English Directory

Graduate Student Profiles

Name Entry Interests
Katherine Blankenau
kblankenau@smu.edu
 Fall 2011 Renaissance literature, particularly Elizabethan and Jacobean drama.
Kristina Booker
(MA) U of OK, Norman
(BA) OK Christian U
kbooker@smu.edu
(214) 768-4623		 Fall 2009 18th and 19th century British novel, labor, political economy.
Katharine Boswell
(BA) Baylor
kboswell@smu.edu 		Fall 2010 19th and early 20th century British novels, material culture, and domestic spaces.
Jennifer Boulanger
(BA) Baylor
jboulang@smu.edu
(214) 768-3966 		Fall 2007 Medieval Studies, Arthurian Literature, and Feminist Theory and Criticism.
David Fletcher
dgfletcher@smu.edu
 Fall 2012 African-American heritage and culture, American Puritanism, Blues Music, Circumatlantic culture, cultural materialism, early American literature, and early American print culture.
Andrew Forrester
aforrester@smu.edu
 Fall 2012 19th Century British novel.
Chris Goldsmith
(BA) Austin College
hgoldsmith@smu.edu
(214) 768-4623		 Fall 2009 Filth, politics, and the state of nature in 18th century Britain (with detours into both France and the 19th century).
Anna Hinton
annah@smu.edu
 Fall 2012 20th century African American Women's literature, specifically, the presence of a schism between spiritual and sexual identities.
Austin Johnson
(BA) Ouachita Baptist U
johnsonj@smu.edu
(214) 768-4362 		Fall 2007 Early modern literature and its interactions with Reformation theology and politics.
Carrie Johnston
(MA) Florida Atlantic U
(BA) Tulane U
cjohnston@smu.edu
(214) 768-1030 		Fall 2008 19th- and 20th-Century American Literature; Literature of the American Southwest; Travel Narratives; Book History and Material Culture; American Periodical Culture.
Summer Kokic
(MA) SMU
(BS) Christian Brothers U
skokic@smu.edu		 Fall 2010
Andrea Luttrell
(MFA) NYU
(BA) Barnard College
aluttrel@smu.edu
(214) 768-4362 		Fall 2007 Contemporary American Literature, Literature of the Southwest, Feminist Literary Criticism, and Creative Writing.
Amanda McAvoy
ablakely@smu.edu
 Fall 2011  
Chelsea McKelvey
clrice@smu.edu
 Fall 2012 Early modern religious literature, history of the book, and theories of editing.
Seth McKelvey
rmckelvey@smu.edu
 Fall 2012 Modern to contemporary American poetry, specifically through a lens of radical Christian spirituality and/or libertarian or anarchocapitalist philosophy.
Lauren Miskin
lmiskin@smu.edu
 Fall 2011 The Victorian Novel, Feminist Theory, and Material Culture.
Anna Nelson
(MA) Louisiana State
(BA) U of Texas, Dallas
annan@smu.edu
 Fall 2011 Nineteenth-century African American lit and nineteenth-century southern literature.
Kari Nixon
(BA) U of St. Thomas
mnixon@smu.edu
(214) 768-3248		 Fall 2009 Infectious Diseases and Contamination in Late-Nineteenth Century British and Scandinavian Fiction
Micah Robbins
(MA) Texas State U
(BA) Richard Stockton
jsandberg@smu.edu 		Fall 2010 19th and 20th C. American Literature, Book History, and Small Press Publishing.
Julianne Sandberg
(BA) Cedarville U
jsandberg@smu.edu 		Fall 2010  
Megan Schott
(BA) Texas A&M U
mschott@smu.edu 		Fall 2008 Medieval Literature and Autobiography Studies.
Fred Siegmund
(MA) U Oklahoma, Norman
(BA) U Texas, Tyler
fsiegmund@smu.edu 		Fall 2008 Literary history of 19th century U.S. territorial expansin, historical fiction, the Southwest, the connection between literature, ideology and power and the Digitial Humanities.
Christopher Stampone
cstampone@smu.edu 		Fall 2011 Medieval romance and English and American romanticism.
Meghan Tinning
(BA) U of Dallas
mtinning@smu.edu 		Fall 2010 American literature of the Early Republic, Social Contract Theory and the American Literary Imagination.
Bethany Williamson
(BA) Cedarville U
bwilliamso@smu.edu
(214) 768-4623		 Fall 2009 Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century British Literature; Empire, Travel writing and Orientalism; Literary and Critical Theory.
Toni Whalen
awhalen@smu.edu
 Fall 2012 20th century literature and satire.
Ashley Winstead
(BA) Vanderbilt U
awinstead@smu.edu 		Fall 2010 20th and 21st century American literature and visual arts.
Charles Wuest
(MFA) U of Florida
(BA) U of Houston
cwuest@smu.edu		 Fall 2009 Medieval English literature; poetry.