Contemporary Literature and Culture

Affiliated Graduate Students

Anirbaan Banerjee

PhD Student

Research Interests

Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies

Global Anglophone Literature

post colonial and the global south

20th-Century British literature and culture

Contemporary Literature and Culture

Cultural Studies

Amy S. Barenboim

PhD Student

Research Interests

African American and African Diaspora

Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies

Caribbean Studies

20th and 21st-Century British Literature

Contemporary Literature and Culture

Critical Theory

Mia Cecily Florin-Sefton

PhD Student

Research Interests

Contemporary Literature and Culture

Social Reproduction Theory

Feminist and Queer Marxisms

Critical Theory

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

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

Chloe Tsolakoglou

PhD Student

Research Interests

Global Anglophone Literature

World Literature

Contemporary Literature and Culture

Comparative Literature and Translation

Creative Writing and Creative-Critical

Poetry and Poetics

Critical Theory

Gender and Sexuality Studies

Modern Greek Literature