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Incoming Graduate Students 2007

Congratulations to these strong scholars from among nearly 220 applicants entering the English graduate program in Fall, 2007.

Raquel Baker, B.A., San Francisco State University, 2002; M.F.A., Mills College, 2005. 
Interest:  Anglophone Postcolonial Literature

Cassandra Bausman, B.A., Augustana College, 2006.
Interest: Women’s Literature

Thomas Hughes Blake, B.A., 2002; M.A., 2005, University of Tennessee-Knoxville,.
Interest: Medieval and Renaissance Literature

Blake Bronson-Bartlett, B.A., Hunter College, 2006.
Interest: 19th Century American Literature

Craig Carey, B.S., Syracuse University, 2001; M.A., University of Chicago, 2002; M.A., Brooklyn College, 2007.

Andrew Crooke, B.A., Cornell University, 2001.
Interest: Twentieth Century American Fiction

Kerry Anne Delaney, B.A., Washington College, 2007.
Interest: Renaissance

Robert Fernandez, B.A., Florida Atlantic University, 2004; M.F.A., University of Iowa, 2006.
Interest: Theory/Contemporary Literature

Mary Hickman-Fernandez, B.A. Boise State University; M.F.A., University of Iowa, 2006.
Interest: Poetry

Sunghyun Jang, B.A., Yonsei University, 2003; M.A., Seoul National University, 2005.
Interest: British Romanticism

Bryan Mangano, B.A., Massachusetts College Lib. Art, 2005; M.A., Boston College, 2007.
Interest: 18th Century Novel Studies

Sarah Fay McCarthy, B.A. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 1994; M.A., Warren Wilson College, 2006.
Interest: Modern American Poetry

Paul McCullough, B.A. California Polytech State University, 2007.
Interest: American Literature

Christine Norquest, B.A. Southwestern University, 2003.

Melanie Reichwald, B.A., S U N Y – College at Purchase, 2006.
Interest: African American Literature

Ross Salinas, B.A., Southwestern University, 2003; M.A., University of Texas, 2007.
Interest: American Literature

Jillian Walker, B.A., Trinity University, 2003; University of Colorado-Boulder, 2005.
Interest: Victorian

Lacey Worth, B.A., Kenyon College, 2005.
Interest: American Literature and African American Literature

Incoming Graduate Students 2006

Congratulations to these strong scholars from among nearly three hundred applicants entering the English graduate program in Fall, 2006.

Incoming M.A. Student 2006

Elizabeth Genovise, B.A. Hillsdale College, Michigan, 2006
Interest in 19th and 20th c. U.S. literature

Incoming Ph.D. Students 2006

Katherine Bishop, B.A. University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2004
Interest in 18th and 19th c. U.S. and British literatures

Eric Conrad, B.A. College of New Jersey, 2003
Interest in 19th c. U.S. literature

Brian Deutschendorf, B.A. University of Iowa, 2003; M.A. Northern Arizona University, 2005
Interest in literature and the environment

Bridget Draxler, B.A. St. Olaf College, 2005; M.A. University of York, UK, 2006
Interest in Romanticism and religion

Dorothy Giannakouros, B.A. Loras College, Dubuque, 2005
Interest in transnational and postcolonial studies

Nicole Grant, B.A. Florida Atlantic University, 2005
Interest in 19th and 20th c. U.S. literature and modernism

Berneta Haynes, B.A. Drury University, 2006
Interest in African American literature

Adele Holoch, B.A. Smith College, 2002; M.A. McGill University, 2006
Interest in Canadian and postcolonial literature

James Lambert, B.A. Brigham Young University, 2003; M.A. University of Arizona, 2006
Interests range from contemporary U.S. literature to early modern literature

Matthew Lavin, B.A. St. Lawrence University, New York, 2002; M.A., Utah State University, 2006
Interest in U.S. magazine culture and book studies

