Al Zuwayed, Zahra

MA Program
zalzuway@ur.rochester.edu

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

Balmain, Melissa

Adjunct Instructor
melissa.balmain@rochester.edu | (585) 275-2160
419 Morey Hall

Beljanski, Tanja

PhD Program
Prior Degrees: MA, BA, University of Cologne; MA, University of Rochester
beljanst@gmail.com

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
abigail.brengle@rochester.edu

Interests: Twentieth-century British and American literature, Modernism, poetry and poetics

Burges, Joel

Assistant Professor of English
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
gbyng@ur.rochester.edu

Interests: Slave and Neoslave Narratives; Artificial and Posthuman Life Forms in Science Fiction; Construction of Mixed Race Identity in Literary Texts; Critical Race Theory

Carli, Philip

Adjunct Instructor
Philip_Carli@pittsford.monroe.edu | (585) 275-4104
404a Morey Hall

Castleberry, Kristi

PhD Program
Prior Degrees: BA, MA, Sonoma State University
kristi.castleberry@gmail.com

Interests: Medieval Literature; Cultural Studies and Gender Studies

Cho, Seung

MA Program
scho31@ur.rochester.edu

Interests: Shakespeare and Negative Capability, Classical and Renaissance Literature, Existentialism

Colpitts, Corinne

MA Program
ccolpitt@ur.rochester.edu

Conklin, Ashley

PhD Program
Prior Degrees: MA, Boston College; BA, University of Connecticut
aconkli2@ur.rochester.edu

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
acrakes@ur.rochester.edu

Interests: American modernist poetry; Affect theory and psychoanalysis; Digital humanities; Poetry and Cinema

Crumrine, Seth

Selznick Program
scrumrin@ur.rochester.edu

Davies, Helen

PhD Program
Prior Degrees: MA, BA, Loyola University Chicago; MA, University of York, UK
hrdavies5@gmail.com

Interests: Anglo-Saxon literature, Maps, Digital Humanities, and Multi-Spectral Imaging

Delcourt, Steffi

PhD Program
Prior Degrees: MA, University of Rochester; BA, Emory University
sdelcour@ur.rochester.edu

Interests: Medieval Literature, Middle English Romances, the Arthurian Tradition, Identity, Spatial Theory

Dotson, Jordan

Selznick Program
sdotson2@ur.rochester.edu

Downing, Morgan

MA Program
mdowning@ur.rochester.edu

Dressel, Samantha

PhD Program
Prior Degrees: BA, Colgate University
newmark.samantha@gmail.com

Interests: Renaissance and Revenge Drama

Eaves, Morris

Professor of English and Richard L. Turner Professor of Humanities
Director, A. W. Mellon Graduate Program in the Digital Humanities for 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

Farrell, Katie

Administrative Assistant, Theater Program
katie.farrell@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4959

Fletcher, Brady

Instructor
Director of Forensics for Debate Union
brady.fletcher@rochester.edu | (585) 275-3873
1.208a Dewey

Fonseca, Marina

MA Program
mfonseca@ur.rochester.edu

Gasbarre, Jessica

MA Program
Prior Degrees: BA, St John Fisher College
jgasbarre@mag.rochester.edu

Gavin, Thomas

Professor Emeritus
thomas.gavin@sbcglobal.net

Gollin, Richard M

Professor Emeritus
gollin@aol.com

Grenert, Alison

PhD Program
Prior Degrees: BA, University of Pittsburgh; MA, University of Rochester
agrenert@msn.com

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

Gunter, Sherri

Department Administrator
sherri.gunter@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9258

Hahn, Thomas

Professor
thomas.hahn@rochester.edu | (585) 275-5664
402A Morey Hall

Interests: Medieval literature and culture; popular culture

Hall, Dalton

MA Program
dhall21@ur.rochester.edu

Harper, Alison

PhD Program
Prior Degrees: MA, University of Chicago; MA, University of York; BA, St Hilda's College, Oxford University
aharper5@ur.rochester.edu

Interests: Fifteenth-century popular literature; Medieval household miscellanies; Afterlife of texts, focus on fanfiction and other forms of textual adaptation

