MA Student Directory
1st Year
Research Interests: Narrative Theory, Adaptation, and Dramatic Literature
1st Year
Research Interests: Societal transformative effects on the novel between the 19th & 20th century
2nd Year
Research Interests: The 19th century novel (French, British, American, and Russian); historical fiction; contemporary Anglophone fiction; Marxist literary theory; American literature (19th century-present), especially African American literature; British literature (19th century-present); French literature (19th-20th century); Realism; comparative literature; world literature; post-colonial literature; Modernism; existentialism
3rd Year
1st Year
Research Interests: Horror literature and the gothic, queer narratives, disability narratives
2nd Year
1st Year
Research Interests: Sexuality, phenomenology, affect, novel, post-colonialism
1st Year
Research Interests: Late modernism; 20th and 21st centuries; postwar literature; the crisis of narrative; language deconstruction; aesthetic experience; failure.
1st Year
18th/19th Century British literature; medical humanities; epistolary studies; feminist theory; gender studies
3rd Year
Research interests: 19th/18th Century British Literature; Penny Dreadfuls/Blood, Victorian Serial Novel, Victorian Gothic, Newgate/Detective, and Gallows fiction.
1st Year
Research Interests: Media Studies; Digital Entertainment Media as Literature; Popular Culture and Audience; Children’s Literature and Literary Nonsense; Asian American Literature; Queer Theory and Gender and Sexuality; Form, Structure, and Style in Prose
1st Year
Research Interests: 20th century Irish and British literature, American Postmodernism, Narratology, Semiotics, and Reader-response Criticism.
2nd Year
3rd Year
Research Interests: African American Literature, African Diasporas, Black Identity, 19th/ 20th/21st century
1st Year
Research Interests: Asian American Literature, Contemporary Fiction, Coming of Age, Popular Culture, Gender and Sexuality, YA Fiction, Postcolonial Studies
2nd Year
Research Interests: American literature, Arabic literature, Modernism, Postmodernism, absurdism, surrealism, speculative fiction, critical theory, Marxist theory, postcolonial theory, poetics, genre, metaphor, names, music
2nd Year
Research interest: Popular Culture, Digital Humanities, Reader Response Theory, Film and Media Studies, Porn Studies, and Gender and Sexuality
3rd Year
1st Year
Research Interests: medieval literature and culture, medievalism, Old English language and literature, Arthurian romances, Tolkien studies, elves!
1st Year
Research Interests: transnationalism, asian american literature, chinese anglophone literature, speculative fiction, worldbuilding, gender, webfiction, fandom; how fiction is used as a tool in queer Chinese American identity creation; intersections of queerness, mythology, and Asian American literature, especially intersections of mythology and modern politics, Anglophone Chinese modern speculative fiction, and how concepts of gender move across cultural boundaries via literature in our interconnected world of webnovels and increased translation availability
2nd Year
Research Interests: 20th century British literature, border studies, women's writing, gender and sexuality studies, postcolonial literature
2nd Year
Kim, Heejin
2nd Year
Research Interests: global modernism, architecture, urban planning, temporality and historicity, postcolonialism, Korean literature
1st Year
Research Interests: 20th/21st century American Literature, Modernism, Poetics, Speculative Fiction, Archives and Records
1st Year
Research Interests: Latinx/e literature, diaspora studies, post/decolonial theory
1st Year
Research Interests: Postcolonial Studies, 19th Century Novels, Modernism, Media Studies
2nd Year
2nd Year
Research interests: 18th century British literature, women writers, cosmopolitanism, postcolonialism, and medical humanities.
2nd Year
1st Year
Research Interests: Dystopian literature; 20th and 21st-century literature; multi-ethnic literature; environmental humanities
2nd Year
Research Interests: British literature of the long 19th century; the novel; queer theory; feminist theory; French literature.
2nd Year
Research interests: 20th and 21st century British fiction (esp. after 1945); national identity and theories of nationalism; narrative and postcolonial theory; collective imaginaries and the political unconscious; politics of memory (public & private); cultural revivals; temporalities, discontinuities & dislocations; the intersections and interstices of national narratives and narrative fiction; border theory; palimpsestic histories (the nation as palimpsest); Scottish and (Northern) Irish contemporary literature and nationalisms; BrexLit (Brexit Literature); Englishness and the Empire; the cultural Cold War and transatlantic postmodernism; cultures of reaction; ambivalent nostalgia; postcolonial melancholia & postcolonial shame; neoliberalism, globalization, and the crisis of the nation-state.
1st Year
Research Interests: 18th/19th-century British literature, Jewish literature and culture, graphic narrative, narratology and literary forms, memory and trauma theory
2nd Year
1st Year
Research Interests: postcolonial theory, carceral studies, apocalyptic literature, speculative and science fiction, U.S. imperialism, feminist theory
2nd Year
Research Interests: Colonialism and Imperialism (British Empire studies); Postcolonialism and the Global South; South Asian, Indian subcontinent, and Indo-Caribbean literature; Literature and urban spaces
1st Year
Research Interests: Postcolonial Studies; Colonialism, Imperialism, and Empire; South Asian Literature; Queer Theory and Gender Studies; Indo-Caribbean Literature; South Asian Diaspora Studies
2nd Year
Research Interests: 20th century American literature, Trauma studies, Turn-of-the-century urban history and development
1st Year
Research Interests: American postwar experimental poetry; modernist/avant-garde literature; library & archival studies.
2nd Year
2nd Year
1st Year
Research Interests: American literature; African American literature; Black Girlhood Studies; Black Feminist Theory; Ecocriticism; Women and Gender Studies; Posthumanism
2nd Year
2nd Year
1st Year
Research Interests: Postcolonial literature of the African diaspora, abolitionist theory, Afrofuturism, Caribbean folklore, Black feminism, oral histories, archival studies
3rd Year
Research Interests: gothic literature, monster theory, hauntology, memory, fragmentation, archival theory + practice, library + information science
2nd Year
Research Interests: Performance Studies, Affect Theory, Sensory Studies, Poetics, Asian American Literature, Media Studies, Temporality
1st Year
Research Interests: Comparative Literature, Medieval Literature, East Asian Studies, Gender Studies
1st Year
Research Interests: Victorian literature, feminist theory, disability theory