Graduate Students

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  • Albers-Morris, Catherine

    PhD Program
    Prior Degrees
    MA, BA, University of Mississippi

    Interests: Medieval literature; global Middle Ages; Multispectral imaging; Textual Science; Digital Humanities

B

  • Bao, Qina

    MA Program
    Prior Degrees
    BA, MEd, Southwest University in China

    Interests: Black feminist theory, African American 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

  • 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

  • Caress, Madison

    Selznick Program
    Prior Degrees
    BA, Vassar College

  • 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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    Crowell, Steven

    MA Program
    Prior Degrees
    MA, Drew University

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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.

  • 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

E

  • 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

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.

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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

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    Gilbert, Natina

    PhD Program
    Prior Degrees
    Oberlin College, BA

    Interests: Twentieth-century American, Poetry and Poetics, law and literature

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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

  • Johnson, Audrey

    Selznick Program

    Interests: Film Studies, Preservation

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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

  • 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

L

  • Lachenmaier, Kathrin

    PhD Program
    Prior Degrees
    MA, University of Rochester
    BA, University of Cologne

    Interests: American Literature, African American Literature, Modernism

  • 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

  • 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

M

  • McDonald, Zoe

    Selznick Program

    Interests: Film Studies and Preservation

  • 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

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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

P

  • 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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    Prasad, Aditi

    Selznick Program

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    Shaikh, Abdullah

    PhD Program
    Prior Degrees
    MA, University of Rochester
    BA, Tunghai University, Taiwan

    Interests: The Novel, Fiction and Sociology, Self-Improvement Literature, Stoicism, Animal Theory, Islamic Perspectives on Literature

  • Shobert, Geoffrey

    Selznick Program
    Prior Degrees
    BFA, Cleveland State University
    BS, Ohio University

    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: Contemporary American literature; war and memory; literary theory and history of theory; intellectual history; philosophy; religion; 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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    Stueve, Timothy

    Selznick Program

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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

  • 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

  • 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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  • 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