Huimin Hao

Virgile Gobillot

Ariel Estrella

Ariel Estrella's research focuses on 20th and 21st century lyricism through queer of color critique. To guide themself, Ariel asks: what does lyricism offer queer creators of color in the midst of racism and cultural celebration; homophobia and queer kinship; transphobia and gender possibility? And, in turn, what do queer creators of color offer lyrical creative enterprises with their experiments in form?

Ariel's portfolio offers readers lyrical pieces that combine personal essay, poetry, and…

Rocío Corral Garcia

Rocío is interested in the dramatization and political re-deployments of Elizabethan rhetoric and imagery. With a focus on the Anglo-Spanish relationships during the Early Modern Period, her dissertation project examines the mechanisms of reception history to investigate the theoretical and conceptual topic of female sovereignty—paying particular attention to the early modern stage’s ability to generate some of the terms and tropes in which political power is theorized.

Susannah Sharpless

Susannah Sharpless is a PhD candidate in the Department of Literatures in English. Her dissertation, The Terraqueous Romantic: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers Between Land and Sea, considers the destabilizing force of the ocean in nineteenth-century imaginaries of race, gender, and nation. Moving from the eastern seaboard to the Great Lakes, her project demonstrates how multiethnic North American women writers used their ecological proximity to maritime environments to include themselves in hemispheric stories of oceanic resistance. A portion of her chapter on Dickinson has been published in The Emily Dickinson Journal, and her article on how transhemispheric Black rebellions influenced Thomas Wentworth Higginson's post-Reconstruction politics was published in ESQ's special issue on Higginson. Her teaching has been recognized with Cornell's Deanne Gebell Gitner Annual Prize for Teaching Assistants, and she has published poems in Bennington Review and Jewish Currents, among others.

Charline Jao

Charline Jao is a PhD candidate whose research focuses on the American nineteenth century. Her dissertation, “Early Lost,” looks at the temporality of child death and separation in texts by nineteenth-century American women writers, with an emphasis on events not easily absorbed into sentimentalism or nation-making such as infanticide and abandonment. The chapters examine child loss in the poetry of Frances Harper, incarceration and execution narratives in Lydia Maria Child’s Fact and Fiction, and friendship albums held by the women of the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society.

Lisa D. Camp

Lisa is a scholar of Old and Middle English literature and culture, Comic book and graphic novel studies, and Black Feminist literature and theory. Her work focuses on the roles of empathy and social regulations of feeling in identity-based categorization and oppression in the West. Lisa’s dissertation project, “After You’re Done Crying”: Regulating Feelings, Gender, and Race in Medieval Literature and Contemporary Comics, tentatively argues that narrative storytelling across time and medium construct, communicate, and repeat social cues for proper modes of feeling which influence how we organize what Sylvia Wynter calls “genres of the human.” Lisa’s work fits into broader discussions of oppressive violence in the West as well as diversity in media representation, emphasizing that we cannot overlook the depth to which storytelling informs ideas about who deserves empathy, which ultimately determines who deserves to live in Western society.

Ernesto Quiñonez

Ernesto Quiñonez is a product of public education from Kindergarten at PS. 72 to The City College of New York.

Bobby Romero

Alice Rhee

Zahid Rafiq

Elie Piha

Elie Piha is from Athens, Georgia. From 2008 to 2012, he served as an Paratrooper, deploying to Afghanistan in 2009. His fiction centers around his experiences in the Army. In 2016, Elie won Southwest Review’s David Nathan Meyerson Award for Fiction for his story “Thinking About Women on the Other Side of the World.” Through the GI Bill, Elie received a BA in English from UC Berkeley. He is currently at work on his first novel.
 

Elisávet Makridis

Elisávet Makridis (she/her) is a Pushcart Prize- and Best New Poets-nominated Pontic Greek poet-educator raised between Astoria, New York and Greece. She is an alumnus of Sarah Lawrence College where she received the Andrea Klein Willison Poetry Prize and Lucy Grealy Prize for Poetry. In 2022, she was the winner of Ruminate Magazine’s Poetry Prize judged by Rajiv Mohabir and Inverted Syntax’s Sublingua Prize for Poetry, runner-up for Canthius’s Priscila Uppal Memorial Award for Poetry judged by Liz Howard, as well as a finalist for the 20th annual Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest, Indiana Review’s 1/2K Prize for Poetry, Reed Magazine’s Edwin Markham Prize for Poetry, and The Sewanee Review’s 5th annual Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction Contest.Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Indiana Review, Canthius, Reed Magazine, Grist, Frontier Poetry, Tupelo Quarterly, among others. She was nominated and selected as the 2023 recipient of The Stephen and Margery Russell Distinguished Teaching Award given annually to faculty members for excellence in teaching and advising by Cornell’s College of Arts & Sciences. Most recently, she was accepted as an incoming Fellow in Poetry for the Vermont Studio Center Residency and her manuscript-in-progress was shortlisted for Poetry London’s 2023 Pamphlet Prize judged by Jay Bernard.

