2014 English Graduate Students

Master’s in Language and Linguistics

Joe Gilbert is in his second year of the linguistics program, focusing on

TESOL pedagogy while trying to also pick up as many obscure language

features as possible. He has studied Romance languages, dabbled in

conlangs, and is the 2014 winner of William Shatner Beat Night. His

favorite playwright is Beckett, his favorite comics writer is Warren Ellis,

and his favorite novel is Moby Dick. He holds an MFA in Fiction, also

from UNH.

My name is Graham Hayslip and I am a graduate

student in the English Department pursuing the Master

of Arts Degree in English Language and Linguistics.

With a background in English Teaching from my

undergraduate studies, as well as a blend of theoretical

linguistic and ESL courses taken in this Masters

program, I have begun work on several projects in my

time here so far that pertain to my passions as a

graduate. These include designing a language

education curriculum for fictional languages as well as

founding the first official UNH Running Club.

My name is Jovana Milosavljevic, but I prefer being addressed by my

nickname, Joka. I come from Serbia, Europe where I received my B.A. in

English Language and Literature. In my country I used to work as an

English teacher for four years along with running a private school of

foreign languages. Apart from that I have been a volunteer at various

events and manifestations, some of which are 2009 Summer Universiade,

Eurovision Song Contest, at the Foundation of Crown Prince Alexander

for Culture and Education at the Royal Palace in Serbia, and at various

sports and cultural events. Methods of teaching and sociolinguistics are

what I am very interested in. Being in a multicultural surrounding

hopefuly will give me insight in other people’s experience in learning languages. It will also be a

rich source for my research into the effects of interaction on language development between

language learners.

Andrea Natal-Vadell is a graduate student in English Language and

Linguistics at the University of New Hampshire. She received her

B.A. in English from the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto

Rico, Ponce in 2012. She grew up in Lares, attended high school in

Mayagüez, and worked as an intern at the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs

Administration in Washington, District of Columbia. Andrea has

previously conducted research in the fields of translation, education,

and etymology. During her master’s, she plans to research on the

influence of Latin-American Spanish in American English.

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Master’s in Literature

My name is Ashley Doonan and I’m an incoming MA Literature

student (I also completed my undergrad here—so I sometimes refer to

myself as “the undergraduate who literally refused to leave!”). My

academic interests trauma theory and autobiographical memory

research; I enjoy studying developmental psychology and incorporating

psychological theory into my study of literature. I am also interested in

postcolonial theory and literature as means of social change.

Hemingway, autumn weather, and coffee are a few of my favorite

things—but I’ll stop there, in fear of sounding completely like a

personal ad.

Colleen Gilbert is a first-year MA Literature student, hailing from

Blue Bell, Pennsylvania. She began her college career studying

opera at Oberlin but soon realized that crippling stage fright and a

life of auditions don’t mix well. After a brief jaunt at Emory

University as a creative writing major, Colleen eventually

completed her undergraduate career as an English major at

University of Southern Maine. Currently residing outside of

Hartford, CT with her soon-to-be husband, she fills her time

baking, reading, cuddling with her two cats, playing tennis with her fiancé, and trying not to burn

every time she encounters more than five minutes of direct sunlight. She hopes to focus on

contemporary science fiction and fantasy writings but, let’s be honest, is open to whatever area

of study strikes her fancy the most once the MA is under way.

April Daugherty earned her Bachelor's degree at DePauw

University, majoring in English Literature and minoring in Art

History and Women's Studies. She plans to specialize in British

Modernism, with a focus on the writings of Virginia Woolf. Her

literary interests include the reworking of classical myth in

Modernist literature, the manipulation of narrative time in Woolf's

novels, the intersection between a culture's visual and literary arts,

the dystopian novel, feminist criticism, and literary theory. April

looks forward to teaching a section of English 401 in the fall and is

excited to be moving out of Indiana for the first time. Her nonacademic interests include knitting,

cooking, drinking coffee excessively, animals, and buying an inappropriate amount of yarn and

used books. She is a walking advertisement for the hit series of the 80's and 90's, Murder, She

Wrote; the combination of intrigue and shoulder pads is too much for the old woman in her to

resist.

