Esther Arnold
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Cornell University;
M.A., University of Georgia; M.A., University of Rochester
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century American Literature; Silent Film
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James C. Banks
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., University of Idaho; M.A., University of Rochester
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Renaissance Narrative Poetry; New Media; Law and Literature
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Matthew Bayne
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., University of Chicago
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Post-Colonial Theory; Victorian Literature and Culture; Trauma; Affect Theory
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Laura Bell
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., University of York, UK; M.A., University of Sheffield, UK
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Especially Poetry
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Geoffrey Bender
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Bennington College;
M.S., Syracuse University; M.A., State University of New York at Cortland;
M.A., University of Rochester
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painting
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Erin Berg
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Rutgers University
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture; Psychoanalytic Theory; Issues of National Identity
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Jenny Boyar
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Lafayette College
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Medieval Literature and Language; Memory and Cognition; Music and Literature; Gender Studies
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Sarah Bunker
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., University of Michigan-Flint
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Early Modern Literature, Domestic Utopianism
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Kelly Jean Campbell
MA Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Virginia Commonwealth University
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Postcolonial and Gender Studies; Victorian and Modernist Epistolary Works
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Kristi Castleberry
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Sonoma State University; M.A., Sonoma State University
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Medieval Literature; Cultural Studies and Gender Studies
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John Chandler
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Plymouth State College; M.A., Western Michigan University; M.A., University of Rochester
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Medieval Literature and Languages; Monstrosity and Otherness; Editing Theory; Film
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Carly Chasin
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Union College
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature; African-American Literature; Feminist Theory
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Bryce Condit
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., University of Illinois at Chicago; M.A., Wake Forest University
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Celtic Studies (specifically Welsh Literature)
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Justin Coyne
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Skidmore College
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Twentieth-Century American Literature and Film; Marxist and Postcolonial Theory; Cosmopolitanism
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Jessica Crabill
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Michigan State University; M.A., Dalhousie University (Nova Scotia)
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Long Eighteenth-Century; Cultural Studies and Poetics
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Emily Davis
MA in Literary Translation Studies
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Brigham Young University; M.A., Brigham Young University
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Translation Theory and Practice; Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Spanish and Spanish-American Literature
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Dianne Evanochko
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Simon Fraser University (Canada)
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Medieval Studies; Chaucer; Middle English; Italian Literature; English Renaissance Literature; Shakespeare
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Andrea Everett
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., College of William
and Mary; M.A., University of Rochester
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Eighteenth-Century British Literature; British Romanticism; Fairy Tales
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Carolina Freuder
MA in Literary Translation Studies
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., University of Denver; M.A., University of Rochester
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Translation Theory; The Role of Language in Nationalism and Cultural Identity; Spanish and American Literature; Translation in Films
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Lyndsey Godwin
Selznick Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., University of Rochester
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Film Preservation
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Liz Goodfellow
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Skidmore College
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Twentieth-Century American Literature; Image/Text Studies; Comics; Feminism
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Alison Grenert
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., University of Pittsburg; M.A., University of Rochester
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature; Film and Media Studies; Genre Studies; Literature and Language Theory
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Dustin Hannum
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Concord College; M.A., University at Buffalo
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Aesthetic Theory
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Heather Harkins
Selznick Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., University of King's College, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Film
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Ryan Harper
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Oregon State University; M.A., University of Rochester
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Medieval Studies; Literature and Language
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John Havard
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., University of South
Alabama; M.A., University of South Carolina; M.A., University of Rochester
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
U.S. Literature and Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century; Hemispheric American Studies; Historicist Approaches to Literature; Narrative Theory
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Julianne Heck
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Colby College; M.A., Simmons College
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Early Twentieth-Century American Literature
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Daniel Helm
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.S., North Carolina State University; M.A., North Carolina State University
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Twentieth-Century American Literature; Twentieth-Century Poetry
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Daniel Hutchins
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Reed College; M.A., University of Rochester
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Colonial North American, Latin Americn and Caribbean Literatures; Globalization and Diaspora Studies; Borders and Maps; Critical Theory; Poetics
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Valerie Johnson
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Smith College; M.A., University of Rochester
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Alterity; Absence; Robin Hood; Wilderness; Outlaws and Popular Culture; Medieval Political Poetry; Landscape Studies
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Martha Johnson-Olin
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., University of Missouri-Kansas City; M.A., University of Missouri-Kansas City; M.A., University of Rochester
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Medieval Literature; Romance; Fairytales; Gender Theory
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Nicholas J. Knopf
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Nazareth College; M.A., Saint Bonaventure University
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Mark Twain; Theory of the Novel; Eighteenth-Century English Novel; Medical and Scientific Prose; Travel
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Joseph Lamperez
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Loyola University of Chicago; M.A., Loyola University of Chicago
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
The Hermetic Tradition; Fin de Siecle Literature and Art; Magical Realism; Surrealism; Obscurity; the Politics and Poetics of Space; Romanticism; the Baroque; Ecocriticism; Postcolonial Theology
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Amanda Lang
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., St. John Fisher College; M.A., University of Rochester
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Early Modern Literature; Shakespeare and English Renaissance Drama; Gender Studies
