Alumni Archive info
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Amanda Atkinson aatkinson@smu.edu |
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Steph Buongiorno sbuongiorno@smu.edu |
2017 |
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Matthew Clemmer (BA) Gordon College mclemmer@smu.edu |
2016 | Encyclopedic Novels and Post-War American Literature. Secondary interests include Database as Literary Genre, Literary Trauma Theory, and Philosophy of Language. | |
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Carson Davis |
2011 | Medieval and Early Modern literature, with particular interest in drama and performance theory. Secondary interests include reading practices and interpretation, as well as plague literature. | |
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Kelly Evans |
2013 | Medieval literature, with particular interest in recipes and representations of food and feasting. Secondary interests include translation theory, reception theory, and transmission studies. | ||
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Andrew Forrester |
2012 |
19th-century British fiction from Austen to James, with particular interest in the politics of social gatherings. Secondary interests include pop culture, cultural studies, and children's literature.
Andrew also serves as the president of the Graduate Student Assembly and sits on the Graduate Council. |
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Paul Freese pfreese@smu.edu |
2017 | |||
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Summer Hamilton |
2010 | 19th and 20th century African American literature with a particular interest in the narrative of housing |
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Katherine Harclerode |
2014 | Digital humanities, 19th-century transatlantic, book history, and historical periodicals |
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Shea Hennum shennum@smu.edu |
2017 | |||
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Kathleen Hines |
2014 | Early modern literature, with a focus on the intersections of plague with homiletic language of early modern England, classical and medieval Europe, and contemporary trauma theory. Other interests include Southern literature, with an emphasis on 19th and 20th century female writers. |
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Anna Hinton |
2012 | 20th-century African American fiction and culture, particularly the intersections of race, gender and disability. |
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Jordan Ivie |
2016 | Early Modern literature, especially portrayals of the sickness and the body; textual networks of recipes and medicines | |
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Lesleigh Jones |
Early Modern literature, particularly the intersection between Christian theology and Greco-Roman ideas as represented through literature. Secondary interests include medieval sermons, the Gothic, and the international reception of Shakespeare’s works. | ||
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Kelsey Kiser |
2013 | 19th and 20th century American literature, African-American literature, and social justice. | ||
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Shien Hauh Leu |
2015 | |||
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Andrea Luttrell |
2007 | Contemporary American Literature, Literature of the Southwest, Feminist Literary Criticism, and Creative Writing. Currently: Chair of English, Trinity Valley School, Fort Worth, Texas |
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Erica Massey |
2015 |
20th and 21st century American literature with a focus in comics, graphic narrative, and fandom studies. Secondary interests include feminist literary criticism and minority literature, particularly disability, native, and queer representation. Awarded: Alfred Leja English Award 2014
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Aisha Matthews (MA) Southern NH U (BA) Yale University aamatthews@smu.edu |
2017 |
Feminism, postmodern theory, science & speculative fictions, Suvinian theory, Afrofuturism, young adult sci-fi, fantasy. "Looking Back is Moving Forward: The legacy of Negro Spirituals in the Civil Rights Movement."International Journal of English Language, Literature, and Humanities. Vol. 4, No. 10. 2016 "Raping the Jezebel: Hypocrisy, Stereotyping, and Sexual Identity in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl." International Journal of English, Language, Literature, and Humanities. Vol. 4, No. 5.02016 Sigma Tau Delta - International English Honor Society |
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Amanda McAvoy |
2011 | |||
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2016 | 20thcentury transatlantic poetry and fiction; the relationship between new media and aesthetics; the Frankfurt School. | ||
