English Graduate Students

The UF English Department has many graduate students in the MA, MFA, and PhD programs. Below are listings for graduate students who have submitted descriptions. This list is not comprehensive.
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Joel Adams -- PhD Student, 19th Century Literatures and Cultures, American Studies and Queer Theory/Histories: Email: jadams@english.ufl.edu
Home: http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/~jadams
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J. Stephen Addcox -- MA Student, Victorian Novel and Film/Media Studies: Email: jaddcox@english.ufl.edu
Home: http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/~jaddcox/
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Clay Arnold -- PhD Student, Composition and Rhetoric, Media Studies, Heuretics: Email: garnold@english.ufl.edu
Home: http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/~garnold/
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L. S. Blätter -- PhD Student, Video Games, Literary Theory, American Literature: Email: lsb@english.ufl.edu
Home: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/lsb/
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Wesley Beal -- MA Student, 20th-century literatures, agency in literature, and conspiracy theories: Email: wbeal@ufl.edu
Home: http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/~wbeal/
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Carrie Bolte -- PhD Student, British Romanticism, Travel Literature: Email: cbolte@english.ufl.edu
Home: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/~cbolte
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Doris Bremm -- PhD Student, 20th Century American and British Literature, Intersections between Literature and Visual Arts: Email: dbremm@english.ufl.edu
Home: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/dbremm
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Akilah Brown -- PhD Student, Children's and Young Adult Literature and Culture, Contemporary American Literature, Creative Writing: Email: abrown@english.ufl.edu
Home: http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/~abrown/
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Daniel S. Brown -- PhD Student, Victorian Studies; Interdisciplinary Studies: Email: dsbrown@ufl.edu
Home: http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/~dsbrown/
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Jessica B. Burstrem -- MA Student, American Studies, particularly 20th century/African-American/Feminist: Email: burstrem@ufl.edu
Home: http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/~burstrem
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Ramona Caponegro -- MA Student, Children's and Young Adult Literature and Culture, 20th Century American Lit, particularly works of marginalized populations: Email: caponera@english.ufl.edu
Home: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/caponera/
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Jo Carlisle -- PhD Student, Literary Theory: Email: carlisle@english.ufl.edu
Home: http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/~carlisle/
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Katherine Casey-Sawicki -- PhD Student, Fantasy Narratives, Film Studies, and Cultural Criticism: Email: ksawicki@ufl.edu
Home: http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/~ksawicki/
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Lisa Case -- PhD Student, 20th Century British and Irish Literature and Culture (James Joyce), 20th Century American Literature, Gender: Email: lcase@english.ufl.edu
Home: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/lcase
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Becky Caldwell -- PhD Student, Postcolonial Theory, 20th Century Novel, Politics of Identity and Empowerment: Email: rcaldwel@english.ufl.edu
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Aaron R. Cerny -- PhD Student, Postmodern Literature; Global Literature; Culture Studies; Literary Theory: Email: acerny@english.ufl.edu
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Sophie Croisy -- PhD Student, 20th century American lit. (with a focus on Native-American lit.) and critical theories: Email: croisy@mailcity.com
Home: http://www.Teacherweb.com/FL/UF/croisy
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Brian Doan -- PhD Student, Film Studies, 20th Century Popular Culture: My dissertation thinks about the anecdote as both a writing and research tool and as a way thinking about the history of Classic Hollywood (1930-1960) cinema. In other words, what can melting lions, murdered chauffeurs, and crooked land deals tell us about some of our best-known American movies?
Email: bdoan@english.ufl.edu
Home: http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/~bdoan
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Jill Doise -- PhD Student, Victorian Studies, Gender and Art: Email: jdoise@english.ufl.edu
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Jordan J. Dominy -- PhD Student, 20th-century American literature; Popular Culture & Cultural Studies; Literary Theory: Email: jdominy@english.ufl.edu
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Barbara Drake -- MFA Student, Creative writing: fiction: Email: bdrake@english.ufl.edu
Home: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/bdrake/
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Sara Dustin -- PhD Student, 19th-Century Literature & Culture; Women's Literature; Jane Austen; The Novel: My current project involves Victorian women writers and the courtship novel.
