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Aisling Cormack Aboud
Year Entered Program: Fall 2002 Research Interests: Anglophone Modernism, Irish and Anglo-Irish Literatures, Indigenous Literatures, Discursive Communities
Robert Colson
Year Entered Program: Fall 2003 Research Interests: modernism, postmodern and postcolonial literature, and the novel Advisor: Margot Norris.
Christine Maria Connell
Year Entered Program: Fall 2001 Research Interests: Modern British and American Literature; Law and Family; Literary Genealogies; Psychoanalysis Advisor: Margot Norris.
Kelly Corwin
Year Entered Program: Fall 2001 Research Interests: 17th century drama; gender studies
Tracey Creech
Year Entered Program: Fall 2003 Research Interests 20th-century American literature and film Personal Website http://webfiles.uci.edu/tcreech/www/index.htm
Jesse M. Cross
Year Entered Program: Fall 2005 Research Interests: 19th & 20th Century American Fiction, Theories of Narration Awards: Murray Krieger Fellow in Literary Theory, 2005-2010 Second Edwin R. Perkins Literature Prize, Dartmouth College, 2004 Second Arthur Feinstein 1955 Memorial Prize, Dartmouth College, 2004 Publications: Review of Ronald C. Arnett’s Dialogic Confession: Bonhoeffer’s Rhetoric of Responsibility (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005). Rhetoric Review 25 (November 2006): 466-470. Conferences: Cultures of Violence, University of California, Irvine. April 6 – 7, 2007. Futures of American Studies: Reconfigurations of American Studies, Dartmouth College. June 19 – June 26, 2006. Advisor: James Steintrager.
Michele A. Currie
Year Entered Program: Fall 2002 Research Interests: American Literature to 1865; the South; Material Culture; Print Professional Associations: Charles Brockden Brown Society Academic Awards: UCI Chancellor’s Fellowship Current UCI Advisor: Elisa Tamarkin Teaching Experience: E28A Poetic Imagination (Winter 2006) Teaching Assistant, E102C U.S. Literature in the Age of Slavery (Spring 2005) Teaching Assistant, Criticism 100A Literary Theory & Criticism (Winter 2005) Writing 37 Intensive Writing (Fall 2004; Fall 2005) Writing 39B Critical Reading & Rhetoric (Fall 2003; Winter 2003; Spring 2004)
Paul Dahlgren
Year Entered Program: Fall 2002 Research Interests: Antebellum American Lit, Political Theory, Critical Theory, History of Economic Thought, Secularization, Transatlantic Studies
Loren Eason
Year Entered Program: Fall 2004 Research Interests: Contemporary American Fiction, New Media, Systems Theory, Posthumanism, Digital Orality Advisor: Carol Burke.
Brandon Gordon
Year Entered Program: Fall 2004 Research Interests: I am interested in 20th Century American and African American Modernism. Advisor: Michael Szalay.
Farida Habeeb
Year Entered Program: Fall 2005. Research Interests: The American Renaissance, Victorian Literature, Memoir, Trauma Studies, Identity, Christian Theology, Popular Culture, Secular Humanism, French Feminist Theory (especially Hélène Cixous), Psychoanalysis. Awards: Hester A. Laddey Memorial Fellowship, UC Irvine, 2005-2006. Honors in English, Wellesley College, 2005. Phi Beta Kappa, Massachusetts Chapter, 2005. Jerome A. Schiff Fellowship, Wellesley College, 2004. First-Year Distinction, Wellesley College, 2001-2002. UCI Advisor: Elisa Tamarkin.
