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Stony Brook University
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Stony Brook, NY
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Ph.D. Student Profiles | Master's Student Profiles

Master's Student Profiles
Lauryn Couch BA Stony Brook University
Olivia Diaz   BA Boston College
Thomas Franco BA Stony Brook University
Sara Gittelman BA Brandeis University
Philip Hickok BA Whitnorth College    
Marco Hernandez     BA Stony Brook University
Allison Hoyt BA LIU, Southampton
Catherine Lanieri     BA St. Joseph’s College 
Meredith Leo     BA Stony Brook University
Jeremy Meserole   BA Princeton   
Brigid Moran   BA St. Joseph’s  College    
Stephanie Neider     BA Hofstra
Alison Prelusky     BA SUNY Fredonia 
Scott Reimann BA John Carroll University   
Racheal Shertzer BA Stony Brook University      
Padmini Sukumaran BA Rutgers
Hope Terris BA Stony Brook University  
Konstantina Tsiokris BA American College of Greece
Lauren Tursiellino   BA Stony Brook University
Sara Wilbur       BA Univ. of Rhode Island       
Jessica Williams BA SUNY, Old Westbury      
Lisa Dicksteen BA Stony Brook University
Deborah Esposito BA Univ. of Delaware       
Sean Fox BA St. Joseph’s
Elektra Gaebelein BA University of Georgia
Maria Gil       BA Stony Brook University
Angela Hegarty     BA National Univ. of Ireland
Jill Mountain BA Stony Brook University
Michael Zarzicki   BA Adelphi College    
Joanne O'Connor BA Suny Geneseo
Virginia Palading BA Stony Brook Univ.
Jessica Adamowicz BA St. Joseph's College
Christina D'Ambrosio BA Stony Brook Univ
Lauren Esposito BA Stony Brook Univ
Terri Etheridge BA St. Joseph's College
Nancy Finn BA St. Joseph's College
Carrie Fleischer BA Stony Brook Univ
Nina Yuliano BA Bucknell Univ

Ph.D. Student Profiles

 First Year
Emma Brinkmeyer. BA Boston U, English/Art History; MA NYU. Drama and British Modernism.
Nicole Buscemi. BA Adelphi; MA Hofstra. British Victorian Literature.
Kimberly Cox. BA UC Riverside. Victorian and Gothic British Literature and Art.
Seong Min Han. BS Chem. Engineering, MA English Seoul National University. Genre and Narrative Theory.
Lauren Kilian. BA Bard; MA Brooklyn College. Postmodern American Lit; Science and Literature.
Kangyl Ko. BA, MA, Yonsei University Seoul. Postcolonial Literature and Theory.
Matthew Kremer. BA Penn State MA Humboldt State University. Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Transatlantic Studies.
Brad Reina. BA NYU. Twentieth Century American Literature
Ben Schachtman. BA Rutgers; MA NYU. Twentieth-century American Literature, Trauma Theory, Pyschological Approaches to Literature.
Anthony Teets. BA French Stony Brook. Victorian Literature.
Burcu Uyurkulak. BA English/Art History, MA English, Istanbul University. Twentieth Century British Literature.
Second Year
Ryan Davidson. BA Loyola College in Maryland; MA American University. Renaissance, Postcolonial Studies, Gender Studies.
Naomi Edwards. BA Loyola University Chicago. 20th Century literature, Gender Studies.
Katherine Foret. BA University of Richmond; MA Stony Brook University. Medieval literature, development of the novel.
Meghan Fox. BA Bucknell University. Modernism.
Valerie Hyatt. BA, MA University of Maryland; MA Iowa State. Victorian literature.
Kathryn Klein. BA, MA University of Denver. 19th and 20th Century British and American literature, James, Woolf, Faulkner, Queer and Gender studies.
Ursula Lukszo. Ursula Lukszo. BA University of Maryland; MA Brooklyn College. 19th and 20th Century British Literature; Women's Studies; Cultural Studies.
Derek McGrath. BA Florida Atlantic. 19th Century American and British literature.
Lydia Rose. BA Montclair State University. Poetry and poetics, British Romanticism, Shakespeare.
Margaret Wright. BA, MA SUNY Binghamton. 19th Century literature, Victorian literature.


Third Year
John P. Christie. BA, MA Southern Connecticut State University. 16th and 17th Century British prose and poetry, the writings of Michel de Montaigne and Marie le Jars de Gournay, psychoanalysis and literature, and Christian theology, narrative, and textuality.
