Biography Year Admitted: 2023 Bio Jason Q Han is a third-year PhD Student in the Literary and Cultural Studies program at UW–Madison. His work is focused on giving an account of a “solitude past the self” as it appears in 20th and 21st century literature and philosophy. His main theoretical interlocutors include Maurice Blanchot, Gilbert …
Biography Year Admitted: 2021 Bio Nora Harris (she/her) is a PhD student in English, in the Composition & Rhetoric program at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Her current research explores the intersection of emotion and one-on-one writing pedagogy foregrounding relationality and a Feminist ethics of care. When she is not nerding out about writing, …
Biography Year Admitted: 2024 Bio Benjamin Hawkins is a PhD student in Literary Studies. His foci include political aesthetics in literature in the 20th and 21st centuries with special emphasis on the political of poetry. He is also interested in eschatological thinking and futurity with a strong emphasis on political economy and ecocritical approaches. Before …
Biography Year Admitted: 2025 Bio I am a first-year PhD student at UW–Madison. I completed my BA and MA at the University of Louisville. I’m especially interested in the ways that digital and online technologies shape the ways we read, write, persuade, and communicate with one another. Research Interests Digital Rhetoric, Digital Communities, Conspiracy, and …
Biography Year Admitted: 2024 Research Interests: 18th c. African American literature
Biography Bio: Emery Jenson is a PhD Candidate in Literary Studies. Their dissertation, Governing Thunder: Climate and Coloniality in the Atlantic World, traces climate through histories of domination and resistance in the Americas and Caribbean. Assembling an archive from maroon diaries to meteorological data, this project shows how the political turbulence of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries …
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: 2024 Bio Elizabeth was admitted to UW–Madison as a PhD student in Rhetoric and Composition in Fall of 2024 after receiving her Masters in Technical and Professional and Communications from Auburn University where she worked as an instructor of record for Freshman Composition as well as a Research Assistant for Dr. Derek …
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 …