Graduate Students in Other Specializations
Faune Albert (Gender Studies)
Christiane Beuermann (18th Century)
Julie Burrell (20th Century American)
Emily Campbell (Performance, Gender, Trauma)
Melissa Hadasko (Medieval)
Sunmi Kang (Victorian)
I'm interested in nineteenth-century British literature, Fin de Siècle, gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, critical theory, psychoanalysis, cultural studies. I am doing PhD coursework.
sunmi@english.umass.edu
Amy Lanham (Victorian)
Elizabeth D. Lloyd-Kimbrel
After many years as an ABD, I am returning to the fold to complete a dissertation. My areas of interest are eclectic, with a non-exclusive tilt toward British literature, medievalism, biography, and movies. My BA is from Connecticut College, and I did graduate and postgraduate work at Trinity-Oxford (UMass Summer Seminars), McGill, and York-Centre for Medieval Studies (UK), in addition to UMass Amherst proper. During the intervening time from when I was last a formal denizen of Bartlett Hall, I worked as project manager for a non-profit multimedia company and then, for well over a decade, as executive assistant to a college vice president. Concurrently, I have been a freelance editor and writer with creative and critical work appearing in literary and scholarly journals and biographical dictionaries and encyclopedias. I also serve on the advisory board of Paris Press (Ashfield, MA). ~vide “Puttering about in the Mindfields” -- http://www.ncis.org/linkservid/F3772940-F8A9-EE0E-E744F54E9340FFB1/showMeta/0/
Christine Maksimowicz (20th and 21st N. American Fiction)
Ashley Nadeau (19th Century)
I am in my fourth year of the MA/PhD in English. I study nineteenth century British novels with a focus on women and empire. I'm also interested in feminist theory, narrative theory, marital laws, sensation fiction, and crime fiction.
arnadeau@english.umass.edu
Katelyn Perillo (Modernism)
Katy Roden (Early Modernism)
Katey Roden received her BA from Coastal Carolina University, her MA from Washington State University and is currently a doctoral candidate in the field of Early Modern Literature. She specializes in nondramatic literature of the seventeenth century, with research interests including devotional writing, radical religion (particularly Quakerism), the prophetic voice, and sermons/sermon culture. Katey currently lives in Spokane, WA where she works as a Lecturer at both Gonzaga University teaching Literature and Whitworth University where she teaches Women's and Gender Studies.
kroden@english.umass.edu
Elise Swinford (Gender Studies/Modernism)
I am a doctoral candidate in English literature and a student in the Advanced Feminist Studies certificate program. My interests include feminist literary theory, performance theory, gender studies, and modernist studies. I am currently in the early stages of writing my dissertation, in which I examine how some modernist texts reflect social anxieties concerning nonnormative gendering as a threat to a sense of national community, especially in times of war when national identity is most tested.
eswinfor@english.umass.edu
Victoria Worth (Anglo-Saxon)