Anthony Chu. BA University of California, Irvine; MA California State University, Fullerton. 19th Century British literature, critical theory, hauntology, the sublime.
Jesse Curran. BA SUNY Geneseo. American Modernism, dramatic literature, environmental literature/ecological criticism.
Paul Devlin. BA, MA St. John’s University.
Matthew Gilbert.  BA, MA Clark University. Poetry and lyric theory, mythopoetics, Modernism, music and language/literature
Rachel Hartman. BA Sarah Lawrence College, M.Ed. SUNY Lehman College. 19th and 20th Century American literature.
Elizabeth Hershman. B.A. Barnard College. Romanticism, Victorian literature, the Gothic.
Leslie Hunter. BA Macalester College; MS ed. Brooklyn College. 20th Century American, Postmodernism, assimilation literature, novel, drama, Ellison, Bellow, Roth, Jones, Mamet, Kushner.
Kevin Hyland. B.A.  Wagner College, English and Journalism, M.A. Loyola Marymount University, English. Literature of the American south, philosophy, morality, language, theories of nothing, popular culture.
Patrina Jones. BA (English) Post University, MA (English) SUNY Binghamton. 20th Century American Literature; Ethnic/Race Studies; and Feminist Theory.
Haseena Milea. BA Stony Brook University. Romanticism, Persian women and culture in America, experimental writing
Lawrence Zellner. BA The College of William and Mary; MA Claremont Graduate University. American literature, intellectual history, religion, pragmatism.

Fourth Year          
    Eileen Chanza. BA City University of New York. Post-colonial theory, Caribbean literature, African diaspora, Nietzsche, aesthetics, philosophy and race.
    Emily Churilla. BA Western Michigan University. Violence and pain of/in neocolonialism, ethics of representation, the archive.
    Rachel E. Ellis. BA, Freed-Hardeman University. Poetics. Latin American and Caribbean 20th century and contemporary poetry, particularly Cuban. Postcolonial, neocolonial, national discourses in the Americas and literary responses to transitions of Empire, European & US, and globalization. Theory. Cultural Studies. Aesthetics and Politics. Visual Art forms—plastic, performance, collective and ‘subversive,’ and propaganda.
    Amy Falvey. BA Saint Ambrose University. Modernism, American poetry, Women’s studies.
    Liliana Naydan. BA Penn State University; MA University of Delaware. Colonial American through Postmodern American literature.
    Janet Tuthill. BA, MA SUNY Stony Brook. AAS Farmingdale State University. Nordic and English comparative literatures, Composition.
    Jacqueline Vigliotti. BA Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville; MA Eastern Michigan University. Contemporary and 20th Century American literature; postmodern detective fiction.
Fifth Year
    Aliza Atik. BA Queens College. Victorian literature, Women’s studies, Cultural studies.
    Edward Garcia. BA California State University, Fresno. Renaissance/17th century literature.
    Kathryn Gulian. BA, MA California State University, Fresno. Restoration and 18th century British Literature.
    Kathleen Hankinson. BA, MA Boston University; MFA, University of Miami. Early Modern Atlantic, American Colonial, and 19th Century American Literature.
    Lisa Held. BA Kent State University; MA National University of Ireland, Galway. Northern Irish politics and literature; Irish Language in the Six Counties; Trauma theory; contemporary British studies.
    Matthew Lorenz. BA University of Virginia. 19th century British literature, 20th century American, aesthetics, phenomenology and psychoanalysis.
    Steven Murray BA, B.Ed. York University, Toronoto; Postmodern and Postcolonial subjectivity , uncountability, supplementarity, borders and boundaries. 
    Lauren Rosenblum. BA Barnard University; MA New York University. 20th century British and American literature.
    Jeffrey Starks. BA Coppin State University. Rhetoric and Composition, Cultural studies, 19th century American.
    Rachel Walsh. BA Bowling Green State University. 20th century American and British, gender, race, sexuality.
Fifth Year
    Kristin Boluch. BA Amherst College; MA Northeastern University. 19th century American literature, Realism.
    Ralph Clare. BA San Diego State University; MA, MFA California State Univ, Long Beach. 20th century American and British literature, Postmodernism(s), Cultural Marxism, transnational sports theory.
    Anthony Dotterman BA CW Post, MA Oregon State University
    Natalie Fitterman. BA, MA SUNY Stony Brook. Modernism, 19th and 20th century American.