Elizabeth L. Preysner graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Trinity

College in Hartford, CT with degrees in both English and

Hispanic Studies. She was awarded the W.H. Russell

Fellowship upon graduation. At the University of New

Hampshire she is a graduate teaching assistant and a second

year student in the M.A. program in English Literature. Her

research focuses on medieval women’s mysticism in England

and Spain. In addition to teaching, she works as a Graduate

Writing Assistant in the Connors Writing Center. She enjoys

playing the flute and is an avid runner.

Lauren Rocha graduated from Bridgewater State University with a B.A. in English. While at

Bridgewater State University, she completed her Honors Thesis entitled “Things That Go Bump

in the Night: Vampires and Feminism,” a portion of which she presented at the 41st Annual

Popular Culture Association-American Culture Association National Conference and which was

also published in the journal, Popular Culture Review. She organized and was a panelist on a

roundtable discussion at the 42nd Annual Popular Culture Association-American Culture

Association National Conference; the roundtable investigated the idea of gender subversion in

The Vampire Diaries television series. Her work has been published in Popular Culture Review

as well as in Journal of International Women’s Studies. Since graduating, she has spent the past

three years working in Education, during which time she developed a love of teaching and

working with students. In her spare time, she enjoys catching up on her favorite television shows

and deciding which gluten-free recipe to try next.

Paul Rowe is a graduate student in the English department of the

University of New Hampshire pursuing the Master of Arts degree in

Literature. As a graduate of Suffolk University with a Bachelor of

Arts in English, he has also served his alma mater as editorial intern

and teaching assistant. A native of the north shore of Massachusetts

with a creative writing background, Paul wishes to pursue his

graduate studies in the Romantic era of English and American

literature while intensifying his newfound passions for education and

social justice. An avid guitar player, music nerd, and cat-lover, Paul

also has a love of the great outdoors.

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MFA Fiction

Alyssa Cami is a second year MFA fiction student. She earned her BA

in English with a concentration in Creative Writing from the College of

the Holy Cross in 2012. A bit of a wandering soul, she has lived in

England, New York, San Francisco, New Hampshire and currently

lives just outside of Boston. When she doesn't have her nose buried in

a book, or binge-watching Community, she can be found running long

distances along the Charles, Comm Ave. or on the trails in College

Woods. After spending the summer in New York City learning

everything about the publishing industry, she is excited to return to

working on her writing.

Carter Foster is from the small logging community of Elma,

Washington. At a young age he laid claim to the family camcorder

and began his storytelling career. Though he grew up only a block

from the public library, he did not come to books until entering the

Running Start program, which allowed high school juniors to attend a community college full

time. At 19 he traveled Europe for nearly a year and returned to attend The Evergreen State

College in Olympia, Washington. Carter is an incoming MFA candidate in Fiction; he lives with

girlfriend, Demri, and cat, Samson, in Portsmouth.

Jay Geigley is that guy you saw hustling to class with a gallon jug in

one hand and a stack of tupperware meals in the other. It's unlikely

you saw him wearing sleeves. As a fiction writer in the MFA

program, Jay Geigley applies the hard-edged disciplines and desire

for constant improvement he's developed in his years as a

competitive bodybuilder. If he seems eager to bare everything in his

work, it's because of his experience baring nearly everything on a

stage, spray-tanned, before a panel of judges noting his flaws. Most

of his work explores the denial of his buffalo chicken desires. To

pay the bills Jay upholds justice at Scorpions Bar and Grill in a t-

shirt that fits like a blood pressure cuff. On Saturdays in the fall, Jay

fervently supports the UNH Wildcats football team and you should

too.

Lindsay Grattan is a first-year MFA candidate in fiction.

Born and raised on the North Fork of Long Island, she now

makes her home at the base of a ski mountain in Vermont. She

received her BA in English Literature from Stony Brook

University nearly a decade ago, and has since done a little bit

of everything and then some. She enjoys being outdoors,

traveling, practicing her fiddle, and wandering the back roads

thinking of her next story.

Kate Luksha is in the MFA in Fiction Writing program. She earned her

Bachelor’s degree in English at UNH in 2008. Currently, she is

employed by the University in the Office of International Students &

Scholars. Kate is working on a Young Adult novel for her thesis entitled

“The Dreamjacker.” She loves the Bruins and will jump at any

opportunity to talk hockey! She is an avid snowboarder and loves the

snow. In her spare time she is usually curled up with a book, Stephen King being one of her

favorites.

