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: 2021 Bio Erin Miller is a PhD student at UW–Madison researching literacy studies, migration studies, and institutional rhetoric. She’s interested in understanding how governmental institutions use physical and digital resources to dictate the lives of migrants, what literacy and rhetorical practices enable this relationship, and the material consequences of this relationship. Erin …
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: 2022 Interests: immigration rhetorics, literacy and affect, teaching writing with AI Bio: Originally from Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sujash received his BA in English and MA in Education (Truman State University) and an MA in English (Missouri State University). Now he is pursuing a PhD in Composition and Rhetoric in the Department of English …
Biography Year Admitted: 2020 Bio: My research explores the transformative impact of digital cancer support groups on self-advocacy and empowerment. I examine how online platforms encourage participants to blend personal experiences with medical information, fostering mutual understanding and respect without the pressure to persuade. Using invitational rhetoric as a framework, I analyze how these communities …
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 & …