Full Directory
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Albers-Morris, Catherine
PhD Program
- 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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Balmain, Melissa
Instructor
- Office Location
- 419 Morey Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Bao, Qina
MA Program
- MA Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, MEd, Southwest University in China
Interests: Black feminist theory, African American literature
Beljanski, Tanja
PhD Program
- 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
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
Bowen, Mead
PhD Program
- 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
Burges, Joel
Associate Professor of English and Visual & 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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Caress, Madison
Selznick Program
- Selznick Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, Vassar College
Carrasco, Winna
Selznick Program
- Selznick Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, Hunter College
Interests: film restoration and exhibition
Chitrakar, Yash
PhD Program
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, Washburn University
Interests: Metamodernism, Modern and Postmodern literature and film, Aesthetics and ethics, Literary theory
Choudhury, Debarati
PhD Program
- 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
- 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
- MA Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, Drew University
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Davis, Diana
PhD Program
- 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
- 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
Eaves, Morris
Professor of English
Former Director, A.W. Mellon Graduate Program in the Digital Humanities
1944-2024
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: British Romanticism; Media history and theory; Editorial theory; William Blake Archive Project
Espinosa, Juan
PhD Program
- 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
Farrell, Katie
Administrative Assistant, Theater Program
- Office Location
- 207 Todd Union
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4959
Fessenmeyer, Victor
Selznick Program
- Selznick Program
Interests: Film Studies and Preservation
Fletcher, Brady
Instructor
Director of Forensics, Debate Union
- Office Location
- 1.208a Dewey
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3873
Francisco, Erin
PhD Program
- 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
- 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
Gavin, Thomas
Professor Emeritus
Gaydo, Kyle
PhD Program
- 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
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- Oberlin College, BA
Interests: Twentieth-century American, Poetry and Poetics, law and literature
Gollin, Richard M
Professor Emeritus
- gollin@aol.com
Gross, Kenneth
Alan F. Hilfiker Distinguished Professor in English
Professor of English
- Office Location
- 404B Morey Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Shakespeare; lyric poetry; Renaissance literature; romance
Grotz, Jennifer
Professor of English
- Office Location
- 406 Morey Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Poetry; creative writing; translation
Gunter, Sherri
Department Administrator
- Office Location
- 424B Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9258
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Hahn, Thomas
Professor
- Office Location
- 402A Morey Hall
Interests: Medieval literature and culture; popular culture
Hamilton, Katie
Production Manager
Interests: Theatre management; Stage lighting; Props building; Social justice
Hansen, David
Senior Lecturer of English
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4092
Heacock, Madison
MA Program
- MA Program
Hearburg, HaiLee
MA Program
- MA Program
Heyworth, Gregory
Associate Professor of English
Director, Lazarus Project
- Office Location
- 408 Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2548
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
- 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
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, Grinnell College
Interests: contemporary literature and film, poetics, black studies, music, queer studies, critical theory, ordinary language philosophy
Johnson, Bruce
Professor Emeritus
Johnson, James William
Professor Emeritus
Johnson, Audrey
Selznick Program
- Selznick Program
Interests: Film Studies, Preservation
Jones, Sarah
Managing Editor, Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly
- Office Location
- Morey
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3820
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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
- 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
- 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
Kingsley, Kathryn
Program Assistant
- Office Location
- 421 Morey
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7326
Kusmierek, Liam
PhD Program
- 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
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, University of Rochester
- BA, University of Cologne
Interests: American Literature, African American Literature, Modernism
Lang, Amanda
PhD Program
- 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
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, Hobart College
Interests: British and Irish Modernism; American Postmodernism; Transatlantic Studies; Literature and national identity
Li, Huimin
PhD Program
- 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
London, Bette
Professor
- Office Location
- 304 Morey Hall
Interests: Twentieth-century British literature; Victorian literature and culture; feminist theory; women's writing; authorship studies
Longenbach, James
Joseph Henry Gilmore Professor of English
1959-2022
- Web Address
- Website
Lowman, Emily
PhD Program
- 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
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
M
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
Mannheimer, Katherine
Associate Professor of English
Chair , Department of English
- Office Location
- 417 Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9257
Interests: Restoration; Eighteenth-century literature
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
- Office Location
- 311B Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 273-5346
McDonald, Zoe
Selznick Program
- Selznick Program
Interests: Film Studies and Preservation
Memmott, James
Adjunct Assistant Professor of English
- Office Location
- 419 Morey Hall
Interests: Journalism
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
- Office Location
- 405 Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9259
Interests: American literature; critical theory; cultural studies
Middleton, Jason
Associate Professor of English and 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
Miller, William
Assistant Professor
- Office Location
- 410 Morey Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: 17th century literature; 18th century literature; literature and religion; literature and philosophy
Morrice, Santiago
PhD Program
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MA, Mills College
- BA, University of California-Merced
Interests: Contemporary poetry and poetics; translation
Morriss, Carrie
Graduate Program Coordinator
- Office Location
- 423 Morey
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9256
Murray, Seth
PhD Program
- 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
- 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.
Ormsbee, Michael
PhD Program
- 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
- 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
Peck, Russell A
Professor Emeritus of English and John H. Deane Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric and Poetry
1933 – 2023
- Web Address
- 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
Penner, Sara Bickweat
Prasad, Aditi
Selznick Program
- Selznick Program
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Rajan, Supritha
Associate Professor of English
- Office Location
- 415 Morey Hall
Interests: Nineteenth-century British literature; critical theory; creative writing (poetry)
Ramsey, Jarold
Professor Emeritus
Rosenow, James
Assistant Professor of English
- Office Location
- 420 Morey Hall
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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Schottenfeld, Stephen
Associate Professor of English
- Office Location
- 414 Morey Hall
Interests: Modern and contemporary literature; fiction writing; playwriting; screenwriting
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
Shaikh, Abdullah
PhD Program
- 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
- 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
Smith, Cara
Undergraduate Studies Coordinator
- Office Location
- 422 Morey
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9255
Smith, Curt
Senior Lecturer of English
- Office Location
- 404-A Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 426-7375
- curtsmith@netacc.net
- 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
- 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
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- MFA, Sarah Lawrence College
- BA, Brown University
Interests: Text and image, comics, memoir, hybrid forms
Stueve, Timothy
Selznick Program
- Selznick Program
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Tapia, Gabby
PhD Program
- PhD Program
- Prior Degrees
- BA, University of California, Irvine
Interests: Ecocriticism, queer theory, Spinozist theories, absurdist literature, 19th-century British literature
Tawil, Ezra
Professor
1967-2024
- Web Address
- 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
- 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
- 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
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
