Department of EnglishEarly British Literature

Recent Alumni in Early British Literature

Students in our PhD program who study Early British Literature have gone on to earn tenure-track teaching and research positions; other teaching positions at high schools, colleges, and universities; other academic positions like academic advising. MA students have been admitted into highly prestigious PhD programs. A few of our notable alumni include:

Dr. Kristina Lewis (PhD, 2024) is currently a teacher and English Department Chair at Van Houston Academy in Houston, TX. Dr. Lewis's dissertation, Making "Human": Encounters, Interpretations, and Negotiations of Humanity in Early and Middle English Literature, explored how the narratives in Early and Middle English literature engaged in human-making activities, creating boundaries between the human and nonhuman (deemed monstrous, deviant, or otherwise dehumanized).

Dr. Morgan Connor (PhD, 2023) is currently an academic advisor at Coggin College of Business, University of North Florida. While at Texas Tech, Dr. Connor studied representations of gender, heroism, and religion in Milton's Paradise Lost, which she explores in her dissertation, Milton and the Middle Ages: The Virgin and the Hero in Paradise Lost.

Dr. Jessie Rogers (PhD, 2023) is currently a Lecturer at Marymount University. In her dissertation, Identity and Contemporary Media: Neomedieval and Neo-Renaissance Conceptions of Morality in Popular Culture, Dr. Rogers studied contemporary adaptations of medieval and Renaissance for how texts adapted to contemporary ethics around inclusion and diversity.

Dr. Ahmed Nasser Muhammad (PhD, 2023) is currently a Lecturer at the State University of New York at Albany. Dr. Muhammad's dissertation, From Renaissance to Revolution: Early Modern English Literature in Arabic, studied Arabic translations of the works of Thomas More, William Shakespeare, John Milton, and John Donne and how these adaptations and translations have been mobilized for Arabic poetics and revolutionary goals. 

Dr. Sarah Sprouse (PhD, 2019) is currently an Assistant Professor of English at West Texas A&M University. Her dissertation was titled Fantasies of Wales: Some Paleographic Evidence for the Mediating Role of Gerald of Wales.

Daniel Kephart (MA, 2021) is pursuing his PhD in English at the University of Rochester. His MA thesis was titled Naked and Afraid: The Symbolic Function of Textiles in Middle English Romance.

Clinton Morrison (MA, 2017) earned his PhD from The Ohio State University in 2023 and is currently a Senior Course Coordinator and Lecturer for OnRamps at the University of Texas at Austin and a Lecturer for Texas State University. His MA thesis was titled Dialogues on Death and Grace in MS Cotton Nero a.x.