MA Students

Preston Goebel
I am a first-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.

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.