CONTRIBUTORS

CARLEE A. BAKER is a PhD student in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at UT Austin where she studies the rhetoric of health and medicine.

MIA BAÑUELOS is a PhD student in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at UT Austin. Her research interests include digital rhetorics, circulation studies, Queer rhetorics, and media studies.

LAUREN BELLATTI holds a master’s degree from the University of St Andrews and is currently a PhD student in the Department of English at UT Austin. Her research explores myth making and the American West, the relationship between religion and empire, and sentimental and domestic writing in the long nineteenth century.

FLORIDELL BERRY is a Master’s of Global Policy candidate at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. Her research interests include the East Asian and Pacific region, resistance movements, and decisionmaking in conflict.

JAMES BEZOTTE is a PhD student in communication studies at UT Austin. His research intersects with rhetorics of colonialism, race, Indigeneity, and decoloniality.

SAMANTHA J CEBALLOS is an English Literature PhD candidate with portfolios in Mexican American Latino/a Studies and Women and Gender Studies at UT Austin. Her dissertation project focuses on Latina Super-heroes in comic books, graphic novels, television, and film and their existence outside of the superhero genre.

DANIEL DAWER (he/him) is a doctoral student in the Educational Policy and Planning Program. His research uses sociological methods to analyze how educators, students, and communities experience and respond to the implementation of accountability policy and other education reforms. Prior to his graduate work at UT, he taught in Austin-area public schools for over a decade, and was recognized as a District Secondary Teacher of the Year in 2014.

isaac dwyer holds an MA in Asian Studies from UT Austin, where they specialized in Urdu-Hindi literature and South Asian Islam. They research the history of psychiatry, madness and transgender expression in Islamicate and Latin American narrative traditions. isaac works in Urdu-Hindi, Persian-Tajiki, Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian. They may be reached at idwyer@utexas.edu.

ALYSSA NICOLE FISHER (she/her/hers) is an MA student in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at UT Austin. Her research focuses on the Women’s National Basketball Association and their organization’s relationship with sports media. She currently works in University Housing and Dining at UT Austin, and has a professional passion for student affairs and working towards the goals of access in education.

MARY FONS is a PhD candidate in American Studies at UT Austin. Her recent paper, “Who’s That Girl: The Shifting Identity of Use-Quilts in the Fine Art System” was published in Uncoverings, the journal of the American Quilt Study Group, in 2024.

NINA GARY is a PhD candidate at UT Austin in the Department of English. Her work centers the archival absence of medieval Anglo-Jewish literary voice and the efforts which we make to reanimate their literary output.

KEVIN M. GIBBS is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at UT Austin where he studies contemporary literature of the Vietnam War. This is his fourth year with the E3W Review of Books.

JUNIKA HAWKER-THOMPSON is a PhD candidate in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at UT Austin. Her dissertation project explores Afro-Guyanese fresh and saltwater epistemologies and the (re)production of Blackness across Guyana’s coastal region.

ALEXANDER HOLT is a PhD candidate in Sociology and Doctoral Portfolio candidate in African and African Diaspora Studies at UT Austin. Through individual and collaborative research at the disciplinary and methodological crossroads of Sociology, Black Studies, Critical Pedagogy, and Social Work, he maps the intersectional contours of Black diasporic vulnerability and agency. His current projects mobilize theoretical, empirical, and embodied understandings of Blackness, trauma, wellbeing, and care, to reconcile past, present, and future experiences of epistemic and ontological oppression. Holt received his BA in Sociology with minors in French and American Ethnic Studies from Wake Forest University in 2020 and his MA in Sociology from UT Austin in 2023.

I. B. HOPKINS is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at UT Austin. His research explores the aesthetics of historical drama, extra-theatrical performance cultures, and adaptation in depictions of the US South.

JO HURT is a PhD candidate in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at UT Austin.

