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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.

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

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

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. 

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.

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

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

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

Byron Gilman-Hernandez

Email: byron.gilmanhernandez@slu.edu

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

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

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

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

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

Christina Hildebrandt

Matt Holder

Adriana Hutchinson

Email: adriana.duebel@slu.edu 

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

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

TJ Keeley

Email: tj.keeley@slu.edu 

Sharee Langenstein

Email: sharee.langenstein@slu.edu 

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

Laura Hardin Marshall

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

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

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

Johaeng Rho

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

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

Brooklynn Shatto

Area of Study: Rhetoric

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

Rose Street

 

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

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

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

Savannah Warners

Email: savanah.warners@slu.edu 

Natalie Whitaker