Hauser, Allison

MA Program
ahauser3@ur.rochester.edu

Heck, Julianne

PhD Program
Prior Degrees: BA, Colby College; MA, Simmons College
juliannem4@yahoo.com

Interests: Early Twentieth-Century American Literature

Heininger, Renée

Administrative Assistant
renee.heininger@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9255

Helm, Daniel

PhD Program
Prior Degrees: BS, MA, North Carolina State University
daniel.helm@rochester.edu

Interests: Twentieth-Century American Literature; Twentieth-Century Poetry

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

Ingles, Jarrod

PhD Program
Prior Degrees: BA, Asbury University
jingles@ur.rochester.edu

Interests: Romantic and Victorian Literature; Politics and Poetry; Aesthetics

Jaime, Shannon

PhD Program
Prior Degrees: BA, Whittier College
sjaime@ur.rochester.edu

Interests: British Romantic and Victorian Literature; Women Writers; Poetry and Poetics; Aesthetics and Lyric Theory

Johnson, Bruce

Professor Emeritus

Johnson, James William

Professor Emeritus
jsnj@mail.rochester.edu

Jones, Sarah

Managing Editor, Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly
sarah.jones@rochester.edu | (585) 275-3820

Kegl, Rosemary

Associate Professor
Chair of the Department for 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

Kim, Stephany

Selznick Program
skim247@ur.rochester.edu

Kingsley, Joey

PhD Program
Prior Degrees: MFA, Virginia Commonwealth University; BA, College of the Holy Cross
jkingsl3@ur.rochester.edu

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
knopfnj@gmail.com

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
emilykohlhase@rochester.edu

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
dkraines@ur.rochester.edu

Interests: 20th Century and Contemporary Literature; Modernism, Poetry and Poetics

Lamperez, Joseph

PhD Program
Prior Degrees: BA, MA, Loyola University of Chicago
josephlamperez@gmail.com

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

Lane, Sam

Selznick Program
slane11@ur.rochester.edu

Lang, Amanda

PhD Program
Prior Degrees: BA, St. John Fisher College; MA, University of Rochester
amandaelang1@gmail.com

Interests: Early Modern Literature; Shakespeare and English Renaissance Drama; Gender Studies

Lloyd, Hilarie

PhD Program
Prior Degrees: BA, Duke University; JD, Cornell Law School
fireflymoon22@yahoo.com

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
elowman@ur.rochester.edu

Interests: Medieval literature; Celtic literature; the Arthurian tradition; Folklore; Old English literature

Loy, Eric

PhD Program
Prior Degrees: MA, Creighton University; BA, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
eric.christian.loy@gmail.com

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

Maister, Nigel

Senior Lecturer
Artistic Director for 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 for Graduate Studies
katherine.mannheimer@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9257
417 Morey Hall

Interests: Restoration; Eighteenth-century literature

McDonald, Matthew

PhD Program
Prior Degrees: BA, Vanderbilt University
mmcdon16@ur.rochester.edu

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

McGee, Masani

PhD Program
Prior Degrees: BA, Central Michigan University
mmcgee5@ur.rochester.edu

Interests: Gender and Sexuality in genre film; Mashups and Cover Songs; Fan culture and creations; Popular culture

McGillivray, Giulia

MA Program
gmcgilli@ur.rochester.edu

Memmott, James

Adjunct Assistant Professor of English
jim.memmott@rochester.edu | (585) 275-2160
419 Morey Hall

Interests: Journalism

Mendez, Theresa

MA Program
Prior Degrees: BA, Wells College
tmendez3@ur.rochester.edu

Michael, John

Professor of English and Visual and Cultural Studies
john.michael@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4974
405 Morey Hall

Interests: American literature; critical theory; cultural studies

Middleton, Jason

Associate Professor
Director for 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
omorrice@ur.rochester.edu

Interests: African American Literature and Critical Theory

Morriss, Carrie

Graduate Coordinator
carrie.morriss@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9256

Nelson, Daniel

PhD Program
Prior Degrees: BA, New York University; MA, SUNY at Buffalo
dnels15@ur.rochester.edu

Interests: Poetry, Especially Ninteenth-Century British and Twentieth-Century American; British Romanticism

