People
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 and film, media and film studies, critical theory, narratology, intertextuality and intermediality, media objects, post-postmodernism, temporalities of the contemporary in popular culture, gender studies
Boerner, Jay
- Selznick Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, University of Minnesota
Interests: Film Preservation & Restoration, Silent Cinema, Cinema History
Bowen, Mead
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, Aberystwyth University
- BA, University of Florida
Interests: Anglo-Celtic literature and interactions in the Middle Ages; animal studies and ecocriticism; constructions of wildness in identity and space; borderlands; marginalized figures; monstrosity and race; science and literature
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
Bronte, Clarence
- MA Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, Bard College
Interests: romanticism; horror and Gothic literature; science, psychology, and philosophy; gender and sexuality.
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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
Chung, Ka Man
- MA Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, University of Hong Kong
- BA, Lingnan University
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: Medieval 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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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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Gilbert, Natina
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- Oberlin College, BA
Interests: Twentieth-century American, Poetry and Poetics
Grasdalen, Taylor
- MA Program
- Prior Degrees
- University of Minnesota Duluth, BA
Interests: American literature since World War II, South American literature, rhetoric, debut novels, journalism, short stories
Green, Meaghan
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, North Central College
Interests: British Literature, Romanticism, Aesthetics and Images
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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
Hubbs, Lauren
- Selznick Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, Rochester Institute of Technology
Interests: Film Preservation
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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
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Kalish, Devin
- MA Program
- Prior Degrees
- BAAS, Rochester Institute of Technology
Interests: Science Fiction; Mary Shelley; New Wave Science Fiction; Multimedia; Experimental Writing; Utilitarianism; Animal Studies; Existential Risk
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
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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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
Li, Huimin
- MA Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, Peking University
- BA, Renmin University of China
- MA, University of Rochester
Interests: British and American 19th century; modernism.
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
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: Contemporary literature, book history & future, DH, scholarly editing
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Marra, Abbey
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- University of Bristol, MA
- Southern Nazarene University, BA
Interests: Film and Television Studies, Comedy, Gender Studies, Stardom and Celebrity, Popular Culture, Race and Representation
Martin, Olivia
- MA Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, Georgia College and State University
McDonald, Matthew
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, Vanderbilt University
Interests: 19th and 20th century American; poetics; fixed verse forms, particularly the sonnet
Morrice, Santiago
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, Mills College
- BA, University of California-Merced
Interests: Contemporary poetry and poetics; translation
Murray, Seth
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, Kent State University
Interests: 19th century American literature; cosmopolitanism & exile; transnationalism; American intellectual history; relations between literature and national identity.
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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
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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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Paul, Benjamin
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Interests: Twentieth-century British and American literature; transnational modernism; hybrid texts; narratology; poetics; translation
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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Quinn, Kelsey
- MA Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, Vassar College
Interests: 19th century British literature, Victorian studies
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Rich, Robert
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, University of Oregon
Interests: Nineteenth-Century British Literature, History of Economic Thought, Early Science Fiction
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Sadaniantz, Nicole
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, University of Pennsylvania
Interests: 20th century theatre, modernism, dramaturgy, composition studies
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; History of Ideas; Early American religious thought; Pragmatist philosophy.
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
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
Soules, Katherine
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, University of Rochester
- MA, Marshall University
- BA, Cedarville University
Interests: Research interests: contemporary American literature, war & memory, literary theory & history of theory, intellectual history, philosophy, religion, aesthetics, visual art & history
Sutter, Malaika
- MA Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, BA, University of Bern
Interests: Contemporary North American literature, needlework and textiles, intermediality, materiality, gender and queer studies, storytelling and historiography
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Townsend, Dominique
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, Pacific Union College
Interests: Twentieth-century British Literature, Modernism, Construction of Mixed Race Identity in Literary Texts, Narrative Identity Construction, Liminal Spaces, Critical Race Theory, Gender and Sexuality
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Valencia, Gabby
- MA Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, Marymount Manhattan College
Interests: Gender and Sexuality; Twentieth-century fiction; Twentieth-century poetry; Modernism; Women writers; Contemporary novels; Caribbean literature; Hispanic literature; Chicano studies
Vernetti II, Richard
- MA Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, Le Moyne College
Interests: Romanticism, American Trancendentalism, Epic Poetry, Film History and Studies, the Grotesque (across multiple periods), American Literature (the “Great American Novel”)
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Wessels, Christian
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MFA, Boston University
- BA, SUNY College at Brockport
Interests: Poetry and poetics
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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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
Yochum, Tiffany
- MA Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, Loyola University New Orleans
Interests: British Literature; politics and the novel; intersection of politics and humor, portrayals of religion in literature; religion and aesthetics
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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
Interests: High and late medieval literature, insular romance, multispectral imaging, textual science, the digital humanities