• Degree: Began PhD program in Fall 2021
• Concentration: 19th Century American Literature
• Advisor: Chris Forster

Debra Kue is a Ph.D. student in English specializing in 19th Century American Literature, with a focus on Emily Dickinson and Transcendentalism. Her research and teaching interests seeks to bridge a conversation between !9th Century American Literature, Transcendentalism and its philosophies about identity with the 21st Century first-generation Hmong-American experience, and particularly focuses on the medium of writing as an extension of establishing existence. Debra's interests also includes the intersectionality of subjectivity, transnationalism, gender, sexuality, and multiculturalism.

• B.A. English, Grand Valley State University
• M.A. English, Grand Valley State University