Email: shd3978@ufl.edu
Home: http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/~shd3978/
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Jolia Sidona Einstein -- MFA Student, Creative Writing: Poetry: Email: einstein@english.ufl.edu
Home: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/einstein
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Jessica M. Espinosa -- MA Student, Victorian Literature, Literature & Anthropology, American Science Fiction: Email: jespinos@ufl.edu
Home: http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/~jespinos/
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Maryam El Shall -- MA Student, Postcolonial and Cultural Studies/ Identity Politics in the Muslim World: Email: melshall@english.ufl.edu
Home: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/melshall/
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James R. Fleming -- PhD Student, English Romantic Literature, Trauma Studies and Visual Narrative: My research and teaching interests focus on English Romantic Literature (Wordsworth, Byron, Coleridge and Austen, in particular) as well as trauma studies and visual narrative.
Email: jrbyron@ufl.edu
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Sean P Garrity -- MA Student, Literary Theory, philosophy, Cultural Studies of Science -- esp. 19th and 20th century biology, science and pop culture, science fiction: Email: sgarrity@ufl.edu
Home: http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/~sgarrity/
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Antonio Garza -- MA Student, Creative Writing: Fiction, Translation of Latin American Literature: Top
Tim Gilmore -- PhD Student, American Literature, Southern Gothic, American Tramping Narratives, Poetry and Jazz: Email: tgilmore@ufl.edu
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Denise Guidry -- PhD Student, Gender and Feminisms, British Empire, Postcolonial, Atlantic Studies, Victorian lit (especially the novel): My dissertation is about Atlantic diasporas and identity formation, focusing on Canada, Louisiana, and the Caribbean.
Email: dsguidry@ufl.edu
Home: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/~dguidry/
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Lisa Hager -- PhD Student, Victorian Studies, Feminist Theory, Comics, and Hypertext: My dissertation will focus on the relationship between sensation fiction and New Woman fiction. I also do work on the depiction of girls' American popular culture as seen in the animated series _The Powerpuff Girls_.
Email: lhager@english.ufl.edu
Home: http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/~lhager/
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Christopher Hazlett -- PhD Student, Composition Theory, Methodology, Prison Writing, Pedagogy: Email: chazlett@ufl.edu
Home: http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/~chazlet2/index.html
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Derrick Hoeben -- MFA Student, Southern Gothic tradition and Science Fiction: Email: dhoeben@english.ufl.edu
Home: http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/~dhoeben/
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Leeann D. Hunter -- PhD Student, Victorian Studies, Modernism, Women's Literature: Email: ldhunter@english.ufl.edu
Home: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/ldhunter
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Andrew Jenkins -- PhD Student, 19C American Lit, Science and Lit, American Cultural Studies: My current interests include astronomy and the iconographic economy / stellar imagery found in the canonical texts of the American Renaissance. I'm also interested in Ralph Waldo Emerson's poetry (not too many people can claim that). A moose once bit my sister.
Email: ajenkins@ufl.edu
Home: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/ajenkins/
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Bharati Kasibhatla -- PhD Student, Postcolonial Theory, Feminist Theory and Gender Studies, 20th and 21st Century South Asian Literature: Email: bharati@ufl.edu
Home: http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/~bharati/
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Cari Keebaugh -- MA Student, Children's Literature, American Literature, and Theory: Email: keebaugh@english.ufl.edu
Home: http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/~keebaugh
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Traci M. Klass -- PhD Student, Judaism and the 19th century British novel; Victorian Literature and Culture: Email: tklass@english.ufl.edu
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Nicole LaRose -- PhD Student, 20th Century British Literature and Culture, City Writing, and Critical Theories: Email: nlarose@english.ufl.edu
Home: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/~nlarose
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Heather L. Lawson -- MA Student, Early Modern Poetry--esp. John Milton, 17th and 18th-century philosophy (Descartes through Hume): Email: hlawson@english.ufl.edu
Home: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/~hlawson
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Jung-Hwa Lee -- PhD Student, 20th-century novel, politics of location, migration, gender, Asian American literature: My dissertation examines the dynamics of spatial/cultural displacement and literary representations of home in Joseph Conrad, Jean Rhys, and Chang-rae Lee.
