- Lilly Postdoctoral Fellows
2011-2013 Lilly Fellows 
Katherine Calloway received her BA in University Scholars and MA in English from Baylor University, and her PhD in English from the University of British Columbia in 2010. She is interested in the interaction between poetry and theology in seventeenth-century England, particularly in the poetry of John Milton. Her dissertation, "God's Scientists: the Renovation of Natural Theology in England, 1653-1692," demonstrates how scientists and philosophers dealt with the challenges to Christian faith posed by the Scientific Revolution. 
Robert Elder received his BA summa cum laude in history and English from Clemson University, where he also received his MA. He earned his PhD in history from Emory University in 2011. His doctoral dissertation, "Southern Saints and Sacred Honor: Evangelicalism, Honor, Community, and the Self in South Carolina and Georgia, 1784-1860," examines the influence of honor culture on the rise of evangelical religion in the American South in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. 2012-2014 Lilly Fellows 
George David Clark holds a BA in English from Union University, an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Virginia, and a PhD in English/Creative Writing from Texas Tech University. His dissertation, Reveille, centers on a series of morning songs addressed to a sleeper on the cusp of waking. His scholarly interests include modernist poetry, the intersection of poetry and theology, and contemporary poetry in translation. 
Anna Stewart graduated summa cum laude from the honors college at the University of South Carolina, with a BA in English and Spanish. She received her Ph.D. in English in 2012 from the University of Texas at Austin, where she also earned her MA. Her dissertation, “Beyond Obsolescence: The Reconstruction of Abolitionist Texts,” analyzes abolitionist writings. Stewart’s teaching and research interests focus on the relationship between literature, contemporary political debates, and communities of readers as well as on how notions of race, gender, and citizenship developed in a culture of reform.
Learn more about the Lilly Fellows Program: Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and the Arts