Graduate Students
Carolin Benack
Student
American literature; 19th century literature; African-American literature; history of economics; novel theory; history of liberalism; feminist theory
Devin Buckley
Student
Interests: Romanticism, Aesthetics, German Idealism, Phenomenology, Philosophical theology
Russell Coldicutt
Student
Russell Coldicutt is a doctoral candidate in Duke’s Ph.D. program in English and works as an assistant editor for NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction. Building from his interest in novel theory, cybernetics, and the philosophy of technology, Russell is beginning a dissertation on the infrastructures of... Full Profile »
Jessica Covil
Student
Jessica Covil is a third-year PhD student in English at Duke, where she is also working towards graduate certificates in African & African American Studies and Gender, Sexuality, & Feminist Studies. Her research currently focuses on literary representations of community, belonging, and... Full Profile »
Emma Davenport
Student
Ph.D. Candidate, Duke University, EnglishM.A., Georgetown University, English, 2014J.D., Harvard Law School, 2008B.A., Carleton College, Political Science, 2005
Kimberley Dimitriadis
Student
kimberley.dimitriadis@duke.edu
Kimberley Bridgette Dimitriadis is a third year in Duke’s Ph.D. program in English and works as an editorial assistant for NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction. Her research interests include nineteenth-century literature and culture; the history of science and mathematics; and the novel and novel... Full Profile »
James Draney
Student
20th and 21st century anglophone and American literatures; Marxism; media studies; phenomenology; history of the novel; philosophy and literature; the nature of modernity
Kevin Gallin
Student
Kevin Gallin is a PhD candidate in English at Duke University. His research interests include Global Modernism(s), the Contemporary Anglophone novel, Irish literature, literary cultures, and genre and novel theory. His dissertation project focuses on how and why Modernist narrative strategies... Full Profile »
Tye Landels
Student
European Romanticism; Enlightenment and counter-Enlightenment thought; history of subjectivity; ethics and aesthetics; hermeneutics
Catherine Lee
Student
Catherine Ji Won Lee is a PhD candidate in English at Duke University, specializing in British Romanticism with research interests in aesthetics, novel theory, affect theory, and the relationship between literature and science. She holds an MA in English from the University of British Columbia and... Full Profile »
Shirley Li
Student
B.A. Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 2013M.S. Ed., University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2016
Karen Little
Student
Karen Little is a PhD candidate in English and enrolled in the African and African American Studies graduate certificate program, as well. Her dissertation examines representations of black American property ownership in twentieth century US fiction and film, especially by black American... Full Profile »
Joanna Murdoch
Student
I'm a doctoral candidate in late medieval literature at Duke University's English Department. I study the high-stakes reading practices surrounding devotional poems copied in fifteenth-century manuscripts. These poems and their surviving manuscripts are often overlooked in long histories of "the... Full Profile »
Sonia Nayak
Student
My research combines the microeconomic vestiges of colonial capitalism, with a reengagement with psycho-affective pain in literature, or the microaggression, into what I call microcruelty—the interior, psychological and economic effects of repeated, minor cruelties— to help us see the... Full Profile »
Sasha Panaram
Student
Sasha Panaram is a PhD candidate in English at Duke University, where she studies conditions of belonging, creative expressions of loss, and enactments of fugitivity in black diasporic literature. Her dissertation explores fictional and critical renderings of the Middle Passage by black women in... Full Profile »
Claire Ravenscroft
Student
Claire Ravenscroft is a doctoral candidate in the department of English. Her research and teaching interests include energy, environment, contemporary fiction and film. Her dissertation, Fossil Capitalist Realism: Petrofiction, Climate Change and the Endless Twentieth Century, identifies the... Full Profile »
Kevin Spencer
Student
I graduated with a BA (hons) in English and an MA in English from the University of Alberta. I completed a second MA in Theory and Criticism at Western University in London, Ontario, the culmination of which was a thesis called "Swearing: Force and Language." In that thesis, I asked why and how... Full Profile »
Jessica Stark
Student
Jessica Q. Stark is a PhD Candidate in English at Duke University, where she is studying the presence of community, collaboration, and popular culture across literary genres. Her dissertation project explores the intersections between modern to contemporary poetry and American comic books in... Full Profile »
Patrick Timmis
Student
I am a Ph.D. candidate in English affiliated with the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. My research interests include the interplay between theater and Puritanism in early modern England, devotional poetry, and London sermon culture. I previously completed an M.A. at the University of... Full Profile »