Beth Ann Miller believes you can find stories anywhere and

never gets tired of searching for them. She spends her time as

an editor, a student, and traveler. She's looking forward to her

second year in the MFA Fiction program where she'll be

writing feverishly, teaching, co-hosting the Read Free or Die

reading series, and discovering new avenues and homes for her

strange little stories.

Jeremy John Parker is a second-year MFA in fiction. He

escaped relatively unscathed with a BA in "English with

Creative Writing Emphasis" and three-quarters of an

anthropology degree from the University of Wisconsin-

Madison, where he was on the poetry staff of The Madison

Review and was publishing director of the Madison Journal of

Literary Criticism. Jeremy has also been a taxi driver, an

apprentice butcher, the events & activities coordinator for a

retirement community, a freelance graphic designer, a wood

splitter, a hay baler, a marketing intern, a paint mixer in an

industrial factory, a gas station register jockey, and a communication assistant in a relay center

for the deaf. His wife is a rockstar biogeographer and paleoecologist at the University of Maine

and he prefers to name cats after mischief deities.

Jimmy Roach is a first-year MFA student in Fiction. He graduated from

the College of the Holy Cross in 2011, majoring in English with a

concentration in Creative Writing. He has spent the intervening three

years teaching high school in Appalachian Kentucky. He loves playing

guitar, and enjoys pretending to play banjo, mandolin, violin, harmonica,

and tin whistle. He cares strongly about issues of social justice, especially

education, and is excited to work his experiences into his writing while at

UNH.

Emily Thompson is a second-year MFA student of

fiction writing currently living in Durham, New

Hampshire. She moved here three years ago from the

Chicago burbs with her husband, their two sons and

two very loyal puggles. After graduating with a BA

in Psych from SIU, she spent nearly two years in

Arizona working as a Psychiatric Technician in a

group home. After that, she returned to Illinois

where she supervised a coffee shop and became a

certified yoga teacher. She’s happy to be here in New

England now with the moose, the bears, the trees and the four seasons.

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MFA Nonfiction

Alyssa Martino is a third-year nonfiction MFA

candidate. She braved the lake-effect snow for four

years while studying peace and conflict at Colgate

University. Alyssa has also lived in Rome (and

subsequently eaten way too much gelato), slept in the

Sahara and Negev deserts, and caved through neck-deep

water. Before coming to UNH, she wrote and edited for

a radiology magazine in Washington, D.C.

Laura Dennison is an incoming Nonfiction MFA

student. She was born in NH, grew up in NH, attended

high school in Salem, NH, and...you guessed it, attended

UNH, where she obtained her bachelor's in English. She

applied only to UNH for graduate school because she is

adventurous, and then proceeded to work full-time at

Starbucks, where she perfected the art of "slop-

mopping" and frappuccino blending. During her time in

the program, she hopes to write about mental illness and

stigma to help bring awareness and a new perspective to those affected and their families. She

wants to focus on memoir-style writing.

Holland Prior is a first-year MFA

nonfiction student hailing from the crazy

county of Los Angeles and will be doing

her best to survive the New England

winters. She studied political science

during her undergraduate years and then

earned a Master of Divinity (M.Div.)

from Azusa Pacific Seminary. During her

down time, you will usually find Holland

reading the works of Madeleine L’Engle,

experimenting in the kitchen, or catching up on geeky television shows. Somewhere along the

way she also became an ordained minister with The Wesleyan Church.

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MFA Poetry

Kristen Bulger graduated from Suffolk University in 2011

with a degree in English and minors in Philosophy and

Women's Studies. Her areas of focus include environmental

and feminist literature. Apart from writing and reading, she

enjoys playing guitar, visiting new places, and being

outdoors. She is an MFA student in poetry.

Justin Burkart is an alumni of the University of Arkansas. He has

been publishing and cobbling poems together for thirteen years.

They emanate from his ordinary life and the plane between an event

and its unfolding. His narrative has been shaped by his story-telling

grandparents and encounters with uncommon patch-worked folk. It

has been his pleasure to work many dead-end jobs, jump trains, live

at the bottom, and explore the country from toe to tip. At the U of

A, he was the recipient of the 2007 Felix Christopher McKean

Award for poetry. His work has appeared in “The Houston Literary

Review,” “Plain Spoke,” “The Emerson Review,” and “The

Columbia Review.” He is a first year poetry student at UNH, and is

excited to see New Hampshire's influence upon his writing.

