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

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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

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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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.

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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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

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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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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

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, 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

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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

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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: 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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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