Graduate Students
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Bacon, Andrew
Selznick Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
- abacon@eastman.org
Interests: American and French silent cinema; American and Japanese directors; Japanese-American films, especially as related to the incarceration; film criticism, theory, and history, especially through the lens of auteurism; religion on film; slow and meditative cinema; experimental film and archival cinema; film curation, preservation, and archival practice; film clubs as communal and social spaces
Bailey, Luke
Selznick Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, Appalachian State University
- lbailey@eastman.org
Interests: early cinema (pre-1915); film gimmicks, novelties, and experimental formats; movie exhibition & ephemera
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
Blevins, Emily
PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, Oral Roberts University
Interests: long nineteenth-century American and French literature, modern American literature, aesthetics, philosophy of literature, religion and literature, and translation 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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Chitrakar, Yash
PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, Washburn University
Interests: Modernism, Affect theory, Aesthetics & Ethics, Wonder & Childhood
Corbeaux, Claire
PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, SUNY College at Geneseo
Interests: Utopian literature, 20th century and contemporary American literature, speculative fiction, care, social theory
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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.
DuBois, Victoria
Selznick Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, Providence College
Interests: Early cinema, silent cinema, American pre-code cinema, film conservation, archival special collections, archival accessibility, film-related objects and ephemera, museology, museum studies
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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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Ferreira Candido, Wesley Johnny
PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas
Interests: Utopian & Dystopian Literature; Gender & Sexuality; Queer Studies; Speculative Fiction; Science Fiction; 20th Century and Contemporary American Literature; Ecocriticism; Media & Cultural Studies
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, California State University, Fullerton
- MA, California State University, Long Beach
- MA, Arizona State University
Interests: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American literature, non-canonical literature, Chicana literature, linguistics, 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: Long Nineteenth-Century British and American literature, Romanticism, Gothic studies, Utopian studies, Continental philosophy, Literary Theory
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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
Konstantinou, Irini
PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MFA, Sarah Lawrence College
- BA, Hobart & William Smith Colleges
Interests: 20th-Century American Poetry; 21st-Century American Poetry; Hybrid Forms; Rhetorical Studies; first-year composition; writing pedagogy/praxis; multilingual writing; embodied literature; literature as dance
Kusmierek, Liam
PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, University of Rochester
Interests: queer and trans* theory, black studies, quantum theory, liminality, ephemera, materialism, literary modernism, necropolitics, activist, anti-capitalist, anti-ablest, anti-racist
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Lachenmaier, Kathrin
PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, University of Rochester
- BA, MA, University of Cologne
Interests: American Literature of the 20th century, African American literature, North American Indigenous literatures, medical humanities, madness, and agriculture in literature
Laniak, Sydney
MA Program
- Prior Degrees
- BS, Le Moyne College
Interests: 19th century American and British literature; economics in literature; gothic literature; creative writing
Latella, Luke
PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, Hobart College
Interests: 20th Century American Literature; British & Irish Modernism; Theories of Postmodernism; Post-structural linguistics; literature, identity, and food
Leese, Marcus
Selznick Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, Southwestern University
- mleese@eastman.org
Interests: Film restoration, Japanese cinema, home video, interactive & non-linear narratives, and political fiction
Li, Huimin
PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, University of Rochester
- MA, Peking University
- BA, University of China, Renmin
Interests: African American literature, African Caribbean literature, Black Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Ecocriticism
Lowman, Emily
PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, College of William and Mary
Interests: Medieval literature, rhetoric and authority, critical race theory, critical media studies, queer theory, spatial theory, temporal theory, speculative fiction, codicology, pedagogy
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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
McKinney, Sean
Selznick Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA
Melendez, Nashaly
PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, BA, Florida International University
Interests: Gender & Sexuality Studies, Shakespeare, British Romantic and Victorian Literature, Exile Studies, Film Studies, and Literary Theory
Morrice, Santiago
PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, Mills College
- BA, University of California-Merced
Interests: Contemporary poetry and poetics; translation
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Nguyen, Ha
Selznick Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, University of East Anglia
- hnguyen@eastman.org
Interests: Vietnamese cinema, including pre-1975 South Vietnamese cinema and diasporic films; film preservation and restoration; archival film distribution
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O'Hare, Sean
PhD Program
O'Neil, Halle
MA Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, Pennsylvania State University
Interests: 19th century British literature, gender and women's studies, sexuality and repression in the novel
Ollivier, Nicolas
PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, University of Rochester
- MA, BA, Rennes 2 University
Interests: Science fiction, utopian and dystopian literature, 20th-century and contemporary American literature, critical theory, cultural studies, post-structuralism
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
Pullinzi, Siena
MA Program
- Prior Degrees
- BFA, Nazareth University
Interests: 20th Century and Contemporary literature; British and American gothic literature; horror; folklore; Spiritualism and the Occult; gender, sexuality, and women’s studies; modern and contemporary film, art, and art history
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Rall, Nicholas
Selznick Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, Virginia Commonwealth University
- nrall@eastman.org
Interests: Early color film; Technicolor; film conservation, preservation, and restoration; Japanese cinema; experimental animation; contemporary metafiction
Rosen, Jude
MA Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA
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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
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: contemporary literature, comics studies, memoir and graphic memoir, experimental forms
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Tapia, Gabby
PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, University of California, Irvine
- MA, University of Rochester
Interests: 19th-century British literature, ecocriticism, Romanticism, Spinozist studies, queer and trans theories, philosophies of the transindividual
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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
Zia, Manahil (Ammy)
MA Program
- Prior Degrees
- BS, National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, Pakistan
Interests: Postmodern American Literature, City Literature, Psychoanalytic Theory, Marxism in conjunction with Freud and Foucault, Gothic Literature as a mode of introspection