Graduate Student

Emily Sutton

20th- and 21st-Century American
Cultural Studies
Gender & Sexuality Studies
Narrative & the Novel
20th- and 21st-Century British

Oriana Tang

Critical Theory

Abby Thatcher

18th-Century British
Textual Criticism
Renaissance and Early Modern
Drama
Poetry
Cultural Studies

An early modernist focused on fraught embodiment, materiality, and poetic form as sites of interest for race studies and cultural criticism. Also interested in reading *trans*paratively; that is, reading in ways that look to see through discursive frameworks, across constructed binaries and boundaries, and toward, by acts of transformation, material change.

Aliza Theis

Sylvie Thode

Gender & Sexuality Studies
Poetry
20th- and 21st-Century American
20th- and 21st-Century British

I am a PhD candidate in English at UC Berkeley, where I am writing a dissertation on style and selfhood in literatures of the HIV/AIDS crisis. Additional research interests include queer theory, poetics, Oscar Wilde, Dante, and mysticism.

Sydney Van To

20th- and 21st-Century American
Asian American
Pacific
Critical Theory
Narrative & the Novel

Elizabeth Vinyard Boyle

Renaissance and Early Modern
18th-Century British
Middle English
Narrative & the Novel
Poetry
Linguistics
Philosophy and Literature

Alex Walton

Renaissance and Early Modern
19th-Century British
Creative Writing
Critical Theory
Poetry
Linguistics

Publications

“Milton and Some Extemporaries,” English Literary History (ELH), 92:4 (fortchoming, Winter 2025) “Pyramid Schemes: William Petty and the Use of the Superfluous,” Modern Language Quarterly (MLQ), 86:1 (forthcoming, Spring 2025)

Talks and papers

“Winstanley’s Reason.” Paper for “Decorum and Early Modern Aesthetics: A Roundtable,” Renaissance Society of America, Chicago, March 2024. “Clarendon’s House – by St. Paul’s Churchyard – under the sign of the Pyramid...

Pamela Weidman

20th- and 21st-Century American
20th- and 21st-Century British
Narrative & the Novel
Film

Yale University, BA in Literature (Film Track), 2017, cum laude and distinction in the major

Co-organizer, Consortium on the Novel, 2025-present

Co-organizer, 20th/21st Century Consortium, 2021–present

Co-chair, English Graduate Association, 2022–24

I am a PhD candidate in English and Film & Media, currently working on experimental character in novels and animation around WWII. My dissertation looks at how major novels and popular animated films developed...

Austin Williams