Susanne Hall
Dissertation project: Acting Out: U.S. Poetry and Dissent in the 1960s Research interests: U.S. Poetry and Poetics (19th-21st centuries), Anglo-American Modernisms, U.S. Countercultures, Mass Media, New Left Politics, Law and Literature, Theories of Ideology, American Studies, Cultural Studies, Critical Theory Awards and Honors: Chancellor's Club Fund for Excellence Dissertation Fellowship, UC Irvine, 2008 Howard Babb Memorial Fellowship, UC Irvine 2007-8 Alexander Publications LLC Graduate Student Fellowship, UC Irvine 2007-8 Summer Dissertation Fellowship, UC Irvine, Summer 2007 Regents Dissertation Fellowship, UC Irvine, Spring 2007 Charles D. Abbott Library Fellow, Poetry Collection, SUNY Buffalo, 2006 Humanities Center Research Grant, UC Irvine, for study in the Special Collections at Stanford University, Spring 2006 Graduate Student Research and Travel Awards, UC Irvine, 2005, 2007 Jacob K. Javits Fellowship alternate, U.S. Department of Education, 2002 Schaeffer Fellowship, UC Irvine, 2001-2002 Dissertation Committee: Rei Terada (chair), John Carlos Rowe, Mark Goble Research Website: susannehall.com
Katrina Harack
Year Entered Program: Fall 2002 Research Interests: American literature, especially twentieth century, literary theory (especially theories of time and memory), modernism, postmodernism, and travel literature. UCI Advisor: Margot Norris.
Matthew Harrison
Year Entered Program: Fall 2004 Research Interests: 19th- and 20th-century American literature and culture; cinema studies Advisor: Mark Goble.
Doug Higbee
Year Entered Program: Fall 1997 Research Interests: Modern war literature
Shayda Hoover
Year Entered Program: Fall 2003 Research Interests: Eighteenth-Century British and American Literatures epistolarity, sensibility, anti-slavery discourses, religious discourses, The Novel Advisor: Professor Robert Folkenflik (Emeritus) Dissertation Committee: Chair, Professor Robert Folkenflik (Emeritus); Professors Ann Jessie Van Sant and Jayne Lewis Dissertation Topic: English Enthusiasm in the Eighteenth Century Conference Presentations: “Strains of Sensibility, Straining Sensibility: Janet Schaw in the West Indies.” (dis)junctions: Romancing Heteroglossia, University of California, Riverside. April 2004. Additional Information Contact for the UCI Eighteenth-Century Studies Reading Group. Mailing list information here: http://maillists.uci.edu/mailman/listinfo/uci18thc
James Huff
Year Entered Program: Fall 2005 Research Interests: Postcolonial anglophone literature, 20th C. American, Literary & Aesthetic Theory
Gabriela Jauregui
Year Entered Program: Fall 2002 Research Interests: critical theory and contemporary film and art focusing on the inhuman (incl.the grotesque and the sublime...)
Adam Kaiserman
Year Entered Program: Fall 2004 Academic Interests: Postwar American Fiction, Jewish-American Literature, African-American Literature, Political Theory, Religious Studies, Visual Studies, and Popular Culture Academic Awards: Regents’ Fellowship (2004-2005); Undergraduate Research Grant (Undergraduate Research, Creative Activities), 2002-2003; Distinction in the Major (English), 2003; Outstanding Achievement in the Major (English), 2003
Scott Eric Kaufman
Year Entered Program: Fall 1999 Research Interests: realist and naturalist novels, historical romances, 1890-1910; social Darwinism, neo-Lamarckism, eugenics; progressivism; evolutionary psychology, sociobiology
Patrick Keller
Year Entered Program: Fall 2003 Research Interests: Transhistorical transcontinental Metafiction, post-WWII American Novel. Sterne, Ellison, Poe, Kafka, Nabokov. Narrative, mimesis, surrealism, Dada. Paranoia. Advisor: Margot Norris.