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Rachel Lee
rachel.lee[at]rochester.edu
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., University of Maine
at Farmington; M.A., University of Maine at Orono; M.A., University
of Rochester
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
British Romanticism; Eighteenth-Century British Literature; Scholarly Editing; History of Technology; Digital Humanities
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Hilarie Lloyd
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Duke University; J.D., Cornell Law School
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Feminist Theory and Jurisprudence; Progressive Literary Movements; Politics and Language; Critical Race Theory; Women Writers; Anglo-Irish Literature
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Kathryn Lutes
MA Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Kalamazoo College
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Theory of the Novel; Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Novel
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Miriam Margala
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., University of Alberta at Edmonton (Canada)
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Literature and Language
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Justine Ali McGhee
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; M.A., University of Rochester
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
British Romanticism; Monstrosity; History of Science; Contemporary Horror and Science Fiction Studies
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Kara McShane
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., College of the Holy
Cross; M.A., University of Rochester
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Multilingualism and Late Medieval English Identity; Middle English Political Writing; Cultural Translation; Vernacularity Studies; Postcolonial Studies
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Shaila Mehra
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Rhodes College; M.A., University of Rochester
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Twentieth-Century American Literature and African-American Literature
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Wesley Mills
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Empire State College
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Literature and Language
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Joseph Morgan
MA Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Empire State College
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century British and American Literature; Modernism; Literary and Aesthetic Theory
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Megan Morris
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Agnes Scott College; M.A., University of Rochester
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Victorian Literature; Fairy Tales and Folktales; Modern Poetry and Women’s Literature
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Daniel Nelson
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., New York University; M.A., SUNY at Buffalo
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Poetry, Especially Ninteenth-Century British and Twentieth-Century American; British Romanticism
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Samantha Newmark
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Colgate University
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Medieval and Renaissance
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Leila Norako
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., College of William and Mary; M.A., University of Rochester
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Medieval Literature and the Crusades
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Scott O'Neil
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Towson University; M.A., St. Bonaventure University
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Early Modern; Shakespeare; Renaissance Pedagogy
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Rebecca Rawling
MA Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Skidmore College
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Nineteenth-Century British Literature; Victorian Illustrated Text; Literature and the Environment
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Andrew Rhoades
MA Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., College of the Holy Cross
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Twentieth-Century American and British Literature
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Sharon E. Rhodes
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Portland State University
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Old English Literature; Early Germanic Myth and Culture; Modernist Poetry;
Exile; and Ways of Viewing the Passage of Time
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Amira Richler
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., McGill University (Canada); M.A., McMaster University (Canada)
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Late Victorian and Twentieth-Century British Literature; Postcolonial Literature and Theory
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Rob Rinck
MA in Literary Translation Studies
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Stony Brook University
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Spanish Language and Literature; Literary Translation; Translation and Interpretation; Subtitles
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Josh Romphf
Selznick Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., University of Western Ontario
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Film Preservation
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Russell Sbriglia
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Canisius College; M.A., University at Buffalo
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
Personal Website:
http://www.sbriglia.com/
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Abhishek Shukla
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., St. Stephen's College, Delhi; M.A., University College Dublin
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Anglo-Irish and Indian Literary Revivals
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Hardeep Sidhu
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Boston University
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature; Postcolonial Theory; Transamerican Studies
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Daniel Singleton
MA Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Kennesaw State University
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Silent Film; Twentieth-Century American Literature; Sidney Lumet
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Daniel Stokes
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., University of Connecticut; M.A., University of Connecticut
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Medieval Literature
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Zachary Hobert Thompson
Selznick Program
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Film Preservation; 16mm and 8mm Educational and "Home" Movies
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Lisa Vandenbossche
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., University of Michigan; M.A., Clemson University
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Nineteenth-Century British Literature; Australian Literature; Travel Writing; Feminist Theory; Postcolonial Theory
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Kathryn Van Wert
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Duke University; M.A., University of Rochester
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Twentieth-Century Anglo-American Literature; Contemporary Novels and Short
Fiction
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Stefanie Vischansky
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Skidmore College; M.A., University of Rochester
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
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Joseph Vogel
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Utah Valley University; M.A., Brigham Young University
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Romanticism; Identity/Subjectivity; Contemporary Literature; Popular Music
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Emily Wall
Selznick Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Dartmouth College
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Film Preservation
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Nikolaus Wasmoen
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Yale University
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Twentieth-Century American Literature; Critical Theory; Modern and Contemporary Poetry; Literature and Technology
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Scott G. Williams
Selznick Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Western Michigan University
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Film Preservation
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Pamela Yee
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., University of California, Berkeley
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Medieval Literature; Arthurian Tradition; Celtic Mythology; Folklore and Fairy Tale; Historical Linguistics; Gender Studies
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Peter Zogas
PhD Program
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Skidmore College
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests:
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature; Critical Theory; Narrative Theory; Representations of Historical Consciousness
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