Incoming Ph.D. Students 2008:

• Melissa Bagley, B.A., University of Kansas, 2003; M.A., University of Kansas, 2006.
  Area of Interest: British Modernism
• Nellene Benhardus, B.A., Union University, 2008.
  Area of Interest: Victorian Literature
  
• Johanna Brinkley, B.A., Valparaiso University, 2008.
  Area of Interest: 19th c. Literature
  
• Chad Cripe, B.A., Cornerstone University, 1998; M.A., Grand Rapids Theological Seminary, 2000; M.A., Grand Valley State University, 2008.
  Area of Interest: Late 20th c. American Literature
• Daniel Davis, B.A., Wichita State University, 2007.
  Area of Interest: African-American Literature
  
• Jonathan Freitas, B.A.,Western Connecticut State University, 2007.
  Area of Interest: Medieval and Early Modern Literature
  
• Catherine Garnett, B.A., Bard College, 2006.
  Area of Interest: 19th & 20th c. Poetry
  
• Robert Gillespie, B.A., University of Iowa, 2006.
  Area of Interest: Postmodernism
  
• Josh Grinolds, B.A., University of Minnesota, 2005; M.A., University of St. Thomas, 2008.
  Area of Interest: Medieval Literature
  
• Sonia Johnson, B.A., Victoria University of Wellington, 2007; M.A., Victoria University of Wellington, 2008.
  Area of Interest: 20th c. American Literature
  
• Katherine Montgomery, B.A., Williams College, 2007.
  Area of Interest: Victorian Literature
  
• Elizabeth Sanders, B.A., St. Olaf, 2008.
  Area of Interest: Victorian Literature
  
• Michael Sarabia, B.A., Montana State University, 2004; J.D., University of Iowa, 2008.
  Area of Interest: Law and Literature
  
• Eric Siegel, B.A., University of Vermont, 2006.
  Area of Interest: 19th c. American Literature
  
• Taryne Taylor, B.A., Florida Atlantic University, 2006; M.A., Florida Atlantic University, 2008.
  Area of Interest: Victorian and Postmodern Literature
  
• Angela Watkins, B.A., DePaul University, 2007.
  Area of Interest: African-American Literature
  
• Andrew Williams, B.A., University of Iowa, 2008.
  Area of Interest: 18th c. Literature

MA Program 2008

• Melissa Schomers, B.A., University of Iowa, 2007.

Incoming Ph.D. Students 2007:

• Raquel Baker, B.A., San Francisco State University, 2002; M.F.A., Mills College, 2005
  Area of Interest: Anglophone Postcolonial Literature
• Cassandra Bausman, B.A., Augustana College, 2006
  Area of Interest: Women’s Literature
• Thomas Hughes Blake, B.A., University of Tennessee-Knoxville, 2002; M.A., University of Tennessee-Knoxville, 2005
  Area of Interest: Medieval and Renaissance Literature
• Blake Bronson-Bartlett, B.A., Hunter College, 2006
  Area of Interest: 19th Century American Literature
• Craig Carey, B.S., Syracuse University, 2001; M.A., University of Chicago, 2002; M.A., Brooklyn College, 2007
• Andrew Crooke, B.A., Cornell University, 2001
  Area of Interest: Twentieth Century American Fiction
• Kerry Anne Delaney, B.A., Washington College, 2007
  Area of Interest: Renaissance
• Robert Fernandez, B.A., Florida Atlantic University, 2004; M.F.A., University of Iowa, 2006
  Area of Interest: Theory/Contemporary Literature
• Mary Hickman-Fernandez, B.A. Boise State University; M.F.A., University of Iowa, 2006
  Area of Interest: Poetry
• Sunghyun Jang, B.A., Yonsei University, 2003; M.A., Seoul National University, 2005
  Area of Interest: British Romanticism
• Bryan Mangano, B.A., Massachusetts College Lib. Art, 2005; M.A., Boston College, 2007
  Area of Interest: 18th Century Novel Studies
• Sarah Fay McCarthy, B.A. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 1994; M.A., Warren Wilson College, 2006,
  Area of Interest: Modern American Poetry
• Paul McCullough, B.A. California Polytech State University, 2007
  Area of Interest: American Literature
• Christine Norquest, B.A. Southwestern University, 2003
• Melanie Reichwald, B.A., S U N Y – College at Purchase, 2006
  Area of Interest: African American Literature
• Ross Salinas, B.A., Southwestern University, 2003; M.A., University of Texas, 2007
  Area of Interest: American Literature
• Jillian Walker, B.A., Trinity University, 2003; University of Colorado-Boulder, 2005
  Area of Interest: Victorian
• Lacey Worth, B.A., Kenyon College, 2005
  Area of Interest: American Literature and African American Literature