Email: jhlee@ufl.edu
Home: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/~jhlee
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Jessica Livingston -- PhD Student, Cultural Studies, 20th century American and British literature: My dissertation examines contemporary narratives about work produced by neoliberalism.
Email: jaliving@ufl.edu
Home: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/jalivin
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Jessica Magnani -- PhD Student, Latino Literature, 20th Century American Literature, Historiography, & Gender: Email: jmagnani@english.ufl.edu
Home: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/jmagnani
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Sarah M. Mallonee -- PhD Student, 19th Century British Literature and Culture: Email: mallonee@english.ufl.edu
Home: http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/~mallonee/
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Jaimy Mann -- PhD Student, Children's & Young Adult Literature and Culture, Victorian Studies, Feminist/Gender/Queer Theory: Email: jmmann@english.ufl.edu
Home: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/jmmann/
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Cathlena Anna Martin -- MA Student, Children's and Young Adult Literature/Culture, Fairy Tales, and 18th Cent Lit: Email: cathlena@ufl.edu
Home: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/cmartin
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James McDougall -- PhD Student, Poetry, (Post)Modernism, Comparative Literature: Email: jmcdoug@english.ufl.edu
Home: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/jmcdoug/
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Melissa Mellon -- PhD Student, Late 18th/Early 19th Century American Literature, "Sentimental" novels, particularly depictions of women working, Captivity and Slave Narratives: In my dissertation, I consider how the rise of paid employment in America caused people to conceive of "work" as an entity separate from "the home" and how this conception helped create a language of business. Studying both American sentimental novels and more canonical writings, I argue that the language of business informed many woman's fictions and that, counter to many claims, concerns for home and family infused many men's stories of work. In the interest of full disclosure: I once owned a moose and am still, regrettably, engaged in hostile litigation with Mr. Jenkins.
Email: m_mellon@english.ufl.edu
Home: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/mmellon/
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Josh Miller -- MA Student, 20th-Century Western and International Literature, Film, and Dostoevsky: Email: jnmiller@english.ufl.edu
Home: http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/~jnmiller/
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Kadesh L. Minter -- MA Student, Romanticism; British women writers of the long nineteenth century; Jane Austen: Email: kminter@english.ufl.edu
Home: http://www.lauridsen-minter.com
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Marlon Moore -- PhD Student, African American Literature, Southern Women's Literature: My interests lie generally in the African American Civil Rights Era,and specifically on the work of James Baldwin.
Email: marlon@english.ufl.edu
Home: http://marlonmoore.tripod.com/2002
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Sean Morey -- PhD Student, Rhetoric and Composition, Visual Rhetoric, New Media: Email: swmorey@english.ufl.edu
Home: http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/~swmorey/
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Angelique V. Nixon -- PhD Student, Caribbean and African Literatures, Postcolonial Feminist Theory, Black Cultural Studies, Race & Identity Politics, & Native American Literature: Email: angelnix@english.ufl.edu
Home: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/angelnix
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Mohana Rajakumar -- PhD Student, Postcolonial literature and Creative writing: Email: mohanalakshmi@hotmail.com
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Andrew S. Reynolds -- PhD Student, 20th C. American Lit., The Novel, Critical Theories, Science Fiction: My dissertation traces the evolution of the American suburban novel.
