Entered Fall 2013

Lucas'  interests include anthropology, geography, religious studies, gender and sexuality, hemispheric studies, and Latinx studies. He is the author of the poetry collection Wet Land and has published poems and essays in boundary2, Poetry Foundation, and PEN Poetry.

A. Véronique Charles completed her doctorate in Comparative Literature and Literary Studies with a certificate in Africana Studies. Her dissertation entitled Writing Atlantic–African Slavery The Middle Passage in Continental Terms engages in a comparative study of literary figurations and institutional records of Atlantic slavery in Africa.