People
- Dana Omirova
- Doctoral Candidate
- At Rutgers Since: 2020
- Omirova_CV_Spring25.pdf
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Primary Areas of Specialization: Shakespeare, Early Modern Justice, Reception Studies
- Field of Interest: Critical Race Studies, Drama & Performance Studies, Early Modern, Gender & Sexuality, Medieval
- About:
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.
- Education: M.A. English, Virginia Tech B.A. Journalism, American University in Bulgaria
- Shaurya Oberoi
- Graduate Student
- At Rutgers Since: 2020
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Primary Areas of Specialization: Natural Philosophy, Early Modern Science and Mathematics, Materialisms
- Field of Interest: Early Modern, Environmental Humanities, Poetry & Poetics, Seventeenth Century, Theory
- About:
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
- PhD Candidate
- At Rutgers Since: 2019
- Henry_Carges_CV_2026.pdf
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Field of Interest: Early Modern, Gender & Sexuality, Poetry & Poetics
- About:
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).
- Undergraduate Courses Taught:
Expository Writing/College Writing (355:101)
Principles of Literary Study (359:201)
Grief and Gender in Early Modern Literature (358:320)
Dreams, Knights, and the Plowman: Allegory and Imagination in Medieval Literature (358:309)
- Awards:
Marius Bewley Prize for graduate essay written in coursework, Rutgers Department of English (2020)
Catherine Moynahan Prize for an essay of merit on a literary topic, Rutgers Department of English (2025)
Honorable Mention for Spencer L. Eddy Prize for a literary essay accepted for publication, Rutgers Department of English (2025)
Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University (2025-2026)
- Membership Affiliations:
Renaissance Society of America
- Other Dept University Postions:
Rutgers AAUP-AFT, Graduate Student Department Representative, 2021-2023
- Education: BA in English - Whitman College, 2017. MA in English - Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2022.
- Samuel Carpenter
- Graduate Student
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Primary Areas of Specialization: Colonial and Early American Literature; Nineteenth Century American Literature; Intellectual History; Native American and Indigenous Studies; History of Anthropology
- Field of Interest: Early American, Early Modern, Hemispheric, Nineteenth-Century American
- Other Publications:
"Indigenous Literacies in The Maine Woods," J19: The Journal Of Nineteenth-Century Americanists (forthcoming).
- Additional Details:
- Education: M.F.A Creative Writing (Fiction), Columbia University; B.A English, UC Berkeley
- E. Alice Grissom
- Graduate Student
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Primary Areas of Specialization: Old English; Middle English; manuscript studies; medievalism; digital humanities; senses and the body
- Field of Interest: Book and Media History, Gender & Sexuality, Medieval
- Education: M.A. in Medieval Studies, Fordham University (2023) B.A. in History, University of Alabama at Birmingham (2020) B.A. in English, University of Alabama at Birmingham (2020)