Category: Staff
Joshua Cody Ward
Joshua Cody Ward (he/him) specializes in Literature of the American South and the Appalachian South, with interest in both African American Literature and Chicanx literature, especially across the 20th century. He is a Digital Content Coordinator for the Latina/o Studies Program, a member of the Thomas Wolfe Society Board of Directors (2023-2026), and President of the English department’s graduate student association CoLEAGS. His dissertation, Aspiring Appalachians, charts the relationship betwe … Read more
René Marzuk
René Marzuk is a graduate student in the Department of English and Comparative Literature. His research examines the literary enactment and construction of transnational identities in Latina/a/o/x and U.S. literatures of the 19th century, with a complementary interest in the cultural production of the Caribbean.
Ryan Carroll
Ryan Carroll is a PhD student in English and Comparative Literature and a Program Assistant with the Latina/o Studies Program. He researches nineteenth-century information culture and literary theory.
Victoria Valle
Victoria Valle is a Digital Content Coordinator for the Latina/o Studies Program. Her interests include the Digital Humanities, Speculative Fiction, and Latina/o literature, specifically Mexican-American literature and authors from the late 19th to the early 20th centuries. She recently participated in the 8th International Literary Juvenilia Conference, presenting her research on the literary juvenilia written by Mexican-American author Josephina Niggli (1910-1983). When she’s not working, Vict … Read more
X. Ramos-Lara
X. Ramos-Lara (she/they) is a doctoral student in the Department of English and Comparative Literature. Her research is an altar for the living ghosts of the AIDS epidemic, examining the ways in which HIV+ Black and Latinx queer poets wrote about desire, queer embodiment, violence, and communal solidarity through death. In her spare time, X. enjoys writing poetry and reading critical theory.