People Type: Graduate Program Faculty

Huynh, Juliet

Interests Bilingualism, Second Language Acquisition, Heritage Language Processing, Psycholinguistics Biography Degrees and Institutions Select Publications Research Interests My research interests include bilingualism, second language acquisition, heritage language processing, and psycholinguistics. Currently, I am exploring the grammatical and lexical processing of both Vietnamese and English in bilingual speakers who are Vietnamese heritage language speakers and Vietnamese-dominant …

Kennon, Raquel

Interests 19th to 21st century African American literature, African diaspora literatures and cultures, transnational Black Studies, comparative slavery studies, race, gender, visual and popular culture, poetry, drama, the novel Biography Degrees and Institutions Publications Book: Afrodiasporic Forms: Slavery in Literature and Culture of the African Diaspora. LSU Press, June 2022. Selected Articles and Book Chapters: …

Lagman, Eileen

Biography Eileen Lagman is Assistant Professor of Composition and Rhetoric in the Department of English. Her research focuses on ethnographic studies of literacy learning with additional interest in histories of Asian migration, labor economics, and emotion studies. Her current book project Virtual Nationhood: Learning and Loss in Migrant Literacy examines the effects of “brain drain …

Marshall, Nate

Biography Research Interests Creative Writing, Poetry & Poetics, Creative Nonfiction, Hip-Hop, Poetry & Performance, Writing & Social Justice, Community-Based Creative Practice, Chicago Literature Degrees and Institutions MFA, Creative Writing (Poetry), University of Michigan BA, English (Creative Writing) and African American Diaspora Studies, Vanderbilt University Recent Publications Finna, One World/Random House (2020) Wild Hundreds, University of …

Meitner, Erika

Biography Erika Meitner is the author of six books of poems, including Ideal Cities (HarperCollins, 2010), which was a 2009 National Poetry series winner; Copia (BOA Editions, 2014); and Holy Moly Carry Me (BOA Editions, 2018), which won the 2018 National Jewish Book Award in Poetry, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics …

Moniz, Dantiel W.

Biography Born and raised in Jacksonville FL, Dantiel W. Moniz is a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” Honoree, a 2024 USA Fellow, the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a Florida Book Award, the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction, and Fellowships from Yaddo and MacDowell, among others. Her debut collection, Milk Blood Heat was a …

Neyrat, Frédéric

Interests Environmental Humanities, Cosmos Studies, Technology Studies, Theory Website Atopies Biography Degrees and Institutions Select Publications Books: Articles and Book Chapters: Book Project What I propose in my next book project, The Planetary Condition, is to think together the human and the inhuman, the environmental and the astronomical, the urgent time of the endangered environment …

Nguyen, Beth (Bich Minh)

Biography Research Interests Creative writing, creative nonfiction, fiction Degrees and Institutions MFA, University of Michigan Recent Publications Nonfiction books: OWNER OF A LONELY HEART (Scribner) and STEALING BUDDHA’S DINNER (Viking) Fiction books: SHORT GIRLS (Viking) and PIONEER GIRL (Viking) Essays in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, Best American Essays, and more. Courses Taught Graduate …

Olson, Christa J.

Research Interests Rhetorical history, theory, and criticism; visual culture; Latin America; public memory; historical methods and methodological pedagogy; publics, democracy, nationalisms, & transnationalism; coloniality and anti-colonialism Teaching Areas I teach graduate and undergraduate courses in visual culture, research methods, and the history & theory of rhetoric. I enjoy working with students as they encounter, provide …

Ortiz-Robles, Mario

Interests 19th-century literature, critical theory, the novel, animal studies Biography Degrees and Institutions Selected Publications Books: Articles and Book Chapters: Personal Statement My work is situated at the intersection of literature and theory, with an emphasis on the question of the “literary” and its historicity. I am currently working on a book-length project on the …