Graduate Students
2019-2020
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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William Farina
- Program Area: Nineteenth-Century British Literature
- Research Interests: Romanticism, Poetics, Ecology, and Cultural Studies
- Degrees: BA in English from the University of South Florida (2010); MA in English from Loyola University Chicago (2012)
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);
Rick Gilbert
- Program Area: Drama
- Research Interests: Representation, Adaptation, Representations of Violence
- Degrees: BA in Theatre from Brandeis University (1990); MA in Humanities from the University of Chicago (2013); MA in English from Loyola University Chicago (2015)
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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Casey Jergenson
- Program Area: Modern Literature and Culture
- Research Interests: Utopia, Speculative Fiction, and Marxist Cultural Theory
- Degrees: BA in English from Creighton University (2012); MA in English from Loyola University Chicago (2015)
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)
Mary Lutze
- Program Area: Early Modern Literature
- Research Interests: Disability Studies, Reformation Theology, and Deaf Theatre
- Degrees: BA in English, Minor in Spanish from Evangel University (2013); MA in English from Missouri State University (2015)
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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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Grace Pregent
- Program Area: Nineteenth-Century Literature
- Research Interests: Rhetorical Narrative Theory, Composition Studies, and Writing Centers
- Degrees: BA in English from Christendom College (2008); MA in English from the University of Dallas (2010); MS in Higher Education Administration from the University of Dayton (2015)
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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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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
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 (expected 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)
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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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
Ioana Cornea
- Program Area: Nineteenth-Century Literature
- Research Interests: Comparative Literature, Victorian Literature, Romanticism, Transcendentalism, Dark Romanticism, African American Literature
- Degrees: BA in English and Secondary Education from Lake Forest College (2016)
Khizar Khan
- Program Area: Medieval and Early Modern Literature
- Research Interests: Arthurian Literature and Manuscript Studies
- Degrees: BA in English from the University of Illinois, Chicago (2016)
Jillianne Larson
- Program Area: Modern and Contemporary Literature
- Research Interests: Neoliberalism and Domestic Relations
- Degrees: BA in English from the University of Southern Mississippi (2018)
Patrick Lindsey
- Program Area: Early Modern Literature
- Research Interests: British and Contemporary Literature
- Degrees: BA in English from DePaul University (2007); MA from Humanities University of Chicago (2008)
Allen Loomis
- Program Area: Early Modern Literature
- Research Interests: Shakespeare, Revenge Tragedies, and Old/New Historicism
- Degrees: BA in English from Loyola University Chicago (2019)
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Colleen McQueeney
- Program Area: Early Modern Literature
- Research Interests: Shakespeare and Theatre History
- Degrees: BA in English from Wayne State University (2018)
Olivia Moorer
- Program Area: Contemporary Literature
- Research Interests: Gender Theory, Queer Theory, Pop-Culture, and Film Studies
- Degrees: BA in English from Gonzaga University (2019)
Charlotte Rodriguez
- Program Area: Medieval and Postcolonial Literature
- Research Interests: Orientalism, Hybridity, Medieval Medical Writings, and Mystics and Saints
- Degrees: BA in Comparative Literature from the University of Puerto Rico (2018)
