Learn more about the graduate students in the Department of English at Saint Louis University.
Department of English Graduate Students
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Lindsay Adams Kennedy
Email: lindsay.adams@slu.edu
B.A. in English: University of Missouri-Kansas City, M.F.A. in Playwriting: Catholic University of America, Ph.D. candidate in Early Modern Literature: SLU
Area of Study: Shakespeare Studies, Early Modern Drama and Poetry, Classical (Greek & Roman Drama), Modern and Contemporary Drama, Disability Studies, Creative Writing
Areas of Interest: Confessional spaces in Early Modern Drama; rape representation in literature; Virginity and (a)Sexuality Studies; the experience and depiction of women with invisible disabilities; cross periodization, particularly in relation to exploring connections between the medieval and the early modern, and the early modern and the now; the craft and pedagogy of playwriting and creative non-fiction.
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Colten R. Biro
Email: colten.biro@slu.edu
Bachelor of Science in English & Political Science from Spring Hill College; Graduate Philosophy & Letters Degree from ¶¶Òõpro; Master of Arts in English from ¶¶Òõpro
Area of Study: Nineteenth Century British Literature & Culture
Secondary Specializations: Golden Age Children's Literature (1865-1928); Medical Humanities; Digital/Public Humanities; Intellectual & Philosophical Histories in Literature
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Lexxie Broemmer
Email: alexa.broemmer@slu.edu
B.A. in English from Quincy University, M.A. in English from ¶¶Òõpro
Area of Study: 19th-20th Century American Literature
Areas of Interest: Women's and Gender Studies, Horror, Ecocriticism
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Sarah Burt
Email: sarah.burt@slu.edu
B.A. in English and History from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) 2019, M.A. in English Language and Literature 2021.
Area of Study: Medieval Studies
Areas of Interest: Eco-material studies, eco-critical and animal agency in medievalism, cross-cultural analysis, cross-period analysis, chivalric romance, and transformative mythologies and folklore.
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Salvatore Dibono
Email: salvatore.dibono@slu.edu
B.A. in English from CUNY Hunter College 2019; M.A. from Seton Hall University 2021
Area of Study: 20th-21st century American Literature
Areas of Interest: Horror, literary/publication history, new historicism,, cultural studies, and media studies.
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Haris Fazlic
Email: haris.fazlic@slu.edu
B.A. in English from the University of Missouri, M.A. in English from Tulane University
Area of Study: Romanticism/Romantic Studies
Areas of Interest: Pastoral Poetry, John Clare Studies, Object Theory, Transcendental Philosophy
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Katie Gearin
Email: katherine.gearin@slu.edu
A.A. in Arts from St. Charles Community College; B.A in English from Maryville University
Area of Study: The Long 19th Century
Areas of Interest: Romanticism; Victorian Literature; Feminist Studies
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Autumn George
B.A. Loyola University of Maryland ’22 (double major in History and English, double minor in Art History and Medieval Studies) Summa Cum Laude
¶¶Òõpro Presidential Fellowship Recipient ‘22-‘24
Area of Study: Women’s Literacy in the Late Middle Ages
Areas of Interest: Medieval Latin, Old French, Paleography, Books of Hours, Manuscript Illumination, Marian Devotions
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Byron Gilman-Hernandez
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Nicholas Gomez
Email: nicholas.gomez@slu.edu
B.A. in English and American Literature from University of Texas El Paso; M.A. in English from ¶¶Òõpro
Area of Study: Rhetoric and Composition
Areas of Interest: Philosophy and Rhetoric, Ancient Rhetoric, Pedagogy, Classical Studies, Composition Studies
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Katherine (Katie) Gutierrez-Glik
Email: katherine.j.gutierrez@slu.edu
M.A. in English with a Minor in Women's and Gender Studies from Loyola University Chicago; B.A. in English from University of Missouri - Columbia
Area of Study: Contemporary Postcolonial Literature
Areas of Interest: Contemporary postcolonial literature, gender studies, feminist theory, and queer theory
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Abram Gregory
Email: abram.gregory@slu.edu
B.A. in Philosophy and English from Vassar College
Area of Study: Philosophy and Medieval Studies
Areas of Interest: German idealism, fantasy literature, and physical education writing
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Meha Gupta
Email: meha.gupta@slu.edu
B.A. in English from Central University of Karnataka, India
Area of Study: Postcolonial Literatures
Areas of Interest: Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies, Poetry and Poetics
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J. Myles Hesse
Email: john.hesse@slu.edu