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Chelsea McKelvey (MA) King’s College London (BA, BSEd) U of Georgia clrice@smu.edu |
2012 |
Early modern literature, Protestant Reformation and book history. "The 'Glorie, Might, and Maiestie' of Early Modern Sermons" in Literature and Theology 28.1 (2014) |
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Seth McKelvey rmckelvey@smu.edu |
2012 | 20th-century American literature; postmodernism, contemporary poetry; anarchism; economics. "But one kind' of Life: Thoreau's Subjective Theory of Value in Walden,"Nineteenth-Century Literature70.4 (2016) Co-editor, S/WORD. Website:sethmckelvey.com |
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Katelyn McWilliams |
2015 | |||
| Kevin Pickard (BA) U. of Oklahoma kpickard@smu.edu |
2014 | 20th and 21st-century American literature; drug novels; politics; history; neoliberalism; the War on Drugs. |
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James Ray jdray@smu.edu |
2017 | |||
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Will Roudabush (MA) U of Alabama (BA) Rhodes College, Phi Beta Kappa wroudabush@smu.edu |
2017 |
Renaissance/Early Modern Literature; Shakespeare, Marlowe, and their Contemporaries; Milton; The Epic Tradition; Classical Reception; The History of the Book |
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Cole Ryberg (BA) UT Austin, Phi Beta Kappa cryberg@smu.edu |
2017 |
The Victorian Novel; Romantic Poetry and Prose; Literature and Empire; Narratology; Gender and Sexuality Studies |
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Andrew Spencer |
2015 |
Spirituality/religion as decoloniality in multi-ethnic American literature. Race and nature in contemporary American literature. Freire’sPedagogy of the Oppressedand critical pedagogical methods. "Happening to Oneself: Zen, Taoism, and Jungian Individuation as Paths to Spirituality in Edward Gorey'sThe Object Lessonand Shel Silverstein'sThe Missing Piece."PsyArt: An Online Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts. PsyArt, 12 Dec. 2014. Web. 14 Jan. 2015. http://psyartjournal.com/article/show/spencer-happening_to_oneself_zen_taoism_and_jung |
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Completed Ph.D.s and Placements |
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Michael Anderson
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2007 | Medieval and Arthurian literature. Currently: Strayer University, Washington DC |
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Kristina Booker |
2009 | Eighteenth- and nineteenth- century British novels and economic theory. Her dissertation traces how literary authors use fictional servants to represent and process shifting social and economic values. An essay on Pamela and Roxanais forthcoming Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies. Currently: Assistant Professor of English, St. Gregory's University, Oklahoma |
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Katharine Boswell Ph.D., August 2016 (BA) Baylor kboswell@smu.edu |
2010 |
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Jennifer Boulanger |
2007 | Medieval Studies, Arthurian Literature, and Feminist Theory and Criticism. Currently: English Department, Hockaday School, Dallas, TX |
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Chris Goldsmith |
2009 | Filth, politics, and the state of nature in 18th century Britain (with detours into both France and the 19th century). | ||
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Austin Johnson |
2007 | Early modern literature and its interactions with Reformation theology and politics. Currently: Trinity Valley School, Fort Worth |
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Carrie Johnston |
2008 | Digital Humanities; 19th- and 20th-Century American Literature; Literature of the American Southwest; Travel Narratives; Book History and Material Culture; American Periodical Culture. 2015-2016: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Bucknell U., PA Currently: Digital Humanities Research Designer, Wake Forest University |
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Lauren Miskin |
2011 | "The Victorian 'Cameo Craze': Cameos, Femininity, and the Fashioning of Britain's Imperial Identity." Forthcoming in Victorian Review. "Jezebel's Monopoly of the Rouge Pot": Cosmetics, anti-Semitism, and Xenophobia in Victorian Print Culture. Forthcoming in Victorians Institute Journal. "'True Indian Muslin' and the Politics of Consumption in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey," Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies 15.2 (Spring 2015) 5-26. Currently: Hughes Post-Doctoral Fellow, SMU |
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Anna Nelson |
2011 |
Nineteenth-century African American lit and nineteenth-century southern literature. | ||
