Graduate Students
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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Rachel Bauer
rach.e.bauer@gmail.com
Selznick Program
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Moving Image Archiving and Preservation; Film Studies; Silent Film; Classical Hollywood Cinema; Depictions of Sex and Gender in the Media
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., San Francisco State University
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Matthew Bayne
mwbayne@gmail.com
ABD: No
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Post-Colonial Theory; Victorian Literature and Culture; Trauma; Affect Theory
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., University of Chicago
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GEOFFREY BENDER
gbender@mail.rochester.edu
ABD: Yes
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; M.A., University of Rochester
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David Bowen
thejollycorner@gmail.com
M.A. Program
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: American Poetry; Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Novels and Prose; Nineteenth-Century Poetry
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Hampshire College
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James M. Broutzos
jmbroutzos@gmail.com
Selznick Program
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Film History; Film Theory; Gender and
Sexuality in Film; Feminist Film Theory
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Keene State College
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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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Daniel Chalmers
danchalmers@yahoo.com
M.A. Program
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Medieval Studies; Old Norse Prose and Poetics;
Old and Middle English; Dostoevsky; the Epic; Renaissance, Romantic, and Victorian
Poetry; Irish Literature; Literature of Philosophy
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., University of Connecticut
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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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Alicia Clark-Barnes
aclarkbarnes@gmail.com
M.A. Program
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Early British Literature; Milton; Utopian
Literature; Philosophy
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., College of Saint Elizabeth
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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: Twentieth-Century American LIterature; 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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Ryan Donnelly
rdonnell@vt.edu
M.A. Program
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American
Literature; Race and American Culture; Critical Theory; Modernism; Post-Modernism; Feminist Theory; Linguistics; Media Rhetoric and Reform
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Virginia Tech
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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; M.A., University of Rochester
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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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Dianne Evanochko
dmevanochko@gmail.com
ABD: No
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Medieval Studies; Chaucer; Middle English; Italian Literature; English Renaissance Literature; Shakespeare
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Simon Fraser University (Canada)
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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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MATTHEW fountaine
mdfountaine@ymail.com
M.A. Program
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Arthurian Tradition; Folklore and Mythology;
Medieval Literature and Medievalism; Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, and Old Norse Literary
Tradition; Modernism; Religion and Philosophy
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Pennsylvania State University
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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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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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Liz Goodfellow
e.goodfellow@gmail.com
ABD: No
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Twentieth-Century American Literature; American Religion in Literature; Gender Studies
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Skidmore College
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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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Alison Grenert
agrenert@msn.com
M.A. Program
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Literature and Language
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., University of Pittsburgh
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Teesta Guha Sarkar
teesta_online@yahoo.co.in
M.A. Program
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Modern and Post-modern Literature;
Psychoanalysis; Insanity and Monstrosity; Foucault
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Lady Shri Ram College (India)
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Senovia G. Han
senoviah@gmail.com
M.A. Program
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Twentieth-Century American Literature; Drama (especially Classics and Contemporary); Gender Studies; Gothic Fiction; Marxist Aesthetics; Greek Tragedy; Seneca the Younger; Simone Weil
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., University of California at Irvine; Post-baccalaureate certificate, University of
California at Davis
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DUSTIN HANNUM
dhannum@mail.rochester.edu
ABD: Yes
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Aesthetic Theory
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; M.A., University of Rochester
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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; M.A., University of Rochester
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John Havard
jhavard@mail.rochester.edu
ABD: No
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: U.S. Literature and Culture in the Long Nineteenth-Century; Hemispheric American Studies; Historical Fiction; Narrative Theory
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., University of South Alabama; M.A., University of South Carolina
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Julianne Heck
juliannem4@yahoo.com
ABD: No
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Early Twentieth-Century American Literature
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Colby College; M.A., Simmons College
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NANCY HECKEL
nhkl@rochester.edu
ABD: Yes
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Medieval Studies; Medievalism; New Media Studies; Folklore, Fairy Tale, and Fantasy
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., College of William and Mary; M.A., University of Rochester
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DANIEL HUTCHINS
dhutchin@mail.rochester.edu
ABD: Yes
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Colonial North American, Latin American and Caribbean Literatures; Globalization and Diaspora Studies;Borders and Maps; Critical Theory; Poetics
