Graduate Students
Learn more about the graduate students in the Department of English at Saint Louis University.
Department of English Graduate Students
Brianne Bannon
Email: brianne.bannon@slu.edu
Area of Study: 20th & 21st Century American Literature
Colten R. Biro
Email: colten.biro@slu.edu
Bachelor of Science in English & Political Science from Spring Hill College; Graduate
Philosophy & Letters Degree from Saint Louis University; Master of Arts in English
from Saint Louis University
Area of Study: Long Nineteenth Century British Literature and Culture, Children's
Literature, Digital Humanities and Archives, Long Nineteenth Century Political Philosophy,
Educational and Developmental Theory
Secondary Specializations: Golden Age Children's Literature (1865-1928); Medical Humanities;
Digital/Public Humanities; Intellectual & Philosophical Histories in Literature
Alexa Broemmer
Email: alexa.broemmer@slu.edu
B.A. in English from Quincy University, M.A. in English from Saint Louis University
Area of Study: 19th-20th Century American Literature
Areas of Interest: Women's and Gender Studies, Horror, Ecocriticism
Cheyenne Burns
Email: cheyenne.burns@slu.edu
B.A. in English Literature from Lindenwood University
Area of study: Contemporary Feminist Literature
Sarah Burt
Email: sarah.burt@slu.edu
B.A. in English and History from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) 2019, M.A. in English Language and Literature 2021.
Area of Study: Medieval Studies
Areas of Interest: Eco-material studies, eco-critical and animal agency in medievalism, cross-cultural analysis, cross-period analysis, chivalric romance, and transformative mythologies and folklore.
Zy'Shonne Cowans
Email: zyshonne.cowans@slu.edu
B.A. in English from Central Methodist University
Area of Study: Contemporary Literature and African-American Literature.
Hazel Denother
Email: hazel.denother@slu.edu
B.A. in English and Spanish from Lindenwood University
Area of Study: 20th-21st Century American Literature, Existentialism, Feminist Studies, and Psychology
Luke Desnoyer
Email: luke.desnoyer@slu.edu
B.A. in English from Truman State University
Area of Study: Rhetoric and Critical Theory
Haris Fazlic
Email: haris.fazlic@slu.edu
B.A. in English from the University of Missouri, M.A. in English from Tulane University
Area of Study: Romanticism/Romantic Studies
Areas of Interest: Pastoral Poetry, John Clare Studies, Object Theory, Transcendental Philosophy
Wayika Fordjour
Email: dorcasfordjour7@gmail.com
B.A. in English Language
Area of Study: Postcolonial Literature and Feminism
Nicholas Gomez
Email: nicholas.gomez@slu.edu
B.A. in English and American Literature from University of Texas El Paso;
M.A. in English from Saint Louis University
Area of Study: Rhetoric and Composition
Areas of Interest: Philosophy and Rhetoric, Ancient Rhetoric, Pedagogy, Classical Studies, Composition Studies
J. Myles Hesse
Email: john.hesse@slu.edu
B.S. in English and Theatre from Indiana State University; M.A. in Theatre and Performance Studies from Washington University in St. Louis
Area of Study: Transatlantic Modernisms
Areas of Interest: Spiritual Queerness, Dramatic Literature, Queer Gothic
Ari Hutchinson
Email: ari.hutchinson@slu.edu
M.A. in English from Saint Louis University, B.A. in English from Palm Beach Atlantic University
Area of Study: Literature of the Fin de Siècle, Transatlantic Literature, Queer Theory, Paganism and Spirituality
Ahlam Jaber
Email: ahlam.jaber@slu.edu
Bachelor of Arts in English from Southern Illinois University of Edwardsville; Master of Arts in English from Southern Illinois University of Edwardsville
Area of Study: Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures
Areas of Interest: Contemporary Postcolonial & Decolonial Studies, Arab American Literature, Latin American Literature, Native/Indigenous Literature, Cultural Studies, Ecopoetics
Sydney Lindsey
Email: sydney.rice@slu.edu
B.A. in English Education from Murray State University, M.A. in English from Saint Louis University
Area of Study: Contemporary Literature and Film
Areas of Interest: Women and Gender Studies, Horror and the Gothic
Meredith Lyons
Email: meredith.lyons@slu.edu
B.A. in English from Saint Louis University
