University of Wisconsin–Madison

People Type: Graduate Students

Buchheim, Andrew

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 …

Campbell, Theo Joy

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 …

Carter, Gabriel Lake

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 …

Chakov, Alexandra

Biography Year Admitted: 2022 Interests Jewish culture and rhetorics, Rhetorics of memory, Holocaust studies

Chang, Tom

Chantajinda, Vatcharit (Pond)

Biography Year Admitted: 2021 Bio Vatcharit Chantajinda or Pond is a PhD candidate in English Language and Linguistics at UW-Madison. He completed a B.A. in Spanish and an M.A. in Linguistics at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. His primary research interest concerns generative and psycholinguistic approaches to non-native language acquisition (L2/L3/Ln) of morphosyntax. More information can …

Costanza, Jordan

Interests Nineteenth-century American literature; Edgar Allan Poe; American Gothic literature; Scandinavian literature; Foucauldian studies Biography Degrees

Couch, Dylan

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 …

Covey, Henry

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 …

Das, Sragdharamalini

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 …