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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

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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

Professor of English David Bleich

Bleich, David

  • Professor

Interests: Literary and language theory; writing and language pedagogy; women's studies; science studies; Jewish studies; film and popular culture

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

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Burges, Joel

  • Associate Professor of English and Visual & Cultural Studies

Interests: Media studies, cultural studies, and American studies; 20th and 21st century film and television; Critical and cultural theory; Digital humanities, especially digital annotation, data visualization, and videographic criticism; Labor and culture; Audiovisual histories of race, class, gender, and sexuality

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Caress, Madison

  • Selznick Program

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

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Morris Eaves

Eaves, Morris

  • Professor of English
  • Former Director, A.W. Mellon Graduate Program in the Digital Humanities
    1944-2024

Website

Interests: British Romanticism; Media history and theory; Editorial theory; William Blake Archive Project

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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Katie Farrell

Farrell, Katie

  • Administrative Assistant, Theater Program

Fessenmeyer, Victor

  • Selznick Program

Interests: Film Studies and Preservation

Brady Fletcher

Fletcher, Brady

  • Instructor
  • Director of Forensics, Debate Union

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, 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

Garcia, Dani

  • PhD Program
  • Prior Degrees
    BA, California State University, Fullerton
    MA, California State University, Long Beach
    MA, Arizona State University

Interests: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature, Chicana/o Literature, Dystopian Literature, Cultural Criticism

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

Kenneth Gross

Gross, Kenneth

  • Alan F. Hilfiker Distinguished Professor in English
    Professor of English

Website

Interests: Shakespeare; lyric poetry; Renaissance literature; romance

Grotz, Jennifer

  • Professor of English

Website

Interests: Poetry; creative writing; translation

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Gunter, Sherri

  • Department Administrator

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Thomas Hahn

Hahn, Thomas

  • Professor

Interests: Medieval literature and culture; popular culture

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Hamilton, Katie

  • Production Manager

Interests: Theatre management; Stage lighting; Props building; Social justice

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Hansen, David

  • Senior Lecturer of English
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Heacock, Madison

  • MA Program
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Hearburg, HaiLee

  • MA Program
Gregory Heyworth

Heyworth, Gregory

  • Associate Professor of English
  • Director, Lazarus Project
Sarah Higley

Higley, Sarah L

  • Professor

Interests: Medieval vernacular languages and literature of Northern Europe and their interchanges; Film and media studies; Teratology (the study of the monstrous); Ecocriticism

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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Johnson, Bruce

  • Professor Emeritus

    Johnson, Audrey

    • Selznick Program

    Interests: Film Studies, Preservation

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    Jones, Sarah

    • Managing Editor, Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly

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    Kegl, Rosemary

    • Associate Professor

    Interests: English Renaissance drama; Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writing; Productions of Shakespeare in Britain and the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries; Theories of the aesthetic and of the utopian

    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

    Kathy Kingsley

    Kingsley, Kathryn

    • Program Assistant

    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, 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

    Bette London

    London, Bette

    • Professor

    Interests: Twentieth-century British literature; Victorian literature and culture; feminist theory; women's writing; authorship studies

    James Longenbach

    Longenbach, James

    • Joseph Henry Gilmore Professor of English
    • 1959-2022

    Website

    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

    Alan Lupack

    Lupack, Alan

    • Emeritus Director of the Rossell Hope Robbins Library and the Koller-Collins Graduate English Center

    Interests: Arthurian studies; Middle English literature; medievalism

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    Nigel Maister

    Maister, Nigel

    • Senior Lecturer
    • Russell and Ruth Peck Artistic Director, the International Theatre Program

    Interests: New music; multimedia performance

    Katherine Mannheimer

    Mannheimer, Katherine

    • Associate Professor of English
    • Chair , Department of English

    Interests: Restoration; Eighteenth-century literature

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    McCune, Jeffrey Q., Jr.

    • Frederick Douglass Professor
      Associate Professor of English
      Associate Professor of Black Studies
    • Chair, Faculty Programs and Departmental Initiatives, Department of Black Studies

    McDonald, Zoe

    • Selznick Program

    Interests: Film Studies and Preservation

    James Memmott

    Memmott, James

    • Adjunct Assistant Professor of English

    Interests: Journalism

    John Michael

    Michael, John

    • John Hall Deane Professor of Rhetoric and Poetry
      Professor of English
      Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies
    • Director, American Studies
      Interim Chair, Department of Black Studies

    Interests: American literature; critical theory; cultural studies

    Jason Middleton

    Middleton, Jason

    • Associate Professor of English and Visual and Cultural Studies
    • Director, Film and Media Studies Program

    Interests: Film and media studies; critical theory; cultural studies; horror

    William Miller

    Miller, William

    • Assistant Professor

    Website

    Interests: 17th century literature; 18th century literature; literature and religion; literature and philosophy

    Morrice, Santiago

    • PhD Program
    • Prior Degrees
      MA, Mills College
      BA, University of California-Merced

    Interests: Contemporary poetry and poetics; translation

    Carrie Morriss

    Morriss, Carrie

    • Graduate Program Coordinator

    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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    Omelsky, Matthew

    • Assistant Professor of English
      Assistant Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies
    • Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Black Studies

    Interests: Global black cultural studies; African, African American, and Caribbean literatures; film and media studies; speculative aesthetics; time and phenomenology; critical theory.

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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

    Russell Peck

    Peck, Russell A

    • Professor Emeritus of English and John H. Deane Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric and Poetry
    • 1933 – 2023

    Website

    Interests: Middle English literature; medieval aesthetics; medieval intellectual history; myth and fairytale; history of drama and its performance; medievalism in British and American popular culture

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    Prasad, Aditi

    • Selznick Program

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    Supritha Rajan

    Rajan, Supritha

    • Associate Professor of English

    Interests: Nineteenth-century British literature; critical theory; creative writing (poetry)

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    Ramsey, Jarold

    • Professor Emeritus
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      Rosenow, James

      • Assistant Professor of English

      Rozenski, Steven

      • Associate Professor

      Interests: Middle English devotional literature; translation studies; book history; medieval German and Dutch literature; trans-Reformation England

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      Stephen Schottenfeld

      Schottenfeld, Stephen

      • Associate Professor of English

      Interests: Modern and contemporary literature; fiction writing; playwriting; screenwriting

      Joanna Scott

      Scott, Joanna

      • Roswell Smith Burrows Professor of English
        Professor of English
      • Director, Literary Arts Programs

      Interests: Modern and contemporary fiction; the art of imaginative writing

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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

      Cara Smith

      Smith, Cara

      • Undergraduate Studies Coordinator
      Curt Smith

      Smith, Curt

      • Senior Lecturer of English

      Website

      Interests: Presidential rhetoric; American presidents of the radio/television age; Public speaking; Sports broadcasting, with emphasis on baseball, football, basketball, and hockey

      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

      Ezra Tawil

      Tawil, Ezra

      • Professor
      • 1967-2024

      Website

      Interests: American literature to 1900; rise of the novel; the literary history of race; American sentimentalism; transatlantic theories of the aesthetic

      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, Racial identity construction, Liminality, Critical Race Theory, Gender and Sexuality

      Jeffrey Tucker

      Tucker, Jeffrey Allen

      • Associate Professor of English
      • Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of English

      Interests: African-American literature; 20th-century American literature; science fiction

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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