Incoming Nonfiction Writing Program Students 2007:

• Tim Denevi
• Nicole Erickson
  
• Nina Feng
  
• Erik Habecker
  
• Jenna Hammerich
  
• Janet Henderickson
  
• Cheyenne Nimes
  
• Jennifer Percy
  
• David Rompf
  
• Leslie Van Wassenhove
  
• Maris Venia
  
• Stephen West
  
• Ellicott Wood

2006 M.A. and Ph.D. Entering Class

M.A. Student:

• Elizabeth Genovise, B.A. Hillsdale College, Michigan, 2006
  Interest in 19th and 20th c. U.S. literature

Ph.D. Students:

• Katherine Bishop, B.A. University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2004
  Interest in 18th and 19th c. U.S. and British literatures
• Eric Conrad, B.A. College of New Jersey, 2003
  Interest in 19th c. U.S. literature
• Brian Deutschendorf, B.A. University of Iowa, 2003; M.A. Northern Arizona University, 2005
  Interest in literature and the environment
• Bridget Draxler, B.A. St. Olaf College, 2005; M.A. University of York, UK, 2006
  Interest in Romanticism and religion
• Dorothy Giannakouros, B.A. Loras College, Dubuque, 2005
  Interest in transnational and postcolonial studies
• Nicole Grant, B.A. Florida Atlantic University, 2005
  Interest in 19th and 20th c. U.S. literature and modernism
• Berneta Haynes, B.A. Drury University, 2006
  Interest in African American literature
• Adele Holoch, B.A. Smith College, 2002; M.A. McGill University, 2006
  Interest in Canadian and postcolonial literature
• James Lambert, B.A. Brigham Young University, 2003; M.A. University of Arizona, 2006
  Interests range from contemporary U.S. literature to early modern literature
• Matthew Lavin, B.A. St. Lawrence University, New York, 2002; M.A., Utah State University, 2006;
  interest in U.S. magazine culture and book studies
• Jessica Lawson, B.A. Smith College, 2005
  Interest in literary modernisms
• Matthew Low, B.A. (2002), M.Ed. (2004), and M.A. Creighton University, 2006
  Interests range from Romanticism to 19th c. U.S. literature
• Chinelo Okparanta, B.A. Penn State University, 2003; M.A. Rutgers University, 2005
  Interest in 17th-18th c. British literature
• Erik Peterson, B.A. Creighton University, 2001; M.A. Florida State University, 2006
  Interest in 18th c. British literature and ideology
• Stephanie Rodgers, B.A. Xavier University, 2006
  Interest in medieval literary studies
• Amy Southwood, B.A. Purdue, 2001
  Interest in 19th c. British literature
  
  Nettie Vinsonhaler, B.S. University of Georgia, 1978; M.A. University of North Carolina, 1984
  Interest in medieval literary studie

