Current Graduate Students
M.A. Students
Cara Byrne: I am a first year M.A. student and hold a B.S. in Education and a B.A. in English from Bowling Green State University (2009). My academic interests include African American literature, gender studies, and adaptation theory.
Bernadette Clemens: I hold a B.A. cum laude from Barnard College of Columbia University and a certificate from the British American Drama Academy. My academic interests include Edwardian dramatic literature and late Victorian fiction.
Cassie Freudenrich: I hold a B.A. in English from Mount Vernon Nazarene University (2005) and will receive my M.A. in English from CWRU (2010). My academic interests include composition pedagogy, 20th-century British literature, narrative theory, and creative writing.
Miriam Goldman: I hold a B.A. cum laude from Rollins College in English (2004), and am currently in my second year of the M.A. program here at Case. My academic interests include narrative theory (particularly in cognitive narratology), modernism, and studies of memory.
Dale Hinote: After studies at Wofford College and various campuses of the University of Maine System, I received a B.A. in English from the University of Maine at Fort Kent (1988). I also have an M.A. in History from the University of Pittsburgh (2001). My academic interests include modern social and political thought, cultural studies, pulp and detective fiction, and modern and postmodern American and British literature.
Kristin Kondrlik: I am a first-year M.A. student. I hold a B.A. in English and Political Science from Canisius College (2008). My academic interests include postmodern British theater, Gothic literature, and American colonial literature.
Marcus Mitchell: I am a first-year M.A. student. I hold a B.A. in English from Illinois Wesleyan University (2008). My academic interests include Victorian literature, bildungsromane, and medieval chivalric romance.
Michael Parker: I hold a B.A. in Russian Language and Literature from the University of Pittsburgh. My interests academically are 20th-century Russian and American Literature, queer theory and feminism.
Jonathan Scott Weedon: I am a first year M.A. student in English. I received my B.A. in English from Loyola College in Maryland. My interests are cognitive linguistics, modernist writing and art of Britain, America, and Europe, and pedagogy.
Erin Wolverton: I earned a B.A. in English from Western Michigan University (2003). After some time in the workforce, I came to Case to pursue an M.A. in literature. I have particular interest in contemporary American literature, film, and media studies.
Ph.D. Students
Wells Addington: I hold a B.S.S from Ohio University in American Studies (2004), and an M.A. in English from Case Western (2007). My interests include postmodern American literature, the sociology of texts, new media studies and creative writing pedagogy.
Daniel Anderson: I am a Ph.D. student at Case. I hold a B.A. in English from Kent State University and an M.A. from Case Western Reserve University. My academic interests include 20th-century American literature, Jewish-American literature, and film.
Mary Assad: I hold a B.A. in History from Baldwin-Wallace College and an M.A. in English from Case Western. My academic interests include American modernism, ESL, and writing in the health professions.
Jason Carney: I received my B.A. in English and Philosophy from Otterbein College (2005) and my M.A. in Literary History from Ohio University (2008). I am interested in 20th-century American literature and culture, particularly during the interwar period, 1918-1939.
Nicole Emmelhainz: I received my B.A. in Professional Writing from Capital University (2003), my M.A. in General English Studies from Ball State University (2006), and my M.A. in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Ohio University (2008). My academic interests include composition and rhetoric, writing pedagogy, creative writing, and science fiction/ fantasy, especially from the pulp era of American history.
Joanne Friedman: I hold a B.A. (Honours) in English from the University of Cape Town, a graduate Diploma in Publishing Studies from Watford College, U.K. and an M.A. in English from the University of Arizona. My academic interests include women’s autobiographical writing, travel narratives, post-colonial literature and theory, and Anglophone African literature.
Jennifer Giaconia: I hold a B.A. from Kent State (1993) and an M.S. in English Education from The University of Akron (2006), where I currently teach in the freshman composition program. I previously taught high school English. My academic interests include visual rhetoric, American Regionalist literature, and pedagogy in English as it relates to the high school to college transition.
Natalija Grgorinic & Ognjen Raden: We have a B.A. in Comparative Literature and Croatian Language & Literature from the University of Zagreb, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles. We do all work exclusively together. Recent publications: Mr. & Mrs. Hide (a novel), Urbana, IL: Spineless Books, 2009, and Utjeha juznih mora (a collection of stories), Pula: IO DHK, 2009. Most of our various interests relate to collaborative authorship and the 20th-century novel. Find more at: http://www.tashogi.com
Tasia Hane-Devore: I hold a B.A. in English (2003) and an M.A. in creative writing (2005) from the University of West Florida. My academic interests include classical and contemporary (auto)biography, medical humanities, twentieth- and twenty-first-century American poetry, experimental writing, and GLBT studies.
Jamie McDaniel: I hold a B.A. in English from Samford University (2001), and an M.A. in English from Case Western Reserve University (2004). My academic interests include 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century British literature, gender studies, writing in the disciplines, and adaptation theory and practice.
Irene Moody: I hold a B.A. in English and French literatures from Samford University (2001) and an M.A. in French literature from the University of Florida (2003), and am currently ABD at Case. My academic interests include the Victorian novel generally, and more specifically the Bronte sisters, the new woman novel, fashion theory, aesthetic and rational dress, and French feminist theory.
Michael Moss: I hold a B.A. in Classics from McGill University (1997) and an M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School (2000). My academic interests are in discourse and linguistic analysis, theories of rhetoric, and intercultural communication. I am also very interested in the effect of new media on those endeavors.
Christine Mueri: I hold a B.A. in English from Macalester College in St. Paul, MN (2000) and an M.A. in English from Ohio State University (2004). My academic interests include narrative, 20th-century literature, rhetoric, composition, and psychiatry/mental illness. I am currently working on my Ph.D. and writing a dissertation that examines how bipolar disorder shapes the telling of one's illness/life narrative.
Danielle Nielsen: I hold a B.A. in English from Nebraska Wesleyan University (2004), and an M.A. in English from Case Western Reserve University (2006). I have completed the WHiT concentration, and my academic interests include Victorian and 20th-century British literature, with a focus on literature of empire, travel, gender, and print culture.
Hannah Rankin: I hold a B.A. in English from Fort Lewis College (2005), and an M.A. in English from Case Western Reserve University (2009). My academic interests include 20th-century American literature and topics in ESL and disciplinary writing.
Anne Ryan: I hold a B.A. in English and Spanish from Grove City College (2001), and an M.A. in English from Case Western Reserve University (2004). My academic interests include Victorian fiction and the history of psychology.
Brandy Schillace: I hold a B.A. in English from Wittenberg University (2000), and an M.A. in English from Case Western Reserve University (2004). My academic interests include late 17th-century, 18th-century, and early 19th-century literature and pedagogy (my dissertation title is "The Alphabet of Sense": Rediscovering the Rhetoric of Women's Intellectual Liberty). Presently, I am the managing editor for Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, an international journal of cross-cultural health research.
Greg Summers: I hold a B.A. in English from The Ohio State University, an M.A. in English from John Carroll University, and have completed my doctoral coursework in WHiT at CWRU. My areas of interest include rhetoric, visual Rhetoric, and new media as well as medieval and early modern literature (Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, and Shakespeare). I also have a certificate in TEFL/TESL from Seattle University. I work as a full-time instructor of English at Malone University where I direct the campus writing center and teach freshman and sophomore general education writing and literature courses as well as upper-level advanced writing and literature courses on Shakespeare, Milton, and the renaissance period in general.