Faculty Profiles

Henry Carges is from San Francisco, California. He earned a BA from Whitman College in 2017, and he is currently a PhD candidate writing about gendered representations of grief and failures of collective understanding in early modern English literature. His dissertation studies work by highly canonical authors (Edmund Spenser, Shakespeare, Andrew Marvell) and more marginalized authors (Rachel Speght, Mary Wroth, Lucy Hutchinson, Hester Pulter) to show how different writers and genres approached the representational problems of gendered grief that arose after the English Reformation and lasted through the English Civil War and Restoration. He has also written about the intersections of pain, genre, and imaginative representation more broadly in the article "The Erotic Pleasure of Genre's Restraints in Andrew Marvell's Upon Appleton House" (Studies in Philology, 123.1, Winter 2026).