After years of simultaneously working as a high school English teacher and taking classes, Kendall Hall is in her final year of graduate studies. She maintains an interest in modernism, especially the works of Henry James and Zora Neale Hurston, which she has shared with her students in AP Literature & Composition and other courses. She plans to graduate by the spring of 2021 and hopes to pursue a career in post-secondary education.

Veronica Paniccia is an MA Candidate and Graduate Assistant at the University of Central Florida (UCF). Her research interests include identity and exploring unconventional literary formats. In her spare time she enjoys painting. Her art is showcased on the home page of this website. The image was painted with watercolor, lined with ink, and edited in photoshop. The art style fuses realism and surrealism.

Taylor Pryor, College of Arts and Humanities, is majoring in English literature. She is a United States Air Force veteran, an Order of Pegasus recipient, a member of the Burnett Honors College, the College of Arts and Humanities Founders’ Day ward recipient, the Marlin Family Burnett Honors College First Generation Scholarship recipient, and the College of Arts and Humanities Honors Undergraduate Thesis Scholarship recipient. She is extremely interested in the study of dystopic societies, and her UCF research engages with corrosive power structures and their affects, gendered work and weariness in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Oryx and Crake. Pryor is deeply committed to promoting the significance of the humanities. She is a member of the Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honors Society, the Student Veterans Association, and the Tau Sigma National Honor Society. She is currently President of the Sigma Tau Delta English Honors Society, and has collaborated with the Alafaya Library Branch, the University Behavioral Center, and the Curriculum Materials Center to encourage communal literacy and education. Upon graduation, she plans to pursue a doctorate in English literature and language at Cornell University. Her long-term goal is to become a professor of English literature, and she aims to conduct research that transcends the realm of academia and tackles societal issues such as marginalization, oppression, and injustice.