PhD in English

 

Janel Cayer is Ph.D.student in the English Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln specializing in nineteenth-century American literature and culture, with an emphasis on the antebellum period. Janel's doctoral research approaches literatures of the U.S. War with Mexico from an interdisciplinary perspective, examining the ways in which this war shaped the nineteenth-century American cultural and literary imagination.
Current projects: Walt Whitman Archive and Civil War Washington