Catherine Agar
agar.catherine@gmail.com
M.A. Program
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Victorian, Renaissance, Medieval and Eighteenth-Century British Literature; Philosophy; Christianity and Judaism; Tudor History and Biography; Twentieth-Century American and British Poetry and Biography
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Saint John Fisher College
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Esther Arnold
earnold2@mail.rochester.edu
ABD: No
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century American Literature
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Cornell University; M.A., University of Georgia
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ROBERT D BAKER
rbaker8@mail.rochester.edu
ABD: No
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century British Literature (specifically the Victorian Period and Modernism); Trauma Studies; the Body and Gender; Emotions
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Wheaton College; M.A., Northern Illinois University
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GEOFFREY BENDER
gbender@mail.rochester.edu
ABD: No
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painting
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Bennington College; M.S., Syracuse University; M.A., State University of New York at Cortland
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Vasudha Bharadwaj
vasudha.bharadwaj@rochester.edu
ABD: Yes
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Knowledge and Power, Identity, and the Role of Language in the Construction of National Identity in South Asia and British Colonialism
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Lady Shri Ram College (India); M.A., University of Delhi (India)
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HEIDI BOLLINGER
hbolling@mail.rochester.edu
ABD: Yes
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Twentieth-Century American Literature; African-American Literature (specifically Migration Narratives)
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., State University of New York at Geneseo
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Antonella Bonfanti
antonella.bonfanti@utoronto.ca
Selznick Program
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Museum Curatorship and Film Studies
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., University of Toronto (Canada)
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Joseph Brognano
jebrognano@gmail.com
M.A. Program
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Religion; Medieval and Renaissance Drama
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., State University of New York at Geneseo
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Sarah Callahan
sffcallahan@yahoo.com
Selznick Program
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Otherworldly Literature and Film; Medieval Literature; Scriptwriting; Archiving; Science-Fiction and Fantasy Film
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Saint Mary’s College; M.A. University of North Texas
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Airen Campbell-Olszewski
airy83@hotmail.com
Selznick Program
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Media Studies; Film Studies (specifically Silent Cinema, Czech New Wave, French New Wave, Italian Neo-realism, Experimental Cinema, and Classic Walt Disney Feature Animation); Audio Production and Film Preservation
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.S., Northern Michigan University
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Kristi Castleberry
kristi.castleberry@gmail.com
ABD: No
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Medieval Literature; Cultural Studies and Gender Studies
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Sonoma State University; M.A., Sonoma State University
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JOHN CHANDLER
jchandl3@mail.rochester.edu
ABD: Yes
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Medieval Literature and Languages; Monstrosity and Otherness; Film and Editing
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Plymouth State College; M.A., Western Michigan University; M.A., University of Rochester
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Bryce Condit
brcon1@yahoo.com
ABD: No
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Celtic Studies (specifically Welsh Literature)
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., University of Illinois at Chicago; M.A., Wake Forest University
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Justin Coyne
coyne.justin@gmail.com
ABD: No
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Victorian Literature; British Romanticism; Modernism; Literary Theory
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Skidmore College
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JESSICA CRABILL
jessie_crabill@yahoo.com
ABD: Yes
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Long Eighteenth-Century; Cultural Studies and Poetics
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Michigan State University; M.A., Dalhousie University (Nova Scotia)
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KEVIN CRYDERMAN
kcryderm@mail.rochester.edu
ABD: Yes
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Film (specifically Art, Avant-garde, Documentary/Mockumentary and Quirky); Individual/Collective Identity Formation; Formalist-Cultural Studies; the Social Construction of Authorship and Audience; Contemporary Fiction and Film; Postcolonial Theory; Popular and Consumer Culture; Medieval Studies (specifically 1350-1400); the Imagination of Subversion and Optimistic Nihilism
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., University of Victoria (Canada); M.A., University of Victoria (Canada)
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ANITA DURKIN
adurkin@mail.rochester.edu
ABD: Yes
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century American Literature (specifically Issues of Identity, Authorship and the Literary Canon)
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Saint Joseph College
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Sarah Dwyer
mjalta@yahoo.com
M.A. Program
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: New Media; Gender and Sexuality; American Studies
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., University of Iowa
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April Engram
april.engram@rochester.edu
M.A. Program
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Magazine Writing; Creative Writing; Publishing and Editing; Foreign Films (specifically Chinese Cinemas and Japanese Cinemas); Independent Film
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., St John Fisher College
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Charles Emig
chuckles1903@gmail.com
M.A. Program
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Modernism and Irish Literature; British Literature
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Pennsylvania State University
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Andrea Everett
