Adewumi, Samuel
Biography Year Admitted: 2025 Bio . Research Interests Global Black Studies, 19th and 20th-Century African American Literature, Harlem Renaissance, Black Life Writing
Biography Year Admitted: 2025 Bio . Research Interests Global Black Studies, 19th and 20th-Century African American Literature, Harlem Renaissance, Black Life Writing
Biography Year Admitted: 2024 Bio Kanika Ahuja is a poet and educator from New Delhi, India. She is a first year PhD Student in Literary Studies focusing on contemporary poetics and craft as criticism. She holds a BA (Hons.) in English from the University of Delhi, an MA in English from Ambedkar University Delhi, and …
Biography Year Admitted: 2019 Bio Diego Alegría is a Doctoral Candidate in English at UW–Madison, with a Minor in Spanish and a Certificate in Public Humanities. He holds a BA in English Linguistics and Literature, and an MA in Literature from the University of Chile. His dissertation, “The Order of Words: Poetic Syntax in British …
Biography Year Admitted: 2021 Bio: Cecelia is a PhD student in Literary Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.Her research examines how American and Latinx popular culture and literature articulate Latinx identity through two interconnected frameworks: affective conditioning on the individual level and its relation to American hegemonizing forces. A shameless enthusiast of major IP, Cecelia …
Biography Interests Interests: racial literacy, writing across the curriculum, cultural rhetorics, antiracist composition pedagogy as universal design, critical mixed race studies Degree and Institution BA, North Carolina State University MA, North Carolina State University
Biography Year Admitted: 2020 Bio: Nick is a PhD Candidate studying how rhetoric constructs ideas of “the body” through shared affective investments. He is currently writing about the student body as a concept held together by university investments in student-athletes and sporting entertainment in the U.S. Interests: Affect, composition pedagogy, rhetorics of the body Degree(s) …
Biography Year Admitted: 2023 Bio: I hold a Bachelor of Arts in English Studies and a Master of Arts in English Language and Linguistics from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. Prior to beginning my Ph.D. studies, I worked as a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant at Yale University, where I taught Yoruba. My research focuses …
Interest(s) Early modern literature; medieval literature; Ovid and classical reception in the Elizabethan era; violence in early modern drama; the discovery of the body; biopolitics Biography Degree(s) BA, Loyola University New Orleans MA, University College London
Biography Year Admitted: 2023 Bio: Andrew Buchheim (he/him) is a graduate student in the Literary Studies PhD program at UW–Madison. He is originally from the Madison area, received a BA in English and Political Science from Wartburg College in northeastern Iowa, and returned home to pursue his passions in literature and teaching. He works primarily …