Biography Year Admitted: 2023 Interests Asian American studies, post-1945 American culture, ecocriticism, Asia-futurism Bio: Hyorim studied Korean literature and English literature at Seoul National University, where she got her BA and MA. Now as a PhD student at UW–Madison, she is focusing on contemporary Asian/Asian American literature and cultural productions. Her eyes are on the …
Biography Year Admitted: 2021 Bio: Haley is an Afro-Latinx scholar interested in pandemic literature, digital media, and the worlds we build online. She graduated from the University of Chicago with Honors in 2017, where she concentrated on Latinx film, social class, and affect. Currently, she focuses on social media forms and the complex intersections of …
Biography Year Admitted: 2025 Bio Su studied English Literature at Sogang University in Seoul, South Korea, where she received her B.A. and M.A. Her research primarily engages with American and Anglophone novels through the lenses of postcolonialism, the Asian diaspora, the transpacific, and memory studies. Su is interested in how literary texts capture the crossing …
Biography Year Admitted: 2023 Bio Ellie is a PhD student in English Literary Studies. They are interested in queer ecology and sustainable communities, inspired by a love of being queer, in community, and outside. They have a BA from Davidson College in North Carolina, and an MA from UW–Madison. Interests Contemporary queer ecologies, Trans studies, …
Biography Year Admitted: 2025 Bio I am a first-year Literary Studies Ph.D. student interested in the intersection of Early Medieval literature and queerness, specifically homoeroticism and homosociality. I hold a BA in English and Philosophy from Skidmore College and an MA in Medieval Studies from Yale University. Research Interests Old English, Gender/Sexuality, Paleography, Italian Literature
Biography Year Admitted: 2025 Bio Sarah Licht is a Literary Studies PhD student at UW–Madison. They received their BA in English and Psychology from Grinnell College and their MA in English at Georgetown University. They are interested in how Victorian popular fiction reflects and refracts wider anxieties around sociopolitical movements and shifts, concerning embodiment, marriage, …
Biography Year Admitted: 2024 Bio: Kayleigh is a PhD student in literary studies, with previous Masters degrees in English Literature (2023) and Adolescent English Education (2020). Their work is in contemporary women’s and Native American speculative/dystopian fiction, and in particular, they explore how issues of fertility, race, the environment, and “child protection” policies intersect within …
Biography Year Admitted: 2022 Bio Jay Lowe is a Literary Studies PhD Student at UW Madison. They study sex, violence, death, monsters, and phantasms. Interests Queer Theory, Postcolonial Studies, Film Studies Degree and Institution BA, Nebraska Wesleyan University
Biography Year Admitted: 2020 Bio: Nabiha Mansoor is a PhD candidate in Literary Studies. Her dissertation focuses on literary and artistic responses to the racialization of Muslims Post-9/11. Interests: Asian American Studies, Visual Cultures, Performance Studies, SWANA Studies Degree and Institution BA, Knox College Selected Publications or Research On the Queer Figure of the ‘Terror …
Biography Year Admitted: 2023 Bio Addison graduated with a BA in Literature from SUNY Purchase College in 2022. They are interested in queer theory and queer reading practices in contemporary literature and how those reading practices might inform and reveal queer temporalities. When they’re not at school, Addison enjoys spending time with their husband, four …