Graduate Student Directory
- Title
- PhD Student & Teaching Assistant
- Division Graduate Studies Division
- Department
- Literature Department
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, N/A
- Office Hours By appointment only
- Mail Stop Literature Department
Research Interests
Literary Criticism
Virginia Woolf
The Novel
Modernism
William Shakespeare
Biography
Intellectual History
Nostalgia
British Literature, c. 1850-1950
Biography, Education and Training
Skyler Rose Marshall is a reader, writer, educator, book collector, and student of literature from Benicia, California. She received her Bachelor of Arts from UC Berkeley, with honors, focusing on nostalgia in British children’s literature and Virginia Woolf’s novel To the Lighthouse. Her past work has included yoga teaching, administration and logistics at an Alaskan salmon cannery, and various editing and tutoring roles. She is currently the Executive Assistant for writer, speaker, and teacher Dr. Laurel Braitman, and the company manager for Santa Cruz Shakespeare. Her research now focuses on Virgnia Woolf's evolving conception of reading: why to do it, how it could be done well, and why it matters for the development of a common literary culture.
Honors, Awards and Grants
- 2022-2023 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
- 2023-2024 Anne & Jim Bay Fellowship
- 2024 THI Public Humanities Fellowship, Santa Cruz Shakespeare