2005 M.A & Ph.D. Entering Class

• Erica Bazemore, BA Rutgers, 2004; American/African American Literature
• Adam Bradford, BA Univ. of Utah, 1999; MA BYU, 2005; 19th Century American Literature
• Ryan Clark, BA UC-Berkeley, 2003; 20th Century American Literature
• Judith Coleman, BA Millsaps College, MS, 2003; grad course work Oxford; Milton
• Elise Cook, BA Bradley Univ., IL, 2003; MA, Univ. of Iowa (Comparative Lit.), 2005; Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Literature, African American and Latino/a Writers
• Gabriel Downs, BA Purdue, 2002; MA Purdue, 2005; Contemporary American Literature
• Erik Habecker, BA UC-Irvine, 1997; MA UC-Irvine, 2004; Early Modern Literature
• Jacob Horn, BA Univ. of Oklahoma, 2002; Film and Video, Theory
• Joanne Janssen, BA Bethel College, MN, 1999; MA Ball State 2005; Victorian Literature
• Travis Johnson, BA College of St. Scholastica, MN, 2004; Medieval Literature
• Erin Mann, BA Rice, 2003; Literary Theory, Nonfiction Essay
• Joshua Matthews, BA Indiana Univ.-Kokomo, 2003; MA Kent State, 2005; 18th and 19th Century American Literature
• Robert McLoone, BA Indiana Univ., 2004; American Literature, Literature and Environment
• Satya Onorato, BA UC- Santa Cruz,1997; Detective Fiction, Poe
• Ann Pleiss, BA Mt. Mercy, IA, 2002; Renaissance Studies
• Wanda Raiford, BA Brown, 1986; J.D. Univ. of Miami, 1991
• Joseph Rodriguez, BA Univ. of Missouri-Kansas City, 2005; Victorian Literature
• Elizabeth Shane, BA NYU, 2005; 18th and 19th Century British & American Literature
• Anna Stenson, BA Gustavus Adolphus College, MN, 2005, Romantic and Victorian Literature
• Brenton Thompson, BA Missouri Southern State College, 2005, Modernism, Joyce, Theory.

2004 M.A. & Ph.D. Entering Class

• Adkins, Taylor, B.A., State University of West Georgia, English, 2004
• Basan, Benjamin, B.A., University of North London, English/German 1998
• Blalock, Stephanie, B.A., Duke University, English, 2003
• Boscaljon, Daniel, B.A., Buena Vista University (Iowa), Philosophy/Religion, 1998
• Bygness, Megan, B.A., University of Iowa, Political Science/English, 2000; M.A., Kansas State University , 2004
• deVega, Sean, B.A., Rice, English, 2004
• Doyle, Shawn, B.A., Notre Dame, English/Government, 2004
• Hines, Chad, B.A., Grinnell College, English, 2000; M.A. University of Chicago, Humanities, 2003
• Holliday, Marta, B.A., Marymount College, English/Women’s Studies, 2004
• Martini, Sarah, B.A., Purdue University, English/History, 2004
• McDonald, Willis, B.A., Notre Dame, English, 2002; M.A. Notre Dame 2003
• Newton, Scott, B.A., University of Wyoming, English/Psychology 2003
• Nugent, Lynne, B.A., University of Chicago, Anthropology, 1994; M.F.A., University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing 2004
• Row Lindsey, B.A., Greenville College (Illinois), English/Religion 2004
• Savage, Holly, B.A., Baylor, English 2000; M.A. University of Colorado- Boulder, English 2003
• West, Stephen, B.A., SUNY-Geneseo, English/Art, 2002
• Whitehead, Brian, B.A., University of Oklahoma, English, 2003
• Wriglesworth, Chad, B.A., Warner Pacific College, English 1993; M.A. Portland State University, English, 2004

