Rebecca Boggs is a Ph.D. candidate in English at Yale University. She studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, receiving an MPhil with distinction in English Literature from 1880 to the Present and a Diploma with distinction in Hebrew and Jewish Studies, as well as singing in the Oxford University Early Music Society Choir. As an undergrad she sang with the Radcliffe Choral Society for four years at Harvard, where she graduated summa cum laude in English and American Literature and Language. She is currently working on her doctoral dissertation, "The Aesthetics of Intensity in Hopkins, Crane, and H.D."