Thomas Eric Simonson is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Their research focuses primarily upon early modern literature, especially works engaging with concepts of cosmology at the intersection … Read more

Krista Telford is a PhD student at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill studying English Literature. She specializes in medieval literature and is particularly focused on religious texts. Her research examines prayer and depictions of the afterlife in medieval … Read more

Marcy Pedzwater is an Instructional Designer at Vanderbilt University. With over five years of experience teaching and working in higher education, Marcy is passionate about creating and supporting high-quality learning experiences for students. Prior to joining Vanderbilt, she worked for … Read more

Rene Marzuk is a first-year graduate student in the Department of English and Comparative Literature and a Royster Fellow at UNC. He is interested in literary articulations of marginalized identities as well as in literary instances of emergence, widely defined. … Read more

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.

Rose Steptoe is Ph.D. candidate, teaching fellow, and film scholar in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on the intersection of feminist authorship and cinematic depictions of body horror. … Read more

Joshua Cody Ward specializes in Literature of the American South, 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 … Read more

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 … Read more

Afro-Caribbean-American writer Dailihana Alfonseca is currently working on her master’s in Health Humanities in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at UNC-Chapel Hill. Her concentration in Literature, Medicine, and Culture continues to amplify marginalized perspectives through her writing and … Read more

Izzy Howard (they/them) researches ambiguous and deceptive language in Medieval literature and how this ‘promiscuity’ of meaning can be read as queer. Their readings focus on the textual body and its relation to the physical body: how the textual corpus … Read more