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Baldo, Jonathan
- Professor of English, Department of Humanities, Eastman School of Music
- jbaldo@esm.rochester.edu | (585) 274-1610
- 606 Eastman Theater
Interests: Shakespeare; early modern cultural studies; literary theory
Beljanski, Tanja
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, BA, University of Cologne
- MA, University of Rochester
Bleich, David
- Professor
- david.bleich@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8568
- 409 Morey Hall
Interests: Literary and language theory; writing and language pedagogy; women's studies; science studies; Jewish studies; film and popular culture
Brengle, Abigail
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, University of Rochester
- BA, Michigan State University
Interests: Twentieth-century British and American literature, Modernism, poetry and poetics
Briant, Katherine
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- Fordham University, MA
- University of Rochester, BA
Interests: Manuscript studies, late medieval literature, the book as body, and digital humanities
Burges, Joel
- Associate Professor of English
- Director of Visual and Cultural Studies
- joel.burges@rochester.edu | (585) 275-2694
- 413 Morey Hall
Interests: Post-1945 cultural studies; media studies; critical theory; American and contemporary literature
Byng, Gyasi
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, Florida Atlantic University
- BA, Palm Beach Atlantic University
Interests: Slave and Neoslave Narratives; Artificial and Posthuman Life Forms in Science Fiction; Construction of Mixed Race Identity in Literary Texts; Critical Race Theory
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Castleberry, Kristi
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, MA, Sonoma State University
Interests: Medieval Literature; Cultural Studies and Gender Studies
Cho, Seung
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, University of Rochester
- BA, Soongsil University
Interests: Early Modern Literature; Shakespeare and Renaissance Poetry; Negative Capability and Theology; Tragedy and Philosophy
Conklin, Ashley
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, Boston College
- BA, University of Connecticut
Interests: Medieval literature; Violence in romance and hagiography; Monstrosity; Marginalized figures
Crakes, Andrew
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, Southern Connecticut State University
- BA, Boston University
Interests: American modernist poetry; Affect theory and psychoanalysis; Digital humanities; Poetry and Cinema
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Davies, Helen
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, BA, Loyola University Chicago
- MA, University of York, UK
Interests: Anglo-Saxon literature, Maps, Digital Humanities, and Multi-Spectral Imaging
Delcourt, Steffi
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, University of Rochester
- BA, Emory University
Interests: Medieval Literature, Middle English Romances, the Arthurian Tradition, Identity, Spatial Theory
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Eaves, Morris
- Professor of English and Richard L. Turner Professor of Humanities
- Director, A. W. Mellon Graduate Program in the Digital Humanities, the School of Arts & Sciences
- morris.eaves@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9025
- 301 Morey Hall
Interests: British Romanticism; Media history and theory; Editorial theory; William Blake Archive Project
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Fletcher, Brady
- Instructor
- Director of Forensics, Debate Union
- brady.fletcher@rochester.edu | (585) 275-3873
- 1.208a Dewey
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Grenert, Alison
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, University of Pittsburgh
- MA, University of Rochester
Interests: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature; Film and Media Studies; Genre Studies; Literature and Language Theory
Gross, Kenneth
- Alan F. Hilfiker Distinguished Professor of English
- kenneth.gross@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4098
- 404B Morey Hall
Interests: Shakespeare; lyric poetry; Renaissance literature; romance
Grotz, Jennifer
- Professor
- jennifer.grotz@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4092
- 406 Morey Hall
Interests: Poetry; creative writing; translation
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Hahn, Thomas
- Professor
- thomas.hahn@rochester.edu | (585) 275-5664
- 402A Morey Hall
Interests: Medieval literature and culture; popular culture
Harper, Alison
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, University of Chicago
- MA, University of York
- BA, St Hilda's College, Oxford University
Interests: Fifteenth-century popular literature; Medieval household miscellanies; Afterlife of texts, focus on fanfiction and other forms of textual adaptation
Heck, Julianne
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, Colby College
- MA, Simmons College
Interests: Early Twentieth-Century American Literature
Heyworth, Gregory
- Associate Professor of English and Textual Science; Director, Lazarus Project
- gheywort@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-2548
- 408 Morey Hall
Higley, Sarah L
- Professor
- sarah.higley@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9261
- 411 Morey Hall
Interests: Medieval vernacular languages and literature of Northern Europe; film and media studies; fiction
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Ingles, Jarrod
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, Asbury University
Interests: Romantic and Victorian Literature; Politics and Poetry; Aesthetics
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Jaime, Shannon
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, Whittier College
- MA, University of Rochester
Interests: British Romantic and Victorian Literature; Women Writers; Poetry and Poetics; Lyric and Genre Theory
Jones, Sarah
- Managing Editor, Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly
- sarah.jones@rochester.edu | (585) 275-3820
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Kegl, Rosemary
- Associate Professor
