American
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.
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.
Jayne
Davis
Persons
Loeb
DEGREES:
Ph.D University of Virginia (expected, May 2025)
M.A. University of Virginia (2021)
M.F.A. Iowa Writers' Workshop (2015)
B.A. Yale University (2012)
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Handelsman Katz
2023-2024 Office Hours: By appointment only.
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Bennington
My current research interests lie at an intersection between labor, ecology, gender, and physical embodiment. My dissertation, as yet untitled, focuses on the ways in which masculinities are constructed, tested, and imprinted on the environment in the poetry of Robert Frost, Seamus Heaney, and James Wright. I am also a poet and a memoirist.
McDowell
DEGREES
August, 1979 Ph.D., Purdue University, W. Lafayette, Indiana Major Field: American/African-American Literature Dissertation: "Women on Women: The Black Woman Writer of the Harlem Renaissance--Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston"
1972-1974 M.A., Purdue University, W. Lafayette, Indiana
Major: American Literature
Major: American Literature
1968-1972 B.A., Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama
Major: English; Minor: Spanish
Major: English; Minor: Spanish
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