MONTEZ JENNINGS is a PhD student and an assistant instructor at UT Austin. She holds an MA in English & an MFA in Creative Writing from Chapman University. When Montéz isn’t teaching, writing, or reading, she spends time with her cat.

MYLES JOYCE is a PhD student in the Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program at UT Austin, where he researches how the availability of cellular resources impacts neuroplasticity. He received his MS in Anatomy & Neurobiology from Boston University with an emphasis in teaching the biomedical sciences. He is passionate about creating and sharing equitable science communication.

ALEX KEITH is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at Northwestern University. She studies twentieth century Black cultural history, focusing on the intersections of gender, race, and cultural production in the US and UK. 

KERRI KILMER is a third-year MSIS/MA English student at UT Austin. Her research interests include the realist Victorian novel, sympathy, and archives. Her ongoing master’s report “Behind the Looking Glass” explicates the uncanny role of the mirror in George Eliot’s fiction.

JUMI KIM is a PhD candidate in English at UT Austin. Her dissertation (in progress) critically interrogates the way liberal humanist language reenacts and disguises racial subjugation in the name of individual deficit and pathology, in turn demonstrating how African American literary texts have engaged in alternate languages that attend to the nation’s implication in the wake of slavery. Her research has appeared in Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction and is forthcoming in MELUS.

NINA KIRKEGAARD is a second-year doctoral student in French Studies in the Department of French and Italian at UT Austin. She focuses on nineteenth and twentieth century French literature, house museums, digitization of archives, writers of the Latin American Boom, and has a nascent interest for the contemporary Bolivian novel. Nina is a Graduate Research Assistant in Instruction at the Harry Ransom Center.

QIANQIAN LI is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at UT Austin. Her research interests include feminist media and cultural studies, East Asian and Western popular culture, American women’s literature, digital media and affect theory. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English Literature and Economics and a master’s degree in Comparative Literature from Peking University, China. Her research articles have been published and are forthcoming in Feminist Media Studies, European Journal of Cultural Studies, Textual Practice, Asian Journal of Women’s Studies, and Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. She is currently working on her dissertation, which examines Chinese popular feminisms in the digital age. She can be reached at liqianqian@utexas.edu. 

T LIM (she/her) is a graduate student in the Women’s and Gender Studies (MA) and Information Studies (MS) dual program at UT Austin. She is nearing completion of her graduate thesis, which explores how a tarot practice mediates attunements to non-normative experiences of time. More broadly, her research lies in developing a theory around archival performance, or the relationality between performance and archiving as embodied modes of memory and imagination.

MICHAEL MASON is a teacher and writer living in the Midwest.

CHAPMAN MATIS is a PhD student in the Department of English at UT Austin.

ISABELLA NEUBAUER is a PhD student in the English department at UT Austin studying medieval literature and medievalism in pop culture. Their work is forthcoming in Arthuriana.

GIULIA OPREA is a PhD student in the department of American Studies at UT Austin. Their research lies at the intersection of “seamless” technology and science fiction.

FRANCESCA PASSASEO is a PhD student in Italian Studies at UT Austin. Her work uses archival methods to explore the intellectual history and material praxes of autonomous Marxist-Feminist movements. Prior to the PhD, she received her MRes in Italian Studies from the University of Reading (UK) and worked for the National Health Service.

ethen s. peña is a historian and PhD student in the Mexican American and Latina/o Studies program at UT-Austin, where they explore the intersections of race, memory, and political struggle. Their research engages deeply with Black and Borderlands histories, critical theory, and the afterlives of colonialism. They are particularly interested in the ways study, spectrality, and resistance shape historical narratives and radical intellectual traditions.

JESSICA PEÑA TORRES (she/her/ella) is a PhD student in the Performance as Public Practice program at UT Austin, as wells as a dance/theatre artist focused on Mexican identity and performance. Her scholarly work has appeared in Arts and The Journal of American Drama and Theatre. In both Mexico and the U.S, Peña Torres has worked withr arts organizations such as Maru Montero Dance Company, Ballet Folclórico Nacional de México de Silvia Lozano, Indigenous Cultures Institute, Teatro Vivo, and Ground Floor Theatre.