- Chair of the Department, English
- rosemary.kegl@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4092
- 423A Morey Hall
Interests: Shakespeare and English Renaissance drama; early modern literature and culture; literary theory; gender studies
Kingsley, Joey
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MFA, Virginia Commonwealth University
- BA, College of the Holy Cross
Interests: 19th-century British Poetry and Literature; Victorian Studies; Romantic Poetry; 19th-century Society and Culture; 18th-century British Poetry; 20th-century Irish Literature; Gender and Sexuality; Female Narrative Theory; 20th- and 21st-century Poetry and Poetics; 20th-century American Poetry
Knopf, Nicholas J
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, Nazareth College
- MA, Saint Bonaventure University
Interests: Mark Twain; Theory of the Novel; Eighteenth-Century English Novel; Medical and Scientific Prose; Travel
Kohlhase, Emily
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Interests: English Renaissance drama, focus on Shakespeare; Early Modern and Contemporary theatrical practices; Adaptation
Kraines, Daniel
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, NY University
- MFA, Boston University
- BA, Skidmore College
Interests: 20th Century and Contemporary Literature; Modernism, Poetry and Poetics
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Lamperez, Joseph
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, MA, Loyola University of Chicago
Interests: The Hermetic Tradition; Fin de Siecle Literature and Art; Magical Realism; Surrealism; Obscurity; the Politics and Poetics of Space; Romanticism; the Baroque; Ecocriticism; Postcolonial Theology
Lang, Amanda
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, St. John Fisher College
- MA, University of Rochester
Interests: Early Modern Literature; Shakespeare and English Renaissance Drama; Gender Studies
Lloyd, Hilarie
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, Duke University
- JD, Cornell Law School
Interests: Feminist Theory and Jurisprudence; Progressive Literary Movements; Politics and Language; Critical Race Theory; Women Writers; Anglo-Irish Literature
London, Bette
- Professor
- bette.london@rochester.edu | (585) 275-3510
- 304 Morey Hall
Interests: Twentieth-century British literature; Victorian literature and culture; feminist theory; women's writing; authorship studies
Longenbach, James
- Joseph Henry Gilmore Professor of English
- james.longenbach@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4587
- 401A Morey Hall
Interests: Modernism; poetry; creative writing
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
Loy, Eric
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, Creighton University
- BA, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Interests: Documentary Editing; Editorial Theory; Digital Humanities; Twentieth-Century American Literature; Narrative Theory
Lupack, Alan
- Emeritus Director of the Rossell Hope Robbins Library and the Koller-Collins Graduate English Center
- alupack@library.rochester.edu | (585) 275-0110
- 416 Rush Rhees Library
Interests: Arthurian studies; Middle English literature; medievalism
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Maister, Nigel
- Senior Lecturer
- Artistic Director, the International Theatre Program
- nigel.maister@rochester.edu | (585) 273-5159
- 210 Todd Union
Interests: New music; multimedia performance
Mannheimer, Katherine
- Associate Professor of English
- Director, Graduate Studies
- katherine.mannheimer@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9257
- 417 Morey Hall
Interests: Restoration; Eighteenth-century literature
Marra, Abbey
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- University of Bristol, MA
- Southern Nazarene University, BA
Interests: Twentieth-Century American Film and Television, Race and Representation, Comedy, Gender Studies, Stardom and Celebrity
McDonald, Matthew
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, Vanderbilt University
Interests: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American and British Poetry; an Aesthetics of Fate and Power; Literature of the American Civil War; the Figure of the Poet as Doomed Youth
Memmott, James
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of English
- jim.memmott@rochester.edu | (585) 275-2160
- 419 Morey Hall
Interests: Journalism
Michael, John
- Professor of English and Visual and Cultural Studies
- Director of American Studies
- john.michael@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4974
- 405 Morey Hall
Interests: American literature; critical theory; cultural studies
Middleton, Jason
- Associate Professor
- Director, Film and Media Studies Program
- jason.middleton@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9372
- 511 Morey Hall
Interests: Film and media studies; critical theory; cultural studies
Miller, William
- Assistant Professor
- william.miller@rochester.edu | (585) 275-2574
- 410 Morey Hall
Interests: 17th century literature; 18th century literature; literature and religion; literature and philosophy
Morrice, Santiago
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, Mills College
- BA, University of California-Merced
Interests: African American Literature and Critical Theory
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Nelson, Daniel
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, New York University
- MA, SUNY at Buffalo
Interests: Poetry, Especially Ninteenth-Century British and Twentieth-Century American; British Romanticism
Nikolis, Anastasia
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, Haverford College
Interests: Modern and contemporary literature; Poetry and poetics; Word and image
Nourani, Sherwin
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, MS, BA, University of Texas, Dallas
Interests: Shakespeare; World Epics; Relationships between Music, Language and Poetry; Neuroaesthetics; Space-Time, Chance and Nothingness; Gender Studies; Digital Humanities
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O'Neil, Scott
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, Towson University
- MA, Saint Bonaventure University
Interests: Early Modern; Shakespeare; Renaissance Pedagogy
Ormsbee, Michael
