20th and 21st Century American Literature

Affiliated Faculty

photo of Rachel Adams

Full-time Faculty

Rachel Adams

Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Provost's Senior Faculty Teaching Scholar

Research Interests

20th and 21st Century American Literature

Disability Studies

Health and Humanities

History of Science

Food and Sustainability

Film, Media, and Visual Studies

Gender and Sexuality Studies

20th and 21st Century

Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism

American and the Americas

Medical Humanities

Science and Environmental Studies

Affiliated Graduate Students

Winona Guo

PhD Student

Research Interests

Asian American and Asian Diaspora

Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies

20th and 21st Century American Literature

Comparative Literature

Translation Studies

Critical Theory

experimental writing

Justin Huwe

PhD Student

Research Interests

20th-Century British literature and culture

20th and 21st Century American Literature

Contemporary Literature and Culture

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

Critical Theory

Gender, Sexuality, and Queer Theory

Pranav Menon

PhD Student

Research Interests

Studies legal and literary imaginations of space and place

American empire

Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies

American and the Americas

Global Anglophone Literature

Postcolonial and Global South

20th and 21st Century American Literature

Contemporary Literature and Culture

Poetry and Poetics

Cultural Studies

Science and Environmental Studies

Public Humanities

Law and Humanities

Jed Munson

PhD Student

Research Interests

Asian American and Asian Diaspora

20th and 21st Century American Literature

Poetry and Poetics

Film, Media, and Visual Studies

Christine Prevas

PhD Student

Research Interests

Film, Media, and Visual Studies

Video Game Studies

20th and 21st Century American Literature

Dissertation / Thesis Title

"Architectures of Gender in the American Haunted House"

Channelle Russell

PhD Student

Research Interests

African American and African Diaspora

Caribbean Studies

20th and 21st Century American Literature

Contemporary Literature and Culture

Creative Writing and Creative-Critical

Critical Theory

Cultural and Intellectual History

Feminist Theory

Nora Shaalan

PhD Student

Research Interests

Global Anglophone Literature

World Literature

20th and 21st Century American Literature

20th and 21st Century Literature

Contemporary Literature and Culture

Modernism and Postmodernism

Digital Humanities

sociology of the novel

Julia Meghan Walton

PhD Student

Research Interests

Comparative Literature

Global Anglophone Literature

20th and 21st Century American Literature

Film, Media, and Visual Studies

Gender and Sexuality Studies

Transpacific Studies

Japanese Literature