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
Crowell, Steven
MA Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, Drew University
D
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.
G
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
Gilbert, Natina
PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- Oberlin College, BA
Interests: Twentieth-century American, Poetry and Poetics, law and literature
H
Heacock, Madison
MA Program
Hearburg, HaiLee
MA Program
Huskin, Kyle
PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, Georgetown College
Interests: medieval literature, gender and authority, multispectral imaging, codicology, manuscript cultures, textual sciences
J
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
K
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
O
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
Prasad, Aditi
Selznick Program
S
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
- gshobert@eastman.org
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
Stueve, Timothy
Selznick Program
T
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
W
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.
Z
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