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2009 | Infectious Diseases and Contamination in Late-Nineteenth Century British, American and Scandinavian Fiction. 2015-16: Hughes Post-Doctoral Fellow, SMU Currently: Adjunct Lecturer, Discourse and Discernment, SMU 2017: Assistant Professor, Whitworth Univeristy, Spokane, WA |
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Kari Nixon |
BOOKS
Endemic: Essays in Contagion Theory, co-editor with Lorenzo Servitje. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Theorizing Syphilis and Subjectivity: From the Victorians to the Present, co-editor with Lorenzo Servitje. Forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. ARTICLES "Seeing Things: The Dilemma of Visual Subjectivity at the Dawn of the Bacteriological Age in Strindberg's The Father."; Forthcoming in Configurations: A Journal of Literature and Science 26.2 (2016). "A Speculative Idea': The Parallel Trajectories of Financial Speculation, Obstetrical Science, and Fiscal Management of Female Bodies in Henry James's Washington Square."; Journal for Medical Humanities (2014). "If You Don't Know Me By Now: The Failure of Care in'Bartleby, the Scrivener.'"; Disability Studies Quarterly 34.4 (2014). "Keep Bleeding: Hemorrhagic Sores, Trade, and the Necessity of Leaky Boundaries in Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year."; Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 14.2 (2014): 62-81. BOOK CHAPTERS "Introduction: The Making of a Modern Endemic."; Endemic: Essays in Contagion Theory. Co-written and edited with Lorenzo Servitje. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. "Find the Microbe and Kill It:' Victorian Viral Virulence, Postmodern Zombies, and the American Healthcare Enterprise."; The Walking Med: Zombies and Medical Language. Ed. Sherryl Vint and Lorenzo Servitje. Forthcoming. University Park: Penn State UP, 2016. "Cultural Documents and Illustrations,"; (author) and "A Critical History of Jane Eyre"; (coauthored with Beth Newman). "Jane Eyre";: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism. Ed. Beth Newman. 2nd ed. Boston: Bedford St. Martins, 2014. BOOK REVIEWS Review of Evolutionary Aesthetics of Human Ethics in Hardy's Tragic Narratives, by Riza Ozturk. The Hardy Review (2014) |
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Micah Robbins |
2008 | 19th and 20th C. American Literature, Book History, and Small Press Publishing. Currently: Assistant Professor of English, American University, Dubai |
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Julianne Sandberg |
2010 | Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century British literature, theology, and religion; interpretation, allegory, and Eucharistic theology Publication: "The Georgic Mode and 'Poor Labours' of George Herbert."; Forthcoming in Renaissance Studies, 2015. Currently: Visiting Assistant Professor, Wheaton College (Illinois) |
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Megan Schott |
2008 |
Medieval Literature and Autobiography Studies. Currently: Faculty, Ursuline Academy |
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Christopher Stampone |
2011 |
Medieval romance and English and American romanticism.Notes. William Wells Brown: Clotel and Other Writings. Ed. Ezra Greenspan. New York: Library of America, 2014. |
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Meghan Wadle |
2010 | American literature of the Early Republic, Social Contract Theory and the American Literary Imagination. | |
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2007 | 19th and 20th C. British Literature Currently:Assistant Professor of English, Milligan College, TN |
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Bethany Williamson Ph.D., December 2012 (BA) Cedarville U bwilliamso@smu.edu |
2009 |
17th- and 18th- century British Literature; Empire, Travel writing, and Orientalism; Literary and Critical Theory. |
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Ashley Winstead |
2010 |
Primary interests are in twentieth and twenty-first century American fiction, speculation, futurity, the politics of narrative forms, and the intersections between literature, science, and technology. Her dissertation, "Futures Studies: Speculative Narratives in Contemporary American Fiction," argues that contemporary fiction writers imagine their speculative narratives as technologies in order to grant them performative powers, making them into tools with which to shape our shared social reality. |
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Charles Wuest |
2009 |
Medieval literature (especially Chaucer), translation studies, creative writing, and pedagogy. His article "Chaucer's Enigmatic Thing in the Parliament of Fowls" is forthcoming in Studies in Philology. His "Sisters Are Sisters: Identity In An Anonymous Middle English Poem" is forthcoming in Papers on Language and Literature. |
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