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Bacon, Andrew

Selznick Program

Prior Degrees
BA, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Interests: American and French silent cinema; American and Japanese directors; Japanese-American films, especially as related to the incarceration; film criticism, theory, and history, especially through the lens of auteurism; religion on film; slow and meditative cinema; experimental film and archival cinema; film curation, preservation, and archival practice; film clubs as communal and social spaces

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Bailey, Luke

Selznick Program

Prior Degrees
BA, Appalachian State University

Interests: early cinema (pre-1915); film gimmicks, novelties, and experimental formats; movie exhibition & ephemera

Beljanski, Tanja

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
MA, BA, University of Cologne
MA, 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳

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

Professor of English David Bleich

Bleich, David

Professor

Office Location
409 Morey Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-8568

Interests: Literary and language theory; writing and language pedagogy; women's studies; science studies; Jewish studies; film and popular culture

Blevins, Emily

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
BA, Oral Roberts University

Interests: long nineteenth-century American and French literature, modern American literature, aesthetics, philosophy of literature, religion and literature, and translation studies

Boudreaux, Abbie

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
BA, Centenary College of Louisiana

Interests: Disability studies, Queer Studies, Gender & Sexuality, Utopian & Dystopian Literature, 20th Century American Literature

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Burges, Joel

Associate Professor of English

Associate Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies

Office Location
413 Morey Hall

Interests: Media studies, cultural studies, and American studies; 20th and 21st century film and television; Critical and cultural theory; Digital humanities, especially digital annotation, data visualization, and videographic criticism; Labor and culture; Audiovisual histories of race, class, gender, and sexuality

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Chitrakar, Yash

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
BA, Washburn University

Interests: Modernism, Affect theory, Aesthetics & Ethics, Wonder & Childhood

Corbeaux, Claire

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
BA, SUNY College at Geneseo

Interests: Utopian literature, 20th century and contemporary American literature, speculative fiction, care, social theory

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Davis, Diana

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
BA, 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳
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.

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DuBois, Victoria

Selznick Program

Prior Degrees
BA, Providence College 

Interests: Early cinema, silent cinema, American pre-code cinema, film conservation, archival special collections, archival accessibility, film-related objects and ephemera, museology, museum studies 

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Dunning, Stefanie K.

Susan B. Anthony Professor

Professor of Black Studies

Professor of English

Director, Sexuality, Women, and Gender Studies

Office Location
538 Lattimore Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-5115

Interests: Black ecologies; Queer ecologies; Queer theory; Black feminist theory; African American literature; Literary and cultural studies; Film and visual cultures

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Morris Eaves

Professor of English

Former Director, A.W. Mellon Graduate Program in the Digital Humanities

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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Katie Farrell

Farrell, Katie

Administrative Assistant, Theater Program

Office Location
207 Todd Union
Telephone
(585) 275-4959

Ferreira Candido, Wesley Johnny

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
BA, Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas

Interests: Utopian & Dystopian Literature; Gender & Sexuality; Queer Studies; Speculative Fiction; Science Fiction; 20th Century and Contemporary American Literature; Ecocriticism; Media & Cultural Studies

Francisco, Erin

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
MA, 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳
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, 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, non-canonical literature, Chicana literature, linguistics, language and identity, critical and cultural theory, and digital humanities

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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Gradt, Amelia

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
MA, Portland State University
BA, University of Portland

Interests: Long Nineteenth-Century British and American literature, Romanticism, Gothic studies, Utopian studies, Continental philosophy, Literary Theory

Kenneth Gross

Gross, Kenneth

Alan F. Hilfiker Distinguished Professor in English

Professor of English

Office Location
404B Morey Hall
Web Address

Interests: Shakespeare; lyric poetry; Renaissance literature; romance

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Sarah Higley

Higley, Sarah L

Professor

Office Location
411 Morey Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-9261

Interests: Medieval vernacular languages and literature of Northern Europe and their interchanges; Film and media studies; Teratology (the study of the monstrous); Ecocriticism

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

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Professor Emeritus

J.W. Johnson

Professor Emeritus

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Jones, Sarah

Managing Editor, Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly

Office Location
Morey
Telephone
(585) 275-3820

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Kalayeh, Pirooz

he/him/his

Assistant Professor of English

Office Location
407 Morey Hall
Web Address

Interests: Hybrid Cinema; Iranian Cinema; Narrative Film Production; Documentary Production; Multicultural Programming; Animation

