MA Students

Preston Goebel
I am a second-year MA student with a BA in English literature and history from John Carroll University. My literary interests include women’s writing and the Gothic.

Olivia Hobbs
I am a first-year and part-time MA student with an MIS from the University of Tennessee and a BA from Salisbury University. My main interests are in gender and sexuality and evolving societal norms in Victorian literature.

Campbell Pratt
I am a first-year MA student with a BA in English from Cleveland State University. My research interests include gender and sexuality studies, depictions of the macabre, and literary eroticism.

Emily Sienkiewicz
I am a first-year MA student with undergraduate degrees in English and Communications from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. My research interests focus on motherhood and the comorbidities that stem from it due to medical and societal conditions.

PhD Students

Juliana Amir
I am a first-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 and healing with a special interest in fairytales, folklore, mythology, teaching narrative, and the medical humanities.

Benjamin Nuttall
I am a sixth-year PhD student with an MA from the University of Nottingham and a BA from the University of Liverpool. My research focuses on the relationship between utopianism, teleological narratives of history, and British modernist literature.

Ryan Pfeiffer
I am a second-year PhD student with a BS in English from Hillsdale College and an MA in English from Case Western Reserve. My academic interests include the ontology of poetry and how form engenders meaningful aesthetic work. I am also interested in the role of the humanities in the contemporary university space.

Champa Qiang 
I am a first-year PhD student with an MA from the University of Edinburgh. My research interest includes the global studies around James Joyce from post-colonial perspective and Irish modernity. I am also interested in trauma theory and indigenous Celtic and Tibetan cosmology.

Abigail Raley
I am a first-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.