Noah Burton was born in Kansas and raised in various parts along

the mid-east coast. He attended Virginia Commonwealth

University and received his B.A. in philosophy with a minor in

creative writing. He writes poems, cooks, plays banjo and guitar in

the band Kitchen (currently on hiatus), loves reading Buson, and

honors the little makers on the desert planet of Arrakis. Noah

currently teaches at UNH and lives in Madbury, NH with his

girlfriend, Jayme, next door to their two best goat friends, Agnus

and Sofie (and their best chicken friend, Chicken).

Kayla Cash is a first year MFA poetry student from the foothills of Virginia. Her

undergraduate career brought her to Boston for a BS in

communications/advertising at Suffolk University (’14). While there, her careers

as an office assistant, writing tutor, hostess, and marketing specialist at a

construction management firm kept her adequately crazy and unqualified enough

to pursue her “true passion” of poetry-writing indefinitely. Now, she will need a

car to survive again in the wild and plans to continue her craft beer quest north.

She hopes you enjoy her cool Instagram selfie.

Jerome Daly is a first-year MFA student in poetry. He attended the

University of Connecticut and received his B.A. in English with a

concentration in Creative Writing. While at the University of

Connecticut he interned for the Director of the Creative Writing Program

and was Managing Editor of the Long River Review. His poems have

been published in The Chaffey Review and the Long River Review.

Brian Evans-Jones is a first year MFA student in Poetry. Until

now, he has lived all his life in the UK, where, among other

things, he earned two undergraduate degrees – one in Mathematics

from Cambridge University, and one in English and Creative

Writing from Warwick University. For the last four years he has

taught poetry and creative writing for a living, teaching

undergraduates at two UK universities while also running

workshops for adults and kids in schools, libraries, a prison, a

bookshop, a hostel, someone’s front room, and a field. In 2012-13

he was Poet Laureate for Hampshire, England, and he’s looking

forward to the symmetry of now working in New Hampshire,

USA, having moved over with his wife and kids.

Joshua Morgan Folmar entered the MFA in Poetry

program in 2013. He is a teaching assistant with experience

as an instructor of first-year writing. An Alabama native,

Joshua graduated from the University of Alabama in 2012

after completing his enlistment in the United States Marine

Corps the previous year. As an undergraduate, he was a

founding member of the Campus Veterans Association, a

veteran-led advocacy and outreach organization. Though

he majored in Political Science, his passion was in his

double minors: English and Creative Writing. His poetic

interests revolve around various aspects of war and the

South. Also an accomplished singer-songwriter on the now-defunct Hackberry Records label,

Joshua has an unhealthy obsession with the ethnomusicology of American music genres, his

record collection, and his banjo and guitars. He lives in Dover with his wife Rebecca and their

cat, Maxine.

Alex Ledford is an MFA poet who hopes to graduate in Fall of

2014. She has been an English 401 TA and a poetry editor at

Barnstorm. She is from North Carolina.

Christopher Messinger is a first year MFA in Poetry candidate.

He was born in New York City, where family members remain,

but the eastern tip of Long Island is home. After spending a chunk

of childhood in South America with his Colombian mother, it felt

natural later to study Spanish Literature, which led to a BA from

Bates College over a decade ago. He is excited for the next

chapter of things Poetry and New England.

Cynthia Plascencia is a second-year MFA student in poetry. She

was born and raised in Houston, TX and graduated from the

University of Houston in 2010 with a B.A. in English – Creative

Writing. Her poems can be found in Glass Mountain, Pebble Lake

Review, and East Coast Literary Review, among others. She loves

thrift stores, food trucks, and incredibly cheesy romantic comedies.

Don’t hate.

Originally from Tennessee, Mike Riello, does not an accent,

but behind closed doors and late nights talks to his dog Tiger

and sometimes other people, with an ever-growing drawl. He

works as a chef in a basement kitchen, but has hopes of

someday seeing the unbridled landscapes nature has to offer,

like mountains. He is a firm believer in color. He’s suspicious

of any modes of art that attempt at translating the inner world

into something more popular or easily recognized. He likes

Kung-fu movies and consequently, noodles. “Mekeel Mcbride

is my spirit animal.” I just bought an $800 bed online. I am far

more serious in public.