2003 Ph.D. Entering Class

• Amit Rahul Baishya
  J.N.U.(India), M.A.
  Area(s) of Interest: Post-Colonial Theory
• Erica Daigle
  Louisiana State University, B.S. (Biological sciences), M.A. (English)
  Area(s) of interest: Renaissance literature and medicine
• Nicole Gainyard
  Hunter College-City University of New York BA English (2003)
  Interests: African-American Literature and History, Folklore
• Joshua Gooch
  University of California, Santa Cruz, B.A.
  Area(s) of Interest: Victorian Literature, Theory
• Katherine Gubbels
  University of Nebraska (Omaha), B.A.
  Area(s) of Interest: Medieval and Renaissance Literature; post-structuralism and cultural studies
• Carolyn Hall
  Bucknell University, B.A.
  Grand Valley State University (MI), M.Ed.
  Area(s) of Interest: 19th Century British and American literature, imperialism
• Everett Hamner
  Johns Hopkins University, B.A. (English, Spanish), M.A.T.
  Regent College (Vancouver, BC), M.C.S. (Interdisciplinary Studies)
  Area(s) of Interest: Religion and Literature/Theory, Science Fiction/ Technoculture Studies
• Amy Hezel
  SUNY Buffalo, B.A. (English), M.L.S.
  Area(s) of Interest: 19th & 20th Century American Literature, Book Studies,& Consumer Culture
• Robert Hunsicker
  Cornell College, B.A. (Philosophy)
  Area(s) of Interest: Modernism, Theory
• Jeremy Knapp
  Thomas More College (KY), B.A. (English, Philosophy)
  Area(s) of Interest: Religion and Literature, Early American Literature
• Deborah Manion
  SUNY at Buffalo, B.A.
  SUNY at Buffalo, M.A.
  Area(s) of Interest: 19th and 20th Century Literature, Film
• Christine A. Mazurkewycz
  University of Kansas, B.A.
  Purdue University, M.A.
  Area(s) of Interest: Poetics and Performance
• Jailyn Moreland
  UNC-Greensboro, B.A. (English/Women's and Gender Studies)
  Area of Interest: 20th C. Am.Lit., Postmodern/Feminist Theory
• Paige Nelson
  University of Arizona, B.A. (English and Spanish)
  University of Arizona, B.S. (Psychology)
  Area(s) of Interest: 20th Century American Literature; Poetry, Science, and Law
• Matthew Purdy
• Eve Rosenbaum
  SUNY Binghamton, B.A.
  American University, M.F.A.
  Area(s) of Interest: 19th Century American Literature
• LeDon J. Sweeney
  University of Iowa, B.A.
  Area(s) of Interest: Open
• Tevis Thompson
  University of Chicago, B.A.
  St. John's College (Santa Fe), M.A.
  Area of interest: 20th century American literature, new media

M.A./Ph.D. Students 2002

• Mark Bresnan
  St. Olaf College, B.A.
  Area of Interest: 20^th Century-British & American Literature
• Christopher Burgess
  Indiana University, South Bend, B.A.
  Western Michigan University, M.A.
  Area of Interest: Medieval Literature
• Michael Chasar
  Valparasio University, B.A.
  Miami University (Ohio), M.A.
  Area of Interest: Poetry
• Maia Clay
  College of Wooster (Ohio), B.A.
  Area of Interest: Post-colonial Literature
• Joanna Davis
  University of Kansas, B.A.
  Area of Interest: 20^th Century African-American Literature
• Jeffrey Doty
  Tarlton State University (Texas), B.A.
  University of North Texas (Denton), M.A.
  Area of Interest: 20^th Century American Literature
• Patricia Eamon
  St. John's College (New Mexico), B.A.
  Area of Interest: 19^th Century American Literature
• David Everson
  University of Florida, B.A.
  Area of Interest: 20^th Century English Literature
• Richard Garrett
  Stephen Austin State University (Texas), B.A.
  Stephen Austin State University (Texas), M.A.
  Area of Interest: Medieval Literature
• Theodore Genoways
  Nebraska Wesleyan (Lincoln), B.A.
  Texas Tech, M.A.
  University of Virginia, M.F.A.
  Area of Interest: Literary Studies 
• Jenna Hammerich
  Lake Forest College (Illinois), B.A.
  Area of Interest: 18^th Century British Literature
• Thomas Keegan
  University of Virginia, B.A.
  Area of Interest: Literary conceptions of identity
• Jennifer Kinneberg
  Gustavus Adolphus College (Minnesota), B.A.
  Area of Interest: Early American Literature
• Young Hee Kwon
  Seoul National University, B.A.
  Seoul National University, M.A.
  Area of Interest: 19^th and 20^th Century Anglo-American Novels 
• Sucheta Mallick
  Lady Brabourne College (India), B.A.
  Jadavpur University (India), M.A.
  Areas of Interest: 20^th Century Literature; Feminist Critical Theory 
• Laura Smith
  Creighton University, B.A.
  Area of Interest: 20^th Century Women's Literature
• Tracy Stuhr
  University of Iowa, B.A.
  University of Iowa, M.F.A. (expected)
  Area of Interest: Medieval Literature
• Brooke Suchomel
  University of Iowa, B.A.
  Areas of Interest: British and American Literature; Literary Journals; Contemporary Essays and Short Stories; Shakespeare

