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Colton Greganti
| Title: | PhD Student Graduate Instructional Assistant |
| Department: | English Language and Literature College of Arts and Sciences |
| Email: | greganti@email.sc.edu |
Pronouns:
he/him
Education:
BA English: Language and Literature University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
BA Philosophy University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Field of Interest:
20th Century American Literature
Literature of the American South
Critical Theory
Psychoanalytic Theory
American Realism and Modernism
Gothic and Grotesque
Biography:
Originally from Memphis, Tennessee, Colton Greganti received a Bachelor of Arts in English: Language and Literature and Philosophy from
the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in 2018. After receiving his undergraduate
degrees, he worked as an educator and spent a year teaching English as a second language
in South Korea. Currently, Colton is pursuing a Ph.D. in English at the University
of South Carolina, with research interests in 20th-century American literature, Southern
literature, and literary theory. His current research projects include an ecocritical
study of Mat Bell’s Appleseed, which he will present at the 2023 Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, and
a psychoanalytic exploration of aesthetic estrangement, which he hopes to present
at the upcoming Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts conference.