Graduate Students
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Baral, Anuska
MA Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, BA, University of Calcutta
Interests: Book History, Medieval literature, Graphic Novels, Digital Humanities, Post-colonial literature, Children's Literature
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
Boudreaux, Abbie
PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, Centenary College of Louisiana
Interests: Disability studies, Queer Studies, Gender & Sexuality, Utopian & Dystopian Literature, 20th Century American Literature
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Carrasco, Winna
Selznick Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, Hunter College
Interests: film restoration and exhibition
Chitrakar, Yash
PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, Washburn University
Interests: Metamodernism, Modern and Postmodern literature and film, Aesthetics and ethics, Literary theory
Choudhury, Debarati
PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, University of York
- BA, University of Calcutta
Interests: Post-1945 literature, Novelty, Narrative theory, Comics, Life-Writing, Memory Studies, Philosophy and literature, Philosophy of Action, and Aesthetics.
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
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Davis, Diana
PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, University of Rochester
- Postgraduate Certificate of Education, University of Oxford
Interests: Medieval concept of the human Soul in relationship to the Divine, and the implications this then has on the Western worldview and understanding of Self from the Renaissance onward.
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Espinosa, Juan
PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, BA, Florida International University
Interests: English literature of the late medieval period, emphasis on poetry and religious prose; medieval mysticism; early modern English poetry and drama; global Shakespeare; gender and sexuality studies; exile studies; new historicism; psychoanalysis
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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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Garcia, Dani
PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, MA, California State University, Fullerton
- MA, Arizona State University
Interests: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American literature, non-canonical literature, Chicana/o literature, language and identity, critical and cultural theory, and digital humanities
Gaydo, Kyle
PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, BA, Seton Hall University
Interests: medieval literature, global Middle Ages, medievalism, ecocriticism, gender, queer theory, video games, and digital humanities
Gilbert, Natina
PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- Oberlin College, BA
Interests: Twentieth-century American, Poetry and Poetics, law and literature
Gradt, Amelia
PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, Portland State University
- BA, University of Portland
Interests: English Renaissance; Long Nineteenth-Century British and American literature; British and American Gothic studies; Philosophy of Literature; Philosophy of Aesthetics; Gender Studies
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Huskin, Kyle
PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, Georgetown College
Interests: medieval literature, gender and authority, multispectral imaging, codicology, manuscript cultures, textual sciences
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Jarzyna, Luke
PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, Grinnell College
Interests: contemporary literature and film, poetics, black studies, music, queer studies, critical theory, ordinary language philosophy
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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
Kim, James Hojung
PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, BA, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea
Interests: Romanticism, Modernism, Media Studies, Archive and Memory, Science and Literature, Literary Theory
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
Kusmierek, Liam
PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, University of Rochester
Interests: Spatiotemporal, sociohistorical, semiotic, and translational considerations including notions of identity the text ‘contains’ grounded specifically in American/British/Russian literature from 1910 to 1970
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Lachenmaier, Kathrin
PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, University of Rochester
- BA, MA, University of Cologne
Interests: American Literature, African American Literature, Modernism, Ecocriticism, Agriculture in literature
Latella, Luke
PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, Hobart College
Interests: British and Irish Modernism; American Postmodernism; Transatlantic Studies; Literature and national identity
Levitan, Nachum
MA Program
Interests: Utopia literature, Jewish literature and antisemitism, queer literature
Li, Huimin
PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, University of Rochester
- MA, Peking University
- BA, University of China, Renmin
Interests: women’s literature; female identity and subjectivity, the novel, contemporary pop culture
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
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McKay, Elizabeth
PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, University of Iowa
- BA, Gordon College
Interests: Long 18th century British, religion and literature, history of education, material culture
Morrice, Santiago
PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, Mills College
- BA, University of California-Merced
Interests: Contemporary poetry and poetics; translation
Mukherjee, Siddharth
MA Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), India
- BA, Calcutta University, Kolkata
Interests: 19th century British literature (Victorian Era), Gothic genre in literature, Medieval literature, Renaissance literature
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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
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Pandey, Apoorv
PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MPhil, Jadavpur University
- MA, University of Hyderabad
- BA, University of Mumbai
Interests: Global Modernisms and Realisms, contemporary Indian Queer Fiction, Cosmopolitanism, World Literature
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Shaikh, Abdullah
PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, University of Rochester
- BA, Tunghai University, Taiwan
Interests: Twentieth-century World Literature, Ethics, Self-help
Shobert, Geoffrey
Selznick Program
- Prior Degrees
- BFA, Cleveland State University
- BS, Ohio University
- gshobert@eastman.org
Interests: Silent cinema, experimental cinema, documentary film, film restoration, film analysis and theory, archival science, museology
Soules, Katherine
PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, University of Rochester
- MA, Marshall University
- BA, Cedarville University
Interests: 20th & 21stc. American literature; queer science fiction; queer theory; black studies; literary theory and history of theory; intellectual history; philosophy; aesthetics; visual art and history
Steiner, Samantha
PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MFA, Sarah Lawrence College
- BA, Brown University
Interests: Text and image, comics, memoir, hybrid forms
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Tapia, Gabby
PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, University of California, Irvine
Interests: Ecocriticism, queer theory, Spinozist theories, absurdist literature, 19th-century British literature
Teliuk, Oleksandr
Selznick Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, The Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema, and Television University
- MA, The State University of Infrastructure and Technologies
Interests: Film Preservation, Media Studies, National Cinema, Silent Cinema, History of Ukrainian Cinema, Museum Studies, Curatorial Studies, Contemporary Art, Ecology, Modernism
Townsend, Dominique
PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, Pacific Union College
Interests: Twentieth-century British and Anglophone literature, Modernism, Africana/black studies, Liminality, Critical Race Theory, Gender and Sexuality
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Warrick-Schkolnik, Caroline
PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, University of Rochester
- BA, Lake Forest College
Interests: 20th century American literature, social justice literature, Black, queer, and feminist theory
Williams, Micah
PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Interests: African-American literature and media; 20th and contemporary American literature; carceral studies; gender and sexuality studies; social and magical realism
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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Xing, Xihao
Selznick Program
- Prior Degrees
- BS, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Interests: Film studies and preservation
Xu, Stephanie Yujing
PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MSc., The University of Edinburgh
- BA, Mount Holyoke College
Interests: Comparative Modernisms and Modernities, Global Feminisms, 20th Century British and Anglophone Literature, Translation Studies
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Zhang, Kexin
PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, Nanjing University
- BA, Hangzhou Normal University
Interests: Old English Literature, Middle English Literature, Old Norse-Icelandic Literature, Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, Digital Humanities, Manuscript and Material Culture, Monsters and Witchcraft in Medieval Literature