M.A./Ph.D. Students 2001

• Lisa Angelella
  University of Scranton (PA), B.A.
  Area of Interest: Modernist Poetry
• Jennifer Banash
  University of Iowa, B.A.
  Area of Interest: Modernist Period
• Tembi Berbin
  University of Texas, Austin, B.A.
  Area of Interest: Colonialism, Postcolonial Theory, Jane Austin
• Jeffrey Butler
  UCLA, B.A.
  University of Mass. M.F.A.
  Area of Interest: 19^th and 20^th Century Literature
• Jessica DeSpain
  Mount Saint Claire College (Iowa), B.A.
  Areas of Interest: Modernist and Contemporary Poetry, Gender Issues in Literature
• Douglas Dowland
  Michigan State University, B.A.
  Areas of Interest: 20^th Century American Literature, Modernism, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies
• Nicole Flores
  Northwestern University, B.A.
  Area of Interest: Editors in American Fiction in the First Half of the 20^th Century
• Cory Hutchinson
  Ouachita Baptist University (Arkansas), B.A.
  University of Central Arkansas, M.A.
  Area of interest: Meta-fiction of the Post Modern Novel
• Kathryn Krueger
  Gustavus Adolphus College (MN), B.A.
  Area of Interest: 20^th Century American and Irish Literature
• Nathan Mitchel
  Universityof Wisconsin, Green Bay, B.A.
  Area of Interest: Gothic Fiction: Fantasy/Horror Genre Studies
• Lorry Perry
  Wellesly College (MA), B.A.
  Areas of Interest: American Southern Literature, Modernism
• Rufo Quintavalle
  University of Oxford (England), B.A.
  Area of Interest: Criticism
• Marsha Walker
  Jackson State University (MS), B.A.
  Areas of Interest: African-American Literature and American Literature
• Dorothy Weiss
  Earlham College (IN), B.A.
  Areas of Interest: 20^th Century Literature, Feminist Theory