    Kerry Martin. BA University of Massachusetts, Lowell; MA New York University. Contemporary theory, continental ethics and trauma theory, Feminism, Psychoanalysis; Transatlantic Modern(ism) literature.
    Matthew McAlpin. BA University of Chicago. Contemporary American poetry and novel, poetics, history of theory.
    Lauren Neefe. BA Stanford University; MA Johns Hopkins University. Transatlantic Romanticism, poetry, poetics, genre.
    Michael Oil. BA SUNY Albany; MS Georgia State University. 19th century American, Jewish Cultural Studies, Romanticism, nature writing.
    Jessica Stock. BA SUNY Geneseo; MA University of Delaware. Victorian and Modernist literature, Jewish studies, Race and Ethnicity theory.
    Christian Walker. BA James Madison University; MA University of Virginia. Modernism, Romanticism, theory.
Sixth Year
    Lesley Broder. BA C.W. Post/Long Island University; MA Teachers College, Columbia University. 19th century British literature.
    Richard Caputo. BA SUNY Stony Brook. Ancient Epic poetry, Homer, Modern British and Irish literature, James Joyce, Yeats, Narrative and Narratology.
    Michele Fazio. BA Bridgewater State College; MA UMass Boston. 19th and 20th century American literature, multi-ethnic literature, Italian American studies, Working Class studies.
    Jared Johnson. BA Flagler College; MA University of Tennessee, Knoxville. English Renaissance drama, early modern economic literature and history, new economic criticism, empire studies, film, media, and cultural studies and issues of appropriation.
    Leon Marcelo. BA Rutgers University (Newark); MA Montclair State University. Composition and rhetoric, Poe, horror in literature and film, the Gothic, 19th and early 20th century popular/"sensational" fiction.
    William Pore. BA University of Texas at Dallas; MA Western Washington University. 19th and 20th century American literature.
    Tamara Slankard. BA Belmont University; MA University of Tulsa. 20th century American and British, gender, sexuality.
    Kimberly Smith. BA Georgia State University; MA Rutgers University. American literature, African-American and ethnic studies, Gothicism and Women's studies, film.
    Anthony Sovak. BA St. Thomas Aquinas College. 19th century American literature, Romantic poetry, Robert Frost.
    Eve Van Bergen. BA Fordham University; MA Trinity College, Dublin. 20th century American, Modernism, film studies.
Seventh Year and Beyond
    Jason Beardsley. BA California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Poetry, Romanticism, Modernism.
    Ryan Calvey. BA Dowling College; MA SUNY Stony Brook. Film, science fiction and fantasy literature, Victorian, pop culture, Composition.
    Junghan (Kate) Choi. BA Brown University. 19th century British and American novel, Realism.
    Virginia Costello. BA Ripon College; MA, MFA University of Montana. International Modernism, 20th century American, Feminist theory, autobiography.
    Jennifer-Ann DiGregorio Kightlinger. BA, MA St. John’s University. 19th century American, international Modernism, Italian-American studies.
    Karl Shaddox. BA University of Alabama; MA Michigan State University; MFA San Francisco State University. Cultural/Science studies.
           Kavita S. Hatwalkar. BA Wright State University; MA University of            Toledo. 19th and 20th century American literature, Postcolonial and            Transnational studies, Cultural studies, Women's studies, Walt                    Whitman.
    Linda L. Josephs. BA University of Illinois; MBA Pace University. Contemporary American fiction.
    Stephanie Wade. BA Wesleyan University; MA CUNY-City College. 18th and 19th century transatlantic narratives, composition studies, narrative theory.
Julie Burton-Swift. BA Chestnut Hill College; MA Villanova University. 19th century American, Women’s studies.
    William Conklin. BA Colorado State. 19th and 20th century American, Native American literature, literature and the environment/Ecocriticism, Composition, science studies, science fiction.
    Susan Crane. BA SUNY Geneseo. Medieval encyclopedic literature; Latin and Old English languages; Old and Middle English literature.
    Safet Dabovic. BA, MA CUNY-Queens College. 20th century American, Proletarian literature, Ecocriticism.
    Aisha Damali Lockridge. BA CUNY-City College. African-American literature and literature of the African Diaspora, with particular interest in women's literature in these two areas; Black feminism; Gender, Race, and Postcolonial theory.
    Kimberly DeFazio. BA Syracuse University; MA SUNY Binghamton. Cultural studies, visual theory, Marxism, Modern British literature, 20th century American, urban literature and film.
