Amy Huseby, Executive Editor of SEL 1500-1900
Amy Kahrmann Huseby is Executive Editor of SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 and a member of the English Department faculty at Rice University. Her scholarship has appeared in Victorian Poetry, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, Victorian Studies, Victorian Periodicals Review, Victorians, Women’s Writing, Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture, South Atlantic Review, and several edited collections.
Kelly McKisson, Managing Editor of SEL 1500-1900
Kelly McKisson is Managing Editor of SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900. She holds an M.A. from Portland State University and a PhD from Rice University. She currently lives in Houston, Texas, where she reads, thinks, and writes about feminist ecological theory.
V. A. Lundquist, Senior Hobby Editorial Assistant at SEL 1500-1900
V. A. Lundquist is a fourth year PhD student in the English department at Rice University. Her research concerns comparative Asian totalitarianisms and the production of space via global Anglophone novels, regarding problematics of “Oriental Despotism” and the Asiatic mode of production as spatial formations of social and political life. V also writes about meme genres and other social media forms that mediate contemporary society and formal subsumption. Her past work has primarily been about North Korean defectors and their memoirs, the literary production of North Korean unconverted long-term prisoners, and American representations of Asian totalitarianism.
Megan Oakes, Senior Hobby Editorial Assistant at SEL 1500-1900
Megan Oakes is a sixth year PhD student in the English Department at Rice University. She is currently procrastinating her dissertation on narratives of ecological destruction and fantasy literature, but remains as always invested in all things magicable, witchly, and ghostful.
Sarah DeMond, Hobby Editorial Assistant at SEL 1500-1900
Zia Forrai, Hobby Editorial Assistant at SEL 1500-1900
Zia is a researcher, artist, and educator from Brixton, UK, whose PhD work explores issues related to the social and political impact of scientific ideas and emergent technologies. At the moment, they are primarily focused on 1) tensions between how we conceptualize human health and environmental health, 2) potential ecological limitations to ambitions of colonizing other planets, and 3) how historic taxonomic ideas of life and humans still shape our relationship with the rest of nature.
Christopher Kessinger, Hobby Editorial Assistant at SEL 1500-1900
A Houston native, Christopher is a second-year English PhD student at Rice and a Hobby Editorial Assistant at SEL. His research interests include contemporary literature and new media.
Heather King, Hobby Editorial Assistant at SEL 1500-1900
Heather King is a PhD student in the English Department at Rice University. Her research focuses on experimental fiction and autofictionality, Marxism and affect theory, and human-animal relations within contemporary Anglophone literature and film.
Maddie Lacy, Hobby Editorial Assistant at SEL 1500-1900
Maddie is a PhD student in the English Department at Rice University. She focuses on post-45 U.S. literature and culture with a particular emphasis on the Gothic.
Ryan Laferrière, Hobby Editorial Assistant at SEL 1500-1900
Born and raised in Montréal, Ryan Laferrière is a graduate student in English at Rice University. He has been a Hobby Editorial Assistant at SEL since 2025. His research interests include Renaissance and Reformation literature, with a particular focus on sports and leisure.
Kate Louthain, Hobby Editorial Assistant at SEL 1500-1900
Kate is a third year PhD student in the English Department at Rice University. She studies nineteenth-century US-American literature, focusing on the figure of the American Indian and material culture.
Sarah Moon, Hobby Editorial Assistant at SEL 1500-1900
Sarah is a PhD student in the Department of English at Rice University. She received her B.A. from UC San Diego as well as her Single-Subject Teaching Credential and M.A. from CSU Long Beach. Her research is in early modern literature with a focus in ecocriticism and the environmental humanities, science and medicine, natural philosophy, and gender and sexuality.
Vicki Richards, Hobby Editorial Assistant at SEL 1500-1900
Victoria Richards is a poet, writer, and second year PhD student in the English Department at Rice University.
Brenda Tan, Hobby Editorial Assistant at SEL 1500-1900
Brenda Tan is a PhD student in the English Department at Rice University. She studies third-world Marxisms, peripheral modernism, postcolonial theory, third-world literatures, and critical race theory.
DaQuon Wilson, Hobby Editorial Assistant at SEL 1500-1900
DaQuon Wilson is a PhD student interested in African American and Black Diasporic Literature, Black Childhood Studies, and Archive Theory. Their current research examines Black children’s literature and its intersections with Black social justice and cultural movements.
Landry Wood, SEL Undergraduate Editorial Assistant
Landry is an undergraduate student at Rice University, studying English and classical languages. Landry’s interests are in nineteenth- and twentieth-century poetry, modernism, material and book studies, and versification.