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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Caress, Madison

  • Selznick Program

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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Crowell, Steven

  • MA Program
  • Prior Degrees
    MA, Drew University

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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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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.

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Garcia, Antonia

  • PhD Program
  • Prior Degrees
    BA, University of Rochester

Interests: Sankofarration, Horror film and literature, Black Speculative 20th an 21st century literature, folktales, trauma studies

Garcia, Dani

  • PhD Program
  • Prior Degrees
    BA, California State University, Fullerton
    MA, California State University, Long Beach
    MA, Arizona State University

Interests: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature, Chicana/o Literature, Dystopian Literature, Cultural Criticism

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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Heacock, Madison

  • MA Program
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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

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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

Johnson, Audrey

  • Selznick Program

Interests: Film Studies, Preservation

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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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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

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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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Prasad, Aditi

  • Selznick Program

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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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Stueve, Timothy

  • Selznick Program

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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, Racial identity construction, 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