M.A. in Literary and Textual Studies

Najla Alblaimi First-year MA Student

 

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Erin Carlyle First-year MA Student BA in English, Western Kentucky University Graduate Certificate in Gender and Women's Studies, Western Kentucky University

 Research interests: Women & gender studies, post-apocalyptic and dystopian literature, women in music, fairy tales/folktales and re-imagined tales, feminist pedagogy. 

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Lani Chang Second-year MA Student

  

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Jenn Johnston-Velazco Second-year MA Student  BA in English, Otterbein University

 Research interests: Contemporary British literature, post-humanism, gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, pop culture, Shakespeare

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Lauren Laur Second-year MA Student BA in English, Music, Central Michigan University

 Research interests: Opera theory (especially New Music - Adams, Britten, etc.), Musicology, Gender Studies, American Modernism, Affect Theory, Adaptation Theory

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Ludmila Polyakova Second-year MA Student BA in English with minor in Creative Writing, Bowling Green State University

Research interests: Cultural studies, theories of everyday, ecocriticism, poetics, San Francisco Renaissance poets 

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Walter Merryman First-year MA Student BA in English, Bowling Green State University

 Research interests: Mourning studies, Albert Camus, Herman Melville, cultural studies, Nietzsche

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Anna Risher First-year MA Student BA in English and Philosophy, Siena Heights University

 Research interests: Medieval literature, gender and sexuality studies, young adult literature, horror conventions, pop culture, folklore studies, romantic literature, genre shift

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Abbey Robertson First-year MA Student BA in English, Ohio State University

Research interests: Intergenerational transmission of trauma, the effect of trauma on collective memory and culture in minority groups, psychoanalytical approach to literature, Medieval and Renaissance literature, mysticism/magic realism, affect theory.

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Anne Rothhaas Second-year MA Student BA in English, Bowling Green State University

Research interests: Victorian studies, Victorian women's novels, intersections of masochism and mourning in Charlotte Bronte's early novels, psychoanalysis, women's position in Victorian novels, development of reading as a mechanism for feminine empowerment in the domestic space

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Will Sondey First-year MA Student BA in Comparative Literature, University of Rochester

 

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Stephanie Springer Second-year MA Student BA in English, BS in Equestrian Studies, University of Findlay    Research interests: American Modernism, women's and gender studies, feminist theory, cultural adaptation, film as literature, culture studies

 

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Ryan Wright First-year MA Student BA in English: ESL Linguistics, Marietta College MA in English: ESL/Linguistics, University of Toledo

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Christina Yaniga Second-year MA Student BA in Middle Childhood Studies, University of Toledo

Research interests: Medieval Studies, Feminism, Authority and Authorship, Rhetorical Traditions and Theory

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Luca Zullo Second-year MA Student BA in English, BA in Spanish, Kent State University

 Research interests: Psychoanalysis, comics, graphic narratives, medical humanities, narrative medicine, women's literature, affect theory, theories of skin, emergent narrative forms/new media