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The Department of English and Comparative Literature logo The Department of English and Comparative Literature

Creative Writing and Creative-Critical

Affiliated Graduate Students

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Jay Gao

PhD Student

Research Interests

Asian American and Asian Diaspora, African American and African Diaspora, Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies, 20th/21st Century American, Contemporary Literature and Culture, Poetry and Poetics, Ecocriticism, Creative Writing and Creative-Critical
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Zoe Elena Pollak

PhD Student

Research Interests

African American and African Diaspora, Manuscript Studies, 19th Century American Literature, Romanticism, Creative Writing and Creative-Critical, Poetry and Poetics, Aesthetics, Ecocriticism
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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, Aesthetics, Affect Theory, Critical Theory, Black Studies, Cultural and Intellectual History, Feminist Theory, Slavery, Film, Media, Visual Studies, Slavery, Feminist Theory
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