Graduate Students
2015
Steele Douris
Field of Study: British: 19th Century and Digital Humanities
Email: sdouris@stanford.edu
2014
Erik Fredner
Field of Study: 19th and 20th century American; Digital Humanities
Email: fredner@stanford.edu
2013
2012
Aku Ammah-Tagoe
Field of Study: Modern and Postmodern Literature
Dissertation: Urban Form: Planning and American Fiction, 1940 to Present
Email: akuat@stanford.edu
Luke Barnhart
Field of Study: British Renaissance/Shakespeare/Milton
Dissertation: Plain Poetics: Alternative Histories for an Early Modern Style
Email: labarn@stanford.edu
Chelsea Davis
Field of Study: American Renaissance/19th Century American
Email: cmdavis1@stanford.edu
Abigail Droge
Field of Study: British: 19th Century
Dissertation: The Expert Wars: The Politics of Literacy in Victorian Fiction and Natural Science
Email: adroge@stanford.edu
Sylvan Goldberg
Field of Study: American Renaissance/19th Century American
Dissertation: A Natural History of Literary Time: Temporality and Environment in Nineteenth Century American Literature
Email: sylvang@stanford.edu
Victoria Googasian
Field of Study: 20th and 21st C. American; Animal Studies and Ecocriticism
Dissertation: Animal Character and Nonhuman Consciousness in 20th Century America
Email: vgoog@stanford.edu
Ryan Heuser
Field of Study: Eighteenth Century British and Digital Humanities
Email: heuser@stanford.edu
2011
Annie Atura
Field of Study: Literature and Religion
Dissertation: Getting Distance: Aesthetic Afterlives of Judaism, Feminism, and Psychoanalysis
Email: atura@stanford.edu
Jessica Beckman
Field of Study: British Renaissance/Shakespeare/Milton
Dissertation: The Mind’s Eye: Vision, Text, and Thought in Early Modern English Print
Email: beckman1@stanford.edu
Tasha Eccles
Field of Study: British: Romanticism
Dissertation: Suspense and the Novelistic Self
Email: eccles@stanford.edu
Teresa Jimenez
Field of Study: American after 1900 Modern (post 1914)
Dissertation: Masques of Capital: The Aesthetics of Value-Form Society in the Late Contemporary Anglophone Novel
Email: jimenezt@stanford.edu
Mary Kim
Field of Study: Literature and Philosophy
Dissertation: What's in a Question?
Email: mkim6@stanford.edu
Andrew Shephard
Field of Study: Cultural Studies
Dissertation: "Wandering in Strange Lands"; Speculative Fiction of the African Diaspora
Email: washep@stanford.edu
Justin Tackett
Field of Study: British and American literature of the long 19th Century
Dissertation: Listening Between the Lines: Sound Technology and Poetry, 1850-1930
Email: tackett@stanford.edu
2010
Dalglish Chew
Dissertation: Acts of Literature: Situating, Witnessing, Problematizing, Demystifying
Email: dalglish@stanford.edu
Erik Johnson
Dissertation: Dramatick Fable: Unities of Time, Place, and Action in the New English Novel, 1670-1760
Email: erikj09@stanford.edu
J.D. Porter
Dissertation: The Fact of Fiction: Race, Money, Gender and Nation in American Modernism
Email: jdporter@stanford.edu
Vanessa Seals
Dissertation: Representations of Multiracial Families in American Literature
Email: vlseals@stanford.edu
Hannah Walser
Dissertation: Mind-Reading in the Dark: Behaviorist Characterization in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
Email: walser@stanford.edu
2009
Ryan Haas
Field of Study: (on leave)
Dissertation: The Draggled Muse: Early Modern Literature and the Poetics of Triviality
Email: ryanhaas@stanford.edu
Nathaniel Landry
Dissertation: Left: Modes of Disaffiliation in Cold War American Literature
Email: nmlandry@stanford.edu
Amir Tevel
Dissertation: The Character of Ideas in Nineteenth Century Social Fiction
Email: tevela@stanford.edu
Connie Zhu
Field of Study: (on leave)
Dissertation: Three Long Novels and Other Stories: The Length of Fiction in the Victorian Age
Email: xyzhu@stanford.edu
2008
Cristina Jimenez
Field of Study: (on leave)
Dissertation: Remapping Realism
Email: jimenezc@stanford.edu
2006
Meredith Castile
Dissertation: Theory of the Novella: Britain, 1870-1925
Email: walkerm@stanford.edu
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