Jessica Lawson, B.A. Smith College, 2005
Interest in literary modernisms

Matthew Low, B.A. (2002), M.Ed. (2004), and M.A. Creighton University, 2006
Interests range from Romanticism to 19th c. U.S. literature

Chinelo Okparanta, B.A. Penn State University, 2003; M.A. Rutgers University, 2005
Interest in 17th-18th c. British literature

Erik Peterson, B.A. Creighton University, 2001; M.A. Florida State University, 2006
Interest in 18th c. British literature and ideology

Stephanie Rodgers, B.A. Xavier University, 2006
Interest in medieval literary studies

Amy Southwood, B.A. Purdue, 2001
Interest in 19th c. British literature

Nettie Vinsonhaler, B.S. University of Georgia, 1978; M.A. University of North Carolina, 1984
Interest in medieval literary studies

Incoming 2005

We have 20 students entering the Ph.D. program next year, as listed below. Three are winners of Presidential Fellowships and three are winners of Dean's Fellowships (which used to be called Graduate Merit Fellowships).

The new MA/PhD Students for 2006 are:

Erica Bazemore, BA Rutgers, 2004; American/African American Literature

Adam Bradford, BA Univ. of Utah, 1999; MA BYU, 2005; 19th Century American Literature

Ryan Clark, BA UC-Berkeley, 2003; 20th Century American Literature

Judith Coleman, BA Millsaps College, MS, 2003; grad course work Oxford; Milton

Elise Cook, BA Bradley Univ., IL, 2003; MA, Univ. of Iowa (Comparative Lit.), 2005; Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Literature, African American and Latino/a Writers

Gabriel Downs, BA Purdue, 2002; MA Purdue, 2005; Contemporary American Literature

Erik Habecker, BA UC-Irvine, 1997; MA UC-Irvine, 2004; Early Modern Literature

Jacob Horn, BA Univ. of Oklahoma, 2002; Film and Video, Theory

Joanne Janssen, BA Bethel College, MN, 1999; MA Ball State 2005; Victorian Literature

Travis Johnson, BA College of St. Scholastica, MN, 2004; Medieval Literature

Erin Mann, BA Rice, 2003; Literary Theory, Nonfiction Essay

Joshua Matthews, BA Indiana Univ.-Kokomo, 2003; MA Kent State, 2005; 18th and 19th Century American Literature

Robert McLoone, BA Indiana Univ., 2004; American Literature, Literature and Environment

Satya Onorato, BA UC- Santa Cruz,1997; Detective Fiction, Poe

Ann Pleiss, BA Mt. Mercy, IA, 2002; Renaissance Studies

Wanda Raiford, BA Brown, 1986; J.D. Univ. of Miami, 1991

Joseph Rodriguez, BA Univ. of Missouri-Kansas City, 2005; Victorian Literature

Elizabeth Shane, BA NYU, 2005; 18th and 19th Century British & American Literature

Anna Stenson, BA Gustavus Adolphus College, MN, 2005, Romantic and Victorian Literature

Brenton Thompson, BA Missouri Southern State College, 2005, Modernism, Joyce, Theory.

Incoming 2004

Welcome to the Ph.D. students admitted for Fall 2004!

Adkins, Taylor, B.A., State University of West Georgia, English, 2004

Basan, Benjamin, B.A., University of North London, English/German 1998

Blalock, Stephanie, B.A., Duke University, English, 2003

Boscaljon, Daniel, B.A., Buena Vista University (Iowa), Philosophy/Religion, 1998

Bygness, Megan, B.A., University of Iowa, Political Science/English, 2000; M.A., Kansas State University , 2004

deVega, Sean, B.A., Rice, English, 2004

Doyle, Shawn, B.A., Notre Dame, English/Government, 2004

Hines, Chad, B.A., Grinnell College, English, 2000; M.A. University of Chicago, Humanities, 2003