Maia Krause
Year Entered Program: Fall 2006 Research Interests: Eighteenth Century, The Novel, The Gothic Advisor: Ann Van Sant
Peter Leman
Year Entered Program: 2005 Research Interests: Late Victorian and Modern British Literature, Postcolonial Literature and Theory, Law and Literature, Legal Theory, Colonial and Postcolonial Legal History Awards: Graduate Fellow, UCI Center in Law, Society, and Culture, 2007-2008 Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, U.S. Dept. of Education, 2005-2009 UC Regents Fellowship, 2005-2006 Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha of Idaho Advisor: Laura O'Connor
Jennifer Burns Levin
Year Entered Program: Fall 2002 Research interests James Joyce, Anglo-American and Continental modernism, late-nineteenth century British literature and culture, gender and sexuality studies, English and French pornography, psychoanalytic theory, rhetoric and narratology, LGBTQ literature, and culinary literature and food politics Dissertation: “Literary Masochism and Representations of Sexualized Pain in the Modern Imagination” Dissertation Committee: Margot Norris (chair), Mark Goble, Andrea Henderson, James Steintrager Fellowships and Awards: James Joyce Library Fellow (University at Buffalo Library Special Collections, 2008-09), UCI James J. Harvey Dissertation Fellowship (2006-07), UCI Regents’ Dissertation Fellowship (2006-07, granted 2002), UCI Summer Dissertation Fellowship (2006), International James Joyce Foundation Graduate Student Scholarship (2006), Humanities Center Graduate Research Grant and Humanities Research Grant (for dissertation research at the British Library and Kinsey Institute, 2006), International Center for Writing and Translation Graduate Student International Summer Travel Research Grant, UCI Chancellor’s Fellowship (2002-03), Valedictorian and Department Citation, East Asian Languages Department, University of California, Berkeley (1993), Phi Beta Kappa (1992)
Yi-Zhou Liu
Year Entered Program: Fall 2003 Research Interests: Theories of literary valuation, canonicity, influence, and historiography; late style; modern and postmodern American poetry; creative nonfiction; literary responses to the Vietnam War. Awards: Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, Department of Education, 2004-2008 Chancellor's Fellowship, UC Irvine, 2003-2004 Phi Beta Kappa, Kappa of California Advisor: Mark Goble. Committee: Eyal Amiran, Rei Terada, Andrzej Warminski.
Emily Liu
Year Entered Program: Fall 2004 Research Interests: 18th-century British literature; the novel
Jennifer Locke
Year Entered Program: Fall 2003 Research Interests: 18th-century literature Advisor: Ann Van Sant.
Bobby McDonie
Year Entered Program: Fall 2003 Awards: Mellon Fellowship, 2003-2004 Advisor: Professor Elizabeth Allen Research Interests: Medieval Literature 12th- and 13th-century devotional literature Friendship Chaucer Medieval Latin My most recent work is on the Ancrene Wisse, a 13th-century guide for anchoresses, in which I explore the textual community that the author allows for despite his rhetoric of solitude. I have also written at length on Aelred of Rievaulx and Chaucer’s “Merchant’s Tale,” and Troilus and Criseyde.
Mia L. McIver
Dissertation title: "Sovereignty and World-Making: States of Exception in Modernist Literature 1915-1941" Research interests: 20th-century art and literature (British, Irish, French, German, Russian), 19th-century aesthetic and decadent literature, history of the novel, war literature, narrative theory, critical theory, especially aesthetics, politics, and violence. Dissertation committee: Margot Norris (Chair), Steven Mailloux, Laura O'Connor, Rei Terada Fellowships: Murray Krieger Fellow in Literary Theory, Koehn Endowed Fellow in Critical Theory, UC Regents' Dissertation Fellowship, La Verne Noyes Fellowship, School of Criticism and Theory, Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory, Dickens Universe, Summer Dissertation Fellowship, Presidential University Graduate Fellow (Boston University) Research website: www.exceptionalstates.net
Erin McNellis
Year Entered Program: Fall 2004 Research Interests: Modern & contemporary avant-garde poetry, critical & gender theory, autobiography, Buddhism. Publications: Poetry "he said: you talk a wide variety of nowhere." Hysteria: An Anthology on Women and Madness. ed. Jennifer Savran. Ithaca, NY: LunaSea Press, 2003. p. 29. "i woke up singing." Hysteria: An Anthology on Women and Madness. ed. Jennifer Savran. Ithaca, NY: LunaSea Press, 2003. p. 83. "Overture." In Our Own Words, vol. 2. ed. Marlow Peerse Weaver. Raleigh, NC: MW Enterprises, 2000. p. 119. Academic Awards: John S. Knight Prize for Writing in the Majors, Cornell University, Spring 2002.