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, Williams College
Interests: 18th and 19th century British literature, narratology, genre theory, literary theory and its history, the Novel
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Peck, Russell A
- Professor Emeritus of English and John H. Deane Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric and Poetry
- russell.peck@rochester.edu | (585) 275-7157
- 319 Morey Hall
Interests: Middle English literature; medieval aesthetics; medieval intellectual history; myth and fairytale; history of drama and its performance; medievalism in British and American popular culture
Powell, Zachary M
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, Kansas State University
- BS, University of Kansas
Interests: Film and Media Studies (Silent Film, War Film, Horror Film, Experimental Film) Cultural Studies, Modernism, and Contemporary Literature
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Rajan, Supritha
- Associate Professor of English
- Director of Undergraduate Studies
- supritharajan@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9263
- 415 Morey Hall
Interests: Nineteenth-century British literature; critical theory; creative writing (poetry)
Rice, Gordon
- Senior Lecturer
- Production Manager, the International Theatre Program
- g.rice@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9006
- 205 Todd Union
Interests: Technical direction; production management
Rich, Robert
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, University of Oregon
Interests: Nineteenth-Century British Literature, History of Economic Thought, Early Science Fiction
Rozenski, Steven
- Assistant Professor
- srozensk@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 276-7325
- 416 Morey
Interests: Middle English devotional literature; translation studies; book history; medieval German and Dutch literature; trans-Reformation England
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Sadaniantz, Nicole
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, University of Pennsylvania
Interests: 20th Century dramatic literature and acting theory; Modernism; Chekhov, Woolf, Kerouac, Brodsky & Utkin
Schottenfeld, Stephen
- Associate Professor of English
- s.schottenfeld@rochester.edu | (585) 275-6477
- 414 Morey Hall
Interests: Modern and contemporary literature; fiction writing; playwriting; screenwriting
Scott, Joanna
- Roswell Smith Burrows Professor of English
- Director, Literary Arts Programs
- joanna.scott@rochester.edu | (585) 275-2784
- 404C Morey Hall
Interests: Modern and contemporary fiction; the art of imaginative writing
Sengupta, Oishani
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
- BA, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
Interests: Victorian visual culture; illustrated novels; digital humanities; translation studies
Shukla, Abhishek
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, St. Stephen's College, Delhi
- MA, University College Dublin
Interests: Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Anglo-Irish and Indian Literary Revivals
Simon, Miles
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, California State University-Northridge
- BA, California State University-Northridge
Interests: Transatlantic Romanticism; Liminal spaces; Negative capability and theology; History of the daemon; Genre studies; Hybrid texts
Singleton, Daniel
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, University of Rochester
- BA, Kennesaw State University
Interests: Film history; Twentieth-century American Literature; Cinematic authorship; Adaptation
Skwiat, Matthew
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, University of Rochester
- MA, Drew University
- BA, Kean University
Interests: Rise of the Novel, Victorian Literature and Transatlantic Gothic Fiction
Smith, Curt
- Senior Lecturer in English
- curtsmith@netacc.net | (585) 275-4260
- 320 Morey Hall
Interests: Presidential rhetoric; American presidents of the radio/television age; Public speaking; Sports broadcasting, with emphasis on baseball, football, basketball, and hockey
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Tawil, Ezra
- Associate Professor of English
- ezra.tawil@rochester.edu | (585) 275-5050
- 412 Morey Hall
Interests: American literature to 1900; rise of the novel; the literary history of race; American sentimentalism; transatlantic theories of the aesthetic
Tucker, Jeffrey Allen
- Associate Professor of English
- jeffrey.tucker@rochester.edu | (585) 275-2064
- 418 Morey Hall
Interests: African-American literature; 20th-century American literature; science fiction
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Vandenbossche, Lisa
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, University of Michigan
- MA, Clemson University
Interests: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British and American Literature; Atlantic Studies; Law and Literature; Feminist and Gender Studies
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Whitebell, Laura
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, University of York, UK
- MA, University of Sheffield, UK
- MA, University of Rochester
Interests: British and American Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture; Digital Humanities
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Yee, Pamela
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, University of California, Berkeley
Interests: Medieval Literature; Arthurian Tradition; Celtic Mythology; Folklore and Fairy Tale; Historical Linguistics; Gender Studies
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Zaloom, Rose
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, Utica College
Interests: Early Modern/Renaissance British Literature, Dramatic Literature, Representations and Dynamics of Violence, Theatrical Staging, Audience Experience, Prose and Poetic Narrative
Zaman, Nasheed
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, Kansas State University
- BA, North South University, Bangladesh
Interests: Twentieth-century American Literature; African-American Literature; Literary theory
Zawacki, Alexander
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, Bangor University, Wales
- BS, Susquehanna University