People
Graduate Students
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Beljanski, Tanja
- 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
Bowen, Mead
- Prior Degrees
- MA, Aberystwyth University
- BA, University of Florida
Interests: Slave and Neoslave Narratives; Artificial and Posthuman Life Forms in Science Fiction; Construction of Mixed Race Identity in Literary Texts; Critical Race Theory
Brengle, Abigail
- Prior Degrees
- MA, University of Rochester
- BA, Michigan State University
Interests: Twentieth-century British and American literature, Modernism, poetry and poetics
Briant, Katherine
- Prior Degrees
- Fordham University, MA
- University of Rochester, BA
Interests: Manuscript studies, late medieval literature, the book as body, and digital humanities
Byng, Gyasi
- 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
- Prior Degrees
- BA, MA, Sonoma State University
Interests: Medieval Literature; Cultural Studies and Gender Studies
Cho, Seung
- 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
- Prior Degrees
- MA, Boston College
- BA, University of Connecticut
Interests: Medieval literature; Violence in romance and hagiography; Monstrosity; Marginalized figures
Crakes, Andrew
- 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
- 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
- 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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Green, Meaghan
- Prior Degrees
- BA, North Central College
Interests: British Literature, Romanticism, Aesthetics and Images
Grenert, Alison
- 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
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Harper, Alison
- 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
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Ingles, Jarrod
- Prior Degrees
- BA, Asbury University
Interests: Romantic and Victorian Literature; Politics and Poetry; Aesthetics
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Jaime, Shannon
- 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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Kingsley, Joey
- 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
- 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
- Prior Degrees
- BA, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Interests: English Renaissance drama, focus on Shakespeare; Early Modern and Contemporary theatrical practices; Adaptation
Kraines, Daniel
- 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
- 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
- Prior Degrees
- BA, St. John Fisher College
- MA, University of Rochester
Interests: Early Modern Literature; Shakespeare and English Renaissance Drama; Gender Studies
Lloyd, Hilarie
- 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
- 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
- Prior Degrees
- MA, Creighton University
- BA, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Interests: Documentary Editing; Editorial Theory; Digital Humanities; Twentieth-Century American Literature; Narrative Theory
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Marra, Abbey
- 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
McDonald, Matthew
- Prior Degrees
- BA, Vanderbilt University
Interests: 19th and 20th century American; poetics; fixed verse forms, particularly the sonnet
Morrice, Santiago
- Prior Degrees
- MA, Mills College
- BA, University of California-Merced
Interests: Contemporary poetry and poetics; translation
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Nelson, Daniel
- Prior Degrees
- BA, New York University
- MA, SUNY at Buffalo
Interests: Poetry, Especially Ninteenth-Century British and Twentieth-Century American; British Romanticism
Nikolis, Anastasia
- Prior Degrees
- BA, Haverford College
Interests: Modern and contemporary literature; Poetry and poetics; Word and image
Nourani, Sherwin
- 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
- Prior Degrees
- BA, Towson University
- MA, Saint Bonaventure University
Interests: Early Modern; Shakespeare; Renaissance Pedagogy
Ormsbee, Michael
- 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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Powell, Zachary M
- 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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Rich, Robert
- Prior Degrees
- BA, University of Oregon
Interests: Nineteenth-Century British Literature, History of Economic Thought, Early Science Fiction
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Sadaniantz, Nicole
- Prior Degrees
- BA, University of Pennsylvania
Interests: 20th Century dramatic literature and acting theory; Modernism; Chekhov, Woolf, Kerouac, Brodsky & Utkin
Sengupta, Oishani
- Prior Degrees
- MA, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
- BA, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
Interests: Victorian visual culture; illustrated novels; digital humanities; translation studies
Shukla, Abhishek
- 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
- 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
- Prior Degrees
- MA, University of Rochester
- BA, Kennesaw State University
Interests: Film history; Twentieth-century American Literature; Cinematic authorship; Adaptation
Skwiat, Matthew
- 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
- 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
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Townsend, Dominique
- 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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Vandenbossche, Lisa
- 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
- 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
Woehl, Marcie
- Prior Degrees
- BA, University of North Dakota
Interests: New media, public humanities, digital humanities, political rhetoric of the late 60s to mid-70s, and literature and philosophy
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Yee, Pamela
- 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
- 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
- Prior Degrees
- MA, Kansas State University
- BA, North South University, Bangladesh
Interests: Twentieth-century American Literature; African-American Literature; Literary theory
Zawacki, Alexander
- Prior Degrees
- MA, Bangor University, Wales
- BS, Susquehanna University
Interests: High and late medieval literature, insular romance, multispectral imaging, textual science, the digital humanities