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Norviel
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.
Wallace
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Viechweg
Stephens
Retica
Nichols
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I am a doctoral candidate primarily focused on the medieval period. My current research engages issues of clerical authority, lay reading practices, and theological texts written in the vernacular in thirteenth and fourteenth century England. Other interests of mine include scholasticism, literacy studies, medieval vernacularity, devotional literature, saints' lives, Chaucer, Langland, and science fiction.
I am a doctoral candidate primarily focused on the medieval period. My current research engages issues of clerical authority, lay reading practices, and theological texts written in the vernacular in thirteenth and fourteenth century England. Other interests of mine include scholasticism, literacy studies, medieval vernacularity, devotional literature, saints' lives, Chaucer, Langland, and science fiction.
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.
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