ALLISON M PUJOL is a third-year dual MSIS/MA student at UT Austin. She studies collective organizing in contemporary American literature. She has served as the Sequels Co-Chair for 2024-2025 and will miss many of her co-writers and editors on this Review after she graduates this semester!

ELIANE QUINTILIANO NASCIMENTO (she/her) is a PhD student in African and African Diaspora Studies at UT Austin. She holds a master degree in African and African Diaspora Studies (UT Austin) and Social Sciences (Federal University of Espírito Santo). Her research is about Strategies of Economic Empowerment for Black Women in Brazil, focusing on Afro-entrepreneurship, Black Feminist Thought, Racial Capitalism and Economic Sociology.

AUTUMN REYES (she/they) is a PhD student in the Rhetoric and Writing Department. Her research interests include legal rhetoric, immigration studies, citizenship studies, and critical race theory.

WESTON LEO RICHEY is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at UT Austin. Before UT, they earned an MFA in creative writing at Rutgers University–Newark.

HALLEY ROBERTS (she/her) is a PhD student at the University of Denver. Her research focuses on spiritual modalities and rhetorics, affect and object theory, and the American gothic.

HAMNA SHAHZAD is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at UT Austin. 

RACHEL L. SPENCER is a PhD candidate in English at UT Austin. A lifelong theatre practitioner and lover of Shakespeare, her research centers on the matter of gender and sexuality in early modern drama, the representation of women on the Renaissance and Restoration stage, and the print and theatrical afterlives of English queens consort from the 16th century onward. Her dissertation explores the development of woman-centric histories during the Restoration and their ties to earlier historiographic and theatrical texts.

lucy sternbach is a PhD student in the Department of American Studies at UT Austin.

ALLYSA TELLEZ is a second-year dual-degree Masters student in English and Information Studies. Her research interests include digital humanities, Chicanx/Latinx Literature, and film studies. As an undergrad, Allysa studied journalism and mass communications at New Mexico State University. She worked as a journalist for four years.

AILEEN THONG is a Research Associate at the Harry Ransom Center. They hold an MA in English and American Literature from New York University and an MLIS from Long Island University.

RIANNA TURNER is a PhD student in the Department of English at UT Austin. They specialize in twentieth and twenty-first century American poetry and poetics. Their research merges trans thought with theories of aesthetic taste and judgment.

SAM TURNER is a PhD student in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at UT Austin. Her research explores the messiness of living in a body.

NISHANT UPADHYAY is a PhD candidate at the Department of Asian Studies at UT Austin and an upcoming TIAS-Shimu Postdoctoral Scholar at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. His research focuses on the rise of neo-nationalist movements in South Asia, the space for religious minorities, particularly Shi’i Muslims in South Asia, as well as Hindi-Urdu progressive-radical literature and the non-western concepts of sovereignty and inter-state relations in the Global South.

MICHAEL VACLAV received his PhD in English Literature in August of 2024 from UT Austin, where he is currently a Post-Doctoral Lecturer. He specializes in Early Modern and Restoration Literature, with an emphasis on Shakespeare, Restoration adaptations of Shakespeare’s works, and the intersections of adaptation and political scandal.

NATHANIEL WACHTEL is a PhD student in the Department of English at UT Austin. His focuses on environmental humanities, energy and twentieth century American literature.

PAIGE WELSH is a PhD candidate in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at UT Austin. She focuses on rhetorics of health and medicine and philosophy of communication.

COURTNEY WELU holds an MA in English and an MS in information studies from UT Austin. She currently works as a Research Associate at the Harry Ransom Center.

TRENT WINTERMEIER is a PhD candidate in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at UT Austin.