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Kegl, Rosemary

Associate Professor

Office Location
318 Morey Hall

Interests: English Renaissance drama; Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writing; Productions of Shakespeare in Britain and the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries; Theories of the aesthetic and of the utopian

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

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Kim, James Hojung

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
MA, BA, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea

Interests: Romanticism, Modernism, Media Studies, Archive and Memory, Science and Literature, Literary Theory

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

Konstantinou, Irini

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
MFA, Sarah Lawrence College
BA, Hobart & William Smith Colleges

Interests: 20th-Century American Poetry; 21st-Century American Poetry; Hybrid Forms; Rhetorical Studies; first-year composition; writing pedagogy/praxis; multilingual writing; embodied literature; literature as dance

Kusmierek, Liam

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
BA, 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳

Interests: queer and trans* theory, black studies, quantum theory, liminality, ephemera, materialism, literary modernism, necropolitics, activist, anti-capitalist, anti-ablest, anti-racist

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Lachenmaier, Kathrin

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
MA, 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳
BA, MA, University of Cologne

Interests: American Literature of the 20th century, African American literature, North American Indigenous literatures, medical humanities, madness, and agriculture in literature

Laniak, Sydney

MA Program

Prior Degrees
BS, Le Moyne College

Interests: 19th century American and British literature; economics in literature; gothic literature; creative writing

Latella, Luke

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
BA, Hobart College

Interests: 20th Century American Literature; British & Irish Modernism; Theories of Postmodernism; Post-structural linguistics; literature, identity, and food

Leese, Marcus

Selznick Program

Prior Degrees
BA, Southwestern University

Interests: Film restoration, Japanese cinema, home video, interactive & non-linear narratives, and political fiction

Li, Huimin

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
MA, 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳
MA, Peking University
BA, University of China, Renmin

Interests: African American literature, African Caribbean literature, Black Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Ecocriticism

Bette London

London, Bette

Joseph Henry Gilmore Professor of English

Professor of English

Office Location
304 Morey Hall

Interests: Twentieth-century British literature; Victorian literature and culture; feminist theory; women's writing; authorship studies

James Longenbach

Joseph Henry Gilmore Professor of English

Lowman, Emily

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
BA, College of William and Mary

Interests: Medieval literature, rhetoric and authority, critical race theory, critical media studies, queer theory, spatial theory, temporal theory, speculative fiction, codicology, pedagogy

Alan Lupack

Lupack, Alan

Emeritus Director of the Rossell Hope Robbins Library and the Koller-Collins Graduate English Center

Office Location
416 Rush Rhees Library
Telephone
(585) 275-0110

Interests: Arthurian studies; Middle English literature; medievalism

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Nigel Maister

Maister, Nigel

Senior Lecturer

Russell and Ruth Peck Artistic Director, the International Theatre Program

Office Location
210 Todd Union
Telephone
(585) 273-5159

Interests: New music; multimedia performance

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McCune, Jeffrey Q., Jr.

he/him/his

Frederick Douglass Professor

Associate Professor of English

Associate Professor of Black Studies

Founding Chair, Department of Black Studies

Office Location
311B Morey Hall
Telephone
(585) 273-5346

Interests: Gender Studies; Sexuality Studies; Performance and Popular Culture; Visual and Cultural Studies; Black Queer Theory

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McKay, Elizabeth

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
MA, University of Iowa
BA, Gordon College

Interests: Long 18th century British, religion and literature, history of education, material culture

Melendez, Nashaly

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
MA, BA, Florida International University 

Interests: Gender & Sexuality Studies, Shakespeare, British Romantic and Victorian Literature, Exile Studies, Film Studies, and Literary Theory

John Michael

Michael, John

John Hall Deane Professor of Rhetoric and Poetry

Professor of English

Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies

Director, American Studies

Office Location
405 Morey Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-9259

Interests: American literature; critical theory; cultural studies

Jason Middleton

Middleton, Jason

Associate Professor of English

Associate Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies

Office Location
511 Morey Hall

Interests: Film and media studies; critical theory; cultural studies; horror

William Miller

Miller, William

Associate Professor

Director of Graduate Studies

Office Location
426 Morey Hall
Web Address

Interests: 17th century literature; 18th century literature; literature and religion; literature and philosophy

Morrice, Santiago

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
MA, Mills College
BA, University of California-Merced

Interests: Contemporary poetry and poetics; translation

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Nguyen, Ha

Selznick Program

Prior Degrees
BA, University of East Anglia

Interests: Vietnamese cinema, including pre-1975 South Vietnamese cinema and diasporic films; film preservation and restoration; archival film distribution

