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English Department Graduate Student Directory
Current Ph.D. Students
Maeve Adams
Samuel Anderson
Interests: History of the novel, postmodernism, Irish lit
Leslie Barnes
Durba Basu
Interests: Postcolonial studies, 19th century studies, modernisms, history of the book
Education: MA (Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India, 2003), BA (University of Calcutta, India, 2001)
Brendan Beirne
Interests: 20th Century American, British, & Latin American literature, the encyclopedic novel, pragmatism, critical theory, somaesthetics.
Elizabeth Blake
Interests: Medieval and Renaissance literature, especially early modern drama; history and philosophy of science, stage machinery, critical theory and philosophy, fake limbs, materialism and materiality, bodies and body theory, philosophies of technology, fetishes.
Elizabeth Bonapfel
Elizabeth Bradtke
James Brooke-Smith
David Brown
Matthew Bruen
Interests: Early American literature, 19th Century American literature, Marxist Criticism, Ecocriticism, the novel, history of the book. I am also an avid fly fisherman
Jane Carr
Tim Cassedy
Kate Clark
Adam Coccaro
Interests: Effect of science on Renaissance and Victorian literature
Conor Creaney
Interests: 19th century British literature
Johanna Devereaux
John Easterbrook
Interests: Comparative colonialisms; American literature before 1900; theories of transnational citizenship
Education: M.A. 2008 (English), New York University; B.A. 2004 (English), Manhattan College
Laura Fisher
Interests: 19th and 20th Century American literature, African-American literature/cosmopolitanism, ethnic studies.
Chloe Flower
Christian Gerzo
Adrienne Ghaly
Veronica Goosey
Meghan Hammond
Kristen Highland
Interests: Early American and Nineteenth Century American literature and history, book history and print culture, material culture, critical geography.
Education: B.A. Education, Northwestern University; M.A. English, University of Delaware
Melissa Hillier
Interests: Late 19th and 20th Century British and American; Lyric
Zachary Holbrook
Interests: British Romanticism
Joanna Holzman
Interests: 19th Century British Novels
John Honerkamp
Interests: American literature/modernism
Yohei Igarashi
Interests: 18th- and 19th-century British poetry; the history of criticism; the English essay.
Jonathan James
Collin Jennings
Chantal Johnson
Interests: 20th Century American poetry; critical race theory; affect studies; literature of the American working class.
Spencer Keralis
Interests: Early American literature and Material Culture, Subjectivity and New Media
Mosarrap Khan
Alyson Kiesel
Bomin Kim
Rachael King
Ross Knecht
Albert Laguna
Clayton Lamar
Laurie Lambert
Interests: Postcolonial literature and cinema (Caribbean and African Diasporic)
Carmelo Larose
Patricia Lawler
Nicholas Matlin
Interests: Postcolonial literature (s) and theory, urbanism, critical geography, and globalization.
Education: B.A. in English from Kenyon College and an M.A. in English and Postcolonial Studies from the University of Sussex
Bridget McFarland
Interests: Poetry
John Melillo
Amanda Michaels
Tracy Miller
Interests: Victorian literature and culture
Jessie Morgan Owens
Interests: 19th Century American literature and Photography
Sharmila Mukherjee
Joseph Napolitano
Kit Nicholls
Interests: Irish literature
Rachel O’Connell
Interests: Rachel O’Connell specializes in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British literature and in queer, psychoanalytic, and gender theory. Her dissertation, “A house made without hands:” Absorption, Creativity, and Aestheticism at the Fin de Siecle,” excavates accounts of literary and artistic practice in the works of Aestheticism. The dissertation argues that Aestheticism, through its exploration of states of absorption, abstraction, and concentration, generates an ethics of creativity.
Education: Rachel has a BA in English Literature from Oxford University and MSc in Gender Studies from London School of Economics and Political Science.
Sarah Ostendorf
Interests: Medieval, early modern, gender and sexuality
Alan Page
Marissa Pareles
Interests: medieval literature, religious literature, Deleuze, language, affect
Roy Perez
Interests: American literature and Latino Studies
Lea Puljcan Juric
Interests: Early Modern British lit, Colonial and Postcolonial studies, Marxism, Cultural Studies, esp. travel literature, theories of ideology, practices of “othering” and marginalization, relation of politics and aesthetics, censorhip, and cultural translation.
Education: B.A. University of Zagreb, Croatia (2001); M.A. California State University (2003).
Asad Raza
Interests: 19th Century British literature, Genre theory
Cody Brooks Reis
Interests: Renaissance studies; rhetoric, poetics, and philosophy; literary and cultural theory and practice
Daniel Remein
Alina A. Romo
Interests: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century British literature, pan-European Romanticism, travel narrative, translation, women's writing, genre (particularly the essay), cosmopolitanism and the Republic of Letters.
