Ty Robert Alyea
Areas of Interest: Long 19th Century; The American Gothic; Literary Naturalism; Postmodern approaches to 18th and 19th Century Texts; History of Psychology; Masculinity and Gender Studies; Thomas Pynchon

MA Report: "I Kill Therefore I Am: Violence and Virtue in Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly"

Kirby Brown
Areas of Interest: Native American literatures, Mexican American literatures, nations and nationalism, genre studies

Dissertation: "Stoking the Fire: Nationhood in Early Twentieth Century Cherokee Writing"

Publications:
Peer Reviewed Articles
“Citizenship, Land & Law in John Milton Oskison's Black Jack Davy.” Studies in American Indian Literatures 23.4: (Winter 2012). Forthcoming.

Editorially-Reviewed Articles
“'Since I was given a name by the kind Fathers I take more pride in myself': Historical Recovery, Colonial Mimicry, and Thoughts on Disappearing Indians in Elena Zamora O'Shea's El Mesquite.” Nakum Journal (December 2010). Forthcoming.

Book Chapters
“Indigenous Communities, Indigenous Nations: Interrogating Contemporary Indigenous Intellectualisms.” In Sovereignty, Separatism, and Survivance: Ideological Encounters in the Literature of Native North America. Ed. Benjamin D. Carson. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press.82-109.

Book Reviews
Review. Mapping the Americas: The Transnational Politics of Contemporary Native Culture by Shari M. Huhndorf. E3W Review of Books 10 (Spring 2010): 7-8.

Review. Cherokee Thoughts: Honest and Uncensored by Robert J. Conley. Great Plains Quarterly 30.1 (Winter 2010): 69-70.

Review. Before the Country: Native Renaissance, Canadian Mythology by Stephanie McKenzie. Studies in American Indian Literatures 21.1 (Spring 2009): 87-90.

Sydney Bufkin
Areas of Interest: nineteenth and early twentieth century American literature; African American literature; reform writing; reception; genre

MA Report: "Settlement Work and Literary Genre: The Social Uses of Realism, Romance, and Melodrama in Twenty Years at Hull-House"

Dissertation Title: "Reviewing the Purpose Novel: Reception, Social Reform, and the Limits of Persuasion in Turn-of-the-Century American Literature"

Publications: "Contending Forces's Intellectual History: Emerson, Du Bois, and Washington at the Turn of the Century." Arizona Quarterly. Forthcoming.

Patricia Burns
Areas of Interest: 20th Century American, African American and Ethnic Literatures and Film

MA Report: "From Oppression, Survival and Resistance to Violence In Ann Petry’s The Street"

Dissertation Title: "Testing the Seams of the American Dream: Minority Literature and Film in the Early Cold War"

Publications: "Consequential Bodies: The Use of the Body in Sara Suleri's Meatless Days." Transnational, National, and Personal Voices: New Perspectives on Asian American and Asian Diasporic Women Writers. Eds. Begoña Simal and Elisabetta Marino. Münster: Lit Verlag, 2004. 231-240.

M. Catherine Coleman
Areas of Interest: 19th century American literature and print culture; political theory

MA Report: "A Mixed and Mongrel Future: National, Racial, and Spatial Destinies in Washington Irving's A Tour on The Prairies"

Jeremy Dean
Areas of Interest: nineteenth and twentieth century American literature; multiethnic American literature; sociology; ethnic studies; postcolonial studies; critical race theory; cultural geography

MA Report: "Reading The Virginian in the New South: The Frontiers of Race in Owen Wister’s West"

Working Dissertation Title: "Multiplicities: The Infrastructure of Multicultural Urban Literature, 1890-1960"

Yvette DeChavez
Areas of Interest: Contemporary Mexican American and African American literature, Queer theory, feminist theory, and psychoanalysis

MA Report: "The Primacy of Discourse": Language Lessons in Samuel Delany's Hogg

Katherine Evans
Areas of Interest: Native American literature, performance studies, late 19th-early 20th century American literature, women's and gender studies

MA Report: "Disruptive Laughter: Spiderwoman Theater and the Power of Humor"

Working Dissertation Title: "Staged Encounters: Native American Performance between 1880 and 1940"

Publications:
“Disruptive Laughter: Spiderwoman Theater as American Indian Feminist Theater.” Indigenous Feminisms: Politics, Activism, Culture. Eds. Shari Huhndorf, Jeanne Perreault, Cheryl Suzack, and Jean Barman. Vancouver, B.C.: University of British Columbia Press, forthcoming.
Book Review of Native North American Theater in a Global Age: Sites of Identity Construction and Transdifference by Birgit Däwes. Studies in American Indian Literatures (forthcoming).
Performance Review of Persistence of Memory by Spiderwoman Theater. Baylor Journal of Theatre and Performance 4.1 (Spring 2007).

Lydia A. French
Areas of Interest: Multiethnic American Literatures, Cultural Studies, Sound and New Media Studies

Dissertation: "Sonic Gentitud: Literary Mappings of the Listening Citizen"

Publications:
"Auralacy: From Plato to Podcasting and Back (Again)." Co-authored with Emily Bloom. Currents: In Electronic Literacy. Spring 2011.

"Woman Hollering Creek a Traves de la Musica." Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies. Spring 2011.

"The Borderlands of Borderlands: Tres Vistas." Nakum. Winter 2011.

