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19th Century American

Affiliated Graduate Students

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Sophia Kathleen Houghton

PhD Student

Research Interests

American and the Americas
Early American
19th Century American
Poetry and Poetics
Aesthetics and Humanism
Ecocriticism
Philosophy
Postcolonial Studies
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Mitch Jurasek

PhD Student

Research Interests

Ethnicity
Race
Indigenous Studies
American and the Americas,
19th Century American
20th/21st Century American
Critical Theory
Ecocriticism
Science and Environmental Studies
Gender and Sexuality Studies
Queer Theory
Philosophy
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Nathan Motulsky

PhD Student

Research Interests

Ethnicity
Race
Indigenous Studies
American and the Americas
Caribbean
Early Modern
Early American
19th Century American
Ecocriticism
Science and Environmental Studies
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Kristin Perkins

PhD Student

Research Interests

American and the Americas
19th Century American
20th and 21st Century American Literature
Contemporary Literature and Culture
Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies
Modernism
Aesthetics
Cultural Studies
Queer Theory
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