Biography Year Admitted: 2023 Bio Theo is a PhD candidate in literary studies. Their dissertation combines historicist and formalist methods to examine the political uses of folk and fairy tales in colonized places in the long 19th century. It also explores how these uses of folk and fairy tales presage the politics of contemporary decolonial …
Biography Year Admitted: 2020 Bio Gabriel Lake Carter is a PhD Candidate in English with a concentration in Composition & Rhetoric and a minor in Science & Technology Studies. Carter’s dissertation project considers the ways in which anti-drug rhetoric inculcates drug stigma and how such stigmatization contributes to the prohibitionist ideology of the ongoing drug …
Biography Year Admitted: 2022 Interests Jewish culture and rhetorics, Rhetorics of memory, Holocaust studies
Interests Nineteenth-century American literature; Edgar Allan Poe; American Gothic literature; Scandinavian literature; Foucauldian studies Biography Degrees
Biography Year Admitted: 2023 Bio Dylan is a PhD student in literary studies with a focus on the environmental humanities. His research explores the entanglement of colonialism and food, and more recently, uses climate fiction as a lens to reimagine the relationship between humans and the land. Outside of school, Dylan enjoys exploring nature trails …
Biography Bio Henry joined the Composition & Rhetoric program at UW–Madison after two decades of editing and writing in multiple roles and modalities, including as adjunct writing professor and researcher at Portland State University, technical writer for Resource Data, copyeditor for the Simons Foundation, senior editor at Cogitate Editing, managing editor for an imprint of …
Biography Year Admitted: 2024 Interests: Nineteenth and Twentieth-century Indian vernacular literatures, Postcolonial India, Modernisms, Postmodernism, Short story, Novel, Modern Indian history, Subaltern Studies, Environmental humanities Bio: I am a Ph.D. Student in English (Literary Studies) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, interested in Indian literatures with a focus on questions of representation and social justice. My …
Biography Interests: 20th and 21st-century poetry & poetics; post/decolonial studies; environmental humanities; new materialisms; critical theory
Biography Year Admitted: 2024 Bio Kevin J. de Armas Buchhorst is a PhD student in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Secondary Education in English with a focus on Multimedia Technology from the University of Puerto Rico at Aguadilla and a Master of Arts in …