Jayce Russell is a second year student in the MFA Poetry

program. He received his undergraduate degree in English from

UNCG, and currently lives in Newmarket. There is nothing

else.

PhD Composition Studies

Adam Cogbill holds a B.A. from Franklin and Marshall

College in Lancaster, PA, in English, and an MFA from the

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in Fiction. He has

taught both composition and literature courses. He has

published both fiction and essay, and at UNH, he hopes to

study the ways in which Composition and Creative Writing

can inform one another.

Raised by crazy Canadians, Meaghan E-L Elliott hails from

Ann Arbor, Michigan (GO BLUE!) and holds a BA in

creative writing and theatre from Hope College and an MFA

in creative writing for poetry at the University of Wyoming.

Following her MFA, she travelled for one year in China,

teaching English in Hangzhou and Beijing, learning just

enough Mandarin to argue with cab drivers. Upon returning

from China, Meaghan moved to the Washington, D.C. area

for six months to continue working on her poetry. After living

amongst the consortium of universities in the capital, she then

decided to return to Ann Arbor and take courses at the

University of Michigan in order to gear up for her MA in literature at UNH. After becoming

addicted to the life she made for herself here, she decided to stay on and pursue the PhD in

Composition and Rhetoric. Right now she’s exploring all the possibilities comp/rhet has to offer

and is starting to feel the pressure to find her specialization. Feminist rhetoric, perhaps?

Composition’s process pedagogy? Whatever shape the dissertation ends up taking, with all of

these degrees, she hopes to one day be the most employable college English instructor that ever

Englished.

Sarah B. Franco is a PhD candidate in Composition Studies. She

received her BA in English and Psychology from the University of

Rochester, and her MA in English and MAT at Simmons College.

Her academic interests include therapeutic writing practices,

mindfulness and writing, writing center pedagogy, and development

of writing services for returning veterans. In addition to working as

Associate Director of the Connors Writing Center, Sarah has

facilitated writing workshops for veterans at UNH and at the

Manchester VA Medical Center. When not reading, writing, or talking about what she's reading

or writing, Sarah loves studying maps, hearing peoples' stories, trying new beers, visiting the

ocean, and exploring coastal towns from Bar Harbor to Newport.

Lauren Short is excited to join the University of New

Hampshire’s Composition program as a PhD candidate.

She received her B.A. in English, Humanities with a

concentration in Disciplinary Studies, and a minor in

Spanish from the University of Louisville. They treated

her so well there that she decided to stay on for an M.A.

in English, too. Her academic interests up to this point

have focused on literature, particularly British and Irish

Modernism. She was lucky enough to join the James

Joyce Symposium in Utrecht, Netherlands in May 2014 and has written a couple of reviews for

the Virginia Woolf Miscellany and International Virginia Woolf Society Newsletter. During her

time at New Hampshire, Lauren hopes to discover a dissertation topic while exploring the ever-

evolving possible areas of interest such as feminist and visual rhetoric, as well as the effects of

writers’ locations and/or “homes” on their writing. Outside of school, Lauren will be happy to

divulge her love of travel, hiking, Indian food, Twining’s tea, and obscure British television.

Matt Switliski is a third-year student in Composition Studies.

He earned his BA in English and MA in Writing Studies from

Saint Joseph’s University. He also has an MFA in Creative

Writing (Popular Fiction concentration) from Stonecoast at the

University of Southern Maine. His publication credits include

poetry, short fiction, book reviews, and newspaper articles. For

the past few years, he has worked as a writing tutor and

English instructor at several colleges in the greater

Philadelphia area. His academic interests include, but are not

limited to, creative writing, literature, writing center

theory/practice, folklore, and narratology. He continues to struggle for the right words—in this

bio and in the cosmic sense.

Wendy VanDellon is currently working on her Ph.D. in English

Composition. She is interested in several research topics, including critical

whiteness theory, expressivism, No Child Left Behind and audit culture,

and classical rhetoric. She earned her MA from Ohio University in

Athens, Ohio and studied English Rhetoric and Composition. She also has

a BA in English with a minor in Communications from St. John Fisher

College in Rochester, New York and an Associate's degree in Liberal Arts

from Monroe Community College also in Rochester, New York.

