Learn more about the graduate students in the Department of English at Saint Louis University.
Department of English Graduate Students
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Lindsay Adams Kennedy
Email: lindsay.adams@slu.edu
B.A. in English: University of Missouri-Kansas City, M.F.A. in Playwriting: Catholic University of America, Ph.D. candidate in Early Modern Literature: SLU
Area of Study: Shakespeare Studies, Early Modern Drama and Poetry, Classical (Greek & Roman Drama), Modern and Contemporary Drama, Disability Studies, Creative Writing
Areas of Interest: Confessional spaces in Early Modern Drama; rape representation in literature; Virginity and (a)Sexuality Studies; the experience and depiction of women with invisible disabilities; cross periodization, particularly in relation to exploring connections between the medieval and the early modern, and the early modern and the now; the craft and pedagogy of playwriting and creative non-fiction.
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Colten R. Biro
Email: colten.biro@slu.edu
Bachelor of Science in English & Political Science from Spring Hill College; Graduate Philosophy & Letters Degree from Saint Louis University; Master of Arts in English from Saint Louis University
Area of Study: Nineteenth Century British Literature & Culture
Secondary Specializations: Golden Age Children's Literature (1865-1928); Medical Humanities; Digital/Public Humanities; Intellectual & Philosophical Histories in Literature
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Lexxie Broemmer
Email: alexa.broemmer@slu.edu
B.A. in English from Quincy University, M.A. in English from Saint Louis University
Area of Study: 19th-20th Century American Literature
Areas of Interest: Women's and Gender Studies, Horror, Ecocriticism
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Sarah Burt
Email: sarah.burt@slu.edu
B.A. in English and History from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) 2019, M.A. in English Language and Literature 2021.
Area of Study: Medieval Studies
Areas of Interest: Eco-material studies, eco-critical and animal agency in medievalism, cross-cultural analysis, cross-period analysis, chivalric romance, and transformative mythologies and folklore.
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Salvatore Dibono
Email: salvatore.dibono@slu.edu
B.A. in English from CUNY Hunter College 2019; M.A. from Seton Hall University 2021
Area of Study: 20th-21st century American Literature
Areas of Interest: Horror, literary/publication history, new historicism,, cultural studies, and media studies.
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Haris Fazlic
Email: haris.fazlic@slu.edu
B.A. in English from the University of Missouri, M.A. in English from Tulane University
Area of Study: Romanticism/Romantic Studies
Areas of Interest: Pastoral Poetry, John Clare Studies, Object Theory, Transcendental Philosophy
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Katie Gearin
Email: katherine.gearin@slu.edu
A.A. in Arts from St. Charles Community College; B.A in English from Maryville University
Area of Study: The Long 19th Century
Areas of Interest: Romanticism; Victorian Literature; Feminist Studies
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Autumn George
B.A. Loyola University of Maryland ’22 (double major in History and English, double minor in Art History and Medieval Studies) Summa Cum Laude
Saint Louis University Presidential Fellowship Recipient ‘22-‘24
Area of Study: Women’s Literacy in the Late Middle Ages
Areas of Interest: Medieval Latin, Old French, Paleography, Books of Hours, Manuscript Illumination, Marian Devotions
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Byron Gilman-Hernandez
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Nicholas Gomez
Email: nicholas.gomez@slu.edu
B.A. in English and American Literature from University of Texas El Paso; M.A. in English from Saint Louis University
Area of Study: Rhetoric and Composition
Areas of Interest: Philosophy and Rhetoric, Ancient Rhetoric, Pedagogy, Classical Studies, Composition Studies
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Katherine (Katie) Gutierrez-Glik
Email: katherine.j.gutierrez@slu.edu
M.A. in English with a Minor in Women's and Gender Studies from Loyola University Chicago; B.A. in English from University of Missouri - Columbia
Area of Study: Contemporary Postcolonial Literature
Areas of Interest: Contemporary postcolonial literature, gender studies, feminist theory, and queer theory
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Abram Gregory
Email: abram.gregory@slu.edu
B.A. in Philosophy and English from Vassar College
Area of Study: Philosophy and Medieval Studies
Areas of Interest: German idealism, fantasy literature, and physical education writing
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Meha Gupta
Email: meha.gupta@slu.edu
B.A. in English from Central University of Karnataka, India
Area of Study: Postcolonial Literatures
Areas of Interest: Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies, Poetry and Poetics
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J. Myles Hesse
Email: john.hesse@slu.edu
