Graduate Student Directory

PhD Students

1st Year

Florencia Bravo

Mathilda Cullen

Kamla Persaud

Shinjan Pramanik

Samuel Runge

Katarina Wagner

Jacob Walhout

Thom Young

2nd Year

Tristan Beiter

Jesse Capobianco

Kevin Hatch

Alana Murphy

Tommy Murter

Emily Nichols

Seth Stobart

3rd Year

Gabriel Coffman

Pronouns: He/They

20th/21st Century Poetics, Experimentalism, Horror and The (New) Weird, Post-Humanism and New Materialism, Queer Theory, Embodied Cognitive Studies, Contiguity, Cosmic Pessimism, Transcontinental Philosophy, and Nothingness.

Email: gcoffman@buffalo.edu

Emma Duncan

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

Poetics; Queer Theory; Modernism; 19th Century American Literature; Emily Dickinson; Sylvia Plath; Popular Culture; Speculative Fiction

Email: eduncan@buffalo.edu

Tyler Hudson

Pronouns: he/him/his

20th-century poetry, modernism, film studies

Email: tylerhud@buffalo.edu

Kaitlyn Liu

Pronouns: She/Her/

Environmental criticism, contemporary fiction, postcolonialism, feminist studies

Email: keliu2@buffalo.edu

Aaron VanSteinberg

Callahan Wesley

Pronouns: He/Him/His

William Faulkner, the Southern Gothic, 20th-century American literature, and disability studies.

Email: cwesley@buffalo.edu

PHD Candidates (ABD)

Ryan Bell

Pronouns: He/Him/His

Poetics; Aesthetics; Experimental Music; Sound Studies, The Avant-garde

Email: rbell3@buffalo.edu

Eli Didier

Pronouns: He/Him/His

20th and 21st century American literature, translingual poetics, continental philosophy, postmodernity, nonsense

Email: elididie@buffalo.edu

Carissa Dulchinos

Katie Engel

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

Early Modern Literature, Rhetoric, New Materialism, Science Communication, Writing Pedagogy, Digital Humanities

Email: kjhenry@buffalo.edu

Jason Folk

Pronouns: He/Him/His

Biopolitics; Critical Theory; Critical War Studies; Modernism; Transnational Studies

Email: jlfolk@buffalo.edu

Ciara Fulton

Pronouns: She/Her

early modern literature, Shakespeare studies, Bardolatry, comics studies, cultural studies

Email: ciaraful@buffalo.edu

Sebastian Galbo

Prounouns: He/Him/His

19th- and 20th-century American Literature, Medicine, Health Humanities, Libraries/Archives

Email: scgalbo@buffalo.edu

Shantam Goyal

Pronouns: He/Him

Irish Modernism, Joyce Studies, Sound Studies

Email: shantamg@buffalo.edu

Alice Hall

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers or TheyThem/Theirs

Poetry and Poetics; Docupoetry; 20th and 21st century US Literature; African American Literature; Cinema; Marxism

Email: alicehal@buffalo.edu

Samuel Helgeson

Pronouns: He/Him/His

Psychoanalysis; Queer Theory; Writing Technologies

Email: sdhelges@buffalo.edu

Michael Jaeggle

Pronouns: He/Him/His

modernism, phenomenology, the New American Poetry, genetic criticism

Email: mwjaeggl@buffalo.edu

Blair Johnson

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

Poetics; New Media; Materiality

Email: baj7@buffalo.edu

Isaac Kolding

Prounouns: He/Him/His

Nineteenth-century U.S. literature

Email: isaackol@buffalo.edu

Heather Martin

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers or TheyThem/Theirs

Ecopoetics; Phytopoetics; Queer Studies; Migration; Mapping

Email: hmartin3@buffalo.edu

Sharmeen Mehri

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

World Literature; 20th & 21st Century South Asian Literature; Parsi Writing; Critical Archival Studies, & Book History

Email: smehri@buffalo.edu

Bianca Messinger

Prounouns: She/Her/Hers

Trans Studies; Comparative Literature; 18th century Francophone Literatures; 18th century Moral and Political Philosophy; Psychoanalysis; Marxisms

Email: biancam@buffalo.edu

Ariana Nadia Nash

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

Poetry & Poetics; Literary Realism; Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century American and British Poetry; Nineteenth-century African-American Literature; Marxism

Email: annash@buffalo.edu

Katie Naughton

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

Poetics; Twentieth and Twenty-first-century Poetry; Lyric and Experimentalism; Women Experimentalists; Identity, Politics, and Form; Epistemology; Self-knowledge and Self-opacity; Archival Methods; Digital Humanities Archiving

Email: kenaught@buffalo.edu

Julianne Neely

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

20th and 21st-century Poetics; Digital Embodiment; Post-Humanism; Lyric Subjectivities; Avant-garde Poetry; Digital Poetics; Feminist Theory; Queer Theory; Gendered Embodiment; History of the Lyric; Selfie Poetics; Social Media; Selfie Capitalism

Email: jneely2@buffalo.edu

Natalie Pope

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

Victorian Literature; Empire Studies; Travel Narratives; Children's Literature

Email: nlpope@buffalo.edu

BreAnna Rice

Jake Sanders

Clemens 536

Email: jakesand@buffalo.edu

Joseph Sechrist

Pronouns: They/Them

Marxist-feminism, social reproduction, proletarian literature, globalization, postcolonialism

Email: jsechris@buffalo.edu

Jacob Sloan

Pronouns: He/Him/His

Marxism and class struggle, the global proletarian novel, literary realism, Palestinian literature, Marxist feminism and social reproduction theory, the literature of Reconstruction, nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American literature

Email: jacobslo@buffalo.edu

Jacob Sloan

Claire Tranchino

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

Twentieth-century and contemporary U.S. literature

Email: clairetr@buffalo.edu

Dana Venerable

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

Black Performance Studies; Dance; Gender; Notation Systems; Poetics; Sound

Email: danavene@buffalo.edu

Paul Vogel

Pronouns: He/Him/His

20th and 21st-century Poetry; New Media

Email: paulvoge@buffalo.edu

Carter Wenger

Clemens 548

Email: carterwe@buffalo.edu

Sojung Yang

Clemens 518

Email: sojungya@buffalo.edu

Corey Zielinski

Clemens 544

Email: coreyzie@buffalo.edu