Graduate Students
MA Students
Ayesha Ahmed
Teaching Associate
Religious rhetorics, cultural rhetorics, first-year studies and transfer
Micaela Anderson
Teaching Assistant
19th century British literature, British Romanticism, Poetics
Noah Blacker
British Medievalism (Middle English), British and German Romanticism, German Idealism, British and French Modernism, Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, International Postmodern and Contemporary Texts, Maximalism, Trauma / Affect Theory, Narrative Theory, Loneliness, Spirituality, Magical Realism / Surrealism, Poetics
Aspyn Freeman
Teaching Associate
Medieval manuscripts and literature, romantic texts, medieval grief, gender theory, sexuality studies, art history, classics, cultural legends & practices, Abrahamic religion texts, pre-1500 monsters, Greek theatre, liturgical texts, grief & funerary rites.
Greta Gessert
Teaching Associate
Writing center theory, writing center pedagogy, and writing/composition pedagogy
Grace Gibson
Teaching Associate
18th and 19th century British, the history of the novel, women’s literature, gender studies, disability studies
Elijah Kibler
Teaching Assistant
Film, 20th Century American Literature, Japanese Literature, Art, and Culture
Ivy Kiernan
Teaching Associate
Film (particularly queer indie or horror), Queer/transgender rhetorics, Social media rhetorics
Elliott Lay
Teaching Assistant
Place Theory/Geocriticism, Appalachian Literature and Culture, American Religious Culture
Mariam Mohammed
Teaching Associate
Southern epistemologies, Belonging, multilingualism
Madina Sanatbekova
Teaching Assistant
Subfields of Linguistics (Cognitive Linguistics; Neurolinguistics; etc.), L2 teaching (English), Multilingualism
Abby Wargo
Teaching Assistant
Modernism, women’s literature, gender studies, trauma studies
Jessica Wright
Teaching Assistant
Medieval Literature, Renaissance literature, history of the book/print
MFA Students
Jasmine Flowers
Teaching Assistant
African American literature, Southern literature, Mixed media poetry, Prose poetry, Surrealism, Dadaism, Modernism, The Harlem Renaissance, Black Arts Movement, African American Vernacular English, Spirituality and the occult, Folklore and mythology, Christianity, African Diaspora Religions
Sandra Dolores Gomez-Amador
Teaching Associate
Body studies, borderland studies, girlhood studies, geographical violence, embodied memory, border-crossing points, inherited aggression, immigration, incarceration, feminism
Shira Haus
Teaching Associate
Contemporary poetry and fiction, labor studies, Jewish studies, sociology
Iris Loehr
Teaching Assistant
Place Studies, Appalachia, the Uncanny, the Gothic, Vampires, Philosophy, Women’s Literature, Romanticism
PhD Students
Adel Alshammari
Early modern drama. Anglo-Islamic cultural and political interactions during the Renaissance. The role of the Other in English drama, and the portrayals of the Muslim Other by Shakespeare and Marlowe.
Chris Christiansen
Teaching Associate
Early American Literature/19th Century American Literature, Religion and Literature, Herman Melville
Sara Creel
Teaching Associate
Renaissance; Early Modern Drama; Shakespeare; Film; Adaptation; Auteurism; Feminism and Film; Race and Gender in Film; American Cinema; World Cinema; New Media; Fandom; Fanfiction; Fanart; TTRPG Actual Plays as Performance
Madeline Crozier
Teaching Associate
Composition theory and pedagogy, first-year composition, writing assessment, writing center and writing program administration, writing pedagogy education
Taylor DeMichael
Teaching Associate
Medieval/Early Modern; Theology, Spirituality, Demonology, Shakespeare, Drama, Digital Humanities
Catherine Garbinsky
Teaching Associate
Creative writing, poetry, traditional and experimental forms, disability poetics, queer poetics, queer and feminist literature
Greg Gillespie
Teaching Associate
Multimodal composition pedagogy, L2 writing, technical and professional communication, applied linguistics, writing centers
Emily Harrison
Twentieth-Century American Literature, African American Literature, Modernism, Black Feminist Theory
Taylor Hubbard
Teaching Associate
Feminist theory, Monster theory, Medieval literature, Arthurian literature, Epic poetry, Medical humanities
Elizaveta Komkova
Teaching Associate
Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), L2 Writing Pedagogy, L2 Composition and Rhetoric, Language and Linguistics, Multiculturalism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Chris Mayer
Teaching Associate
Social dimensions of teacher development, Gen AI pedagogies, Technical communication, Qualitative research methodologies, Sustainability/anti-consumerism
Emily Moeck
Teaching Associate
Adaptation, American Literature and Cinema, Critical Race Studies, Digital Poetics, Essay Film, Feminist Literature and Film, Found-Footage Film, Graphic Novels, Historiography, Metanarrative, Modernism, Narratology, The Novel, Postmodernism, Posthumanism, Queer Theory
Patrick Nome
Teaching Associate
Poetry and poetics, Postcolonial and Anglophone world literature, Postcolonialism, Historical trauma and memory, Migration, assimilation and identity
Ucheoma Onwutuebe
Teaching Associate
Feminism, Ethnic and Migration Studies
Amanda Platz
Teaching Associate
Medieval religion, magic, and the supernatural; environmental humanities and ecocriticism; gender, women’s studies; folklore, legends, and mythology; adaptations and retellings.
Mariah Rigg
Teaching Associate
Environmental Fiction, Indigenous Studies, Memoir, Affect Theory, Short Stories, Reality Television and Film Theory, Oceania Studies
Emi Wood Scully
Teaching Associate
Early 20th Century British Fiction, Modernism, Narrative and the Novel, Interwar Literature, Literary Sound Studies, Spatial Theory, Memory Studies, Time Studies, Repetition, The Everyday, Non-linear Storytelling, Domesticity, Modernist Women Writers.
Morgan Shaffer
Teaching Associate
20th-21st Century American literature, The Gothic/American Gothic, Liminality, particularly liminal beings, American literature written by marginalized/minority authors, specifically through an intersectional lens (women, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+)
Maggie Warren
Teaching Associate
Contemporary poetry, experimental forms, feminist theory, elegy, American literature
Hayley Wilson
Teaching Associate
African, African American, and Diasporic literatures; Postcolonial and Decolonial Theory; Drama and Performance Theory; Modernisms; Comparative Religion; Ecocriticism; Medical Humanities
Sarah Yancey
Teaching Associate
Early Medieval Texts, Medievalism and Adaptation, Rhetorics of Violence, Medieval Horror, Digital Humanities, Southern/Appalachian Literature, Cormac McCarthy Studies
William Younts
Teaching Associate
Gender, Nineteenth Century American Literature, Critical Childhood Studies, Trans Studies, Literary Theory, Music