Doctoral Students

English PhD Student

Avery Blankenship (she/her/hers) is a Ph.D. student in the English Department in CSSH. Her fields of study primarily include digital humanities, print and book history, and nineteenth-century American recipes and domestic manuals. Her research focuse…

English PhD Student

Genesis Bateman’s (Barco Medina) research locates itself at the intersection of public life and hidden narratives. Genesis invites scholarship on community literacy to be more inclusive of undocumented lived experiences by investing her research in …

English PhD Student

English PhD Candidate

Galen Bunting is a PhD candidate in English at Northeastern University.  His research examines shell-shock narratives and gendered diagnoses in Modernist literature and traces textual representations of masculinity and gender in the aftermath of the …

English PhD Student

English PhD Student

English PhD student

Ilana Goldstein (she/her/hers) is a Ph.D. student in the English Department in CSSH. Her fields of study primarily include Jewish Studies and Literature, Trauma Studies, and Holocaust Literature. Her primary focus is on “post-generations” in novels, …

English PhD Student

Caroline is a first year Ph.D. student in the English Department. Her primary research interests include the classical tradition in Shakespeare, feminist ecocritism, and funerary practices, monuments, rituals, and beliefs in early modern England. She…

English PhD Student

Tieanna Graphenreed is an English PhD student studying rhetorics of Black citizenship and Black spatial politics. Her research asks a question of citizenship as a spatial practice and interrogates what it might mean to study national and cultural c…

English PhD Student

English PhD Student

Juniper Johnson is a Ph.D. student in the English Department at Northeastern University studying archives, queer and feminist theory, digital humanities, and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American literature. They currently serve as the Research…

English PhD Student

Cherice is a PhD student at Northeastern University studying rhetorics of race at the intersection of language, writing, and health. Her research explores how rhetorics of race within medical writing have historically and continue to impact our notio…

English PhD Student

Katelyn Juerjens (she/her) is a Ph.D. student in the English Department in CSSH. Her work primarily focuses on the material production of food and how food becomes a symbol to mediate race, class, gender, and nationalism in American popular culture a…

English PhD Candidate

English PhD Candidate

English PhD Candidate

Assistant Director of the Writing Center

Rachael’s primary areas of interest include antiracist writing pedagogy, critical literacy, media studies, and race and cultural theory. …

English PhD Candidate

David Medina is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of English in CSSH. His fields of study include early American literature, bibliology, and colonial Atlantic history. David’s research centers on the colonizing ideologies of the Iberian and B…

Assistant Director of the Writing Program

Rachel’s research explores feminist rhetorical theory in the context of contemporary popular visual culture. Her dissertation investigates the rhetorical significance of feminist icons, particularly seeking to engage their potentialities for rhetoric…

English PhD Student

Nina Mouawad نينا معوض (she/هي) is a PhD student in the English department at Northeastern University studying modern Arab literature, visual studies, comics, critical theory and postcolonial race theory. Her research examines the intersections of me…

English PhD Candidate

Kyle’s research explores evolving roles of writing assessment, curriculum, and pedagogy within frameworks of institutional and organizational values. Kyle uses mixed qualitative and quantitative analysis methods to consider how digital tools ne…

English PhD Candidate

Kenneth’s research focuses on contemporary image-text form, format, and aesthetics. In particular, his work focuses on how emerging underground art comics movements help elucidate new approaches to theorizing media formats in the digital era. His res…

English PhD student

Asia Potts is a Ph.D. student studying contemporary Black literature in the English Department. Potts’ research is grounded in Afrofuturism and narratives of intergenerational and lived experiences of Black women throughout the diaspora. Her wo…

English PhD Candidate

Alanna Prince is a PhD candidate in the university’s English department.  Her work focuses on late 20th and 21st-century Black literature and visual culture, with a particular emphasis on historical resonance, poetics, and gender/sexuality. She also…

English PhD Student

Cailin Roles (she/they) is a PhD student in the English department. Their fields of study include global animation and comics, cultural studies, and queer theory. They are particularly interested in the relationship between animation and the body in …

English PhD student

Roshny (she/her) is a PhD student focusing on multilingual writing, migration theories, and literacies. During her time as a Writing Consultant, she started pinning terms to the many writing and speaking strategies that she had been using as a multil…

English PhD Student

Vijeta Saini (she/her/hers) is a Ph.D. student and the recipient of the CSSH Scholar at Northeastern University, with a concentration in Global Shakespeare Studies, Performance Studies, and Cultural Memory Studies. Her MA thesis, “The Merchant of The…

English PhD Candidate

English PhD Student

English PhD Student

Kyle’s research focuses on queer and feminist aesthetics in contemporary literature and visual culture, particularly through novels, graphic narratives, and film and television. As a member of GSWAG, Kyle is also interested in the ways queer an…