Email: areynold@english.ufl.edu
Home: http://www.english.ufl.edu/~areynold/
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Todd Reynolds -- PhD Student, Turn of the Century (19th to 20th) Cultural Studies. Labor and Citizenship. Marxism.: Email: reynolds@english.ufl.edu
Home: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/reynolds
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Craig Rinne -- PhD Student, Film History/Theory, Western American Literature (including Native American Lit., Westerns, and Frontier Lit.): My dissertation is on the cinematic "sketch aesthetic," examining critics and filmmakers who use the analogy of the drawn sketch to describe certain film styles and forms (primarily Bazin, Rossellini, Rivette, and Godard). My pedagogical interests revolve around teaching film and literature in the computer classrooms of the Networked Writing Environment. And, I welcome any excuse to study Westerns and/or the Frontier Myth.
Email: crinne@nwe.ufl.edu
Home: http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/~crinne/
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Amy Robinson -- PhD Student, Jane Austen, British women writers of the long nineteenth century, Victorian Literature and Culture: Email: arobin@english.ufl.edu
Home: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/arobin/
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John F. Ronan -- PhD Student, Comics, American Literature, Visual Cultures and Rhetorics: Email: ronan@english.ufl.edu
Home: http://www.english.ufl.edu/~ronan/
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Philip Sandifer -- PhD Student, Media theory, comics, game studies, visual culture: I'm working on moments of innovation and invention in the development of media, particularly those that try to situate themselves as "revolutionary." I have also written about American superhero comics, and the seriality of newspaper comics. I teach courses on film studies and media theory.
Email: sandifer@english.ufl.edu
Home: http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/~sandifer
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Robert C. Schachel -- PhD Student, 19th Century American Literature and Culture, The Gothic Grotesque, Post-Colonial Theory, Psychoanalytic Theory, and Geographic Identity: Currently interested in the psychological processes that invest geographical and material signifiers with cultural capital, how that capital "haunts," and how one resists such haunting through American gothic and grotesque literature.
Email: schachel@newsguy.com
Home: http://member.newsguy.com/~schachel
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Aaron Shaheen -- PhD Student, Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Literature, Southern Literature, Gender: My studies focus on the ways in which imaginative and physical androgyny intersect with larger issues of early twentieth-century American nationalism.
Email: ashaheen@ufl.edu
Home: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/~ashaheen/
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Joanna Shearer -- PhD Student, Medieval Literature, especially Chaucer and the Arthurian Legend: Email: jshearer@english.ufl.edu
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Horacio Sierra -- MA Student, American Literature, Gender, & Early Modern Western European Lit: Email: hsierra@english.ufl.edu
Home: http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/~hsierra
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Jennifer Simmons -- MA Student, Film Studies/ 20th Century American Literature and Popular Culture: Email: jsimmons@english.ufl.edu
Home: http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/~jsimmons
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Julie A. Sinn -- PhD Student, Children's and Young Adult Literature/Culture, Fairy Tales, Jungian Theory: My dissertation focuses on the production of children's culture particularly through the Little Golden Books series.
Email: jasinn@english.ufl.edu
Home: http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/~jasinn
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Lindsay Skorupa -- MA Student, Film and Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Critical Theory: Email: lskorupa@english.ufl.edu
Home: http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/~lskorupa/
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Randi Marie Smith -- PhD Student, Seventeenth Century Literature, Consumption Theory: Currently, I am working with the imagery of food in the sacred poetry of the Renaissance. I did my master's thesis on the spiritual consummatory appetite and the deathwish in the poetry of Francis Quarles and Robert Southwell.
Email: randims@english.ufl.edu
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Matt Snyder -- MA Student, Literature of War and Conflict; Sexual Politics and Poetics; Comparative Literature: Email: msnyder@english.ufl.edu
Home: http://www.english.ufl.edu/~msnyder/
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Rosa E. Soto -- PhD Student, Cultural Studies, Gender and Sexualities: My dissertation is an examination of latinas' images in mainstream film and television.