Area of Study: Drama, Theatre and Performance studies, Playwriting, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism
Nate Meshau
Email: nathan.meshau@slu.edu
B.A. in English, Political Science, and Foreign Language and Literature from University of Missouri - Kansas City
Area of Study: Contemporary American Literature and Politics
Charlie Myers
Email: charlie.meyers@slu.edu
M.A. in Theater and Performance Studies from Washington University, M.F.A. in Playwriting from University of Iowa, B.A. in Theater and Jewish Studies from Smith College
Area of Study: Dramatic Literature, Queer Studies, Jewish Studies, Magical Realism
Emma O'Donnell
Email: emma.k.odonnell@slu.edu
M.A. in English from Saint Louis University, B.A. in English Literature from Missouri State University
Area of Study: The Victorian Novel
Ryan Prewitt
Email: ryan.prewitt@slu.edu
M.A. in English from Saint Louis University
Area of Study: 20th Century and Contemporary American Literature
Areas of Interest: Digital Literature, Literary Countercultures, Politics and Aesthetics, Digital Rhetoric
Johaeng (Jo) Rho
Email: jo.rho@slu.edu
M.A. in English from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Area of Study: Early Modern Drama, Performance Studies, Early Modern Governmentality, Affect Theory
August Rickard
Email: august.rickard@slu.edu
B.A. in English from Webster University
Area of Study: Early Modern British Literature, Gender and Sexuality, Feminist Theory, Book History
Dominic Robin
Email: dominic.robin@slu.edu
B.A. in English and Business Administration, College of the Ozarks; M.A. in English, University of North Florida
Area of study: 20th-21st Century American Literature
Area(s) of interest: Medical humanities, disability studies, narrative theory, homeschool literature, language acquisition theory, Latin American literature, Andean studies, anthropology, modernism
Jenova Roetto
Email: jenova.roetto@slu.edu
B.A. to M.A. Student
Area of Study: Contemporary Literature, Speculative Fiction
Alex Rubi
Email: alex.rubi@slu.edu
B.A. in English from Saint Louis University
Area of Study: Asian-American Literature, Postcolonial Literature
A. Sciandra
Email: amanda.sciandra@slu.edu
B.A. in English from Lindenwood University
Area of Study: Rhetorical Incompleteness, Post-Humanism, Temporal Fragmentation, Phenomenology and Ontology, Gothic Poetics
Brooklynn H. Shatto
Email: brook.shatto@slu.edu
M.A. in English from Saint Louis University, B.A. in English from Saint Louis University
Area of Study: Rhetoric, Politics, and Digital Humanities
Rachel Linn Shields
Email: rachel.l.shields@slu.edu
B.A. in English from the University of Washington (Seattle, WA), M.A. interdisciplinary studies with a literature focus from New York University (New York, NY), and M.F.A. in creative writing with a fiction focus from the University of Washington (Seattle, WA)
Area of study: Medieval Literature
Area(s) of interest: Ecocriticism, poetics, creative writing, history of the book
Isaac Smith
Email: isaac.b.smith@slu.edu
B.A. in Psychology and English from University of Missouri
Areas of Interest: Rhetoric, Victorian Literature, Satire
Kathleen (Katie) Eck Thorman
Email: kathleen.eck@slu.edu
B.A. in English and Secondary Education from Dominican University; M.A. in English from Saint Louis University
Area of Study: 19th Century British Literature
Areas of Interest: Disability Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, and Teaching Pedagogy
Amanda VanNierop
Email: amanda.vannierop@slu.edu
B.A. in English and Political Science from Saint Louis University
Area of Study: Contemporary American Literature and Politics, Popular Culture Studies, The Shape of the Novel
Savanah Warners
Email: savanah.warners@slu.edu
M.A. in English from Saint Louis University, B.A. in English and B.S. in Biology from Alma College
Area of Study: Contemporary American Literature, Ecocriticism, Plants and Fungi, Women's and Gender Studies
Evan Webster
Email: evan.webster@slu.edu
B.A. in English from Webster University
Area of Study: Medieval Literature and Narrative Studies, Rhetoric and Power
Zahin Zaima
Email: zahin.zaima@slu.edu
M.A. from Eastern Illinois University, B.A. from East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Area of Study: Postcolonial Feminism