People Type: Graduate Students

Dickson, Taylor

Biography Year Admitted: 2022 Bio Taylor is a second-year PhD student in Composition and Rhetoric and the Assistant Director of English 100. Interests Writing program administration, Community engaged learning, Public memory and memorial Degree and Institution AA, Diablo Valley College BA, Sonoma State University MA, Sonoma State University

Fiandeiro, Gabriel

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 …

Floyd, Macy

Biography Year Admitted: 2021 Bio I am originally from the DFW area in Texas, and hold a BA in Language and Linguistics from Baylor University (Waco Texas), an MPhil in Linguistics from Trinity College Dublin (Dublin, Ireland), and an MBA from Eastern Washington University (Spokane, Washington). My previous research has focused on the pragmatic-prosodic interface, …

Fox, Megan E.

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

Fung, Cherise

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

Garcia, Patience

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.

Ghosh, Kuhelika

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 …

Goggins , Sydney

Gonzales, Alec

Biography Year Admitted: 2025 Bio I received my BA from UC Riverside in 2022 and my MA from Cal State Long Beach in 2025. Research Interests Pedagogy, Political Rhetoric, and Queer Theory Selected Publications or Research Three of my poems will be published in the fall 2025 edition of Entre: Magazine of the Arts

Gonzalez, Rabia Perez

Biography Year Admitted: 2022 Bio: I am a PhD student in ELL and Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. My current research explores the gender agreement perceptions of heritage speakers of Spanish, particularly focusing on article-noun agreement patterns. I also engage in psycholinguistic research using eye-tracking technology to investigate the parsing of …