The Catholic University of America

Graduate Students

Below is a list of all current graduate students in the English Department. Students whose names appear in blue link to biographical and professional information.

Emily Alianello
98alianello@cardinalmail.cua.edu

Celeste Barker
24barker@cardinalmail.cua.edu

Bridget Brennan
92brennan@cardinalmail.cua.edu

Marcel Brown
MA, English Language and Literature, The Catholic University of America; BA, English Language and Literature (Classical Languages), The University of Dallas
Research Interests: The Eucharist in English literature, particularly in the High Middle Ages, with special reference to "Pearl" and The York Cycle

Melissa Castle
69castle@cardinalmail.cua.edu

Megan Caughron
MA, English, University of Missouri, Kansas City; BA, Liberal Arts, Thomas Aquinas College
Research Interests: 18th Century Rhetoric, History of Rhetoric, Literary Criticism
Dissertation Title: 'The Sweetness of the Lips Increaseth Learning:' Rhetoric and Religion in the Scottish Formation of English Studies

Brian Chappell
29chappell@cardinalmail.cua.edu

Veronica Cowan
BA, Literature, Thomas More College of Liberal Arts
Research Interests: Medieval and Renaissance Lyric

Mollie Crisp
08crisp@cardinalmail.cua.edu

Colette Epple
73epple@cardinalmail.cua.edu

Sara Erickson
32erickson@cardinalmail.cua.edu

Kevin Farrell
54farrell@cardinalmail.cua.edu

Nancy Furey
MA, Theatre, Villanova University; BA, Psychology, Boston University
Research Interests: Medieval literature, sacred literature, dramatic literature

Laura Garrison
MA, English Language and Literature, The Catholic University of America; BA, English, Allegheny College
Research Interests: literature of nature and the environment, nineteenth-century American literature, stylistics

Ashley Handrich
57handrich@cardinalmail.cua.edu

Candice Jean Hill
96hill@cardinalmail.cua.edu

Amy Horan
65horan@cardinalmail.cua.edu

Xiaofang Huang
96huang@cardinalmail.cua.edu

Monica F. Jacobe
MFA, Creative Writing (Prose), American University; BA, English and Mass Communications, Emory & Henry College
Research Interests: Twentieth Century American Literature, Literature of the American South, Race and Gender in Literature, Narrative Studies, Prose Writing, Professional Writing, Writing Centers, Rhetoric and Writing, Pedagogy and the Teaching of Writing, the Academic Workforce
Dissertation Title: Self Labor: Work as Identity in the Contemporary Southern Novel

Noah Jampol
MEd, Human Development/Developmental Science, University of Maryland, College Park; BA, English, University of Maryland, College Park
Research Interests: Southern Literature, 20th Century Irish Literature, Joyce, Narrative Theory & The Psychology of Writers and Writing

Kelley Kent
MA, Humanities, California State University, Dominguez Hills; BA, English, Lee University
Research Interests: the Bible in literature, British colonial fiction, Christian allegory, religious poetry, Victorian literature
Dissertation Title: Christian Missionaries in British Colonial Fiction, 1870-1914

Nelly Lambert
MA, English, Georgetown University; BA, Comparative Literature, The University of Chicago
Research Interests: Shakespeare, theory of drama and poetry, film

Brooks Lampe
59lampe@cardinalmail.cua.edu

Sean Lewis
MSt, English Literature, University of Oxford (University College); BA, English, The University of Dallas
Research Interests: Literature of the English Renaissance, Medieval literature, Spenser, Shakespeare, Chaucer, Rhetoric, Aesthetics, Poetics
Dissertation Title: Editions of Chaucer in the English Renaissance: Rhetoric, Aesthetics, and Imitation

Amy Bricker Luskin
MA, English Language and Literature, The Catholic University of America; BA, English Literature, Emory University
Research Interests: Literature of the American South, Twentieth-Century American literature, the Irish in America, modern Irish poetry, the Irish short story, the intersection of folklore and literature

Michael Manglitz
80manglitz@cardinalmail.cua.edu

Michael A. Moir, Jr.
MA, The Catholic University of America; BA, Muhlenberg College
Research Interests: 20th-century Irish literature, modern poetry and drama, comic theory, the Gothic

Jessica Moore
12moore@cardinalmail.cua.edu

Julia Murphy
94murphy@cardinalmail.cua.edu

Beth Newman
BA, English, Emory University
Research Interests: theater history, medieval literature

Jeffrey Peters
17peters@cardinalmail.cua.edu

Lindsay Lawley Rerecich
MA, English, The Catholic University of America; BA, Medieval Studies, Rice University
Research Interests: Old and Middle English Literature

Joan A. Romano
MA, English Language and Literature, The Catholic University of America; BA, English and Politics, Loyola College
Research Interests: Twentieth-Century American Literature

Kevin Rulo
02rulo@cardinalmail.cua.edu

Donna Shute
15shute@cardinalmail.cua.edu

Erica Steakley
65steakley@cardinalmail.cua.edu

Shaun Stiemsma
BA, English & Secondary Education, Calvin College
Research Interests: Early Modern English Literature

Kathleen M. Sullivan
MA, English Literature, The University of Dallas; BA, Liberal Arts, Thomas Aquinas College
Research Interests: 18th and 19th century British Literature

Rebecca Vaccaro
72vaccaro@cardinalmail.cua.edu

Edmund Walsh
84walsh@cardinalmail.cua.edu

Jessica Warden
MA, English Language and Literature, The Catholic University of America; BA, St. Bonaventure University
Research Interests: Medieval literature

Colleen Weir
BA, English and Great Ideas, Carthage College
Research Interests:19th Century British literature with particular interest in the novel

Marisa White
MA, Florida State University; BA, Christendom College
Research Interests: 19th and 20th Century British Literature, especially Christian writers such as George MacDonald, G.K. Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, Evelyn Waugh, Dorothy L. Sayers, Graham Greene, and David Jones; the adaptation of literary works for film or television

Sarah Wilson
MAT, English, CUNY/Brooklyn College; MA, English Literature, Georgetown University; BA, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Research Interests: Rhetoric and Composition

Katherine Wolfe
68wolfe@cardinalmail.cua.edu