Brittany Henry
Instructor and Teaching Fellow
Brittany Henry received her PhD in English from Rice in May 2018. She specializes in contemporary multiethnic American literature and speculative fiction. Her research looks at how the histories of colonialism and global white supremacy shape and inform the political vision of utopian and dystopian texts. She has articles on migrant testimonios and survivalist post-apocalyptic literature in American Studies and forthcoming in Western American Literature. Her current FWIS courses examine depictions of displacement and global migration in contemporary literature and the imaginative worlds of feminist speculative fiction.
Contact
| Office | Fondren 414 |
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| Mail Stop | MS-625 |
| bah4@rice.edu | |
| Phone | 713.348.2414 |
Jade Hagan
Instructor and Teaching Fellow
Jade Hagan received her PhD in English in May 2019 from Rice University, where she has taught courses on first-year writing, the environmental humanities, the health humanities, and technology and consciousness. Her research combines the theoretical insights of ecocriticism, Continental philosophy, and media studies with comparative work on American and British popular cultures from the eighteenth century to present. She has articles forthcoming in Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology, Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly, and a book chapter out in the edited collection, Romantic Weltliteratur of the Western Hemisphere. Jade has seven years of combined editorial experience from working at two academic journals, which informs how she teaches her college writing courses. In her spare time, she enjoys creative writing, gardening, hiking, and walking her dog, Petal.
Contact
| Office | Fondren 414 |
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| Mail Stop | MS-625 |
| jlh20@rice.edu | |
| Phone | 713.348.2414 |
Mark Celeste
Instructor and Teaching Fellow
Mark Celeste received his PhD in English from Rice in May 2019. He specializes in British literature of the long nineteenth century, and his research focuses on maritime fiction, broadly conceived. His interest in oceanic circulations and exchanges shapes his current FWIS courses, both of which take up questions of connectivity and survival in a globalized world. He has also taught courses on environmental studies, feminist theory, and postcolonialism. Mark's work has appeared in Victorian Review, The Gaskell Journal, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. In teaching writing, he is particularly interested in style -- the subjective choices of form, tone, and rhythm that fundamentally affect the authority, poise, and efficacy of a written work.
Contact
| Office | Herring 129 |
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| Mail Stop | MS-630 |
| mc64@rice.edu | |
| Phone | 713.348.3994 |