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Luke Sayers, PhD | 2023
Dissertation: The Soviet Pilgrimage: American Writers in Russia, 1921-1947
LaJoie Lex, PhD | 2023
Dissertation: “Verse Hath a Middle Nature”: Influence and Afterlife in Seventeenth-Century English Lyric
LaJoie is a lecturer in English and Professional Writing at Baylor University. She is grateful for the opportunity to continue working for her beloved institution while raising a family. She is currently revising chapters of her dissertation on the works of Hester Pulter and Margaret Cavendish for publication as articles.
Sarah Tharp, PhD | 2023
Dissertation: Laws of the Land: Ecomedievalism and the Politics of Property in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Literature
Sarah_Tharp@alumni.baylor.edu
Abby Wills Otis, MA | 2023
After graduation, Abby began tutoring online on Wyzant.com.
awills815@gmail.com
Christina Lambert, PhD | 2023
Dissertation: Tea, Gammon, and Coke: The Eucharistic Imaginary of T.S. Eliot and Denise Levertov
Christina Lambert is an Assistant Professor of English at Hillsdale College, where she teaches American literature. She holds an MA and Ph.D. from Baylor University, and her research examines the intersection of food studies and eucharistic theology in the poetry and drama of T. S. Eliot and Denise Levertov. Her writing has been published by Christianity & Literature, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, and Modern Fiction Studies.
Ryan Sinni, PhD | 2023
Dissertation: “A road from earth to sky”: Christina Rossetti’s Theological Arrangements
Ryan Sinni is an Assistant Professor of English at LeTourneau University. His email is ryansinni@letu.edu.
Molly Lewis, PhD | 2022
Dissertation: Poets in the Pulpit: Clerical Critics on Tennyson and the Brownings
Becca Cassady, PhD | 2021
Dissertation: Facilitating the Transfer of Writing Knowledge among Writing Center Consultants
Christine (Pyle) Cloud, PhD | 2021
Dissertation: “Take me by the hand”: Affliction and Liturgical Participation in George Herbert’s The Temple
Sørina Higgins, PhD | 2021
Dissertation: From Thaumatrugy to Dramaturgy: Staging Occult Modernism
Jonathan Kanary, PhD | 2021
Dissertation: Authorized Readers: Scriptural Mediation as Spiritual Formation in Walter Hilton and Nicholas Love
Jonathan Kanary serves as an assisting priest at Christ Church Anglican in Waco, where he is actively involved in leadership for the Brazos Fellows program, a year-long post-collegiate fellowship of theological formation and vocational discernment. He also continues to teach courses in literature and great texts at Baylor University. His articles have appeared or are forthcoming in scholarly journals including English Literary Renaissance, the Irish Theological Quarterly, Milton Quarterly, and Christianity & Literature.
Clayton McReynolds, PhD | 2021
Dissertation: Feeling Real in Fiction: A Study of the Phenomenological Mimesis of Givenness in the Novel
Luke Mitchell, PhD | 2021
Dissertation: Witness to Woundedness in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney, Natasha Trethewey, and Derek Walcott
Holly Spofford, PhD | 2021
Dissertation: Apocalyptic Care: The Renewal of Creation in Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, and Gerard Manley Hopkins
“What stands out to me the most about my time at Baylor was its wonderful community of graduate students–they provided invaluable company, commiseration, and camaraderie. I’d suggest going to social events whenever you can, taking advantage of Baylor’s mental health resources, and exploring Waco (it has great parks, trails, restaurants, social sports leagues)–and remembering that grad school is part of your life, not something to just ‘get through’: what can you do to encourage happiness and flourishing in yourself and others as you move through the process?”
Meagan Anthony, PhD | 2020
Dissertation Topic: Female community representation in mid-Victorian novels
Aaron Cassidy, PhD | 2020
Dissertation: Milton’s Cryptic Figures
Aaron Cassidy teaches British and European Literature from medieval to eras (10th and 12 grade) at The Cambridge School of Dallas. He holds a Ph.D. in English from Baylor University. He has taught at Baylor University and Texas Woman’s University. His scholarly interests include Renaissance poetry, specifically John Milton, and religion and literature. He has written an article on Paradise Lost which will appear in the journal Milton Studies in 2022. He has published a book chapter on C.S. Lewis and has also presented conference papers on Milton, Spenser, Shakespeare, Malory, Equiano, Tolkien, and Thomas More. Aaron enjoys hiking and photography in serene and adventurous places.