People Type: Literary Studies

Ozier, Amadi

Website amadiozier.com Linkedin linkedin.com/in/amadiozier/ Twitter twitter.com/amadiozier Biography Degrees and Institutions Bio Amadi Ozier is a scholar specializing in black American diasporic literature and performance, with a particular interest in race, humor, lynching culture, capitalism, and black cultural history. Ozier is currently working on a book entitled Humor Among Uppity Negroes at the Turn of the …

Plants, Jen

Biography Plants’ research and teaching interests include verbatim and devised theatre, performance and the experience of race, contemporary theatre making practices, and dramaturgy. Recipient of the 2021 The Joyce J. and Gerald A. Bartell Award in the Arts, Plants is currently focused on making site-specific work designed to reach new audiences in unexpected places. As a …

Sides, Kirk Bryan

Biography Degrees and Institutions Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles B.A. magna cum laude History, University of South Florida Interests African Literature, Environmental Humanities, Climate Change, Speculative Fiction Research Interests and Bio Kirk is a Faculty member of the English Department whose research and teaching focus on African literature and the environment. He …

Vareschi, Mark

Interests Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama, Aesthetics, Digital Studies, Surveillance Studies, Media Theory, Philosophy and Literature, Literary Theory Biography Degrees and Institutions PhD, English, Rutgers University, 2011 MA, English, Rutgers University, 2007 BA, English, Ithaca College, 2003 Selected Publications Books Intermediate Horizons: Book History and Digital Humanities, coedited with Heather …

Waggoner, Jess

Biography Research Interests feminist disability studies, queer and trans studies, Black studies Degrees and Institutions Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington Recent Publications Black Crip Modern: Race, Gender, and the Roots of Disability Consciousness (Forthcoming from New York University Press) “Problem Girls”: Gender Nonconformity as Resistance in Early Disabled Feminist Life Writing. A/b: Auto/Biography Studies, 1–31. (2025) …

Wells, Sarah Ann

Director Center for Visual Culture and Performance Studies Interests Modernism, the avant-gardes, and theories of modernity; film and media studies; comparison and transnationalism; labor resistance and collective movements; Latin American studies; science fiction and technology; translation. Biography Degrees and Institutions Teaching: Recent and Future Courses Select Publications Books and Book Projects Media Laboratories: Late Modernist …

Yu, Timothy

Interests Asian American and Asian diasporic literature, modern and contemporary poetry and poetics, 20th- and 21st-century American literature, science fiction Biography Photo credit: Carolyn Fath/Isthmus Degrees and Institutions Selected Publications Books Editor Recent Articles Courses Taught English 150: Literature and Culture of Asian America English 373: Contemporary American Poetry English 462: Asian American Graphic Novels …

Zimmerman, David A.

Biography Research Interests 19th- and 20th-century U.S. literature, with an emphasis on the 19th-c. American novel; economics and literature; moral philosophy and narrative Degrees and Institutions Recent Publications Complicity and the Antebellum Moral Imagination (2026) “Structure, Network, Apocalypse: The Complicity Fiction of George Lippard.” J19 6:2 (Spring 2018) “Complicity, Restorative Justice, and Charles Brockden Brown’s …

Zweck, Jordan L.

Interests Old English, medieval studies, medieval documentary culture, sound studies, media studies, history of the English language, history of the book, Old Norse Biography Degrees and Institutions Ph.D., English Language and Literature, Yale University M.Phil., Medieval Studies, Yale University B.S., English, University of Wisconsin – Madison Selected Publications Epistolary Acts: Anglo-Saxon Letters and Early English …