Elizabeth Frye
Areas of Interest: 20th-century poetry and poetics; creative writing

MA Report: "Come On Back to Wonderland" (poetry collection)

Nicole Gray
Areas of Interest: 19th-century American literature and periodicals; bibliography and textual studies; rhetoric/rhetorical theory

Working Dissertation Title: "Spirited Media: Promiscuous Materialities of Nineteenth-Century Reform"

Publication: "Recording the Sounds of "Words that Burn": Reproductions of Public Discourse in Abolitionist Journalism." Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 41.4 (Fall 2011): 363-386.

Lauren Grewe
Areas of Interest: early Native American literature, 19th century American literature and poetry and poetics

MA Report: "E. Pauline Johnson and Walt Whitman Rebury Red Jacket"

Kathryn Hamilton
Areas of Interest: nineteenth-century American literature

Working Dissertation Title: "American Callings: Narratives of Humanitarian Individualism in the Making of the Modern United States"

Frederick Coye Heard
Areas of Interest: 20th- and 21st-Century American Fiction, 20th- and 21st-Century American Poetry, Modernism and Postmodernism, Narrative, Poetics, Photography and Visual Theory, Theories and Practices of the Abstract in Art and Literature, Public Culture, 19th- and 20th-Century Continental Philosophy, Phenomenology, Ethics

MA Report: "Otherwise than Reading: Hospitality and the Structural Hope of Philip Roth’s The Counterlife"

Dissertation: "Apposition, Displacement: An Ethics of Abstraction in Postwar American Fiction"

Publication: "It Must Remember: Wallace Stevens, Poetic Memorial and September 11, 2001." The Wallace Stevens Journal 32.1 (Spring 2008): 55-72.

Erin Hurt
Areas of Interest: 20th-century ethnic American literature; women and gender studies; public sphere, reader response, and feminist theory

MA Report: "Dirty Reading: Coordinating Theoretical and Popular Responses to Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez’s The Dirty Girls Social Club"

Working Dissertation Title: "Selling Race and Gender: Examining Race, Gender, and the Role of the Market in Contemporary U.S. Feminist Texts"

Publications:
Craig, Layne Parish and Erin Hurt. "Theory and Praxis: The Feminist Solidarity Group at UT-Austin." thirdspace: a feminist journal of theory and culture. 8:1 (Summer 2008).
Review of Sovereignty Matters: Locations of Contestation and Possibility in Indigenous Struggles for Self-Determination, by Joanne Barker. Special issue of Studies in the Humanities 33.2 (December 2006).

Matt King
Areas of Interest: 20th-century American fiction; postmodern literature; rhetoric / rhetorical theory

Philip Leigh
Areas of Interest: American dialect literature; American Regionalism; Melville; Language and Linguistics

MA Report: "'As If' and the Logic of Regionalism in Sarah Orne Jewett's Country of the Pointed Firs"

Eileen McGinnis
Areas of Interest: 19th and 20th century American literature; history of science; new media studies; science fiction

MA Report: "Remediated Readers: Gender, Education, and the Information Technologies of Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age"

Ashley Miller
Areas of Interest: late 19th- early 20th-century American literature, modernism, material culture studies, consumer culture

MA Report: "The Lost Meaning of Things: Edith Wharton, Materiality, and Modernity"

Regina Marie Mills
Areas of Interest: Latin@ literature, memoir and auto/biography studies, feminist theory, immigrant literature, 20th and 21st century Ethnic American literature, postcolonial studies

Anna Stewart
Areas of Interest: 19th century American literature (especially 1850s through Reconstruction period); bibliographic and textual studies; African-American and women's literature

MA Report: "Imagined Readers, Fluid Text: Revising Harriet Jacobs's Incidents for the Newly Emancipated"

Sarah Sussman
Areas of Interest: late nineteenth and early twentieth-century U.S. literature, material culture, religion in the U.S., and history of psychotherapy

MA Report: "Ancestors of the Race: The Antimodern Ethnography of Henry Steel Olcott's People from the Other World"

Justin Tremel
Areas of Interest: 20-21st Century American Literature and Popular Culture; bibliography/textual studies; digital humanities

MA Report:"'But I Still Got My Voice Left': Dylan's Neglected Artistry"

Dissertation: “Tradition and the Individual Talents: Dylan, Eliot, and DeLillo.”

Publications:
“The Commons, Corruption, and the Next Ten Years: An Interview with Lawrence Lessig.” Currents in Electronic Literacy. 11 (Spring 2008).

“Thought of everything? ... Forgotten nothing?:(Re-)Editing Beckett’s Eh Joe.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language. 51.1 (Spring 2009): 66-75.

“Think Twice: Dylan’s Poetry.” Bob Dylan Anthology: 20 Years Of Isis. Ed. Derek Barker. Surrey, England: Chrome Dreams, 2005. 119-125.

Caroline Wigginton
Areas of Interest: Early American Literature; Race and Gender

Working Dissertation Title: "Imagined Intimacies: Women's Writing, Community, and Affiliation in Eighteenth-Century Colonial America"

Publications:
"In a Red Petticoat: Interpreting Coosaponakeesa’s Performance of Creek Sovereignty in Colonial Georgia," Native Acts: Indian Performance in Early North America, eds. Joshua David Bellin and Laura L. Mielke (Forthcoming, University of Nebraska Press).
"A Late Night Vindication: Annis Boudinot Stockton's Reading of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman," Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 25.2 (2009), 225-38.
"Extending Root and Branch: Community Regeneration in the Petitions of Samson Occom," Studies in American Indian Literatures 20.4 (2008), 24-55.

Rachel Wise
Areas of Interest: late 19th- and early 20th-century regional literature, Appalachian writers, cultural geography, women and gender studies

MA Report: "'A certain zest to his own enjoyment': Homoerotic Competition, Race, and the Rise of a Southern Middle Class in The Marrow of Tradition"