M.A./Ph.D. Students 2000

• Steven Almquist
  St. Mary's College (MN), B.A.
  University of North Dakota, M.A.
  Area of Interest: Postcolonial Literature
• Heidi Bean
  Indiana University, B.A.
  Areas of Interest: American Literature in the 1920s, Women's Writing
• Gunnar Benediktsson
  University of Calgary (Candada), B.A.
  Iowa State University, M.A.
  Areas of Interest: Critical Theory, 19^th Century Literature
• Nicole Buscemi
  Illinois Wesleyan, B.A.
  University of Chicago, M.A.
  Areas of Interest: Modernism, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies
• Kimberly Cohen
  Hofstra University (NY), B.A.
  SUNY-Stony Brook, M.A.
  Areas of Interest: 20^th Century American Literature, Women Writers, Feminist Theory
• Stacy Erickson
  Ripon College (WI), B.A.
  Areas of Interest: 20^th century Literature (Modernism), Renaissance Literature
• Heidi LaVine
  St. Olaf's College (MN), B.A.
  Area of Interest: 20^th Century Literature
• Matthew Miller
  University of Nebraska, B.A.
  University of Nebraska, M.A.
  University of Iowa, (Writers' Workshop), M.F.A.
  Areas of Interest: 19^th Century American Literature, 20^th Century British and American Literature
• Derek Oja
  Georgia State University, B.A.
  University of South Alabama, M.A.
  Areas of Interest: Critical Theory, American Literature to 1900, 20^th century Literature
• Anne Peterson
  Evergreen State College (WA), B.A.
  University of Wyoming, M.A.
  Areas of Interest: Native Americans in American Literature, Late 19^th Century Literature
• Joshua Raulerson
  Iowa State University, B.A.
  Areas of Interest: 19^th and 20^th Century American Literature
• Anna Spyra
  University of Silesia (Poland), B.A.
  University of Silesia (Poland), M.A.
  Area of Interest: Post-colonial Literature
• Justin St. Clair
  Washington and Lee University (VA), B.A.
  Areas of Interest: 20^th Century American Literature, Postmodern Literature
• Jeffrey Swenson
  St. John's University (MN), B.A.
  University of Alaska, M.A.
  Area of Interest Post-colonial American Literature
• Keith Wilhite
  St. Louis University (MO), B.A.
  St. Louis University (MO), M.A.
  Area of Interest: Narrative theory in relation to American Literature

