People

Dana Omirova specializes in late medieval and early modern British literature and drama. Her dissertation, "This country is a prison”: Incarceration on the English Stage, examines 16-17th century drama as a form of prison literature. Her work has been published in Persuasions and Arthuriana.

Shaurya Oberoi is from Delhi, India. He holds a Bachelors of Science in Statistics from the University of Delhi and a Masters of Arts in English Literature from Ashoka University. Now a Graduate Student at Rutgers, Shaurya is interested in the intersections of scientific inquiry and literary form in 16th and 17th Europe. 

Henry Carges is from San Francisco, California. He earned a BA from Whitman College in 2017, and he is currently a PhD candidate writing about gendered representations of grief and failures of collective understanding in early modern English literature. His dissertation studies work by highly canonical authors (Edmund Spenser, Shakespeare, Andrew Marvell) and more marginalized authors (Rachel Speght, Mary Wroth, Lucy Hutchinson, Hester Pulter) to show how different writers and genres approached the representational problems of gendered grief that arose after the English Reformation and lasted through the English Civil War and Restoration. He has also written about the intersections of pain, genre, and imaginative representation more broadly in the article "The Erotic Pleasure of Genre's Restraints in Andrew Marvell's Upon Appleton House" (Studies in Philology, 123.1, Winter 2026).