Doctoral Students

English PhD Student

Corie Mesa (she/her) is a PhD student in the English Department at Northeastern University, with a focus in composition studies, community engagement, and digital humanities. Born and raised in Los Angeles, her research interests lie in classroom eng…

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

English PhD Student

Tiffany Cruz is a Ph.D. student in the English Department at Northeastern University, specializing in people of color in nineteenth-century British literature. She authored and designed an illuminated manuscript book titled “Maidens in the Moor…

English PhD Student

Reba Dickson was born and raised in Dennery, St. Lucia. She was first introduced to the indigenous and African “monster” during her Social- Studies class, where she was always conflicted with this categorization. She has a Bachelor of Arts from t…

English PhD Student

Dani (she/they) is a PhD student studying Rhetoric & Composition and WGSS. Their work focuses on feminist rhetoric and history, and they are particularly interested in 1960s and 1970s feminist manifestos and newsletters. Dani received their MA in…

English PhD Student

Elisa J. Fuhrken (she/her/hers) is an English literature P.h.D. student at Northeastern University. Her fields of studies include Nineteenth century American literature, women writers, Archival Studies, Performance Studies, and feminist theory. Curre…

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

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

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

English PhD Student

English PhD Student

Rachael McIntosh (she/her) is a PhD candidate in the English Department studying archival rhetorics. Her dissertation project explores how archives perpetuate discourse and ideas about race and power that developed under colonialism. Her goal is to i…

English PhD Student

English PhD Student

Nina Mouawad نينا معوض (she/elle/هي) is a PhD student of literature in the English department at Northeastern University. She studies modern Arab literature, comics & visual studies, gender & sexuality studies, postcolonialism, and critical r…

English PhD Student

Angela Muir is a Ph.D. student in Rhetoric and Writing Studies at Northeastern University, where her research intersects archival methods, cultural and feminist rhetorics, and contemplative pedagogy. Her collaborative work with Paula Mathieu, “…

English PhD Student

Meg Palmer is a PhD student in the English Department at Northeastern University. Their research interests include digital humanities, the first-year writing experience, and community engaged learning. Their work also extends into the great outdoors,…

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 received her PhD in 2024 for her dissertation, Luminous Black: On Making Time, the World, and the Self in Black Women’s Poetry.  Her work focuses on late 20th and 21st-century Black literature and visual culture, with a particular emph…

English PhD Student

Cailin Roles (she/her or they/them) is a PhD candidate in the English department. Their fields of study include global animated film and comics, cultural studies, and queer theory. Their dissertation explores the relationship between animation and th…

English PhD Student

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 Student

English PhD Student

Emily Sullivan (she/her) is a PhD student of literature in the English Department at Northeastern University. Emily’s research focuses on feminism, trauma, and graphic narratives, specifically investigating the intersection of testimony and vis…

English PhD Student

English PhD Student

Melissa (Mel) Williams (she/her) is a PhD student in the English Department at Northeastern University. Her fields of study primarily include colonial and post-colonial theory, multiculturalism, and the role of literature in education. She is primari…

English PhD Student

Kyle Wholey (they/them) is an English Ph.D. candidate and editorial assistant at Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Their work focuses on queer digital culture and how social media offers tools of political resistance for queer and margi…