Nikolis, Anastasia

PhD Program
Prior Degrees: BA, Haverford College
anikolis@ur.rochester.edu

Interests: Modern/Contemporary American and British poetry (1890-1965)

O'Neil, Scott

PhD Program
Prior Degrees: BA, Towson University; MA, Saint Bonaventure University
soneil4@ur.rochester.edu

Interests: Early Modern; Shakespeare; Renaissance Pedagogy

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

Peck, Lucianne

Secretary/Receptionist
lucianne.peck@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4092

Phillips, Chance

MA Program
cphill25@ur.rochester.edu

Pierce, Jesse

Selznick Program
jpier16@ur.rochester.edu

Powell, Zachary M

PhD Program
Prior Degrees: MA, Kansas State University; BS, University of Kansas
zpowell@ur.rochester.edu

Interests: Film and Media Studies (Silent Film, War Film, Horror Film, Experimental Film) Cultural Studies, Modernism, and Contemporary Literature

Pratt, Katie

Selznick Program
kpratt6@ur.rochester.edu

Rajan, Supritha

Associate Professor of English
supritharajan@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9263
415 Morey Hall

Interests: Nineteenth-century British literature; critical theory; creative writing (poetry)

Ramsey, Jarold

Professor Emeritus

Ramsey, JoAnna

Selznick Program
jrams10@ur.rochester.edu

Rice, Gordon

Senior Lecturer
Production Manager for 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
rrich@ur.rochester.edu

Interests: Nineteenth-century Literature, focus on British Victorian

Roy, Debarati

MA Program
droy6@ur.rochester.edu

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

Sadaniantz, Nicole

PhD Program
Prior Degrees: BA, University of Pennsylvania
nsadania@ur.rochester.edu

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
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, Jadaupur Univ-Kolkata; BA, Jadaupur Univ-Kolkata
osengupt@ur.rochester.edu

Interests: Long nineteenth century; literature and science; imperialism; translation studies.

Shukla, Abhishek

PhD Program
Prior Degrees: BA, St. Stephen's College, Delhi; MA, University College Dublin
abhishek.shukla@rochester.edu

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
msimon11@ur.rochester.edu

Interests: Transatlantic Romanticism; Liminal spaces; Negative capability and theology; History of the daemon; Genre studies; Hybrid texts

Simon, Connor

Selznick Program
csimon4@ur.rochester.edu

Singleton, Daniel

PhD Program
Prior Degrees: MA, University of Rochester; BA, Kennesaw State University
daniel.singleton@rochester.edu

Interests: Film history; Twentieth-century American Literature; Cinematic authorship; Adaptation

Skwiat, Matthew

MA Program
mskwiat@ur.rochester.edu

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

Sydelnik, Stefanie

PhD Program
Prior Degrees: BA, Skidmore College; MA, University of Rochester
stefanie.sydelnik@rochester.edu

Tawil, Ezra

Associate Professor of English
Director of Undergraduate Studies
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

Vandenbossche, Lisa

PhD Program
Prior Degrees: BA, University of Michigan; MA, Clemson University
lisa.vandenbossche@rochester.edu

Interests: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British and American Literature; Atlantic Studies; Law and Literature; Feminist and Gender Studies

Wagstaff, Jill

MA Program
jwagstaf@ur.rochester.edu

Waldinger, Jeanna

MA Program
jwalding@ur.rochester.edu

Whitebell, Laura

PhD Program
Prior Degrees: BA, University of York, UK; MA, University of Sheffield, UK; MA, University of Rochester
laura.whitebell@rochester.edu

Interests: British and American Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture; Digital Humanities

Yee, Pamela

PhD Program
Prior Degrees: BA, University of California, Berkeley
pyee@ur.rochester.edu

Interests: Medieval Literature; Arthurian Tradition; Celtic Mythology; Folklore and Fairy Tale; Historical Linguistics; Gender Studies

Zaloom, Rose

PhD Program
Prior Degrees: BA, Utica College
rzaloom@ur.rochester.edu

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
nasheedzaman@gmail.com

Interests: Twentieth-century American Literature; African-American Literature; Literary theory

Zawacki, Alexander

PhD Program
Prior Degrees: MA, Bangor University, Wales; BS, Susquehanna University
azawacki@ur.rochester.edu