Graduate Student

Cozzio

Viola Cozzio is a third-year PhD candidate in late medieval literature. She works on apophatic devotional literature, tracing how poets and scholars thought and wrote their way to God, and all the places where the path breaks down. She’s particularly interested in the interactions between devotional writings in Middle High German and Middle English, and the issue of translation in approximating the divine.

Jacob

My research and academic interests span American literature and culture of the mid-nineteenth century to the early-twentieth century. I’m particularly interested in intersections between American and Russian literatures, spaces, and people, and I usually engage these literary and geographic intersections through transnational, eco-materialist, and archipelagic frameworks.

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.

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