andreahollis81@yahoo.com
ABD: No
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Medieval and Nineteenth-Century Literature; Arthurian Literature; Fairy Tales
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., College of William and Mary
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AMY FENSTERMAKER
afen@mail.rochester.edu
ABD: Yes
Dissertation Title: “Intertextual Artistry: Representing Fiction, Photography, Jazz, and Identity in Contemporary American Literature”
Advisor(s): Dr. Jeffrey Tucker
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Contemporary American Literature; Metafiction; Literary Representations of other Arts and History; the Racial and Gender Politics of Rap Music
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., California State University at Chico; M.A., California State University at Chico
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Frederick Fletcher
brady.fletcher@gmail.com
M.A. Program
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Film and Critical Theory
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., University of Vermont
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Qian Hua Ge
qge@mail.rochester.edu
ABD: No
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Asian-American Literature
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Pace University
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Erica Geller
texerica@aol.com
M.A. Program
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: American Studies; Early Post-Modernism and Deconstruction
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Dartmouth College
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TINA GIOVANIELLI
gvnl@mail.rochester.edu
ABD: Yes
Advisor(s): Dr. John Michael
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century American Literature
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Princeton University; M.A., University of Rochester
Personal Website: http://courses.ats.rochester.edu/giovanielli/
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Edward Green
green.edward@gmail.com
M.A. Program
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Modern American Literature
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., State University of New York
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DUSTIN HANNUM
dhannum@mail.rochester.edu
ABD: Yes
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Confessional Writing; Nonfiction Writing and Documentary
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Concord College; M.A., University at Buffalo
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RYAN HARPER
rharper@mail.rochester.edu
ABD: Yes
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Medieval Studies; Literature and Language
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Oregon State University
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LEAH HAUGHT
lhaught@hotmail.com
ABD: Yes
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Medieval Literature; Arthurian Literature; Chivalry; Celtic and Norse Mythology; Popular Culture; Film and Drama
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Colgate University
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John Havard
HavardJC@gmail.com
ABD: No
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Literature in the United States from the Colonial Period to the Civil War; the Historical Novel and Literary Nationalism; Comparative Inter-American Studies; Literary and Cultural Theory
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., University of South Alabama; M.A., University of South Carolina
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NANCY HECKEL
n.m.heckel@rochester.edu
ABD: Yes
Advisor: Dr. Russell Peck
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Medieval Studies; Education and Educational Rhetoric; Medievalism; Folklore, Fairy Tale, and Fantasy; Popular Culture
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., College of William and Mary
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DANIEL HUTCHINS
dhutchin@mail.rochester.edu
ABD: Yes
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Colonial North American and Caribbean Literatures; Globalization and Indigenous Cultures; Migration, Labor and Social Justice; Spatial Constructions of Subjectivity; Critical Theory
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Reed College
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Valerie Johnson
valeriebjohnson@yahoo.com
ABD: No
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Alterity; Absence; Robin Hood; Wilderness; Outlaws and Popular Culture
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Smith College; M.A., University of Rochester
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GILBERT KIRTON
gkirton@mail.rochester.edu
ABD: No
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Renaissance Literature; Queer Theory; Women's Studies; Shakespeare; Revenge Tragedy; Death and the Bawdy
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., West Texas A&M University
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RACHEL LEE
rlee13@mail.rochester.edu
ABD: No
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: British Romanticism; Poetics; Feminist Studies; Dream Texts; Writing and the Body; Senses and Perception
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., University of Maine at Farmington; M.A., University of Maine at Orono
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AARON LEHMAN
alehman1@rochester.rr.com
ABD: Yes
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Twentieth-Century American Literature; Modern Poetry; Narrative, Psychoanalytic, and Trauma Theories; Violence and Representation; War Narratives
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Williams College
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Alanna Lewis
alannalew@gmail.com
M.A. Program
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Victorian Gothic and Female Gothic Literature
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Centenary College of Louisiana
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JENNIFER LIGHTWEIS-GOFF
jdlightweis@hotmail.com
ABD: Yes
Dissertation Title: “‘Blood at the Root’: Lynching as American Cultural Nucleus”
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Race, Gender, and Citizenship (specifically 1865-1965); American Literature and Popular Culture
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., University of South Carolina; M.A., Clemson University
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Hilarie Lloyd
fireflymoon22@yahoo.com
ABD: No
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Feminist Theory and Jurisprudence; Progressive Literary Movements; Politics and Language; Critical Race Theory; Women Writers; Anglo-Irish Literature
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Duke University; J.D., Cornell Law School
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MIRIAM MARGALA
miriam@ling.rochester.edu
ABD: No
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Literature and Language