M.A./Ph.D. Students Admitted Prior to 2000

• Matthew "Greg" Bales
  Harding University (AR), B.A.
  Area of Interest: 19^th Century American Literatur
• David Banash
  St. Ambrose University (IA), B.A.
  Colorado State University, M.A.
  Prospectus: "Collage"; Director: Kuenzli
• Bidisha Banerjee
  Presidency College (Calcutta, India), B.A.
  Jadaupur University (Calcutta, India), M.A.
  Claremont (CA), M.A.
  Prospectus: No Nation Woman: Representations of Diaspora and the Female Body in South Asian Women's Writing; Director: Emery
• Robin Barrow
  Tennessee Tech, B.A.
  Prospectus: Silence and Spectacle: Rape in Victorian Fiction; Director: Boos
• Renee Brochu
  Binghamton University (NY), B.A.
  Area of Interest: Renaissance
• Patricia Brogan
  Bryn Mawr (PA) B.A.
  Prospectus: Home Free, or the Unreal Estate: Fantastic Literature in Britain, 1870-1930; Director: Latham
• Mark Bruce
  Bethel College (MN), B.A.
  Colorado State University, M.A.
  Area of Interest: 19^th Century American Literature
• Jeffrey Charis-Carlson
  Western Michigan University, B.A.
  University of Chicago, M.A.
  Area of Interest: Twain and Bierce Ð Journalism and Literature of the Fin de siecle
• Vickie Clarke
  University of California, Riverside, B.A.
  American Literature
• Andrew Clinton
  Haverford College, (PA), B.A.
  Area(s) of Interest: Renaissance Literature, African-American Literature, Irish Literature
• Michael Cooper
  University of Iowa, B.A.
  University of Iowa, M.A.T.
  Areas of Interest: Black fiction, American Indian fiction
• Elizabeth Corsun
  University of California, Santa Cruz, B.A.
  Prospectus: We are No Angels: The Comic Female Grotesque in Victorian Imagination; Director: Stewart
• J. P. Craig
  Memphis State University (TN), B.A.
  University of Memphis (TN), M.F.A.
  Prospectus: Robert Duncan, Nathaniel McKey and Susan Howe
  Director: Morris
• Melissa Donegan
  Bates College (ME), B.A.
  Area of Interest: 18^th and 19^th Century British Literature
• Mark Dowdy
  California State University, Long Beach, B.A.
  San Jose State, M.A.
  Areas of interest: Renaissance Literature and drama, orality and literacy studies
• Megan Early
  New York University, B.A.
  New York University, M.A.
  Prospectus: "Matters of Artistic Expression": The Performing Arts, Aesthetics and Writing, 1841-1910, Director: Mangum
• Anthony Enns
  University of North Carolina, B.A.
  Hollins College (VA), M.A.
  Old Dominion University (VA) M.F.A.
  Prospectus: Spiritual Media: Communicating with the Dead in the Electronic age; Directors: Latham and Wittenberg
• Jean Fernandez
  University of Madras (India), B.A.
  University of Madras (India), M.A.
  Prospectus: In Service of Narration: Servants, Subalternity and Narrational Politics in Victorian Fiction and Autobiography; Director: Stewart
• Damon Franke
  University of Carlifornia, Berkeley, B.A.
  University of Georgia, M.A.
  Prospectus: "Modern Heresies"; Director: Boos
• Thomas Gannon
  University of South Dakota, B.A.
  University of South Dakota, M.A.
  Prospectus: Human Self, Avian Other: Imagining the Bird from British Romantic Poetry to Contemporary Native American Writing; Chair: Folsom
• Michael Germana
  Virginia Tech, B.A.
  Virginia Tech, M.A.
  Area of Interest: American Literature
• Marty Gould
  Tulane University (LA), B.A.
  University of Mississippi, Oxford, M.A.
  University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, M.A.
  Prospectus: Role Britannia: Theatricality and Empire in the Victorian Period
  Director: Mangum\
• Susan Gray
  University of Waterloo (Canada), B.A.
  University of Iowa, M.F.A.
  Area of Interest: English Romantic Poetry
• Eric Haley
  University of Georgia, B.A.
  University of South Carolina, M.A.
  Prospectus: These Places Could Have Been Home: Agriculture and Atopia in American Literature; Director: Lutz
• Mary Hayes
  Dartmouth College, B.A.
  University of Chicago, M.A.
  Prospectus: Silence, Sounds and Religious Soundscapes in the Middle Ages; Directors: Sponsler and Wilcox
• Susan Hwang
  Scripps College (CA), B.A.
  Area of Interest: American Literature
• Joyce Kelley
  Haverford College, (PA), B.A.
  Areas of Interest: 19th and 20^th Century British and American Literature
• Wesley Kisting
  Marquette University, (WI), B.A.
  Areas of Interest: Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature
• Carol Lauhon
  Kalamazoo College (MI), B.A.
  University of Michigan, M.A.
  University of Iowa, M.A.
  The Hidden Hand in American Culture; Director: Folsom
• Isiah Lavender
  Southern University (LA), B.A.
  Louisiana State University, M.A.
  Prospectus: Otherhood(s), Mapping Race and Ethnicity in Science Fiction; Director: Landon
• Katherine Lewis
  Pomona College (CA), B.A.