B.S. in English and Theatre from Indiana State University; M.A. in Theatre and Performance Studies from Washington University in St. Louis
Area of Study: Transatlantic Modernisms
Areas of Interest: Spiritual Queerness, Dramatic Literature, Queer Gothic
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Christina Hildebrandt
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Matt Holder
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Adriana Hutchinson
Email: adriana.duebel@slu.edu
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Ahlam Jaber
Email: ahlam.jaber@slu.edu
Bachelor of Arts in English from Southern Illinois University of Edwardsville; Master of Arts in English from Southern Illinois University of Edwardsville
Area of Study: Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures
Areas of Interest: Contemporary Postcolonial & Decolonial Studies, Arab American Literature, Latin American Literature, Native/Indigenous Literature, Cultural Studies, Ecopoetics
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Claire Jennings
Email: claire.jennings@slu.edu
B.A. in English Literature and Writing from McKendree University
Area of Study: English
Areas of Interest: Gothic Literature, 19th Century British Literature
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TJ Keeley
Email: tj.keeley@slu.edu
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Sharee Langenstein
Email: sharee.langenstein@slu.edu
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Sydney Lindsey
Email: sydney.rice@slu.edu
B.A. in English Education from Murray State University, M.A. in English from Saint Louis University
Area of Study: Contemporary Literature and Film
Areas of Interest: Women and Gender Studies, Horror and the Gothic
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Laura Hardin Marshall
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Emma O’Donnel
MA in English with a concentration in literature from Missouri State University
Area of Study: The British long 19th century
Area(s) of Interest: Victorian Literature, the novel, Feminist Studies, Queer Studies
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Anna Ostmann
BAs in English and History from Lindenwood University
Area of Study: Early Modern Literature, Gothic Literature
Areas of Interest/Research Interests: Early Gothic literature and aesthetics, fantasy literature, genre studies, women and gender studies, queer literature
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Ryan Prewitt
Email: ryan.prewitt@slu.edu
M.A. in English from ¶¶Òõpro
Area of Study: 20th Century and Contemporary American Literature
Areas of Interest: Digital Literature, Literary Countercultures, Politics and Aesthetics, Digital Rhetoric
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Johaeng Rho
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Dominic Robin
BA in English and Business Administration, College of the Ozarks; MA in English, University of North Florida
Area of study: 20th-21st Century American Literature
Area(s) of interest: Medical humanities, disability studies, narrative theory, homeschool literature, language acquisition theory, Latin American literature, Andean studies, anthropology, modernism
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Vivian Romeo
B.A. in English from California State University Stanislaus
Area of Study: Contemporary Literature
Research interests: The development of Queer YA fiction | Sci-Fi / Fantasy | The Western
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Brooklynn Shatto
Area of Study: Rhetoric
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Rachel Linn Shields
Email: rachel.l.shields@slu.edu
B.A. in English from the University of Washington (Seattle, WA), M.A. interdisciplinary studies with a literature focus from New York University (New York, NY), and M.F.A. in creative writing with a fiction focus from the University of Washington (Seattle, WA)
Area of Study: Medieval Literature
Areas of Interest: Ecocriticism, poetics, creative writing, history of the book
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Andrew Sweeso
Email: andrew.sweeso@slu.edu
B.A. in English from ¶¶Òõpro
Area of Study: Rhetoric and Composition
Areas of Interest: Community-engaged pedagogy, writing center pedagogy, Religious rhetoric and social media
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Kathleen (Katie) Eck Thorman
Email: kathleen.eck@slu.edu
B.A. in English and Secondary Education from Dominican University; M.A. in English from ¶¶Òõpro
Area of Study: 19th Century British Literature
Areas of Interest: Disability Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, and Teaching Pedagogy
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Lauren Terbrock-Elmestad
Email: lauren.terbrockelmestad@slu.edu
B.A. in English and Education from Lindenwood University; M.A. in English from University of Missouri-St. Louis
Area of Study: Rhetoric and Composition
Areas of Interest: Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, Medical Humanities, Disability Studies, Gender Studies, Posthumanism
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Savannah Warners
Email: savanah.warners@slu.edu
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Natalie Whitaker