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., University of Alberta at Edmonton (Canada)
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Susannah Mayhall
smmayhall@gmail.com
M.A. Program
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Victorian Literature; Gender Studies; Post-Modernism; International Fiction; Slave Narratives; Feminist Theory
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Samford University
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Justine McGhee
jmcghee@mail.rochester.edu
ABD: No
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: British Romanticism; Monstrosity; History of Science; Contemporary Horror and Science Fiction Studies
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Kara McShane
klmcshane@gmail.com
ABD: No
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Medieval Literature (specifically Chaucer); Narrative and History
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., College of the Holy Cross
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Nicole Meeks
nicole.meeks@gmail.com
M.A. Program
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Modernism; Literary and Cultural Theory; Philosophy through Literature
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Nazareth College of Rochester
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SHAILA MEHRA
smra@mail.rochester.edu
ABD: Yes
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Twentieth-Century American Literature and African-American Literature
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Rhodes College; B.A., Rhodes College
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Wesley Mills
wesley.mills@essc.edu
ABD: No
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Literature and Language
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Empire State College
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Megan Morris
megan.leigh.morris@gmail.com
ABD: No
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Victorian Literature; Fairy Tales and Folktales; Modern Poetry and Women’s Literature
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Agnes Scott College
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Rita Nicola
jungleredd1@yahoo.com
Selznick Program
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Film Preservation and Restoration
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., University of Central Florida
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Leila Norako
lknorako@yahoo.com
ABD: No
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Medieval Literature and the Crusades
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., College of William and Mary
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Rebecca Povec
raine920@yahoo.com
M.A. Program
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Renaissance Literature
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Evangel University
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Meaghan Provost
meagpro@gmail.com
M.A. Program
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Medieval Literature (specifically Dante); Creative Writing; Feminist Theory
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., State University of New York at Fredonia
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AMIRA RICHLER
arichler@mail.rochester.edu
ABD: No
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Nineteenth-Century British Literature; African-American Literature; Cultural Studies; Feminist Theory; Queer Theory; Film Studies; Gothic; Discourses of HIV/AIDS; Ecocriticism; Postcolonialism; Psychoanalysis; Autobiography and Memoir
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., McGill University (Canada); M.A., McMaster University (Canada)
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Russell Sbriglia
russell.sbriglia@rochester.edu
ABD: No
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Nineteenth-Century American Literature (specifically American Romanticism); Literary and Critical Theory (specifically in the Ordinary Language tradition); History of Western Aesthetics in the Confluence of Skepticism and Moral/Ethical Philosophy; Intersections between the Anglo-American/Analytical and Continental Traditions
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Canisius College; M.A., University at Buffalo
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EMILY SPEAR
espear@mail.rochester.edu
ABD: No
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: American Literature and the Short Story Genre
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Fordham University; M.A., University of Arkansas
Phone: (585)461-9879
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Daniel Stokes
DDStokes@aol.com
ABD: No
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Medieval Literature
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., University of Connecticut; M.A., University of Connecticut
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Patricia Tehan
patricia.tehan@gmail.com
M.A. Program
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Shakespeare; Theatre; Chaucer; Spanish Drama and Renaissance Drama
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., University of Rochester
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Jennifer Thompson Stone
jthomp11@mail.rochester.edu
ABD: No
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Modernism; Authorship Studies; Gender Studies and Postcolonial Studies
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., State University of New York at Geneseo; M.A., New York University
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Kathryn Van Wert
kvanwert@mail.rochester.edu
ABD: No
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Twentieth-Century American Literature; Contemporary Novels and Short Fiction; Mythology; Narrative Theories; Editorial Theory
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Duke University
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STEFANIE VISCHANSKY
stefbumble@aol.com
ABD: No
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Nineteenth-Century British and American Literature; Women Writers; Sentimental Fiction; Victorian Sexuality; Intersections of Politics and Domestic Fiction; Sentimentality and Gender
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Skidmore College
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ANDREW WADOSKI
andrewwadoski@hotmail.com
ABD: Yes
Advisor(s): Dr. Ken Gross
Dissertation Title: “Spenser’s Gardens: Poetry, Fantasy, and Allegory”
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Renaissance Studies; Poetry and Poetics; Allegory and Romance
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Saint Lawrence University; M.A., University of Rochester
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Amanda Weldon
agweldon@gmail.com
M.A. Program
Field(s) of Study/ Research Interests: Medieval Literature (specifically Anglo-Saxon); Feminist Theory; Women's Uses of Language in Literature
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Houghton College
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