Holliday, Marta, B.A., Marymount College, English/Women’s Studies, 2004

Martini, Sarah, B.A., Purdue University, English/History, 2004

McDonald, Willis, B.A., Notre Dame, English, 2002; M.A. Notre Dame 2003

Newton, Scott, B.A., University of Wyoming, English/Psychology 2003

Nugent, Lynne, B.A., University of Chicago, Anthropology, 1994; M.F.A., University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing 2004

Row, Lindsey, B.A., Greenville College (Illinois), English/Religion 2004

Savage, Holly, B.A., Baylor, English 2000; M.A. University of Colorado- Boulder, English 2003

West, Stephen, B.A., SUNY-Geneseo, English/Art, 2002

Whitehead, Brian, B.A., University of Oklahoma, English, 2003

Wriglesworth, Chad, B.A., Warner Pacific College, English 1993; M.A. Portland State University, English, 2004

Incoming 2003

The group includes five Presidential Fellows, two Crossing Borders Fellows, and a Graduate Merit Fellow.

Amit Baishya, B.A., Cotton College, India; M.A., J.N.U., India

Erica Daigle, B.S. (biology), LSU; M.A., LSU

Nicole Gainyard, B.A., Hunter College, N.Y.

Joshua, Gooch, B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz

Katherine Gubbels, B.A. University of Nebraska, Omaha

Carolyn Hall, B.A. (German) Bucknell University; M.Ed., Grand Valley State, MI

Everett Hamner, B.A., Johns Hopkins; M.A.T. Johns Hopkins; M.C.S. Regents
College, Vancouver, B.C. CANADA

Amy Hezel, B.A., University of NY, Buffalo; M.L.S., University of NY, Buffalo

Robert Hunsicker, B.A. (philosophy), Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, IA

Jeremy Knapp, B.A., Thomas More College, KY

Deborah Manion, B.A., SUNY-Buffalo; M.A., SUNY-Buffalo

Christine Mazurkewycz, B.A.,University of Kansas; M.A., Purdue

Jailyn Moreland, B.A., University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Paige Nelson, B.A./B.S. (English, Spanish, psychology), University of Arizona, Tucson

Matthew Purdy, B.A., Connecticut College; M.A., SUNY-Binghamton

Eve Rosenbaum, B.A., SUNY-Binghamton; M.F.A. American University,
Washington, D.C.

LeDon Sweeney, B.A. (com. studs.), University of Iowa

Tevis Thompson, B.A. (gen. studs/hums.), University of Chicago; M.A. (Eastern classics), St. John’s College, NM

Incoming 2002

Ph.D. (and literary MA) Students

Bresnan, Mark St. Olaf College, (Minnesota) May 2001 (B.A.)

Burgess, Christopher Indiana University, South Bend, (Indiana) August 1997 (B.A.) Western Michigan University, June 2000, (M.A.)

Chasar, Michael Valparasio University, (Indiana) May 1993 (B.A.) Miami University (Ohio), December 1997 (M.A.)

Clay, Maia College of Wooster (Ohio), May 2002 (B.A.)

Davis, Joanna University of Kansas, July 2002 (B.A.)

Doty, Jeffrey Tarlton State University (Texas) May 2000 (B.A.) University of North Texas (Denton) May 2002 (M.A.)

Eamon, Patricia St. Johnâs College (New Mexico) May 2001 (B.A.)

Everson, David University of Florida, August 2001 (B.A.) Genoways, Theodore (Ted) Nebraska Wesleyan (Lincoln) May 1994 (B.A.) Texas Tech, May 1996 (M.A.) University of Virginia, May, 1999 (M.F.A.)

Hammerich, Jenna Lake Forest College (Illinois) May 2002 (B.A.)

Keegan, Tom University of Virginia, May 2002 (B.A.)

Kinneberg, Jennifer Gustavus Adolphus College (Minnesota) May 2002 (B.A.)

