This list is designed to help students identify faculty according to research and teaching interests represented in many graduate programs in English. This is not an exhaustive list. Please consult our descriptions of individual faculty and graduate students for a more detailed sense of current research and teaching interests.
Medieval
Thomas Hahn
Sarah Higley
Alan Lupack
Russell Peck
Renaissance
Kenneth Gross
Rosemary Kegl
Restoration (British) and Eighteenth Century (British and American)
Morris Eaves
Kenneth Gross
Rosemary Kegl
Katie Mannheimer
Ezra Tawil
Nineteenth Century (British and American)
Morris Eaves
Bette London
John Michael
Supritha Rajan
Ezra Tawil
Twentieth Century and Contemporary (British and American)
David Bleich
Joel Burges
George Grella
Jennifer Grotz
Stephanie Li
Bette London
James Longenbach
John Michael
Stephen Schottenfeld
Joanna Scott
Jeffrey Tucker
American and African-American Studies
David Bleich
Joel Burges
Stephanie Li
James Longenbach
John Michael
Jason Middleton
Ezra Tawil
Jeffrey Tucker
Film Studies
David Bleich
Joel Burges
George Grella
Sarah Higley
Jason Middleton
Media Studies/Studies of Authorship/Digital Humanities
Joel Burges
Morris Eaves
Thomas Hahn
Bette London
Katie Mannheimer
Jason Middleton
Creative Writing
Jennifer Grotz
Sarah Higley
Stephanie Li
James Longenbach
Supritha Rajan
Stephen Schottenfeld
Joanna Scott
Literary Translation Studies
Kenneth Gross
Jennifer Grotz
Bette London
Katie Mannheimer
John Michael
Joanna Scott
Poetry, Poetics, Prosody
Morris Eaves
Kenneth Gross
Jennifer Grotz
James Longenbach
John Michael
Supritha Rajan
The Novel
Joel Burges
Stephanie Li
Bette London
James Longenbach
Katie Mannheimer
John Michael
Supritha Rajan
Stephen Schottenfeld
Joanna Scott
Ezra Tawil
Jeffrey Tucker
Drama, Theater, Playwriting
Kenneth Gross
Rosemary Kegl
Nigel Maister
Katie Mannheimer
Stephen Schottenfeld
Russell Peck
Literary Theory, Film Theory, Media Theory
David Bleich
Joel Burges
Morris Eaves
Thomas Hahn
Rosemary Kegl
Bette London
Katie Mannheimer
John Michael
Jason Middleton
This list groups by department those faculty who have served recently on graduate exams or as dissertation readers. Please consult the individual department descriptions for extended descriptions of their research and teaching and for other faculty whose work might correspond even more closely to your interests.
Anthropology
Robert Foster (nationalism, globalization, mass media, material culture)
Art and Art History
Douglas Crimp (contemporary art criticism, sexuality and representation)
Paul Duro (art institutions in France, theory and practice of imitation, the sublime, eighteenth-century visual art)
Rachel Haidu (postwar American and European art, photography)
Joan Saab (twentieth-century American history, media, and culture)
David Walsh (medieval archaeology, English medieval art and architecture)
Sharon Willis (feminist theory, film theory and visual analysis, cultural studies)
Eastman Humanities
Jonathan Baldo (Shakespeare)
Jean Pedersen (modern European and French history, women’s history)
Film and Media Studies
Joanne Bernardi (Japanese film and popular culture)
Jennifer Creech (eighteenth-century German literature and film)
Sharon Willis (film theory and visual analysis)
History
Daniel Borus (U.S. cultural and intellectual history)
Ted Brown (intellectual, institutional, and political history of medicine)
Larry Hudson (African-American history, comparative slavery, oral history)
Richard Kaeuper (medieval British and continental European history)
Dorinda Outram (European history, 1648-1848; history of geographical exploration; history of science)
Joan Rubin (nineteenth- and twentieth-century American history, history of the book)
Stuart Weaver (modern British history, British imperial and Irish history)
Robert Westbrook (modern intellectual, cultural, and political history)
Modern Languages and Cultures
Joanne Bernardi (Japanese film and popular culture)
Jennifer Creech (twentieth-century German literature and film, Marxism, feminism)
Thomas DiPiero (seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French literature, psychoanalysis)
Susan Gustafson (German literature and culture, gender and sexuality)
Beth Jorgensen (twentieth-century Spanish-American literature, women’s writing)
Cilas Kemedjio (Francophone African and Caribbean literatures)
Ryan Prendergast (sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish- and Latin-American literatures)
Raul Rodriquez-Hernandez (Hispanic literatures and cultures)
Claudia Schaefer (nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first-century Spanish- and Latin-American culture)
Donatella Stocchi-Perucchio (medieval Italian studies, Dante)
Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century American Literature; Silent Film
topRenaissance Narrative Poetry; New Media; Law and Literature
topPost-Colonial Theory; Victorian Literature and Culture; Trauma; Affect Theory
topNineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Especially Poetry
topNineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture; Psychoanalytic Theory; Issues of National Identity
topMedieval Literature and Language; Memory and Cognition; Music and Literature; Gender Studies
topEarly Modern Literature, Domestic Utopianism
topNineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature; Aesthetics and History of the Novel
topMedieval Literature; Cultural Studies and Gender Studies
topTwentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature; African-American Literature; Feminist Theory
topTwentieth-Century American Literature and Film; Marxist and Postcolonial Theory; Cosmopolitanism
topTranslation Theory and Practice; Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Spanish and Spanish-American Literature
topMedieval Studies; Chaucer; Middle English; Italian Literature; English Renaissance Literature; Shakespeare
topEighteenth-Century British Literature; British Romanticism; Fairy Tales
topTranslation Theory; The Role of Language in Nationalism and Cultural Identity; Spanish and American Literature; Translation in Films
topFilm Preservation
topNineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature; Film and Media Studies; Genre Studies; Literature and Language Theory
topFilm
topEarly Twentieth-Century American Literature
topTwentieth-Century American Literature; Twentieth-Century Poetry
topColonial North American, Latin Americn and Caribbean Literatures; Globalization and Diaspora Studies; Borders and Maps; Critical Theory; Poetics
topTwentieth-Century and Contemporary American and British Literature
topMedieval Literature; Romance; Fairytales; Gender Theory
topMark Twain; Theory of the Novel; Eighteenth-Century English Novel; Medical and Scientific Prose; Travel
topRenaissance/Early Modern, particularly Shakespeare
topThe Hermetic Tradition; Fin de Siecle Literature and Art; Magical Realism; Surrealism; Obscurity; the Politics and Poetics of Space; Romanticism; the Baroque; Ecocriticism; Postcolonial Theology
topEarly Modern Literature; Shakespeare and English Renaissance Drama; Gender Studies
topBritish Romanticism; Eighteenth-Century British Literature; Scholarly Editing; History of Technology; Digital Humanities
topFeminist Theory and Jurisprudence; Progressive Literary Movements; Politics and Language; Critical Race Theory; Women Writers; Anglo-Irish Literature
topBritish Romanticism; Monstrosity; History of Science; Contemporary Horror and Science Fiction Studies
topMultilingualism and Late Medieval English Identity; Middle English Political Writing; Cultural Translation; Vernacularity Studies; Postcolonial Studies
topVictorian Literature; Fairy Tales and Folktales; Modern Poetry and Women’s Literature
topPoetry, Especially Ninteenth-Century British and Twentieth-Century American; British Romanticism
topRenaissance and Revenge Drama
topEarly Modern; Shakespeare; Renaissance Pedagogy
topOld English Literature; Early Germanic Myth and Culture; Modernist Poetry; Exile; and Ways of Viewing the Passage of Time
topLate Victorian and Twentieth-Century British Literature; Postcolonial Literature and Theory
topSpanish Language and Literature; Literary Translation; Translation and Interpretation; Subtitles
topFilm Preservation
topNineteenth-Century American Literature; Anglo-Irish and Indian Literary Revivals
topTwentieth-Century American Literature; Historiography and Historical Fiction
topMedieval Literature
topFilm Studies; Holocaust Literature and Film
topNineteenth-Century British and American Literature; Women Writers; Sentimental Fiction; Victorian Sexuality; Intersections of Politics and Domestic Fiction; Sentimentality and Gender
topFilm Preservation; 16mm and 8mm Educational and "Home" Movies
topEighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British and American Literature; Atlantic Studies; Law and Literature; Feminist and Gender Studies
topTwentieth-Century American Literature; African American Studies; Masculinity and Gender; Film; Popular Music; Cultural Studies; American Studies
topFilm Preservation
topTwentieth-Century American Literature; Critical Theory; Modern and Contemporary Poetry; Literature and Technology
topFilm Preservation
topMedieval Literature; Arthurian Tradition; Celtic Mythology; Folklore and Fairy Tale; Historical Linguistics; Gender Studies
topNineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature; Critical Theory; Narrative Theory; Representations of Historical Consciousness
topJohn Michael
(585) 275-4092
john.michael@rochester.edu
Rosemary Kegl
(585) 275-9259
rosemary.kegl@rochester.edu
Katherine Mannheimer
(585) 275-4092
katherine.mannheimer@rochester.edu
Department Administrator
Mary Ellen Felten
(585) 275-9258
maryellen.felten@rochester.edu
Graduate Secretary
Carrie Morriss
(585) 275-9256
carrie.morriss@rochester.edu
Secretary/Receptionist
Lucianne Peck
(585) 275-4092
lucianne.peck@rochester.edu