MA Students
Olivia Hobbs
I am a third-year, part-time MA student with an MIS from the University of Tennessee and a BA from Salisbury University. My research interests are in rhetoric and composition, specifically as they relate to information literacy.
Alyssa Pierce
I am a third-year, part-time MA student with an MSI from the University of Michigan and a BA in Linguistics from Northwestern University. My research interests include the transmission and translation of medieval literature and historical information systems.
Campbell Pratt
I am a second-year MA student with undergraduate degrees from Cleveland State University and Lorain County Community College. My research interests include poetry, eroticism, and depictions of the macabre.
Marin Ritter
I am a first-year, part-time MA student with a BA in English from Oberlin College, MLIS from University of Maryland, and JD from Case Western Reserve University. I write Victorian-era and contemporary women’s fiction and my research interests include the impact of societal change on fiction and the intersection of fiction and history.
Emily Sienkiewicz
I am a second-year MA student with undergraduate degrees in English and Communications from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. My research interests involve examining motherhood through literary, historical, and sociological lenses.
PhD Students
Juliana Amir
I am a third-year PhD student with a BA in English, an MA in Composition, and an MFA in Creative Writing from The University of Akron. My research area explores the intersection of narrative, healing, and ethics with a special interest in fairytales, folklore, mythology, teaching narrative, and the medical humanities.
Preston Goebel
I am a first-year PhD student with a BA in English literature and history from John Carroll University and an MA in English from Case Western Reserve University. My research interests include women’s writing and the Gothic.
Ryan Pfeiffer
I am a fourth-year PhD student with a BS in English from Hillsdale College and an MA in English from Case Western Reserve. My dissertation project takes up several late-nineteenth and twentieth century poets. It argues that the lyric genre’s unique capacities has made these poets’ works particularly resistant to formalist and historicist criticism, and that reading for technique might disclose how such works actively bring forth meaning. I am also interested in the role of the humanities in the contemporary university space.
Champa Qiang
I am a third-year PhD student with a BA in English from Beijing Foreign Studies University and an MA in English literature and Modernity from the University of Edinburgh. My research focuses on global approaches to James Joyce particularly from postcolonial perspectives and the lens of Irish modernity. I am also interested in comparative studies of Indigenous cosmologies, especially between Irish and Tibetan spiritual traditions, and how these ideas shape communal literary imaginations.
Abigail Raley
I am a second-year PhD student with an MFA from the University of Montana. My research interests include disability studies, formal processes of embodiment, poetic eroticism, and the medicalized body.
Xavier Searle
I am a first year PhD student with an MFA in poetry from North Carolina State University. My research interests include contemporary formal poetics, queer & trans theory & poetics, lyric theory, & the Gothic.
Mish Gajewski-Zambataro
I am a first-year PhD student with a BA in English-Creative Writing from Ohio University and an MFA from the NEOMFA/Cleveland State University. My research interests are in ecocriticism and ecopoetics, especially as they intersect with Big Tech and surveillance. I write ecofiction, primarily in a speculative mode.