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Students

V. JOSHUA ADAMS
V. Joshua Adams is a doctoral candidate in the department of Comparative Literature, where he is completing a dissertation on impersonality in modern poetry. He edited Chicago Review from 2008–2010. His work as a translator has appeared recently in Atlanta Review and The FSG Book of 20th Century Italian Poetry.

STEPHANIE ANDERSON
Stephanie Anderson, a PhD student in English, currently works on post-war poetry and the poetics of the date and calendar. She is the author In the Key of Those Who Can No Longer Organize Their Environments (Horse Less Press, Summer 2013) and several chapbooks. She edits Projective Industries and is poetry editor of the Chicago Review.

JOEL CALAHAN
Joel Calahan is a PhD student in comparative literature and a translator of Italian poetry. His research focuses on translation theory and practice and twentieth-century poetry in English and Italian, especially the avant-garde movements of these literatures. He is also interested in Marxist criticism and linguistic approaches to literature. Some poets that inspire him to eager conversation include Emily Dickinson, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Louis Zukofsky, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Edoardo Sanguineti, Marcello Frixione, and Keston Sutherland.

KÉTLÈN CÉLESTIN
Kétlèn Célestin is a Ph.D. student in the department of comparative literature. Among her many interests, she studies mid-19th-20th century French and Francophone poetry and prose, and is a translator of Haïtian Kreyòl poetry. She devotes a considerable amount of time on grand ideas that enrich the human experience: Eros, Africanicity, Aestheticism, Cosmopolitanism, and Mysticism. Kétlèn is also the author of an unpublished collection of poems, Feminism Goddam. Her late grandmère's elegant life narrative and folk wisdom, riding a bicycle along the country roads of Les Cayes, owning a Black Arabian horse, and her puppy, Bliss, inspire her.

MICHAEL HANSEN
Michael Hansen is coeditor of Chicago Review. He is writing a dissertation on Victorian prosody. An article on the eighteenth-century sonnet revival was recently published in Literary Imagination and his poems have appeared in journals such as Boston Review, Volt, Denver Quarterly, and Verse. 

RACHEL KYNE
Rachel Kyne is a third-year PhD student in the English department. She works mainly on the poetics and visual cultures of Anglo-American and French modernism. She has a BFA in Visual Arts (Painting) from the Emily Carr University of Art & Design in Vancouver (2005) and an MA in English and Creative Writing from Concordia University, Montreal (2010). She is particularly interested in the use of interior spaces, visual icons, and technological apparatuses to mediate subjective encounters in poetry, prose, and drama.

ANTHONY MADRID
Anthony Madrid is a Ph.D. candidate in English Literature at the University of Chicago. His dissertation is on rhyme and meter. He is also the author of an unpublished book of poems, The Getting Rid of the That Which Cannot Be Done Without.

JETT MCALISTER
Jett McAlister's interests include modern and contemporary poetry generally; more specifically, the long, book-length, multi-volume, or lifelong poem; the development of national poetries in Anglophone countries; institutions of poetry in the United States; queer poetics. He has an MFA in poetry writing from the University of Virginia, and his poems have appeared in Crazyhorse, Texas Review, Sycamore Review, and elsewhere.

PATRICK MORRISSEY
Patrick Morrissey is a PhD student in the English Department. He studies mainly twentieth-century poetry but is also broadly interested in transnational modernism, the long history of poetry and poetics, and aesthetic philosophy. He is a member of the Chicago Review poetry staff and author of the chapbook Transparency (Cannibal Books, 2009). His poems and essays have appeared in New American Writing, Harp & Altar, Colorado Review, and other journals. 

ERIN NERSTAD
Erin Nerstad is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English. She is writing a dissertation on the intersection of religious faith and poetic form in nineteenth-century British poetry. She has an article on Robert Browning in the Winter 2012 issue of Victorian Poetry. 

DUSTIN SIMPSON
Dustin Simpson, a PhD student in Comparative Literature, is writing a dissertation on modern poetry and pleasure, with chapters on Charles Baudelaire, T.S. Eliot, and Hart Crane. Dustin is interested in all kinds of poetry (especially American, British and French), late romanticism, decadence, Aestheticism, modernism and the avant-garde, and aesthetics and philosophy of art. 

JOHANNA WINANT
Johanna Winant is working on a PhD in English.  She is interested in the fields of lyric poetry and poetics as well as 20th century literature.  She returns often to particular authors such as: Lowell, Bishop, Plath, Moore, Coleridge, Dickinson, Stevens, and Joyce.   She returns often to particular problems such as: the lyric speaker, figurative language, and aesthetic and epistemological questions about what a poem is, how it works, and what (if anything) we can learn from it.