Doctoral Students

English PhD Student; Assistant Director of the Writing Center

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

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

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

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

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 M. (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 race theory. Her…

English PhD Student; Assistant Director of the Writing Program

Angela Muir is a Ph.D. student in Rhetoric and Writing Studies at Northeastern University, where her research centers on feminist rhetorics, justice-oriented pedagogies, feminist memory studies, visual culture, and archival praxis. Her published work…

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 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

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…