Graduate Students
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Albers-Morris, Catherine
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, BA, University of Mississippi
Interests: Medieval literature; Alexander romance; global Middle Ages; Multispectral Imaging; Textual Science; Digital Humanities
B
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
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 gender identity and space; borderlands; marginalized figures; monstrosity and race; science and literature
C
Chitrakar, Yash
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, Washburn University
Interests: Metamodernism, Modern and Postmodern literature and film, Aesthetics and ethics, Literary theory
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
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
D
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, Medieval death culture
F
Fessenmeyer, Victor
- Selznick Program
Interests: Film Studies and Preservation
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.
G
Garcia, Antonia
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, University of Rochester
Interests: Sankofarration, Horror film and literature, Black Speculative 20th an 21st century literature, folktales, trauma studies
Gilbert, Natina
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- Oberlin College, BA
Interests: Twentieth-century American, Poetry and Poetics
Green, Meaghan
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, North Central College
Interests: British Literature, Romanticism, Aesthetics and Images
H
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
Hinsenkamp, Jane
Name only
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MEd, Harvard
- BA, Harvard
Interests: Science Fiction; Ursula K. Le Guin; Utopian Studies; Queer Studies; Narrative Game Theory; Tabletop Role-playing Games and Performance Studies
Huskin, Kyle
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, Georgetown College
Interests: medieval literature, gender and authority, multispectral imaging, codicology, manuscript cultures, textual sciences
J
Jarzyna, Luke
Name only
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, Grinnell College
Interests: poetics, literary formalism, 20th-21C American, African American and Afro-diasporic literature, ordinary language philosophy
K
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
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
Kumar, Sakshi
- MA Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, SUNY College at Geneseo
Interests: Twentieth-century African American literature; Poetry; Speculative fiction; Medieval literature, Gender and Sexuality; Identity
Kusmierek, William
Name only
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, University of Rochester
Interests: spatiotemporal considerations in literature, reader reception, the relationship between text and the image, and American/British/Russian literature from 1910 to 1960
L
Lang, Amanda
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, St. John Fisher College
- MA, University of Rochester
Interests: English Renaissance Drama and Theater; Women and Theater in early modern England
Latella, Luke
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, Hobart College
Interests: British and Irish Modernism; American Postmodernism; Transatlantic Studies; Literature and national identity
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
Lukenbill, Mackenzie
- Selznick Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, NYU
Interests: Film and video preservation and restoration, public access, HIV/AIDS video activism, personal and community archives
M
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
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: Long 19C American literature, history of the novel, genre theory, religion and literature, pragmatism, travel narratives
O
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
R
Rich, Robert
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, University of Oregon
- MA, University of Rochester
Interests: Nineteenth-Century British Literature, History of Economic Thought, Early Science Fiction
S
Sengupta, Oishani
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
- BA, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
Interests: global nineteenth century, race and media, visual print culture, digital archiving, Afro-Asian intimacies.
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
T
Tapia, Gabby
Name only
- 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, Racial identity construction, Liminality, Critical Race Theory, Gender and Sexuality
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Wallace, Tyler
- Selznick Program
Interests: film and media preservation, digital film restoration, film programming, archival practice & collections management, film projection, internet fan-subcultures, regional cinema, urban cinema of East Asia, outsider art, meta-cinema
Wessels, Christian
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MFA, Boston University
- BA, SUNY College at Brockport
Interests: 20th century poetry and poetics; didactic poetry and public poetics; responses to New Criticism
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: Middle English romance and dream-visions, medieval medicine, illness narratives, medical humanities, the Arthurian tradition, medievalism, critical race theory, digital editions
Z
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