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Reed College; M.A., University of Rochester
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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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Martha Johnson-Olin
sulitan1@yahoo.com
ABD: No
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Medieval Literature; Romance; Fairytales; Gender Theory
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., University of Missouri-Kansas City; M.A., University of
Missouri-Kansas City
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GILBERT KIRTON
gkirton@mail.rochester.edu
ABD: Yes
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; M.A., University of Rochester
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joseph lamperez
josephlamperez@gmail.com
ABD: No
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Romanticism; Literary Productions of Wonder; the Epic
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Loyola University of Chicago; M.A., Loyola University of
Chicago
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Samantha Le
le.samantha@gmail.com
M.A. Program
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Film Studies; Nineteenth-Century British
Literature
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Barnard College
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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; M.A., University of Rochester
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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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Kristy LiDDell
aravis1008@hotmail.com
M.A. Program
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Medieval Literature (especially Romances);
Medievalism (especially in Nineteenth-Century Literature); History of the English
Language
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Arkansas Tech University
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jENNIE LIGHTWEIS-GOFF
jlightweisgoff@gmail.com
ABD: Yes
Dissertation Title: ‘Blood at the Root’: Lynching as American Cultural Nucleus
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Race, Gender, and American Citizenship (especially 1865-1965); Eugenics and American Medical Discourses; Public Space and Public Memory; Representations of Violence in Literature and Visual Culture; Southern Studies and Regional Identity
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., University of South Carolina; M.A., University of Rochester
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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; Contemporary American Women Poets; 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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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
shaila.mehra@gmail.com
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; M.A., University of Rochester
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Wesley Mills
wesley.mills@esc.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 Archiving 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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Luke Oleksa
loleksa@mail.rochester.edu
M.A. Program
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Film Studies; Film Theory; 1970’s American
Cinema; Phenomenology; Psychoanalytic Theory; Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century
American Literature; Modernism; Deconstructionism
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., University of Rochester
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D. Eric Parkison
stoplight77@hotmail.com
M.A. Program
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Early Twentieth-Century Literature and Poetry;
Contemporary American Literature; Philosophy; Marxist Perspectives; Representations
of Race in Literature
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Saint John Fisher College
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AMIRA RICHLER
arichler@mail.rochester.edu
ABD: Yes
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: : Late Victorian and Twentieth-Century British Literature; Postcolonial Literature and Theory
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., McGill University (Canada); M.A., McMaster University (Canada)
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Lasantha Rodrigo
lasantha.rodrigo@gmail.com
M.A. Program
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Modern American Fiction (especially from a
perspective of Gender); Shakespeare
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Pacific Lutheran University; M.A., Saint Bonaventure
University
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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
Personal Website: http://www.sbriglia.com/
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Helene Snihur
hsnihur@admin.rochester.edu
M.A. Program
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Media and Authorship
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Syracuse University
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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
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Kristen Squire
kristen.m.squire@gmail.com
M.A. Program
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Pre-Twentieth-Century British Literature; Jane
Austen; Greek and Roman Literature
B.A. / M.A. School(s):B.A., State University of New York at Fredonia
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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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Matthew Taber
matt.taber@yahoo.com
M.A. Program
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Beat Writers and Confessional Poets; Post-
World War II Literature (especially 1945-1970); African-American Literature;
American Literature via Marxist Theory; Subversive Literature; History of Fantasy
Literature; Hero’s Journey
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., State University of New York at Fredonia; M.S., Nazareth
College
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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
kingwhereof@gmail.com
ABD: Yes
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Twentieth-Century American Literature; Contemporary Novels and Short Fiction; Myth; Literature of Exile
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Duke University; M.A., University of Rochester
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STEFANIE VISCHANSKY
stefbumble@aol.com
ABD: Yes
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; M.A., University of Rochester
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Joseph Vogel
vogeljo@gmail.com
ABD: No
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Contemporary Literature; Cultural Studies; Print Culture
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Utah Valley University; M.A., Brigham Young University
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Nikolaus Wasmoen
nikolaus.wasmoen@gmail.com
ABD: No
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Twentieth-Century American Literature; Critical Theory; Modern and Contemporary Poetry; Literature and Technology
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Yale University
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Peter Zogas
pfzogas@gmail.com
ABD: No
Field(s) of Study / Research Interests: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature; Literary Theory
B.A. / M.A. School(s): B.A., Skidmore College
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