Biography Year Admitted: 2021 Bio Madeline is a Ph.D. candidate in the Literary Studies program, and her research interests include (but are not limited to) material culture, game studies, trans literature, and queer theory. Her dissertation project focuses on the toys and games of the 1990s and their role in the formation of queer and …
Biography Year Admitted: 2024 Bio Khanh Nguyen is a PhD student in Literary Studies with a Minor in Culture, History and Environment. Before coming to Madison, he studied at Hue University in Vietnam – where he also worked as a Lecturer of English for three years, and Aarhus University in Denmark. Much of his work …
Biography Year Admitted: 2023 Bio Cade graduated from the University of Vermont with an MA in English in 2023 and from the University of Northern Iowa with a BA in philosophy and sociology in 2020. Previously, Cade was a visiting Fulbright researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts …
Biography Year Admitted: 2022 Bio Gloria Pham is a PhD Candidate in Literary Studies. Her dissertation “Refugee Temporalities: Southeast Asian American Literature and the Politics of Time” explores how nation-states dictate the temporality of refugee experience through law, policy, and media. The project further interrogates how refugee writers and artists reject this linear, progressive timeline …
Biography Year Admitted: 2025 Bio I graduated from Kent State University, where I majored in English with minors in Latin and Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies. Research Interests Shakespeare, Milton, Spenser, Shakespeare’s Rivals, Poetry and Poetics, Classical Humanism, Classical Scholarship, Rhetoric and Drama
Biography Year Admitted: 2020 Bio Arielle Raymos is a fourth-year PhD candidate in Literary Studies. She was born in St. Augustine, Florida and spent most of her life in Manchester, Tennessee. Arielle received her bachelor’s in English Literature from Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee in 2018, and her master’s in English Literature & …
Biography Year Admitted: 2024 Interests: Shakespeare and early modern studies; Black feminist theory; critical disability studies
Biography Year Admitted: 2025 Bio Nora Schultz is a PhD student in Literary Studies originally from Racine, Wisconsin. She received her BA in English and Gender & Sexuality Studies from the University of Chicago and her MPhil in English Studies at the University of Cambridge. She is interested in the ways in which history, and …
Biography Year Admitted: 2024 Bio Daniel Stoll is a Ph.D. student in Literary Studies specializing in Old English literature. His research examines ruins and the ways speakers internalize and articulate experiences of ruin, extinction, and apocalypse across medieval English literature, with particular attention to epic, elegy, and chivalric romance, especially Grail narratives. He holds a …