Education: B.A. English, University of California Los Angeles (2004); M.A. Scandinavian Literature and Languages, University of California Los Angeles (2007)
Rachel Rosen
Seth Rudy
Angela Bennett Segler
Randall Sessler
Rabia Shahzad
Ruth Simon
Interests: Medieval Literature, particularly the texts in the Piers Plowman cycle, manuscripts and early books studies, paleography dream vision texts.
Education: B.A. University of Washington, Seattle, 2004
Ada Smailbegovic
Gerald Song
Jennifer Spitzer
Rebecca Starkins
Interests: 19th century British literature
Education: B.A. Mount Holyoke College 2004; M.A. University of Oxford, 2006
Kristen Tapson
Carla Thomas
Interests: early medieval literature, especially the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries; translating and editing texts, as well as their philosophies; textual transmission; and a side interest in the monstrous, in medieval literature as well as contemporary literature.
Education: B.A., M.A. Florida State University
Amanda Toronto
Interests: Post-Colonial Studies
Kathryn Vomero
Interests: Renaissance drama and poetry, early modern Anglo-Spanish relations, translation, and alterity.
Education: B.A. English and Spanish, Syracuse University, 2007
Jennie Votava
Tamika Walker
Lenora Warren
Stefanie Wess
Rachael Wilson
Interests: 19th and 20th Century transatlantic modernism, structuralist and post-structuralist theories, materialism and creative thought/artistic production, historical theories.
Shirley Wong
Chun-Hsien Wu
Kara Zavarella
Current M.A. Students
Emily Anderson
Justin Barker
Interests: Medieval literature; religious literature; free will; new historicism
Education: B.A., English Literature and Creative Writing, Queens University of Charlotte, 2009
Caroline Barrett
Catherine Beers
Patrick Blagrave
Lindsay Bogner
Interests: I am a recent graduate of Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts where I studied English and International Studies. While at Stonehill, I did research on Irish politics and also developed an interest in postcolonial literature. In particular I enjoy the work of Buchi Emecheta, Jamaica Kincaid, and Salman Rushdie. My study abroad was at Oxford University, where I also connected with Shakespeare’s history plays, especially the Henry VI trilogy. I grew up in Wichita, Kansas but moved to New York in high school, and I now live on Long Island, in Rockville Centre.
Elisa Boyton
Esti Brennan
Interests: contemporary British and American lit, literary genre fiction, technology and literature, graphic novels, cyberpunk
Kathryn Bullerdick
Interests: 19th and 20th Century American Fiction, Modern Urban Movements, Cognitive Estrangement within the Cityscape, the Relationship between the City and the Country, "The Old Neighborhood" and the Suburb, the Culture of the Automobile and the Ideology, of Necessary Urban Renewal, Public Works and Services, the New Deal, the Civil War, Literary Cubism's emergence by way of Gertrude Stein's friendship with Pablo Picasso, Synthetic and Analytic Cubism
Education: B.A. Comparative Literature/English, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (2005)
Jessica Carruba
Yi-Ru Chen
Kelly Craig
Katherine Crane
Chad Curtis
Sujit Das
Interests: British Poetry from the Restoration to the Romantics, (post) colonialism, formalitst studies, German Epistemology, theatre, spectacle and the spectacular, circuit bending and fuzzed-out guitars.
Education: B.A. University of Michigan
Collen Day
Linda Dolan
Kara Lee Donnelly
Stefanie Dorman
Miya Kishi Dunets
Amelia Edelman
Interests: Modern and postmodern American literature, Native American literature and art, and the relationship between text and visual art within American culture
Education: B.A. Vassar College
Joel Else
Andrew Erkkila
Dianna Fleisher-Benz
Linda Gallant
Erin Garrow
Cary Gitter
Wyndham Gregory
Cyrus Hampton
Elizabeth Harrell-Edge
Katherine Henderson
Lacey Hutto
Andrea LaRocca
Corrina Laughlin
Michelle Lu
Elpitha Mavrikidis
Erik Mears
Paul Medina
Mary Jane Meschino
Diana Miller
Interests: Victorian literature and culture
Michael Miller
Laura Morel
Nancy Navarrete
Sean Nortz
Luke O’Hara
Erin O’Leary
Sujin Park
Jessica Pfeffer
Shyama Rajendran
Alexander Ruggeri
Marisa Ruglio
Elizabeth Shayne
Meriam Blevin Shelnutt
Amber Silverman
Erika Snyder
Yair Solan
Interests: Late 19th and 20th Century American and British literature, modernism, early cinema, the short story, satire and humor, dada/expressionism in drama, theatre of the absurd.
Janine Stankus
Anna Szymanski
Rachel Tanner
Ashley Todd
Macy Todd
Nicholas Utzig
Meghan Walsh
Sarah Warren
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