    Rochelle Feldman. BA Queens College, MA Hofstra
    C. Christina Galindo. BA Manhattan College; MA SUNY Stony Brook. Latino/a studies, Feminist literature and theory, late 19th- and 20th century American.
    Kristin Girard. BA Siena College. 19th and 20th century American, Feminist theory, Women’s studies, Modern French literature.
    Michael S. Holko. BA Florida International University. 19th century British literature and culture, critical theory, aesthetics.
    Benjamin Kim. BA University of California Davis; MA San Francisco State. British Romanticism, literary theory.
    Lidija Milic. BA Oakland University, Michigan. Victorian literature, Modern drama, trauma theory, Women’s studies, fetishism, globalization, pop culture.
    Amrohini Sahay. BA, MA Syracuse University. Postcolonial theory, Cultural studies, Ethnic studies, Modern and contemporary British literature, transnational literatures/cultures, Marxism, globality studies.
    Stephen Salmoni. BA Amherst College; MA SUNY Stony Brook. 20th century American poetry, Composition and Rhetoric, creative writing.
    Craig Stormont. BA, MA St. John’s University. American transcendentalism and romanticism, modernism, American epic poetry, modern and contemporary drama, Charles Olson, contemporary poetry, creative writing.
    Sarah Stow. BA, Grad. Dip. Ed., University of Western Australia. Victorian literature, Postcolonialism, gender studies, Children’s literature, film, 19th century British Colonial literatures.
    Gretchen Woertendyke. BA DePaul University. 18th and 19th century American, Transatlantic Romanticism, Gothic studies.
Dissertations in Progress
    Julie Burton-Swift
    Title/topic: “The Unreliable Reader, Race and the Power of Words”
    Advisor: Susan Scheckel
    Shirley J. Carrie-Hartman
    Title/topic: “Acts of Remembrance: Commemoration and the Literature of the Black Diaspora"
    Advisors: Susan Scheckel, Helen Cooper
    Virginia Costello
    Title/topic: “Social and Political Reformers in Modernism: the Art of Women's Autobiographical Activism”
    Advisor:
    Susan Crane
    Title/topic: “Representations of the Natural World in Anglo-Latin and Old English ‘Computi’ and ‘Enigmata’: Science as Literature and the Ordering of the World in Time”
    Advisor: Joaquin Martinez Pizarro
    Aisha Damali Lockridge
    Title/topic: "Putting the Bloom Back On: Figurations of the Diva"
    Advisor: Susan Scheckel
    Kimberly DeFazio
    Title/topic: "The City in the Eye of Writings"
    Advisor: Ira Livingston
    Jennifer-Ann DiGregorio Kightlinger
    Title/topic: “Eating Ethnicity: Italian American Women Writing Food"
    Advisor: Fred L. Gardaphè
    Kristen Girard
    Title/topic: “Mother/Cultures and ‘New World’ Daughters: Negotiations of Gender and Ethnicity in 20th century American Literature”
    Advisor: E. Ann Kaplan
    Kavita S. Hatwalkar
    Title/Topic: “Postcolonializing America: Nineteenth-Century Writers’ Relationship to Nation”
    Advisor: Susan Scheckel
    Michael Holko
    Dissertation Title/Topic: "An Ambiguous Consolation: Pessimism and Poetry in late-Victorian Britain"
    Advisor: Adrienne Munich
    Benjamin Kim
    Title/topic: "William Wordsworth and Felicia Hemans: Domesticity and Historical Change"
    Advisor: Peter Manning
    Amy Kushner
    Title/topic: “The Development of Anorexic Neurosis in 19th-century England”
    Advisor: Ira Livingston
    Daniel Paliwoda
    Title/Topic: “Herman Melville's Noontide Demons: Encounters with Boredom, Trials of Faith, and Crises of Identity”
    Advisors: Susan Scheckel, Stephen Spector
    Amrohini Sahay
    Title: "Race In Search of a Theory: Between the Postcolonial and Globalization"
    Advisor: Ira Livingston
    Karl Shaddox
    Title/Topic: "Alternative Alterities: Recognizing the
    Posthuman in Gravity's Rainbow"
    Advisor: Ira Livingston
    Craig G. Stormont
    Title/topic: “Placing and Tracing Charles Olson: Local Poetics and the Polis at Large”
    Advisor: Susan Scheckel
    Gretchen Woertendyke.
    Title/topic: “The Specter of Haiti and Nineteenth-Century American Gothic Tales”
    Advisors: Susan Scheckel and Eric Haralson