Nichole Miller
Year Entered Program: Fall 2000 Research Interests: Elizabethan and Jacobean drama; ancient and early modern political theories; sexuality and gender studies
Janet Neary
Year Entered Program: Fall 2001 Research Interests: Nineteenth-century American literature and visual culture, late twentieth-century visual art, constructions and representations of race and gender, theories of the subject. Current Projects: I am currently working on my dissertation prospectus. In this early stage I imagine my dissertation to be an examination of visual culture and visuality as a trope in nineteenth-century slave narratives. I am approaching the slave narratives in part through their reincarnations in late twentieth-century visual art—specifically in the work of Kara Walker, Glenn Ligon, John Jones, Renee Green, and Ellen Driscoll. Advisor: Lindon Barrett.
Michelle Neely
Year Entered Program: Fall 2004 Research Interests: American literature and culture to 1900. Academic Awards: Chancellor’s Fellowship, Department of English and Comparative Literature, U.C. Irvine, 2004-2005 Departmental Citation, English Department, U.C. Berkeley, 2002-2003 H.W. Hill Award, English Department, U.C. Berkeley, Spring 2002 U.C. Berkeley Regent’s/Chancellor’s Scholar, 1998-2002 Advisor: Elisa Tamarkin.
Julia C. Obert
Year Entered Program: Fall 2006 Research Interests: postcoloniality, particularly postcolonial poetry; sound theory & acoustic ecology; affect theory. Current grant support: UCI Murray Krieger Endowed Fellowship in Literary Theory, 2006-2011; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship, 2006-2010 Publications: "Space and the Trace: Thomas Kinsella's Postcolonial Placelore," New Hibernia Review (forthcoming) "Sound and Sentiment: A Rhythmanalysis of Television," Continuum 22.3 (2008) "The Cultural Capital of Sound: Quebecite's Acoustic Hybridity," Postcolonial Text 2.4 (2006) Advisor: Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan.
Vanessa Osborne
Year Entered Program: Fall 2000 Research Interests: Rise and Entrenchment of American Consumer Culture (1880-1950), Advertising, Commodity Fetishism
Amelia Parkin
Year Entered Program: Fall 2003 Research Interests: Victorian literature, emphasis on the novel and women's studies; 18th-19th century women's studies; theories of the novel; theories of community; women and religion. Advisor: Ann Van Sant.
Eric Peterson
Year Entered Program: Fall 2005. Research Interests: 18th Century.
Brent Russo
Year Entered Program: Fall 2006 Research Interests: Lyric poetry; Romanticism; Theory
Rob Schoenbeck
Year Entered Program: Fall 2005 Research Interests: Primary: Post-WWII U.S. Poetry, New Media theory Secondary: History of philosophy, Marxist criticism Academic Awards: Honors in American Studies, Wesleyan University, 2004 Honors in English, Wesleyan University, 2004 Camp Prize in English, Wesleyan University, 2004 GLASS Prize in English, Wesleyan University, 2004 M.G. White Prize in American Studies, Wesleyan University, 2004 Wesleyan Fiction Award, Wesleyan University, 2004 Phi Beta Kappa, Gamma of Connecticut, 2004 Honorable Mention for the Horgan Prize for Short Fiction, Wesleyan University, 2003
Matt Seybold
Year Entered Program: Fall 2005 Primary Research: Henry James; Magic Realism Secondary Research: Jazz Studies; Corporate Culture Advisor: Jerome Christensen
Priya Shah
Year Entered Program: Fall 2001 Research Interests: British imperialism in India, 19th C. India, Narratives of transcultural encounter, Orientalia, Fashion, Costume and Representation; Postcolonial - Colonial India, South Asian diaspora, Culture and Imperialism, Second-generation representations, South Asian diasporic film
Robin S. Stewart
Year Entered Program: Fall 2005 Research Interests: the English Renaissance; the History of Western Philosophy; Analytic Philosophy; Political Theology esp. as regards the institutional history of the Catholic Church; Secular Humanism; Development of the Novel; Expatriation Literature; the Metaphysical poets; William Blake; Aesthetics; High Modernism; Auteur theory of Film; Formalizing Authorities and Institutional Politics of language and literature. Advisor: Julia Reinhard Lupton
Elaina Taylor
Year Entered Program: Fall 2005 Research Interests: Poetry and poetics, 20th-century hemispheric American literature, feminist theory, emotion, aesthetics and visual studies, postcolonial studies Academic Awards: UCI Regents' Fellowship 2005-2006; Literary Excellence, USD Department of English, 2003.