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PhD Literature

Matthew Cheney is a second-year PhD in Literature student,

having earned a BA in English from UNH and an MA in Liberal

Studies from Dartmouth College. He has taught high school

English and theatre, and recently worked as an adjunct professor at

Plymouth State University. He's published fiction and nonfiction in

a wide variety of venues, including One Story, English Journal,

Weird Tales, Rain Taxi Review of Books, Los Angeles Review of

Books, and elsewhere, and he wrote introductions for the Wesleyan

University Press editions of Samuel R. Delany's The Jewel-Hinged

Jaw, Starboard Wine, and The American Shore. He has presented

at the Associated Writers & Writing Programs conference, the Popular Culture

Association/American Culture Association conference, and the Northeast MLA Conference. His

research interests currently focus on the ways writers have questioned, crossed, and transcended

genre borders in their work, with particular focus on the writings of Virginia Woolf, J.M.

Coetzee, and Samuel Delany.

Luke Dietrich is a fifth-year doctoral candidate in Literature, with a

BA from Wesleyan University and an MA from Boston College. His

dissertation combines interests in American literature, critical ethnic

studies, and print culture studies to consider how U.S. writers of color

interacted with the mainstream publishing industry from 1880 to 1920.

At UNH, he has served as a COLA graduate student senator, as

coordinator for the Hamel Scholars Program, and as co-president of the English Graduate

Organization. He has been awarded the UNH Dissertation Year Fellowship and the Northeast

Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Fellowship at the Newberry Library.

Mary Grace Elliott is a first-year PhD student in literature

focusing on early modern literature and ecocriticism. She

received her B.A. and M.A. in English literature at Georgia

State University in Atlanta, GA. She has taught freshmen

composition courses and assisted in upper division

undergraduate courses focusing on British and Irish

Modernism. For the past year, she served as assistant

conference coordinator for the South Atlantic MLA. Her work

has been featured in various regional and national conferences and her article "'Remembering

How to be Me': The Inherent Schism of Motherhood in 20th Century American Literature" can

be found in the online journal the quint. She looks forward to learning about snow and extreme

cold in the coming years at UNH.

Elizabeth Sheckler is a second-year PhD student in Literature.

She earned her MA from UNH, and BFA in Creative Writing and

BS in Secondary English Education from the University of Maine.

Elizabeth's interests are varied, but she works primarily on 19th

century texts, with particular focuses on mobility, the domestic

space, and the influx of technological innovation and its conflicts

with other systems (such as the occult and religion). She has

always been interested in women's issues, especially regarding the

body. She is interested in both British and American authors, as

well as those who like to hop over the pond occasionally. She

recently presented her work on Nella Larsen's Quicksand at a

Graduate Conference in Wyoming, and will be co-chairing a panel

at NeMLA in 2015 on villainous portrayals of nurses and midwives. Elizabeth lives with her

husband Jon, and their unruly tabby cat, Ultra Magnus. She's an avid Netflix film enthusiast, a

private writer of poetry, a great connoisseur of board games, and peculiarly knowledgeable about

video games and the evolution of horses. She is also a member of the English Graduate

Organization (EGO), and served last year as the co-chair for social events.

Catherine Welter, a fourth-year PhD-Lit. student, specializes in the

19th c. British novel and children's literature from the Victorian and

Edwardian periods. Originally from Syracuse, NY, she received her

BA in English and French from Union College before moving to London to work for the British

Museum. After returning to the States for grad school, she earned her MA in English Literature

from the University of Connecticut. Here at UNH, she serves as Co-President of the English

Graduate Organization and teaches literature and writing courses. When not reading, writing, or

grading papers, Catherine enjoys traveling and hiking, as well as exploring her passion for

amateur photography and historic architecture.

Kimberly Young originally comes from the small town of Windber,

Pennsylvania. She received a Bachelor’s in Secondary Education of

English from the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. She is now a

third year PhD student in the literature program and lives in Dover

with her husband, Justin (a sociology PhD student at UNH). Her

specific interest is 20th Century literature (particularly dystopian works

and their function as social commentary). Her other interests are

working out, cooking/baking, and art.

Kristin Stelmok, not pictured, specializes in the Gothic.

Anna Zoeller, not pictured, specializes in Early Modern literature and hip-hop poetry.