Shannon Gayk has recently been promoted to Full Professor of English at Indiana University Bloomington. Her second monograph, Apocalyptic Ecologies: From Creation to Doom in Middle English Literature, will be relesed this December. Congrats, Shannon!
When describing our PhD program, Shannon writes:
Notre Dame was a great place to be a scholar of medieval literature. I had fantastic mentors and advisors, and the interdisciplinary community and scholarly resources of the Medieval Institute was unparalleled. These gave me a firm grounding in the field.
Shannon's experience illustrates the importance of collaboration beyond the English Department. In addition to the Medieval Institute that she mentions, PhD students in English work with faculty and other graduate students in the Institute for Latino Studies, Gender Studies, the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, the Department of American Studies, the Insitute for Race and Resilience, and Film, Theatre, and Television—just to name a few. The program offer graduate minors in Gender Studies, Peace Studies, Irish Studies, Screen Cultures, and the History and Philosophy of Science.