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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

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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

Professor of English David Bleich

Bleich, David

Professor

Office Location
409 Morey Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-8568

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

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

Bowen, Mead

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
MA, Aberystwyth University
BA, University of Florida

Interests: intersections of medieval English and Celtic literature, gender studies, childhood and coming-of-age, animal studies, wildness, monstrosity, ecocriticism

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Burges, Joel

Associate Professor of English

Associate Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies

Office Location
413 Morey Hall

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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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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Dunning, Stefanie K.

Susan B. Anthony Professor

Professor of Black Studies

Professor of English

Director, Sexuality, Women, and Gender Studies

Office Location
538 Lattimore Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-5115

Interests: Black ecologies; Queer ecologies; Queer theory; Black feminist theory; African American literature; Literary and cultural studies; Film and visual cultures

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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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Katie Farrell

Farrell, Katie

Administrative Assistant, Theater Program

Office Location
207 Todd Union
Telephone
(585) 275-4959

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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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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Sarah Higley

Higley, Sarah L

Professor

Office Location
411 Morey Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-9261

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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Jones, Sarah

Managing Editor, Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly

Office Location
Morey
Telephone
(585) 275-3820

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Kalayeh, Pirooz

he/him/his

Assistant Professor of English

Office Location
407 Morey Hall
Web Address
Website

Interests: Hybrid Cinema; Iranian Cinema; Narrative Film Production; Documentary Production; Multicultural Programming; Animation

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Kegl, Rosemary

Associate Professor

Office Location
318 Morey Hall

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

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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

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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

Bette London

London, Bette

Joseph Henry Gilmore Professor of English

Professor of English

Office Location
304 Morey Hall

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

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

Office Location
416 Rush Rhees Library
Telephone
(585) 275-0110

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

Office Location
210 Todd Union
Telephone
(585) 273-5159

Interests: New music; multimedia performance

Professor McCune.

McCune, Jeffrey Q., Jr.

he/him/his

Frederick Douglass Professor

Associate Professor of English

Associate Professor of Black Studies

Founding Chair, Department of Black Studies

Office Location
311B Morey Hall
Telephone
(585) 273-5346

Interests: Gender Studies; Sexuality Studies; Performance and Popular Culture; Visual and Cultural Studies; Black Queer 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

John Michael

Michael, John

John Hall Deane Professor of Rhetoric and Poetry

Professor of English

Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies

Director, American Studies

Office Location
405 Morey Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-9259

Interests: American literature; critical theory; cultural studies

Jason Middleton

Middleton, Jason

Associate Professor of English

Associate Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies

Director, Film and Media Studies Program

Office Location
511 Morey Hall

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

Morrice, Santiago

PhD Program

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

Interests: Contemporary poetry and poetics; translation

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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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Omelsky, Matthew

Associate Professor of English

Associate Professor of Black Studies

Associate Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies

Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Black Studies

Office Location
417 Morey Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-2376

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

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Supritha Rajan

Rajan, Supritha

Associate Professor of English

Office Location
415 Morey Hall

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

Rozenski, Steven

Associate Professor

Office Location
416 Morey

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

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Joanna Scott

Scott, Joanna

Roswell Smith Burrows Professor of English

Professor of English

Director, Literary Arts Programs

Office Location
404C Morey Hall

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: Twentieth-century World Literature, Ethics, Self-help

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

Curt Smith

Smith, Curt

Senior Lecturer of English

Office Location
404-A Morey Hall
Telephone
(585) 426-7375
Web Address
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: 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

Jeffrey Tucker

Tucker, Jeffrey Allen

Associate Professor of English

Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of English

Office Location
418 Morey Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-2064

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

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

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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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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

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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