Kwon, Young Hee (Ms.) Seoul National University, February 1996 (B.A.) Seoul National University, February 1998 (M.A.)

Mallick, Sucheta Lady Brabourne College (India), April 1995 (B.A.) Jadaupur University (India), August 1997 (M.A.)

Smith, Laura Creighton University, (Nebraska) May 2002 (B.A.)

Stuhr, Tracy University of Iowa, December 1981 (B.A.) University of Iowa, (expected) December 2002 (M.F.A.)

Suchomel, Brooke University of Iowa, December 2001 (B.A.)

M.F.A. Students

Balcita, Angela Loyola College, Maryland, May 1996 (B.A.)

Clark, Michael E. University of Iowa, May 2000 (B.A.)

Kushner, Aviya Johns Hopkins University (Maryland) May 1995 (B.A.) Boston University, (Mass.) Sept. 1998 (M.A.)

Leach, Amy Southwestern Adventist University (Texas) December 1999 (B.A.)

Li, Yi Yun (Ms.) University in China, 1996

Murray, Margaret University of Chicago, 1979 (B.A.) Yale University (Conn), 1983 (Ph.D.) in mathematics

Reed, Jebediah Duke University (N.C.) May 1996 (B.A.)

Thompson, Margaret Michigan State University, June 1992 (B.A.) University of Texas, Austin, May 1994 (M.A.) University of Iowa, May 1992 (M.F.A. Creative Writing)

Yocum, Bonnie Witman College, (Washington), May 2000 (B.A.)

Incoming 2001

Lisa Angelella
University of Scranton (PA), B.A.
Area of Interest: Modernist Poetry

Jennifer Banash
University of Iowa, B.A.
Area of Interest: Modernist Period

Tembi Berbin
University of Texas, Austin, B.A.
Area of Interest: Colonialism, Postcolonial Theory, Jane Austin

Jeffrey Butler
UCLA, B.A.
University of Mass. M.F.A.
Area of Interest: 19th and 20th Century Literature

Jessica DeSpain
Mount Saint Claire College (Iowa), B.A.
Areas of Interest: Modernist and Contemporary Poetry, Gender Issues in Literature

Douglas Dowland
Michigan State University, B.A.
Areas of Interest: 20th Century American Literature, Modernism, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies

Nicole Flores
Northwestern University, B.A.
Area of Interest: Editors in American Fiction in the First Half of the 20th Century

Cory Hutchinson
Ouachita Baptist University (Arkansas), B.A.
University of Central Arkansas, M.A.
Area of interest: Meta-fiction of the Post Modern Novel

Kathryn Krueger
Gustavus Adolphus College (MN), B.A.
Area of Interest: 20th Century American and Irish Literature

Nathan Mitchel
Universityof Wisconsin, Green Bay, B.A.
Area of Interest: Gothic Fiction: Fantasy/Horror Genre Studies

Lorry Perry
Wellesly College (MA), B.A.
Areas of Interest: American Southern Literature, Modernism

Rufo Quintavalle
University of Oxford (England), B.A.
Area of Interest: Criticism

Marsha Walker
Jackson State University (MS), B.A.
Areas of Interest: African-American Literature and American Literature

Dorothy Weiss
Earlham College (IN), B.A.
Areas of Interest: 20th Century Literature, Feminist Theory

Incoming 2000

Steven Almquist
St. Mary's College (MN), B.A.
University of North Dakota, M.A.
Area of Interest: Postcolonial Literature

Heidi Bean
Indiana University, B.A.
Areas of Interest: American Literature in the 1920s, Women's Writing

Gunnar Benediktsson
University of Calgary (Candada), B.A.
Iowa State University, M.A.
Areas of Interest: Critical Theory, 19th Century Literature

Nicole Buscemi
Illinois Wesleyan, B.A.
University of Chicago, M.A.
Areas of Interest: Modernism, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies

Kimberly Cohen
Hofstra University (NY), B.A.
SUNY-Stony Brook, M.A.
Areas of Interest: 20th Century American Literature, Women Writers, Feminist Theory

Stacy Erickson
Ripon College (WI), B.A.
Areas of Interest: 20th century Literature (Modernism), Renaissance Literature

Heidi LaVine
St. Olaf's College (MN), B.A.
Area of Interest: 20th Century Literature

Matthew Miller
University of Nebraska, B.A.
University of Nebraska, M.A.
University of Iowa, (Writers' Workshop), M.F.A.
Areas of Interest: 19th Century American Literature, 20th Century British and American Literature

Derek Oja
Georgia State University, B.A.
University of South Alabama, M.A.
Areas of Interest: Critical Theory, American Literature to 1900, 20th century Literature

Anne Peterson
Evergreen State College (WA), B.A.
University of Wyoming, M.A.
Areas of Interest: Native Americans in American Literature, Late 19th Century Literature

Joshua Raulerson
Iowa State University, B.A.
Areas of Interest: 19th and 20th Century American Literature

Anna Spyra
University of Silesia (Poland), B.A.
University of Silesia (Poland), M.A.
Area of Interest: Post-colonial Literature

Justin St. Clair
Washington and Lee University (VA), B.A.
Areas of Interest: 20th Century American Literature, Postmodern Literature

Jeffrey Swenson
St. John's University (MN), B.A.
University of Alaska Fairbanks, M.A.
Area of Interest Post-colonial American Literature

Keith Wilhite
St. Louis University (MO), B.A.
St. Louis University (MO), M.A.
Area of Interest: Narrative theory in relation to American Literature

Incoming prior to 2000

Matthew "Greg" Bales
Harding University (AR), B.A.
Area of Interest: 19th Century American Literatur

David Banash
St. Ambrose University (IA), B.A.
Colorado State University, M.A.
Prospectus: "Collage"; Director: Kuenzli

Bidisha Banerjee
Presidency College (Calcutta, India), B.A.
Jadaupur University (Calcutta, India), M.A.
Claremont (CA), M.A.
Prospectus: No Nation Woman: Representations of Diaspora and the Female Body in South Asian Women's Writing; Director: Emery

Robin Barrow
Tennessee Tech, B.A.
Prospectus: Silence and Spectacle: Rape in Victorian Fiction; Director: Boos

Renee Brochu
Binghamton University (NY), B.A.
Area of Interest: Renaissance

Patricia Brogan
Bryn Mawr (PA) B.A.
Prospectus: Home Free, or the Unreal Estate: Fantastic Literature in Britain, 1870-1930; Director: Latham

Mark Bruce
Bethel College (MN), B.A.
Colorado State University, M.A.
Area of Interest: 19th Century American Literature

Jeffrey Charis-Carlson
Western Michigan University, B.A.
University of Chicago, M.A.
Area of Interest: Twain and Bierce Ð Journalism and Literature of the Fin de siecle

Vickie Clarke
University of California, Riverside, B.A.
American Literature

Andrew Clinton
Haverford College, (PA), B.A.
Area(s) of Interest: Renaissance Literature, African-American Literature, Irish Literature

Michael Cooper
University of Iowa, B.A.
University of Iowa, M.A.T.
Areas of Interest: Black fiction, American Indian fiction

Elizabeth Corsun
University of California, Santa Cruz, B.A.
Prospectus: We are No Angels: The Comic Female Grotesque in Victorian Imagination; Director: Stewart

J. P. Craig
Memphis State University (TN), B.A.
University of Memphis (TN), M.F.A.
Prospectus: Robert Duncan, Nathaniel McKey and Susan Howe
Director: Morris

Melissa Donegan
Bates College (ME), B.A.
Area of Interest: 18th and 19th Century British Literature

Mark Dowdy
California State University, Long Beach, B.A.
San Jose State, M.A.
Areas of interest: Renaissance Literature and drama, orality and literacy studies