Katherine Voyles
Year Entered Program: Fall 2003. Research Interests: The (Victorian) novel, Synecdoche and Scale in the Novel, Jane Austen, Detective Fiction
Andrew Warren
Andrew Warren Year Entered Program: Fall 2002 Dissertation Project: Populous Solitudes: Solipsism, the Orient, and the Young Romantics Research Website: populous-solitudes.com Research Interests: British Romanticism (particularly the late Romantics); Orientalism; Postcolonial Theory & Literature; German Romantic Literature & Philosophy; the "Human" in the Romantic Period; the Gothic; Joyce; Foucault; Badiou; Contemporary American Fiction; Irony (Romantic or Otherwise); Satire Other Interests: Fiction Writing, Satire (MLAde and Antfarm), Travel & Foreign Languages, Soccer, Sushi Conference Papers: “Shelley’s Adjectival Human: Knowledge and Problematization, 1815-17,” at the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference (Toronto, August 2008); “’Unentangled Intermixture’: Love and Shelley’s Materialism,” at the American Comparative Literature Conference (April 2008); “Feral Infants and the Outlandish Growth of Satire in Infinite Jest,” at the American Literature Association Conference (May 2008); “How to Listen to Sirens: Narrative and Event in the “Sirens” Episode,” Bloomsday 100: the International James Joyce Symposium (Dublin, 2004) Selected Publications: Keats-Shelley Journal - Review of Michael Vicario’s Shelley’s Intellectual System and Its Epicurean Background. London: Routledge, 2007 (forthcoming, Summer 2009); Entries on David Foster Wallace, as well as his Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, and Girl with Curious Hair in The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Fiction. Edited by Geoff Hamilton. New York: Facts on File, (forthcoming). Teaching: to see syllabi I've designed for Advanced Writing, Freshman & Intensive Writing, the Humanities Out There Program, Intro to Poetry, Intro to Drama, and 826LA click here. Selected Awards & Honors: U.C. Irvine Humanities Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, U.C. Irvine Humanities Research Grant, Travel Grant (U.C. Irvine Dept. of English), Post-Secondary Tuition Scholarship (Case Western Reserve University, 1996-7), Honors Thesis in Philosophy (Dartmouth College), Dartmouth Ethics Institute Research Grant Languages: French, Spanish (speaks/reads/writes; lived in Buenos Aires and Paris); German (proficient); Latin (can read) Editorial Work: Research Assistant for the Modern Library Edition of Tristram Shandy, Ed. Robert Folkenflik, 2004. Dissertation Committee: Hugh Roberts (chair), Julia Lupton, Robert Folkenflik.
Sara Cassidy Wheaton
Research Interests: Early Modern Studies, Rhetoric, Lyric Poetry, Religious Studies Year Entered Program: Fall 2001.