Email: rsoto@english.ufl.edu
Home: http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/~rsoto
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Brinly Standridge -- MA Student, Children's Literature, Rhetoric and Composition, Science Writing: Home: http://plaza.ufl.edu/brinly
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Elise Takehana -- PhD Student, 20-21st c. Lit Theory, Consciousness Studies, Experimental and Popular Art: My previous research has been mostly in Literary Theory and Media Studies as evident in my Master's Thesis "Chuck Palahniuk and Jean Baudrillard: The Terminal State of Human Subjectivity". I have also done research in Modern art movements especially Cubism, Di Stijl, Futurism, and Surrealism. I am looking to incorporate my interests in quantum theory and consciousness (especially the linkage of the role of the observer in wave/particle theory and determining position and time, a reality rather) to look at reality perception and assemblages of "texts".
Email: takehana@english.ufl.edu
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B. Aaron Talbot -- PhD Student, Children's/Adolescent Literature and Culture, Early 20th Century British/ Late 20th Century American Literature (Modernism/Post WWII), Queer Studies: My Dissertation is an exploration of Horatio Alger, Jr.: his texts, the biographies written about him, and the Horatio Alger Society, a group of collectors dedicated to preserving and promoting Horatio Alger, Jr. and his persona.
Email: atalbot@english.ufl.edu
Home: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/atalbot
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Laurie Taylor -- PhD Student, Video Games, Games, and Comics: I am currently studying video games and comics, with my emphasis being on survival horror video games like Resident Evil.
Email: ltaylor@nwe.ufl.edu
Home: http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/~ltaylor
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Troy Teegarden -- MFA Student, Southern Fiction, chain smoking, drinking: I have interviewed more than four hundred poets and writers for radio and print. I am also the author of four chapbooks, Alison (2004), CIGARETTESaPOEM (2002), Unripe Tomatoes: Poems 1995-1998 (1999), and Reflections on the Elkhorn (1997). My poems, stories, essays and interviews have appeared in Art: Mag, Atom Mind, Bathtub Gin, Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts, Blunt Object, Bookclub @ Kentucky Educational Television, Brouhaha, Earspank, Grievance, Haiku Canada, Hellp, the Lexington Herald-Leader, Lilliput Review, Limestone, The Metropolitan Review, and Vmagazine, and in the anthologies The Book of Kentucky and In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself, Volume 2. I am currently at work on a novel, The Dirt King, and a collection of interviews for the Sewanee Writers? Conference.
Email: tteegard@english.ufl.edu
Home: http://plaza.ufl.edu/troyt/
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Harun Karim Thomas -- PhD Student, Literary Theory, Film and Media Studies.: Email: hthomas@clas.ufl.edu
Home: http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/~hthomas
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Catherine Tosenberger -- PhD Student, Children's Literature and Folklore: My dissertation is on Harry Potter fan fiction on the Internet.
Email: ctosen@english.ufl.edu
Home: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/ctosen/
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Washella Turner -- PhD Student, 19th and 20th Century African-American Resistance Movements: Email: wturner@ufl.edu
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Zach Whalen -- PhD Student, Game Studies, Cryptography, Digital Textuality, Comics Studies, New Media Aesthetics, Web Development: I've written a bit on video games and music, but my interests for the dissertation have shifted some what toward exploring the concept of code as a fundamental concept of digital media. Specifically, I'm looking at the aesthetics of cryptography as a basis for understanding new media texts.
Email: zwhalen@english.ufl.edu
Home: http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/~zwhalen/
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Roger Whitson -- PhD Student, Romanticism, William Blake, Globalization, Apocalypticism, Comic Books, Celebrity/Film Studies, Visual Culture: My dissertation traces the development of Romantic Celebrity in contemporary literature, film, and comic books. My approach is dialectical, uses film studies to analyze literary production, and involves the concerns of Romantic writers and their representation in the work of contemporary fiction.
Email: rwhitson@english.ufl.edu
Home: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/rwhitson
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Andrea Wood -- PhD Student, Contemporary Subcultural Literature and Media, Gender Studies, Feminist and Queer Theory: Email: awood@english.ufl.edu
Home: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/~awood
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