2020
Laura Godfrey received her M.A. from the University of Mississippi in 2014 and her Ph.D. from UConn in 2020. Her dissertation was titled “‘Be Wholly Out of Body’: Astonishment in Late Medieval English Literature,” which she wrote under the direction of Fiona Somerset.
Micah James Goodrich received his M.A. and Ph.D. from UConn in 2014 and 2020. His dissertation was titled “Nature-Work: (Re)Production and the Body in Medieval Discourses of Nature,” which he wrote under the direction of Fiona Somerset and Bob Hasenfratz.
Katelyn Jaynes received her M.A. from the University of Texas, Austin in 2014 and her Ph.D. from UConn in 2020. Her dissertation was titled “Barns of Disunity: Satirizing Households in Late Medieval English Poetry,” which she wrote under the direction of Fiona Somerset.
2019
Joseph McLaurin Leake received his M.A. and Ph.D. from UConn in 2013 and 2019. His dissertation was titled “ex linguis gentes: Etymologizing of Landscape and Peoples in Early Medieval Britain,” which he wrote under the direction of Frederick M. Biggs.
Joanna A.H. MacGugan received her M.A. in History from the University of Massachusetts, Boston in 2008 and her Ph.D. from UConn in 2019. Her dissertation, entitled “The Emergence of an Oral-Textual Mentality: Social Practices and the Politics of Death in Medieval co. Dublin, 1257-1483,” was written under the direction of Sherri Olson and Brendan Kane.
Andrew Bell received his M.A. from UConn in 2019.
2018
Patrick Butler received his M.A. and Ph.D. from UConn in 2012 and 2018. His dissertation was titled “Unsettling the Exceptional Hero: Recognition & Vulnerability in Middle English Romance,” which he wrote under the direction of Fiona Somerset.
Elisabeth Herbst Buzay received her Ph.D. from UConn in 2018. Her dissertation was titled “Qui la chose saroit entendre: Objects and Communication in French Medieval Romances and Contemporary French Fantasy Novels,” which she wrote under the direction of Anne Berthelot.
Gretchen Geer received her M.A. from UConn in 2018.
Karli Grazman received her M.A. from UConn in 2018. She will be continuing her studies at the University of York, UK.
M. Breann Leake received her M.A. and Ph.D. from UConn in 2012 and 2018. Her dissertation was titled “Rewriting the Historian of the English People: The Afterlife of Bede in Early English Texts,” which she wrote under the direction of Frederick M. Biggs and Sherri Olson.
Graham O’Toole received his M.A. from UConn in 2018. He is continuing his work in Celtic studies and economic history.
2016
Gennifer Dorgan received her M.A. in 2016.
Mark Pearsall received his Ph.D. from UConn in 2016. His dissertation was titled “A Late Antique Narrative of Jewish Persecution: The Epistula Severi,” which he wrote under the direction of Daniel Caner.
2014
Brandon W. Hawk received his M.A. and Ph.D. from UConn in 2009 and 2014. His dissertation was titled “Apocryphal Narratives on Old English Sermon Collections,” which he wrote under the direction of Frederick M. Biggs and Clare Costley King’oo. Following graduation, he held a one-year Teaching Postdoc position in the Department of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and since 2015 he has been Grand Master of the Jedi at Rhode Island College.
Marjorie Housley received her M.A. in 2014. She is currently studying toward her Ph.D. at the University of Notre Dame.
Pamela Longo received her Ph.D. in 2014.
2013
Jeremy DeAngelo received his M.A. and Ph.D. in 2008 and 2013 with his dissertation “Unsettling: Transgression and Travel in the Literature of the Medieval North Atlantic.” His advisor in this project was Dr. Bob Hasenfratz. He is currently participating in a seminar in at the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Alexandra Garner graduated with an M.A. in 2013. She received a second M.A. in Popular Culture Studies at Bowling Green State University, and is currently studying toward a Ph.D. in English at the University of Oregon.
Leah Schwebel received her Ph.D. in 2013. Her dissertation is titled “Re-telling Old Stories: Chaucer’s Italian Poetics of Intertextual Commentary,” which was written under the direction of Fiona Somerset.
2012
Nicholas Brown graduated with an M.A. in 2012.
Andrew Gaudio graduated with an M.A. in 2012.
2011
Andrew Pfrenger graduated with a Ph.D. in 2011. His dissertation was entitled “The Wisdom to Choose: Emotion and Authority in Old English Literature.” He earned his B.A. from Florida State University with a double major in English and Latin, and a M.A. from UConn. He is currently Assistant Professor of English at Kent State University at Salem, Ohio.
2010
Danielle Bradley graduated with a M.A. in 2010 and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in History at Rutgers University. Her main interests include book history, specifically the transition to print, reception studies, and the intersection between a book’s content and its physical presentation. She is also interested in marginality and the spatial separation of society in the Middle Ages.
