinois University (2019)
Joseph Wapinski
- Program Area: Twentieth-Century Literature
- Research Interests: History of Poetry, Critical Theory, and Film Studies
- Degrees: BA in English and Secondary Education from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania (2015); MA in English from Loyola University Chicago (2017)
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Krislyn Zhorne
- Program Area: Early Modern Literature
- Research Interests: Textual Studies and Cultural Criticism
- Degrees: BA in English from the Unversity of North Carolina, Wilmington (2014); MA in English from Morehead State University (2017)
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MA Students
Cristiana Bertola
- Program Area: Contemporary Literature
- Research Interests: Queer Modernist and Postmodernist Literature, Structuralism and Poststructuralism, and Critical Theory
- Degrees: BA in English and Sociology from Loyola University Chicago (expected 2021)
Justin Brown
- Program Area: Early Modern Literature
- Research Interests: Book History, Print Culture, Textual Studies, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Classical Studies
- Degrees: BA in English from Augusta University (2020)
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Scott Clancy
- Program Area: Modern and Contemporary Literature
- Research Interests: Modernism, Postmodernism, Twentieth-Century European Literature, and Film Studies
- Degrees: BA in History and Communication Studies from Loyola University Chicago (2020)
Kit Freeman
- Program Area: Early Modern Literature
- Research Interests: Milton, The Epic, Politics in Early Modern England, Depictions of Eve, and Queer Theory
- Degrees: BA in English from Providence College (2020)
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Brian Maloney
- Program Area: Nineteenth-Century Literature
- Research Interests: British and American Literature and Culture, Antebellum Literature, and Franz Kafka
- Degrees: AA from Harper College (2018); BA in English from Loyola University Chicago (expected 2021)
Lily Renfro
- Program Area: Medieval Literature
- Research Interests: Arthurian Myths and Legends, Early Christianity and Religion, Gender in Medieval Times, and the Forming of Early British Culture
- Degrees: BA in English from the University of Evansville (2020)
Bridget Ryan
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Jesse Schoaf
- Program Area: Nineteenth-Century Literature
- Research Interests: The Transcendental Movement in American Literature, Postcolonial Literature and Theory, Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Chinua Achebe
- Degrees: BA in English from Lesley University (2019)
Alexandra Sengupta
- Program Area: Early Modern Literature
- Research Interests: Shakespeare, Film Studies, the Modern Novel, and Supernatural Literature
- Degrees: BA in English from The George Washington University (2020)
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Bridget Sipek
- Program Area: Nineteenth-Century Literature
- Research Interests: The Brontës, Feminism, Postcolonialism, and Media Studies
- Degrees: BA in English from Centre College (2014)
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Grace Watkins
- Program Area: Nineteenth-Century Literature
- Research Interests: William Blake, The American Romantic Period, Contemporary Fiction, and Creative Writing
- Degrees: BA in English from Loyola University Chicago (expected 2021)