Jeff Wilson
Research Interests: Primary: Milton Secondary: Intersections of religion, politics, and literature; especially in the Hebrew and Christian Bibles, first century Mediterranean culture, Church history, early modern British literature, representations of Satan in literature, and the history of the philosophy of evil. Research Summary: I consider the author a conduit of social energy into art. From this perspective, I have examined the poetry and prose of John Milton, especially its relationship to the politics of the English Revolution and Restoration, the history of Christian theology, and philosophical notions on morality and cognition. For example, in my undergraduate thesis, I analyzed Milton’s revisionary notion of the nature of good and evil, suggesting that his presentation of God the Father and Satan is so ethically overdetermined that Milton virtually discards the binary notion of good and evil. By undercutting the reader’s ability to distinguish good from evil, Milton suggests that the two are not as simple and separate as often thought. In refusing to align God with goodness and Satan with evil, Milton encouraged the personal, subjective, and wildly diverse critical reception to his epic. As such, Milton stands as a precursor to such writers as Baudelaire, Dostoevsky, and Camus, who treat evil as a psychological and intellectual experiment, rather than an instrument of moralization. In another essay titled “Milton, Satan and Galileo: the Intellectual Triad of Paradise Lost”, I demonstrate Milton’s archetype of a persecuted intellectual crusader, relating it to Satan’s failed Republican politics, Galileo’s forced recantation, and Milton’s own argument from Areopagitica regarding the dangers of repressing intellectual freedom through censorship. Finally, in a third paper, “The Marked Way: Melville’s Private Encounter with Milton’s Theology”, I examine the marginalia in Herman Melville’s copy of Paradise Lost, suggesting this encounter to be an erratic, constantly shifting, ever-elusive image of the struggles, victories, failures, and resignations that occur during one man’s twenty-year plight to cope with a poet who suffered similar vagaries in his own theology. Melville’s private struggle to grasp Milton’s theology comes in sharp contrast to the image of certainty he presents in public. Taken along with Melville’s public statements, I argue, the value of Melville’s marginalia comes in that – in a critical tradition dominated by claims of certainty and orthodoxy – it demonstrates the struggle to understand and accept Milton, thus validating instability as a critical step in the journey towards conclusion. Academic Awards: - Chancellor’s Fellowship, University of California, Irvine, 2005. - Honors in English. San Diego State University, 2004. - Sigma Tau Delta, International English Honors Society. San Diego State University, 2004. - Winner, Roberta Borkat Essay Contest (for “Milton, Satan, and Galileo”). San Diego State University, 2004. Biography: Originally from Kansas, I moved to San Diego in 2000 to attend San Diego State and study Milton with Peter C. Herman. While in San Diego, I worked at a number of recording studios to study record engineering and production while also DJing at popular music venues throughout town. After receiving my B.A., I worked in the SDSU Office of University Advancement, developing case statements, writing on-line communications, and conducting donor communication, in addition to writing articles for a number of university publications. In 2005, I moved to Irvine to continue my work on Milton with Victoria Silver. Advisor: Victoria Silver.
Aaron Winter
Year Entered Program: Fall 2002 Dissertation project: The Laughing Dove: Satire in 19th-Century U.S. Anti-War Rhetoric Website: laughingdove.net Research interests: Humor and Satire, 19th-Century United States, 18th-Century Great Britain, History of Print and Periodicals, Political Instrumentality of Literature, Pedagogy Other interests: Creative Writing (click here for MLAde website), Marketing & Advertising, Non-Profit Fundraising, Political Advocacy, Investment & Finance, Baseball Selected Awards and Honors: Mayers Fellowship (Huntington Library), Mooney Fellowship (Boston Athenaeum), English Department Outstanding Teaching Assistant (U.C. Irvine), Humanities Out There Program Outstanding Graduate Leader (U.C. Irvine) Publications: “Seeds of Discontent: The Expanding Satiric Range of Melville’s Transatlantic Diptychs,” Leviathan – A Journal of Melville Studies 8.2 (June 2006) Selected Conferences: Modern Language Association, American Comparative Literature Association, American Literature Association, Nineteenth Century Studies Association Teaching: Humanities Out There (website), Intro to Drama (website), Intro to Poetry (website), Freshman Writing (website), Advanced Writing (website), E.S.L. (website, 826LA (website), SAT Prep (website) Dissertation Committee: Brook Thomas (chair), Ann Van Sant, Steven Mailloux
McKenzie Zeiss
Year Entered Program: Fall 2000 Research Interests: psychology (behaviorism/constructionism), autobiography, high modernism, feminist theory

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