  Prospectus: Speaking of Love: Gendered Personas and Gendered Desires in Poetry and Culture, 1860-1920; Director: Morris
• Alan Long
  University of Oklahoma, B.A.
  Area of Interest: Ben Jonson
• Margaret Loose
  Wafford College (SC), B.A.
  University of South Carolina, M.A.
  Prospectus: Reformations: The Role of Literary Form in Victorian Working-Class Literature; Director: Boos
• Shirley (Sam) Lopez
  St. Mary's University (TX), B.A.
  Area of Interest: American Literature
• Kathryn Lyons
  SUNY-Buffalo, B.A.
  Area of Interest: Shakespeare
• Eddie Mallot
  University of Missouri, B.A.
  Prospectus: Recollections and Recorrections: Memories and Histories in Contemporary South Asian Literature in English; Directors: Emery and Kumar
• Jennifer McGovern
  University of Chicago, B.A.
  Area of Interest: American Literature
• McLean, Thomas
  Loyola University, (LA), B.A.
  Boston College, M.A.
  Prospectus: Representing Poland in Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture: Director: Pascoe
• Deirdre McMahon
  Swarthmore (PA), B.A.
  University of Virginia, M.A.
  Prospectus: Strange Family Stories: Race and Domesticity in Nineteenth Century British Literature; Director: Boos
• Abigail Metcalf
  Brown University (RI), B.A.
  Prospectus: The Invention of Space; Director: Landon
• Mary Moran
  University of Chicago, B.A.
  Narrative Ethics, Feminist Relational Thinking, and the Development of the Novel; Director: Boos
• Lori Muntz
  University of Texas, Austin, B.A.
  Prospectus: "I Gave a Lecture, and All the People Were with Us": Nipo Strongheart and Native Intellectuals' Use of Popular Culture Venues as a Method of Political Advocacy During the 1920s; Director: Diffley
• Elyse Myers
  North Central College (IL), B.A.
  Prospectus: "Relativity Physiques: Representations of Space, Time and Event-Bodies in Anglo-American Modernist Literature; Director: Lutz
• Angela Nepodal
  George Mason University, B.A.
  George Mason University, M.A.
  Areas of Interest: American Literature, Poststructural/Postmodern Theories
• William Ness
  Mid-America Nazarene College (KS), B.A.
  Prospectus: Stars and Stripes Forever: The Flag and Civil War Poetry; Director: Folsom
• Ervin (E.N.)Nieves
  Montclair State University (NJ), B.A.
  Rutgers, M.A.
  Prospectus: Body, Brain, and Consciousness: Coevolution, Phycholoogy, and Culture in Contemporary ÔChicana/o' Literature; Director: Lutz
• Scott Nowka
  University of Illinois, Chicago, B.A.
  University of Illinois, Chicago, M.A.
  Area of Interest: 18^th Century Literature
• John Pendell
  Madonna University (MI), B.A.
  DePaul University (IL), M.A.
  Areas of Interest, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Modernism, Medieval Literature
• Mary Beth Pope
  Central Michigan University, B.A.
  Central Michigan University, M.A.
  Prospectus: Waiting for Ed McMahon; Director: Hamilton
• Shanti Roundtree
  Wesleyan University (CT), B.A.
  Area of Interest: American Literature
• Jennifer Ryan
  University of Rochester (NY), B.A.
  Prospectus: Any Women's Blues: Cultural Contexts of Jazz Poetry by African-American Women; Director: Morris
• Sean Scanlan
  \University of Missouri, Columbia, B.A.
  University of Missouri, St. Louis, M.A.
  Areas of Interest: American Fiction and Poetry 1830-1930, Modernism, Post Modernism
• Jennifer Sherer
  Oberlin (OH), B.A.
  Area of Interest: American Literature
• Michael Smolinsky
  Pomona College (CA), B.A.
  Prospectus: Constructions and Intersections of "elite" and "popular" Literary forms and cultural practices as represented in four "English" plays of the early modern period; Director: H. Diehl
• Amy Spellacy
  University of St. Thomas (MN), B.A.
  University of Iowa, M.A.
  Prospectus: Neighbors and Neighborhoods During the Good Neighbor Policy 1933-1948: Director: Eckstein
• James Sprengelmeyer
  Clarke College (IA), B.A.
  Area of Interest: Graham Greene
• Kimberli Stafford
  Brigham Young University, (UT), B.A.
  Brigham Young University, (UT), M.A.
  Prospectus: Time, Narrative, Intertext: The Poetics of Narrative in Contemporary American Indian Fiction; Director: Emery
• Mariah Steele
  University of Wisconsin, B.A.
  New Mexico State, M.A
  Areas of Interest: Romantic Women Poets, 19^th Century Women Travel Writers 
• Erica Still
  Temple University, B.A.
  Area of Interest: African-American Literature
• Elizabeth Tsukahara
  Wellesley (MA), B.A.
  Area of Interest 20^th Century British Literature
• Mimi Van Ausdall
  Washington University (MO), B.A.
  Carnegie Mellon (PA), M.A.
  Area of Interest: 20th century American literature and queer theory
  Dissertation: Writing Revolution in the 1970s Lesbian Novel
• Missa Yook
  Seoul National University (Korea), B.A.
  Seoul National University (Korea), M.A.
  Prospectus: Sympathetic Identification and Its Many Anxieties; Directors: Pascoe and Mangu