Angelica Armendariz First-year MA Student

Christopher Barnes First-year MA Student BA in English, Truman State University

 Research interests: American modernism.

Albert Bereznay Second-year MA Student BA in English, Bowling Green State University

Ashlie Dabbs Second-year MA Student BA in English, Bowling Green State University

 Research interests: Literary canon (how it is defined and perceived, influences that created the canon, flaws, fallacies, and holes in criticism concerning the canon - particularly in Harold Bloom's essay, "Elegiac Conclusion," the criteria for establishing the canon, etc.).

Matt Dauphin Second-year MA Student BS in Justice Studies & Social Inquiry, Arizona State University

Research interests: Communal and individual identity construction, group cohesion, nationalism, the heroic figure in contemporary popular culture, and science-fiction and fantasy studies.

Publications: "Pushing Daisies Away: Community Through Isolation" in Stopping to Smell the Daisies: Critical Perspectives on Bryan Fuller's Pushing Daisies, edited by Alissa Burger, McFarland, 2011.

Conferences: "Pushing Daisies Away: Community Through Isolation," SW/TX PCA/ACA Regional Conference, February 2010.

"Stone Eyes, Bleeding Hearts: Self-Sacrifice and Group Solidarity in Holly Lisle's Hawkspar," SW/TX PCA/ACA Regional Conference, April 2011.

Works in progress: "No Good Utopia: Desiring Ambiguity in The Dispossessed." (Thesis)

"Individualism and Anxiety: Explorations of Group Coherence in Gaiman and Lukyanenko," co-authored with Aaron Burnell.

"Roll Your Way to Friends and Fortune: Game-World Identity and Group Affirmation."

"Those Gay Aliens! Queer Abnormality in Marvel's Runaways."

Daniel Fawcett

Nora Gavalyan First-year MA Student

Shuqing Guo Second-year MA Student

Eva Lupold First-year MA Student BA in English, University of Pittsburgh Certificate in Children's Literature, Certificate in Women's and Gender Studies

 Research interests: Mapping the changes in cultural constructions of childhood from the nineteenth-century to the twentieth-century (with a particular focus on changes from the Victorian to the Modern era); examining binary oppositions and how they are constructed and deconstructed in nineteenth and twentieth-century texts; and, analyzing discourses of gender and/or childhood (specifically in post-modern texts).

Britta Moelders First-year MA Student M.Ed in Curriculum & Teaching, Bowling Green State University BA in English Studies & Education, Westphalian Wilhelms-University of Münster, Germany

Research interests: British and American modernist literature and culture, gender studies, feminism, Canadian literature, and postcolonialism.

Alexander Monea First-year MA Student BA in English, Walsh University

Research interests: Jazz infusions and vernacular in African American literature, specifically Harlem Renaissance literature.

Blog: http://thoughtcatalog.com/author/alexander-monea/

Sarah Price First-year MA Student (special focus on linguistics) M.Ed, Bowling Green State University (with a thesis on communicative language teaching in an ESL classroom) BS in Journalism, Ohio University

Research interests: Second language acquisition, English as a second language, and curriculum development.

Julia Rigaud

Peter Schank Second-year MA Student BA in History and Literature, Canisius College

Research interests: The literature and history of Britain and the Commonwealth, especially the possible relation between Anglo-Saxon mead-hall poetry and the Newfoundland Kitchen Party.

Works in progress: Project concerning the connection between Courtly Love and medieval hunting practices and technologies.

"The Mercy of Sanctuary in the Early Gothic."

"Marshes, the City and Structural Repetition in Great Expectations."

"Phillip, Pip, Handel and Pip, Changing Names and Establishing Identity in Great Expectations."

• "Outside of class, my interests include reading yet more British history, Buckeye Football, Canadian folk music, hockey, rock climbing, Top Gear, riding my motorcycle and making fun of Michigan fans."

Elizabeth Sherwood Second-year MA Student BA in English, Bowling Green State University

Research interests: The gothic, sadism/masochism, and vampires in contemporary popular culture.

Conferences: "The Faces of Fear and Evil in True Blood," PCA/ACA National Conference, April 2010.

"Blood or Brains? Vampires and Zombies in Fiction," SE PCA Regional Conference, October 2010 (co-written with Dr. Angela Tenga, Florida Institute of Technology).

Works in progress: Thesis looking at submission fantasies that many women have and how they can be used to construct a feminist identity.

Scott Sundvall Second-year MA Student BA in English, University of Minnesota BA in Cultural Studies, University of Minnesota

Research interests: Digitality, new media, semiotics, post-humanism, phenomenology, technicity, configurations of space/time, psychoanalysis, D&G's rhizome and schizoanalysis, and pornographic narratives.

Selected publications: Outlet, or A Heaven Full of Televisions (novel, Word Warriors Press, 2004).

Book review of Andre Nusselder's Interface Fantasy: A Lacanian Cyborg Ontology (Rhizomes #20, Summer 2010).

"Post-Human, All Too Non-Human: Implications of the Cyber-Rhizome" in Cybercultures (Inter-Disciplinary Press, hardcover anthology slated for 2011 release).

Conferences: "Crashing the Page: Spatial and Temporal Reconfigurations in Hypertext Narratives," 2nd Annual Philosophy and the Arts Conference: Narrativity, SUNY-Stony Brook, March 2009.

"Maps and Recalls: Planting the Rhizome Seed in Cyber-Terra," SW/TX PCA/ACA Regional Conference, February 2010.

"Post-Human, All Too Non-Human: Implications of the Cyber-Rhizome," 5th Global Conference on Cybercultures, Salzburg Austria, March 2010.

"Telling Stories Around the Pornographic 'Camp' Fire: Exaggeration and Hyperbole in Contemporary Pornography," 22nd Annual Graduate Student Conference, Tufts University, October 2010.

Nan Tong First-year MA Student

Qiping Xu First-year MA Student

Christina Yaniga First-year MA Student BA in Middle Childhood Education (emphasis on Social Studies and Language Arts), University of Toledo