The research and teaching interests of the area group encompass both British and American literature, from the early modern period to the present day, spanning manuscript, print, and digital culture. The group's activities are focused by a shared commitment to the material conditions of textual production in and across various media.
Brandi Adams,
Books and Reading on the Renaissance Stage, dissertation in progress with Sherman.
Laura Wells Betz,
Exploring the Sensibility of the
Text: British Poetry 1750-1850. Dissertation in progress with
Fraistat.
Catherine Field,
"Many hands": Early Modern Women's Recipe Books and the Politics of Writing Food for the Nation, dissertation in progress co-directed by Sherman.
Leonardo Flores,
Typing the Dancing Signifier: Understanding
Electronic Poetry. Dissertation in progress with Smith.
Laura Lauth,
Other Words: American Poetry in and Across Communities, dissertation in progress with Smith.
Lara Massey,
The Variorum Edition of John Donne's Holy Sonnets, dissertation in progress with Sherman.
Jason Rhody, ABD with Kirschenbaum.
Ingrid Satelmajer,
The Posthumous Editing of Emily
Dickinson: "Bastard" Offspring in the Periodicals
of the 1890s. Dissertation in progress with Smith.