Category: Graduate Program

Graduate Program

ENGL/ENST 368: Asian American Literature and the Environment (Fall 2022), Instructed by Karen Siu

  Karen Siu is a third-year PhD student in Rice’s English department. Her research puts forward how Asian diasporic literary production shifts racial coordinates, complicates the boundaries between the human and nonhuman beings, and focuses on an ecological perspective of the Asian diaspora. She has presented her work at academic organizations such as the Association for Asian American Studies and the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment.…

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The End of English Conference

The graduate students of the Rice University English Department will be hosting their virtual conference, “The End of English,” which focuses on the current climate of the Humanities, and imagines the possible futures of the Humanities and Literary Studies. There will be both creative pieces and traditional paper presentations on an exciting array of topics, and all members of the Rice community and the public are welcomed to attend and…

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ENST 316: Environmental Film (Spring 2022), Instructed by Bren Ram

        Bren Ram is a PhD candidate in the Department of English and Diluvial Houston Predoctoral Fellow at Rice University, where she studies the intersection of risk and ecology.   Course Description: This course is organized around three central questions: what is environmental film, why study film through the lens of the environment, and how is ecological thinking impacted by the medial constraints of film? Together, we…

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ENGL 371: Survey of Chicanx Literature and Culture (Spring 2022), Instructed by Sophia Martinez-Abbud

    Sophia Martinez-Abbud is a fourth-year PhD student in the English department. Her research excavates an underlying punk poetics in Chicanx literature published in the post-1960s.         Course Description: This semester (Spring 2022), her Survey of Chicanx Literature and Culture class aims to provide students with the skills to appreciate, contextualize, and enjoy learning about Chicanx literature and culture. Because the course is cross-listed with SPPO…

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ENGL 211: Romanticism to the 20th Century (Spring 2022), Instructed by Nina Cook

    Nina Cook is a Ph.D. Candidate in the English Department at Rice University. She studies innovations in representation in visual art and literature from 1760-1880 and asks how techniques of representation in painting and novel writing mirror one another. Her fields of study are Romanticism, the Victorian novel, visual culture, gender studies, and the history of optics.     Course Description: Our modern era is a product of…

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Graduate Student Interview: Kelly McKisson Talks Publication

Kelly McKisson is a PhD candidate in English here at Rice University. Her article, “The Subsident Gulf: Refiguring Climate Change in Jesmyn Ward’s Bois Sauvage,” was published in September 2021 for a special issue of the American Literature journal, which can be found here. In our interview with Kelly, read about her experiences working on and revising her essay towards publication and how it ultimately took about three years for…

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