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O'Neil, Halle

MA Program

Prior Degrees
BA, Pennsylvania State University

Interests: 19th century British literature, gender and women's studies, sexuality and repression in the novel

Ollivier, Nicolas

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
MA, 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳
MA, BA, Rennes 2 University

Interests: Science fiction, utopian and dystopian literature, 20th-century and contemporary American literature, critical theory, cultural studies, post-structuralism

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Omelsky, Matthew

Associate Professor of English

Associate Professor of Black Studies

Associate Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies

Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Black Studies

Office Location
417 Morey Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-2376

Interests: Global black cultural studies; African, African American, and Caribbean literatures; Film and media studies; Speculative aesthetics; Time and phenomenology; Critical theory

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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

Russell Peck

John H. Deane Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric and Poetry

Professor Emeritus of English

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Perconti, Kayla

Affiliated Staff: Performing Arts Box Office & Front of House Manager

Program Assistant for the Film & Media Studies Program

Office Location
1003 Sloan Performing Arts Center
Telephone
(585) 275-0835

Pullinzi, Siena

MA Program

Prior Degrees
BFA, Nazareth University

Interests: 20th Century and Contemporary literature; British and American gothic literature; horror; folklore; Spiritualism and the Occult; gender, sexuality, and women’s studies; modern and contemporary film, art, and art history

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Rall, Nicholas

Selznick Program

Prior Degrees
BA, Virginia Commonwealth University

Interests: Early color film; Technicolor; film conservation, preservation, and restoration; Japanese cinema; experimental animation; contemporary metafiction

Rozenski, Steven

Associate Professor

Office Location
416 Morey

Interests: Middle English devotional literature; translation studies; book history; medieval German and Dutch literature; trans-Reformation England

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Joanna Scott

Scott, Joanna

Roswell Smith Burrows Professor of English

Professor of English

Director, Literary Arts Programs

Office Location
404C Morey Hall

Interests: Modern and contemporary fiction; the art of imaginative writing

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Shaikh, Abdullah

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
MA, 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳
BA, Tunghai University, Taiwan

Interests: Twentieth-century World Literature, Ethics, Self-help

Curt Smith

Smith, Curt

Senior Lecturer of English

Office Location
404-A Morey Hall
Telephone
(585) 426-7375
Web Address

Interests: Presidential rhetoric; American presidents of the radio/television age; Public speaking; Sports broadcasting, with emphasis on baseball, football, basketball, and hockey

Soules, Katherine

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
MA, 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳
MA, Marshall University
BA, Cedarville University

Interests: 20th & 21stc. American literature; queer science fiction; queer theory; black studies; literary theory and history of theory; intellectual history; philosophy; aesthetics; visual art and history

Steiner, Samantha

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
MFA, Sarah Lawrence College
BA, Brown University

Interests: contemporary literature, comics studies, memoir and graphic memoir, experimental forms

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Tapia, Gabby

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
BA, University of California, Irvine
MA, 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳

Interests: 19th-century British literature, ecocriticism, Romanticism, Spinozist studies, queer and trans theories, philosophies of the transindividual 

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Professor of English

Jeffrey Tucker

Tucker, Jeffrey Allen

Associate Professor of English

Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of English

Office Location
418 Morey Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-2064

Interests: African-American literature; 20th-century American literature; science fiction

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Warrick-Schkolnik, Caroline

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
MA, 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳
BA, Lake Forest College

Interests: 20th century American literature, social justice literature, Black, queer, and feminist theory

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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Xing, Xihao

Selznick Program

Prior Degrees
BS, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Interests: Film studies and preservation

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Xu, Stephanie Yujing

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
MSc., The University of Edinburgh
BA, Mount Holyoke College

Interests: Comparative Modernisms and Modernities, Global Feminisms, 20th Century British and Anglophone Literature, Translation Studies

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Zhang, Kexin

PhD Program

Prior Degrees
MA, Nanjing University
BA, Hangzhou Normal University

Interests: Old English Literature, Middle English Literature, Old Norse-Icelandic Literature, Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, Digital Humanities, Manuscript and Material Culture, Monsters and Witchcraft in Medieval Literature

Zia, Manahil (Ammy)

MA Program

Prior Degrees
BS, National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, Pakistan

Interests: Postmodern American Literature, City Literature, Psychoanalytic Theory, Marxism in conjunction with Freud and Foucault, Gothic Literature as a mode of introspection