Lily Codera

Briel Felton

Briel was born and raised in sweet, sweet Virginia along the coast of the Chesapeake Bay, in the cultural hub of the 757. She is apart of Old Dominion University's 2019 graduating class. She has her BA in English, concentrating in Creative Writing. She is the 2019 Academy of American Poet's University & College Poetry Prize First Place Winner. Her poems have appeared in various publications including Laurel Moon magazine, Firewords magazine, Rigorous magazine, and Barely South Review. She …

Katie Compton

Victoria Baugh

Victoria Baugh is a PhD Candidate at Cornell University in the Department of Literatures in English working in nineteenth-century literature, critical race theory, and narratology. Her dissertation, Race and Authority: Building Racial Epistemologies in Nineteenth-Century British and Caribbean Women’s Writing, shows how specific strategies of narration produce credibility and authority that coincide with the rise of scientific racism.  Her work argues that by understanding narratological methods…

Lu Lu

Lu Lu is a PhD candidate at Peking University in China and works as a visiting student researcher at Cornell. She is currently at work on her dissertation focusing on the eighteenth-century British playwright Richard Sheridan. Her dissertation examines the relationship between sentimental comedies and Sheridan’s plays, and the related gender and political problems.

Ida Bahmann

Ida Bahmann is a visiting student and Fulbright scholar from Heidelberg University, Germany. She is working on her MA thesis on Latinx theatre, probing the intersection of art and activism.

Richard Thomson

Richard Thomson is a PhD candidate in the Department of Literatures in English. His research concerns intersections of film and literary form in the twentieth century, transnational modernisms, multiethnic American literatures, poetry and poetics, and media studies. His dissertation, Montage and Mise-en-Page: Sergei Eisenstein in American Modernist Literature, returns to the moment of Eisenstein’s entrance into American culture in the late 1920s in order to explore the aesthetic and political…

Chelsea Thomeer

Kyhl Stephen

Kyhl Stephen

Sara Stamatiades

Sara Stamatiades is the Joseph F. Martino ’53 Lecturer at Cornell University, where she recently received her PhD in English literature. In her comparative dissertation, “The Theater of Discovery: (Un)making the World on the Early Modern Stage,” she engages with a broad range of theatrical texts, from lesser-known Restoration masques and Spanish interludes to more widely recognized works by Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, and Aphra Behn. Through her close readings, Sara advances her definition of discovery as a performative process and colonial endeavor that makes worlds as it unmakes them. In the first half of the project, Sara focuses on representations of discovery onstage, which often rely on the signaling of curtains, props, and lighting. The final chapters shift to examine theatrical representations of discovery’s aftermath: the development of colonial spaces and modes of indigenous resistance.Sara has won multiple awards for her teaching at Cornell, including the Gertrude Spencer Prize. Bringing her enthusiasm for early modern theater into the classroom, she recently taught an advanced undergraduate course called “Shakespeare Offstage,” which studies Shakespearean myths, adaptations, and strives to answer the question:is Shakespeare still relevant?Additionally, Sara has served as the Assistant Director of the Cornell Writing Centers, demonstrating her commitment to writing pedagogy and supporting undergraduate students. As a 2020-2021 Public Humanities Fellow at Humanities New York, Sara began developing community-engaged projects in Ithaca, NY, including two playwriting workshops. The latest workshop, “Stages of Life,” brought together teens and elders to write short plays based on each other’s lives, while fostering meaningful intergenerational connections.

Alec Pollak

Alec Pollak is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University. Her research investigates how the decisions of literary estates, the management of archives, and the mechanics of intellectual property law have influenced the legacies of early- and mid-twentieth century authors. Her writing appears or is forthcoming in MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (winner of the 2022 Katharine Newman Best Essay Award), Feminist Theory, the LA Review of…

Kelly Hoffer

Kelly Hoffer writes and studies poetry. Her debut collection of poetry, Undershore, was selected by Diana Khoi Nguyen as the winner of the 2021 Lightscatter Press Prize, and is forthcoming in the spring of 2023. Her second book manuscript 'Fire Series' was a finalist for the 2021 National Poetry Series and the Georgia Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Gulf Coast, TAGVVERK, American Chordata, Denver Quarterly, Mississippi Review, and Prelude, among others. Her reviews…