Breanna Gallagher graduated with a M.A. in 2010. She is currently pursuing a degree in secondary education for French language and literature in Seattle, Washington.
Gretchen Hendrick graduated with a M.A in 2010. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Connecticut with a duel major in English and German in May of 2008. Her academic interests are medieval Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon culture, languages, and literature.
Annie Humphrey graduated with a M.A. in 2010. She is currently pursuing further academic intersts in medieval art and archaeology.
Kisha Tracy graduated with a Ph.D. in 2010. Her dissertation was entitled “Writing Memory: Reinvention and the Tradition of Confession in Middle English Literature.” She holds a B.A. in English from the University of Evansville and a M.A. in Medieval Studies from UConn. She is currently an Assistant Professor of English at Fitchburg State University, Massachusetts.
2008
Melissa (Lalli) Dimos graduated with a M.A. in 2008. She currently teaches Latin in Massachusetts.
Wendy Hoofnagle graduated with a Ph.D. in 2008. She has a B.A. in English from Potsdam College and a M.A. in Comparative Literature from SUNY Binghamton. The title of her dissertation was “Lawgivers and Peacemakers: Imagining Courtly Kingship and Early English Hybridity.” She is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Northern Iowa.
Soren Olghrig-Kerrin Marra graduated with a M.A. in 2008.
Laura Shafer graduated with a M.A. in 2008 and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of Connecticut.
2007
Sarah Girard graduated with a M.A. in 2007. She has a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in French and German with a Medieval Studies concentration. Her areas of interest are Medieval languages (mostly Germanic and Celtic) and Medieval literature and legends. She is currently teaching Latin in a secondary school in Massachusetts.
Frank Krajewski graduated with a M.A. in 2007. He has a B.A. in Greek and Latin from Connecticut College and a B.A in History from the University of Virginia. He has taught (briefly) at Hartford High School and Norwich Free Academy. His areas of interest are Byzantium, Later Latin, and Northern European vernacular literature in Old Irish and Old Norse.
John P. Sexton graduated with a Ph.D. in 2007. His dissertation was entitled “In the Saint’s Embrace: The Sanctuary Privilege in Medieval Religious Writing.” He holds a B.A. with a dual History and Literature concentration from Goddard College and a M.A. from the University of Connecticut. His research interests include Icelandic studies, Middle English and Early Modern literature, and religious history. He is currently an Assistant Professor of English at Bridgewater State College, Massachusetts.
2006
Carolyn Coulson-Grigsby graduated with her Ph.D. in 2006; her dissertation was entitled “Wormys mete is his body: Embodying the Diseased Spirit of Herod the Great on the Late Medieval English Stage.” She holds a B.A. in Theatre Arts from Santa Clara University and a M.A. in Medieval Studies from UConn. She is currently a Theater faculty member at Shenandoah University, Virginia.
Joshua Eyler graduated with a Ph.D. in 2006. He is currently Associate Professor of Humanities at Rice University. Josh’s dissertation was entitled “Conditioning the Soul: Spiritual Athleticism in Medieval English Theology and Literature.”
Bridget Hart Martin graduated with a M.A. in 2006.
Nadia Pawelchak graduated with a M.A. in 2006.
Rebecca Perry graduated with a M.A. in 2006.
Dan Stokes graduated with an MA in 2006 and is currently working on his Ph.D. at the University of Rochester.
2005
Katharine Lawson graduated with a M.A. in 2005.
Suzanne Paquette graduated with a M.A. in 2005.
S. Elizabeth Passmore, “The Loathly Lady Transformed: A Literary and Cultural Analysis of the Medieval Irish and English Hag-Beauty Tales.”
2004
Christine Cooper-Rompato graduated with a Ph.D. in 2004. Christine’s dissertation is entitled: “Mirabile Translatu: Translating Women and the Miraculous in the Later Middle Ages” under the direction of C. David Benson. Christine is currently Associate Professor of English, Director of Graduate Studies in English, and Co-Editor of the Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures at Utah State University.
Christopher Cottrell graduated with a M.A. in 2004. He is currently a secondary school teacher in Latin and history.
Gregory Hays graduated with a M.A. in 2004. After graduation, Greg traveled in Europe and worked in York, England; he is currently studying at the University of York.
2003
Erin Donovan graduated with a M.A. in 2003. She is currently a Doctoral Student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Art History. Erin also participates in the interdisciplinary Medieval Studies program. Her major field of study is Gothic Art and Architecture with a focus on manuscript studies, and her minor field is in Islamic Art and Architecture from the 7th-15th centuries.
Kate Laity graduated with a Ph.D. in 2003. She is currently an Assistant Professor of English (Medieval) at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York.
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