People Type: Literary Studies

Biography Interests: 20th and 21st-century poetry & poetics; post/decolonial studies; environmental humanities; new materialisms; critical theory

Biography Year Admitted: 2021 Bio Gabriel graduated from UC Berkeley in 2020, where they concentrated on modernist literature and comics studies. Currently, they focus on pedagogic forms and aesthetics in queer and trans literature and music. More broadly, they are interested in thinking at the intersection of trans, queer, and feminist theory. They co-organize the …

Interests Early modern literature, particularly Shakespeare; history of the book, particularly textual studies and editorial theory; library history and archival theory; early literary criticism Minor Print Culture History Biography Degrees and Institutions BA, University of Kansas MI, University of Toronto MA, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Interests 20th and 21st century Global Anglophone literature; Postcolonial theory and literature; Feminist and Queer theory Biography Degree(s)

Biography Year Admitted: 2025 Bio Patience is a Literary Studies PhD student. She has a B.A. in English and a B.Mus. in Clarinet Performance from Lawrence University. She is interested in nineteenth-century British and American literature, literature and music, and environmental studies. Research Interests Victorian Literature, Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Environmental Humanities, Music and Sound Studies.

Biography Year Admitted: 2019 Bio Kuhelika Ghosh is a PhD candidate in Literary Studies. Her dissertation, “Cultivating Caribbean Voices: Multispecies Gardens, Care, and Food Justice in Anglophone Caribbean Literature,” explores multispecies gardens and food justice in Anglophone Caribbean literature and culture from the 1960s to the present. Through investigations of kitchen gardens, market gardens, flower …

Biography Year Admitted: 2023 Bio Jason Q Han is a third-year PhD Student in the Literary and Cultural Studies program at UW–Madison. His work is focused on giving an account of a “solitude past the self” as it appears in 20th and 21st century literature and philosophy. His main theoretical interlocutors include Maurice Blanchot, Gilbert …

Biography Year Admitted: 2024 Bio Benjamin Hawkins is a PhD student in Literary Studies. His foci include political aesthetics in literature in the 20th and 21st centuries with special emphasis on the political of poetry. He is also interested in eschatological thinking and futurity with a strong emphasis on political economy and ecocritical approaches. Before …

Biography Year Admitted: 2024 Research Interests: 18th c. African American literature