Graduate Students

AY 2020-2021

PhD Candidates

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)