Graduate Students

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Beljanski, Tanja

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
MA, BA, University of Cologne
MA, University of Rochester

Interests: Contemporary American literature, film, and television, media studies, intertextuality and intermediality, affect, emotions, and the visceral, temporalities of the contemporary, gender, sexuality and women’s studies

Boudreaux, Abbie

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
BA, Centenary College of Louisiana

Interests: Disability studies, Queer Studies, Gender & Sexuality, Utopian & Dystopian Literature, 20th Century American Literature

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Chitrakar, Yash

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
BA, Washburn University

Interests: Metamodernism, Modern and Postmodern literature and film, Aesthetics and ethics, Literary theory

Choudhury, Debarati

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
MA, University of York
BA, University of Calcutta

Interests: Post-1945 literature, Novelty, Narrative theory, Comics, Life-Writing, Memory Studies, Philosophy and literature, Philosophy of Action, and Aesthetics.

Corbeaux, Claire

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
BA, SUNY College at Geneseo

Interests: Twentieth-century and contemporary American Literature; speculative fiction; identity; community; science and literature

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Davis, Diana

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
BA, University of Rochester
Postgraduate Certificate of Education, University of Oxford

Interests: Medieval concept of the human Soul in relationship to the Divine, and the implications this then has on the Western worldview and understanding of Self from the Renaissance onward.

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DuBois, Victoria

Selznick Program

Prior Degrees
BA, Providence College 

Interests: Early cinema, silent cinema, American pre-code cinema, film conservation, archival special collections, archival accessibility, film-related objects and ephemera, museology, museum studies 

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Espinosa, Juan

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
MA, BA, Florida International University

Interests: English literature of the late medieval period, emphasis on poetry and religious prose; medieval mysticism; early modern English poetry and drama; global Shakespeare; gender and sexuality studies; exile studies; new historicism; psychoanalysis

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Francisco, Erin

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
MA, University of Rochester
MFA, California College of the Arts
BA, Elmira College

Interests: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature, Humor Studies, Environmental Humanities, Critical Race Theory, Public Humanities.

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Garcia, Dani

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
BA, MA, California State University, Fullerton
MA, Arizona State University

Interests: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American literature, non-canonical literature, Chicana/o literature, language and identity, critical and cultural theory, and digital humanities

Gaydo, Kyle

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
MA, BA, Seton Hall University

Interests: medieval literature, global Middle Ages, medievalism, ecocriticism, gender, queer theory, video games, and digital humanities

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Gilbert, Natina

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
Oberlin College, BA

Interests: Twentieth-century American, Poetry and Poetics, law and literature

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Gradt, Amelia

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
MA, Portland State University
BA, University of Portland

Interests: English Renaissance; Long Nineteenth-Century British and American literature; British and American Gothic studies; Philosophy of Literature; Philosophy of Aesthetics; Gender Studies

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Huskin, Kyle

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
BA, Georgetown College

Interests: medieval literature, gender and authority, multispectral imaging, codicology, manuscript cultures, textual sciences

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Jarzyna, Luke

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
BA, Grinnell College

Interests: contemporary literature and film, poetics, black studies, music, queer studies, critical theory, ordinary language philosophy

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Kephart, Daniel

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
MA, Texas Tech University
BA, Waynesburg University

Interests: Medieval literature; economics in storytelling; medieval social justifications of violence; race-making in the Middle Ages; aesthetics; the works of J.R.R. Tolkien

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Kim, James Hojung

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
MA, BA, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea

Interests: Romanticism, Modernism, Media Studies, Archive and Memory, Science and Literature, Literary Theory

Kingsley, Joey

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
MFA, Virginia Commonwealth University
BA, College of the Holy Cross

Interests: British Romantic and Victorian Literature; Victorian Studies; Poetry and Poetics

Kusmierek, Liam

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
BA, University of Rochester

Interests: Spatiotemporal, sociohistorical, semiotic, and translational considerations including notions of identity the text ‘contains’ grounded specifically in American/British/Russian literature from 1910 to 1970

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Lachenmaier, Kathrin

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
MA, University of Rochester
BA, MA, University of Cologne

Interests: American Literature, African American Literature, Modernism, Ecocriticism, Agriculture in literature

Latella, Luke

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
BA, Hobart College

Interests: British and Irish Modernism; American Postmodernism; Transatlantic Studies; Literature and national identity

Li, Huimin

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
MA, University of Rochester
MA, Peking University
BA, University of China, Renmin

Interests: women’s literature; female identity and subjectivity, the novel, contemporary pop culture

Lowman, Emily

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
BA, College of William and Mary

Interests: Medieval literature, Celtic literature, Arthurian tradition, Old English literature, folklore; temporal theory, spatial theory; critical race theory

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McKay, Elizabeth

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
MA, University of Iowa
BA, Gordon College

Interests: Long 18th century British, religion and literature, history of education, material culture

Morrice, Santiago

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
MA, Mills College
BA, University of California-Merced

Interests: Contemporary poetry and poetics; translation

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Ormsbee, Michael

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
BA, Williams College

Interests: 19th century British literature, literary theory and its history, recognition and form in the novel

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Pandey, Apoorv

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
MPhil, Jadavpur University
MA, University of Hyderabad
BA, University of Mumbai

Interests: Global Modernisms and Realisms, contemporary Indian Queer Fiction, Cosmopolitanism, World Literature

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Shaikh, Abdullah

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
MA, University of Rochester
BA, Tunghai University, Taiwan

Interests: Twentieth-century World Literature, Ethics, Self-help

Soules, Katherine

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
MA, University of Rochester
MA, Marshall University
BA, Cedarville University

Interests: 20th & 21stc. American literature; queer science fiction; queer theory; black studies; literary theory and history of theory; intellectual history; philosophy; aesthetics; visual art and history

Steiner, Samantha

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
MFA, Sarah Lawrence College
BA, Brown University

Interests: Text and image, comics, memoir, hybrid forms

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Tapia, Gabby

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
BA, University of California, Irvine

Interests: Ecocriticism, queer theory, Spinozist theories, absurdist literature, 19th-century British literature

Townsend, Dominique

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
BA, Pacific Union College

Interests: Twentieth-century British and Anglophone literature, Modernism, Africana/black studies, Liminality, Critical Race Theory, Gender and Sexuality

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Warrick-Schkolnik, Caroline

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
MA, University of Rochester
BA, Lake Forest College

Interests: 20th century American literature, social justice literature, Black, queer, and feminist theory

Williams, Micah

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
BA, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Interests: African-American literature and media; 20th and contemporary American literature; carceral studies; gender and sexuality studies; social and magical realism

Woehl, Marcie

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
BA, University of North Dakota

Interests: New media, public humanities, digital humanities, political rhetoric of the late 60s to mid-70s, and postmodernism.

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Xing, Xihao

Selznick Program

Prior Degrees
BS, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Interests: Film studies and preservation

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Xu, Stephanie Yujing

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
MSc., The University of Edinburgh
BA, Mount Holyoke College

Interests: Comparative Modernisms and Modernities, Global Feminisms, 20th Century British and Anglophone Literature, Translation Studies

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Zhang, Kexin

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
MA, Nanjing University
BA, Hangzhou Normal University

Interests: Old English Literature, Middle English Literature, Old Norse-Icelandic Literature, Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, Digital Humanities, Manuscript and Material Culture, Monsters and Witchcraft in Medieval Literature