Three students are all but done: 
Andrew Hageman, machinic tropes in literature and culture (in particular cyberpunk);
Sarah Juliet Lauro, the figure of the zombie in literature and culture;
Rachel Swinkin, sentimentality and animals in eighteenth-century literature and culture. 
Great to see these wrapping up. They will join Clara Van Zanten, who has a very fine dissertation on figures of weather in John Ashbery. 
Others are just starting out--perhaps I'll mention them in a future post.





