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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
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
Briant, Katherine
PhD Program
Prior Degrees: Fordham University, MA; University of Rochester, BA
kbriant@ur.rochester.edu
Interests: Manuscript studies, late medieval literature, embodiment, gender
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
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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
PhD Program
Prior Degrees: MA, University of Rochester ; BA, Soongsil University
scho31@ur.rochester.edu
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
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
Crawford, Rachel
MA Program
rachel.crawford.fisher@gmail.com
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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
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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 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
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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
Francisco, Erin
MA Program
efranci8@ur.rochester.edu
Frederick, Bradley
MA Program
bfreder3@ur.rochester.edu
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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
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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
aharper5@ur.rochester.edu
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
juliannem4@yahoo.com
Interests: Early Twentieth-Century American Literature
Heininger, Renée
Administrative Assistant
renee.heininger@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9255
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
jingles@ur.rochester.edu
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
sjaime@ur.rochester.edu
Interests: British Romantic and Victorian Literature; Women Writers; Poetry and Poetics; Lyric and Genre 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
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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
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
Kurano, B. Lindsey
Selznick Program
bkurano@ur.rochester.edu
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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, 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
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
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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
Marra, Abbey
PhD Program
Prior Degrees: University of Bristol, MA; Southern Nazarene University, BA
Abbey.Marra@rochester.edu
Interests: Film and Television History, Critical Race Theory, Gender Studies, Comedy, Stardom and Celebrity
McCain, Carson
MA Program
cmccain@ur.rochester.edu
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
McDowell, Zachary
Selznick Program
zmcdowel@ur.rochester.edu
Memmott, James
Adjunct Assistant Professor of English
jim.memmott@rochester.edu | (585) 275-2160
419 Morey Hall
Interests: Journalism
Menchetti, Cecilia
MA Program
cmenchet@ur.rochester.edu
Mercuri, Gina
MA Program
gmercuri@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
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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 and contemporary literature; Poetry and poetics; Word and image
Nourani, Sherwin
PhD Program
Prior Degrees: MA, MS, BA, University of Texas, Dallas
snourani@ur.rochester.edu
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
soneil4@ur.rochester.edu
Interests: Early Modern; Shakespeare; Renaissance Pedagogy
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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
Peck, Lucianne
Secretary/Receptionist
lucianne.peck@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4092
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
Preston, Shelby
MA Program
spresto2@ur.rochester.edu
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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 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
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
Director for 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
osengupt@ur.rochester.edu
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
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
PhD Program
Prior Degrees: MA, University of Rochester ; MA, Drew University; BA, Kean University
mskwiat@ur.rochester.edu
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
Soules, Katherine
MA Program
ksoules3@ur.rochester.edu
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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
Tindell, Megan
MA Program
mtindell@ur.rochester.edu
Tosh, Nathan
MA Program
n.tosh@rochester.edu
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
lisa.vandenbossche@rochester.edu
Interests: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British and American Literature; Atlantic Studies; Law and Literature; Feminist and Gender Studies
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Warner-Gonzales, Avalon
MA Program
awarnerg@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
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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
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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