Megan Early
New York University, B.A.
New York University, M.A.
Prospectus: "Matters of Artistic Expression": The Performing Arts, Aesthetics and Writing, 1841-1910, Director: Mangum

Anthony Enns
University of North Carolina, B.A.
Hollins College (VA), M.A.
Old Dominion University (VA) M.F.A.
Prospectus: Spiritual Media: Communicating with the Dead in the Electronic age; Directors: Latham and Wittenberg

Jean Fernandez
University of Madras (India), B.A.
University of Madras (India), M.A.
Prospectus: In Service of Narration: Servants, Subalternity and Narrational Politics in Victorian Fiction and Autobiography; Director: Stewart

Damon Franke
University of Carlifornia, Berkeley, B.A.
University of Georgia, M.A.
Prospectus: "Modern Heresies"; Director: Boos

Thomas Gannon
University of South Dakota, B.A.
University of South Dakota, M.A.
Prospectus: Human Self, Avian Other: Imagining the Bird from British Romantic Poetry to Contemporary Native American Writing; Chair: Folsom

Michael Germana
Virginia Tech, B.A.
Virginia Tech, M.A.
Area of Interest: American Literature

Marty Gould
Tulane University (LA), B.A.
University of Mississippi, Oxford, M.A.
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, M.A.
Prospectus: Role Britannia: Theatricality and Empire in the Victorian Period
Director: Mangum

Susan Gray
University of Waterloo (Canada), B.A.
University of Iowa, M.F.A.
Area of Interest: English Romantic Poetry

Eric Haley
University of Georgia, B.A.
University of South Carolina, M.A.
Prospectus: These Places Could Have Been Home: Agriculture and Atopia in American Literature; Director: Lutz

Mary Hayes
Dartmouth College, B.A.
University of Chicago, M.A.
Prospectus: Silence, Sounds and Religious Soundscapes in the Middle Ages; Directors: Sponsler and Wilcox

Susan Hwang
Scripps College (CA), B.A.
Area of Interest: American Literature

Joyce Kelley
Haverford College, (PA), B.A.
Areas of Interest: 19th and 20th Century British and American Literature

Wesley Kisting
Marquette University, (WI), B.A.
Areas of Interest: Relationship between Nature and Faith/Suffering as it relates to human development (character in literature)

Carol Lauhon
Kalamazoo College (MI), B.A.
University of Michigan, M.A.
University of Iowa, M.A.
The Hidden Hand in American Culture; Director: Folsom

Isiah Lavender
Southern University (LA), B.A.
Louisiana State University, M.A.
Prospectus: Otherhood(s), Mapping Race and Ethnicity in Science Fiction; Director: Landon

Katherine Lewis
Pomona College (CA), B.A.
Prospectus: Speaking of Love: Gendered Personas and Gendered Desires in Poetry and Culture, 1860-1920; Director: Morris

Alan Long
University of Oklahoma, B.A.
Area of Interest: Ben Jonson

Margaret Loose
Wafford College (SC), B.A.
University of South Carolina, M.A.
Prospectus: Reformations: The Role of Literary Form in Victorian Working-Class Literature; Director: Boos

Shirley (Sam) Lopez
St. Mary's University (TX), B.A.
Area of Interest: American Literature

Kathryn Lyons
SUNY-Buffalo, B.A.
Area of Interest: Shakespeare

Eddie Mallot
University of Missouri, B.A.
Prospectus: Recollections and Recorrections: Memories and Histories in Contemporary South Asian Literature in English; Directors: Emery and Kumar

Jennifer McGovern
University of Chicago, B.A.
Area of Interest: American Literature

McLean, Thomas
Loyola University, (LA), B.A.
Boston College, M.A.
Prospectus: Representing Poland in Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture: Director: Pascoe

Deirdre McMahon
Swarthmore (PA), B.A.
University of Virginia, M.A.
Prospectus: Strange Family Stories: Race and Domesticity in Nineteenth Century British Literature; Director: Boos

