Ph.D. Student Profiles | Master's Student Profiles
Master's Student Profiles
| Kiel Basford | BA | SUNY Binghamton |
| Jill Britton | BA | SUNY Oswego |
| Christine Campana | BA | Stony Brook University |
| Michael Cesarczyk | BA | Stony Brook University |
| Andrea Cody | BA | Vassar College |
| Edward Currie | BA | Stony Brook University |
| Carrie Fleisher | BA | Stony Brook University |
| Daniel Hamilton | BA | Stony Brook University |
| Victoria Harkness | BA | Stony Brook University |
| Kaaren Hequist | BS | University of Connecticut |
| Nilufer Kelly | BA | Stony Brook University |
| Laura Konigsberg | BA | Stony Brook University |
| Catherine Lanieri | BA | St. Joseph's College |
| Inur Mamoor | BA | Stony Brook University |
| Kerry Mescallado | BA | Stony Brook University |
| Jessica Rubin | BA | SUNY Binghamton |
| Lorraine Taurassi | BA | Washington & Lee University |
| Dorothy-Dean Thomas | BA | University of MS |
| Yum-Chu Tsai | BA | National dong-Hwa Univ, Taiwan |
| Lauren Turselling | BA | Stony Brook University |
| Pamela Wells | BA | SUNY Albany |
| MS | CW Post | |
| Su Hyun Yoon | BA | Kon Kuk Univ., Seoul, Republic of Korea |
Ph.D. Student Profiles
Second 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.
Lauren Esposito. BS, MAT Stony Brook University. Education, Composition and Rhetoric
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.
Nicole Sears. BA, MA Stony Brook University. Education , Composition and Rhetoric
Anthony Teets. BA French Stony Brook. Victorian Literature.
Burcu Uyurkulak. BA English/Art History, MA English, Istanbul University. Twentieth Century British Literature.
Third YearNicole Buscemi. BA Adelphi; MA Hofstra. British Victorian Literature.
Kimberly Cox. BA UC Riverside. Victorian and Gothic British Literature and Art.
Lauren Esposito. BS, MAT Stony Brook University. Education, Composition and Rhetoric
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.
Nicole Sears. BA, MA Stony Brook University. Education , Composition and Rhetoric
Anthony Teets. BA French Stony Brook. Victorian Literature.
Burcu Uyurkulak. BA English/Art History, MA English, Istanbul University. Twentieth Century British Literature.
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. Horror fiction and film, Disability studies, Gothic literature, Film theory, and Cultural 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. Horror fiction and film, Disability studies, Gothic literature, Film theory, and Cultural studies.
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.
Margaret Wright. BA, MA SUNY Binghamton. 19th Century literature, Victorian literature.
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.
Margaret Wright. BA, MA SUNY Binghamton. 19th Century literature, Victorian literature.
Fourth 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.
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.
Fifth Year
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
Jason
Beardsley. BA California Polytechnic
State University, San Luis Obispo. Poetry, Romanticism, Modernism.
Lesley Broder. BA C.W. Post/Long Island University; MA Teachers College, Columbia University. 19th century British literature.
Julie Burton-Swift. BA Chestnut Hill College; MA Villanova Univ. 19th century American, Women's studies.
Ryan Calvey. BA Dowling College; MA SUNY Stony Brook. Film, science fiction and fantasy literature, Victorian, pop culture, Composition.
Richard Caputo. BA SUNY Stony Brook. Ancient Epic poetry, Homer, Modern British and Irish literature, James Joyce, Yeats, Narrative and Narratology.
Virginia Costello. BA Ripon College; MA, MFA University of Montana. International Modernism, 20th century American, Feminist theory, autobiography.
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.
Michael Holko. BA Florida International Univ. 19th century British literature & culture, critical theory, aesthetics
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.
Jennifer Kightlinger. BA, MA St. John's Univ. 19th century American, International Modernism, Italian-American studies.
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.
Stephen Salmoni. BA Amherst College; MA SUNY Stony Brook. 20th century American poetry, Composition and Rhetoric, creative writing.
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.
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.
Eve Van Bergen. BA Fordham University; MA Trinity College, Dublin. 20th century American, Modernism, film studies.
Stephanie Wade. BA Wesleyan University; MA CUNY-City College. 18th and 19th century transatlantic narratives, composition studies, narrative theory.
Dissertations in Progress
Lesley Broder. BA C.W. Post/Long Island University; MA Teachers College, Columbia University. 19th century British literature.
Julie Burton-Swift. BA Chestnut Hill College; MA Villanova Univ. 19th century American, Women's studies.
Ryan Calvey. BA Dowling College; MA SUNY Stony Brook. Film, science fiction and fantasy literature, Victorian, pop culture, Composition.
Richard Caputo. BA SUNY Stony Brook. Ancient Epic poetry, Homer, Modern British and Irish literature, James Joyce, Yeats, Narrative and Narratology.
Virginia Costello. BA Ripon College; MA, MFA University of Montana. International Modernism, 20th century American, Feminist theory, autobiography.
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.
Michael Holko. BA Florida International Univ. 19th century British literature & culture, critical theory, aesthetics
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.
Jennifer Kightlinger. BA, MA St. John's Univ. 19th century American, International Modernism, Italian-American studies.
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.
Stephen Salmoni. BA Amherst College; MA SUNY Stony Brook. 20th century American poetry, Composition and Rhetoric, creative writing.
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.
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.
Eve Van Bergen. BA Fordham University; MA Trinity College, Dublin. 20th century American, Modernism, film studies.
Stephanie Wade. BA Wesleyan University; MA CUNY-City College. 18th and 19th century transatlantic narratives, composition studies, narrative theory.
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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