B.S. in English and Theatre from Indiana State University; M.A. in Theatre and Performance Studies from Washington University in St. Louis
Area of Study: Transatlantic Modernisms
Areas of Interest: Spiritual Queerness, Dramatic Literature, Queer Gothic
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Christina Hildebrandt
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Matt Holder
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Adriana Hutchinson
Email: adriana.duebel@slu.edu
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Ahlam Jaber
Email: ahlam.jaber@slu.edu
Bachelor of Arts in English from Southern Illinois University of Edwardsville; Master of Arts in English from Southern Illinois University of Edwardsville
Area of Study: Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures
Areas of Interest: Contemporary Postcolonial & Decolonial Studies, Arab American Literature, Latin American Literature, Native/Indigenous Literature, Cultural Studies, Ecopoetics
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Claire Jennings
Email: claire.jennings@slu.edu
B.A. in English Literature and Writing from McKendree University
Area of Study: English
Areas of Interest: Gothic Literature, 19th Century British Literature
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TJ Keeley
Email: tj.keeley@slu.edu
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Sharee Langenstein
Email: sharee.langenstein@slu.edu
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Sydney Lindsey
Email: sydney.rice@slu.edu
B.A. in English Education from Murray State University, M.A. in English from Saint Louis University
Area of Study: Contemporary Literature and Film
Areas of Interest: Women and Gender Studies, Horror and the Gothic
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Laura Hardin Marshall
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Emma O’Donnel
MA in English with a concentration in literature from Missouri State University
Area of Study: The British long 19th century
Area(s) of Interest: Victorian Literature, the novel, Feminist Studies, Queer Studies
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Anna Ostmann
BAs in English and History from Lindenwood University
Area of Study: Early Modern Literature, Gothic Literature
Areas of Interest/Research Interests: Early Gothic literature and aesthetics, fantasy literature, genre studies, women and gender studies, queer literature
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Ryan Prewitt
Email: ryan.prewitt@slu.edu
M.A. in English from Saint Louis University
Area of Study: 20th Century and Contemporary American Literature
Areas of Interest: Digital Literature, Literary Countercultures, Politics and Aesthetics, Digital Rhetoric
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Johaeng Rho
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Dominic Robin
BA in English and Business Administration, College of the Ozarks; MA in English, University of North Florida
Area of study: 20th-21st Century American Literature
Area(s) of interest: Medical humanities, disability studies, narrative theory, homeschool literature, language acquisition theory, Latin American literature, Andean studies, anthropology, modernism
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Vivian Romeo
B.A. in English from California State University Stanislaus
Area of Study: Contemporary Literature
Research interests: The development of Queer YA fiction | Sci-Fi / Fantasy | The Western
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Brooklynn Shatto
Area of Study: Rhetoric
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Rachel Linn Shields
Email: rachel.l.shields@slu.edu
B.A. in English from the University of Washington (Seattle, WA), M.A. interdisciplinary studies with a literature focus from New York University (New York, NY), and M.F.A. in creative writing with a fiction focus from the University of Washington (Seattle, WA)
Area of Study: Medieval Literature
Areas of Interest: Ecocriticism, poetics, creative writing, history of the book
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Andrew Sweeso
Email: andrew.sweeso@slu.edu
B.A. in English from Saint Louis University
Area of Study: Rhetoric and Composition
Areas of Interest: Community-engaged pedagogy, writing center pedagogy, Religious rhetoric and social media
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Kathleen (Katie) Eck Thorman
Email: kathleen.eck@slu.edu
B.A. in English and Secondary Education from Dominican University; M.A. in English from Saint Louis University
Area of Study: 19th Century British Literature
Areas of Interest: Disability Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, and Teaching Pedagogy
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Lauren Terbrock-Elmestad
Email: lauren.terbrockelmestad@slu.edu
B.A. in English and Education from Lindenwood University; M.A. in English from University of Missouri-St. Louis
Area of Study: Rhetoric and Composition
Areas of Interest: Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, Medical Humanities, Disability Studies, Gender Studies, Posthumanism
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Savannah Warners
Email: savanah.warners@slu.edu
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Natalie Whitaker