Abigail Metcalf
Brown University (RI), B.A.
Prospectus: The Invention of Space; Director: Landon

Mary Moran
University of Chicago, B.A.
Narrative Ethics, Feminist Relational Thinking, and the Development of the Novel; Director: Boos

Lori Muntz
University of Texas, Austin, B.A.
Prospectus: "I Gave a Lecture, and All the People Were with Us": Nipo Strongheart and Native Intellectuals' Use of Popular Culture Venues as a Method of Political Advocacy During the 1920s; Director: Diffley

Elyse Myers
North Central College (IL), B.A.
Prospectus: "Relativity Physiques: Representations of Space, Time and Event-Bodies in Anglo-American Modernist Literature; Director: Lutz

Angela Nepodal
George Mason University, B.A.
George Mason University, M.A.
Areas of Interest: American Literature, Poststructural/Postmodern Theories

William Ness
Mid-America Nazarene College (KS), B.A.
Prospectus: Stars and Stripes Forever: The Flag and Civil War Poetry; Director: Folsom

Ervin (E.N.)Nieves
Montclair State University (NJ), B.A.
Rutgers, M.A.
Prospectus: Body, Brain, and Consciousness: Coevolution, Phycholoogy, and Culture in Contemporary
Chicana/o' Literature; Director: Lutz

Scott Nowka
University of Illinois, Chicago, B.A.
University of Illinois, Chicago, M.A.
Area of Interest: 18th Century Literature

John Pendell
Madonna University (MI), B.A.
DePaul University (IL), M.A.
Areas of Interest, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Modernism, Medieval Literature

Mary Beth Pope
Central Michigan University, B.A.
Central Michigan University, M.A.
Prospectus: Waiting for Ed McMahon; Director: Hamilton

Shanti Roundtree
Wesleyan University (CT), B.A.
Area of Interest: American Literature

Jennifer Ryan
University of Rochester (NY), B.A.
Prospectus: Any Women's Blues: Cultural Contexts of Jazz Poetry by African-American Women; Director: Morris

Sean Scanlan
University of Missouri, Columbia, B.A.
University of Missouri, St. Louis, M.A.
Areas of Interest: American Fiction and Poetry 1830-1930, Modernism, Post Modernism

Jennifer Sherer
Oberlin (OH), B.A.
Area of Interest: American Literature

Michael Smolinsky
Pomona College (CA), B.A.
Prospectus: Constructions and Intersections of "elite" and "popular" Literary forms and cultural practices as represented in four "English" plays of the early modern period; Director: H. Diehl

Amy Spellacy
University of St. Thomas (MN), B.A.
University of Iowa, M.A.
Prospectus: Neighbors and Neighborhoods During the Good Neighbor Policy 1933-1948: Director: Eckstein

James Sprengelmeyer
Clarke College (IA), B.A.
Area of Interest: Graham Greene

Kimberli Stafford
Brigham Young University, (UT), B.A.
Brigham Young University, (UT), M.A.
Prospectus: Time, Narrative, Intertext: The Poetics of Narrative in Contemporary American Indian Fiction; Director: Emery

Mariah Steele
University of Wisconsin, B.A.
New Mexico State, M.A
Areas of Interest: Romantic Women Poets, 19th Century Women Travel Writers 

Erica Still
Temple University, B.A.
Area of Interest: African-American Literature

Elizabeth Tsukahara
Wellesley (MA), B.A.
Area of Interest 20th Century British Literature

Mimi Van Ausdall
Washington University (MO), B.A.
Carnegie Mellon (PA), M.A.
Area of Interest: 18th Century, Feminist Theory

Missa Yook
Seoul National University (Korea), B.A.
Seoul National University (Korea), M.A.
Prospectus: Sympathetic Identification and Its Many Anxieties; Directors: Pascoe and Mangu