Rosario, Javier
Biography Year Admitted: 2024 Bio: Javier is a PhD student in Composition and Rhetoric telling stories about crisis, movement, and home. Interests: Migration, political legitimacy, ecology
Biography Year Admitted: 2024 Bio: Javier is a PhD student in Composition and Rhetoric telling stories about crisis, movement, and home. Interests: Migration, political legitimacy, ecology
Biography Year Admitted: 2024 Interests: Shakespeare and early modern studies; Black feminist theory; critical disability studies
Biography Year Admitted: 2025 Bio Nora Schultz is a PhD student in Literary Studies originally from Racine, Wisconsin. She received her BA in English and Gender & Sexuality Studies from the University of Chicago and her MPhil in English Studies at the University of Cambridge. She is interested in the ways in which history, and …
Biography Year Admitted: 2025 Bio Saliha Seyis is a PhD student in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in English Language Education from Boğaziçi University in Turkey and her Master of Arts in General Linguistics from the University of Göttingen in Germany. Her research interests include …
Biography Year Admitted: 2023 Bio Aurora Shimshak is from southwestern Wisconsin. Currently a PhD student in Rhetoric and Composition, her first academic interests were in creative writing. Her poems and essays have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Shenandoah, and The Offing, among others. She holds an MFA in poetry from UW–Madison and an MFA in creative …
Biography Year Admitted: 2024 Bio Daniel Stoll is a Ph.D. student in Literary Studies specializing in Old English literature. His research examines ruins and the ways speakers internalize and articulate experiences of ruin, extinction, and apocalypse across medieval English literature, with particular attention to epic, elegy, and chivalric romance, especially Grail narratives. He holds a …
Biography Year Admitted: 2019 Bio Pinar Tasdemir is a Ph.D. Candidate in the English Department at UW–Madison. She received her BA and MA in English Literature at Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey, where she also obtained a certificate in Film Studies. Her dissertation examines American true crime narratives and political economy’s impact on the genre’s …
Biography Year Admitted: 2020 Bio: Noah’s dissertation focuses on the Künstlerroman in American literature and culture from 1945 to the present. He also serves as the assistant editor of American Literary History. Interests: 20th and 21st century American literature and culture; the novel; Marxism and critical theory; the avant-garde; science fiction and the fantastic; literary …