Race and Ethnicity

Chery

Arselyne Chery is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English at the University of Virginia. She is also an Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellow in Caribbean Studies. Her dissertation explores the entangled politics of race, gender, power, and kinship in the Caribbean, as depicted in twentieth and twentieth-first century Caribbean diaspora literature. Her fields of interest include African American literature, Anglophone Caribbean literature, African Diaspora literature, Black Feminisms, and Postcolonial studies. Arselyne is a first-generation college and graduate student.

Kessenich

On Research: I am a doctoral candidate in the English department at the University of Virginia. My dissertation centers on historical recovery as an impulse within African American literature, especially regarding how Black writers address and attempt to rectify the power imbalance that stems from a historical record that misrepresents and elides Black life and Black subjectivity.

Zenz

I graduated with a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2017. Before that I was a teaching artist in California. Current interests include narrative theory, affect studies, print culture, and 19th c. American and British literature

Sonthalia

I am an international student from India, and before coming to UVA, I did my master's in liberal studies, with a concentration in English, at Ashoka University. I am interested in the everyday, the domestic, the boring and how our identities mediate our experiences and beings in these spaces. The approach I take to these questions, and to scholarship in general, is firmly interdisciplinary. At UVA, I have been a Democracy Initiative Graduate Seminar Fellow and have completed the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Graduate Certificate.

Carey

Degrees:

Ph.D. Syracuse University
M.A. Virginia Commonwealth University
B.A. Virginia Commonwealth University

 

Watts

Courtney is a medievalist interested in the medieval romance. She was a Medieval Colloquium representative from 2019-2021 and received an All-University Graduate Teaching Award in 2021. Courtney's work explores how medieval romances use topoi to experiment with kinde, medieval notions of nature and identity.

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