Current Graduate Students

Holly Burgess

Education

MA Marquette University

BA University of Wisconsin - Parkside

Area of Interest:  20th and 21st Century African American Literature | Hip Hop Studies| Film Studies

Dissertation: "Transcribing Brutality: Violence, Martyrdom, and Legacy in Black Literature and Social Movements"

Dissertation Directors:  Dr. Cedric Burrows and Dr. Robert S. Smith

Additional Material: hollyeburgess.com

Robinson Jay Ensz

Education

MA Wichita State University

BA Wichita State University

AA Coffeyville Community College

Area of Interest:  Narratology | Tolkien | Pop Culture

Niloofar Ghotibi

Education

M.A. Khayyam University

Area of Interest:  Literature and Cultural Studies | Lacanian psychoanalysis | Film and media studies | Anglophone Iranian diaspora literature and its transnational reception

Ayo Ibiyemi

Areas of Interest:  Postcolonialism | African Diaspora Fiction | Environmental Studies|Indigenous Studies

Najma Ibrahim

Education

Areas of Interest 

Researcher in African & African Diaspora Writing | Women and War Narratives | Postcolonial & Disability Studies

Jose Intriago-Suarez

Education

Areas of Interest/Study

Post Colonial 20th-century Anglophone literature and its humor | Contemporary popular culture | Flann O’Brien | Critical Theory

Fereshteh Majdi

Education

MA Kansas State University

BA Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran

Area of Interest 

American Literature | Popular Culture | Women Studies

Kate Rose

Education

MA Mercy University

BA Marquette Universtity

Area of Interest:  Fandom and Fan Studies | Pop Culture Studies | Adaption Studies

Dissertation:  Affirmation/Transformation: Fandom Created

Dissertation Director:  Dr. Amy Blair

Additional Material:  https://epublications.marquette.edu/fandom/Affirmationtransformation/

Julia Salkind

Education

Areas of Interest Medieval Literature studies with a focus on feminist and gender dynamics/studies | Power Structures in Medieval and Early Modern Literature

Faith Shelton

Education

Areas of Interest Creative Writing | Romantic Fiction

Madalyn Thompson

Education

BA University of Wisconsin, Whitewater

MA Minnesota State University, Mankato

Area of Interest

British Literature | The Romantic and Victorian Period | Gothic Literature | Queer Studies

Char White

Education

BA Mount Holyoke College

MAR Yale Divinity School

Area of Interest 

Tolkien | 19^th Century British Literature