Graduate Student Directory

MA Students

Melanie March

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

Rhetoric; Black Writers; Defamiliarization in Literature

Email: mkmarch@buffalo.edu

PhD Students

1st 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

Ava Hofmann

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

2nd Year

Eli Didier

Pronouns: He/Him/His

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

Email: elididie@buffalo.edu

Carissa Dulchinos

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

Michael Jaeggle

Pronouns: He/Him/His

modernism, phenomenology, the New American Poetry, genetic criticism

Email: mwjaeggl@buffalo.edu

Breanna Rice

3rd Year

Dana Fang

Pronouns: They, Them, Theirs

Poetics

Email: danyangf@buffalo.edu

Sebastian Galbo

Prounouns: He/Him/His

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

Email: scgalbo@buffalo.edu

Isaac Kolding

Prounouns: He/Him/His

Nineteenth-century U.S. literature

Email: isaackol@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

Claire Tranchino

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

Twentieth-century and contemporary U.S. literature

Email: clairetr@buffalo.edu

ABD

Brooke Bastie

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

contemporary poetry, necro/biopolitics, critical cartography studies

Email: blbastie@buffalo.edu

Ryan Bell

Pronouns: He/Him/His

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

Email: rbell3@buffalo.edu

Zackary Brown

Pronouns: He/Him/His

Poetry and Poetics; Continental Philosophy/Literary Theory; Media Studies

Email: zjbrown@buffalo.edu

Abhipsa Chakraborty

Pronouns: She/Her/

Global Anglophone Literature; Postcolonial Literature and Theory; 20th and 21st century South Asian Literature; Global Modernism; Sound Studies; South Asian Cinema; Digital Humanities

Email: abhipsac@buffalo.edu

Brent Cox

Pronouns: he/him

Poetics, The Contemporary, Philosophy, Media Studies, Visual Studies, Technology, Anti-Racism, Gender, Alternative Institutions, Geopolitics

Clemens 502

Email: brentcox@buffalo.edu

Nathaniel Dickson

Clemens 305

Simon Eales

Pronouns: He/Him/His

Poetics; Experimental Writing; Continental Philosophy; Critical Theory; Decolonialism; Global Literature; Early Modern Literature

Email: simonpet@buffalo.edu

Katie Engel

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

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

Email: kjhenry@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

Luke Heister

Pronouns: He/Him/His

Postwar/post-45 American Literature; Philip Roth; Psychoanalysis; Comedy

Email: ivenheis@buffalo.edu

Samuel Helgeson

Pronouns: He/Him/His

Psychoanalysis; Queer Theory; Writing Technologies

Email: sdhelges@buffalo.edu

Callie Ingram

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

20th & 21st century American literature, contemporary fiction, experimental women writers, post-postmodernism, narrative ethics, critical phenomenology, theories of reading

Email: calliein@buffalo.edu

Blair Johnson

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

Poetics; New Media; Materiality

Email: baj7@buffalo.edu

Andrew Lindquist

Clemens 546

Email: alindquis@buffalo.edu

Heather Martin

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers or TheyThem/Theirs

Ecopoetics; Phytopoetics; Queer Studies; Migration; Mapping

Email: hmartin3@buffalo.edu

Willis McCumber

Pronouns: He/Him/His

Marxism and Class Struggle; Slavery and Nineteenth-century US Literature; Literary Realism; Feminism and Social Reproduction Theory; Wittgenstein

Email: willismc@buffalo.edu

Macy McDonald

Pronouns: They/Them/Theirs

Critical Data Studies, Contemporary Literature, and Theory

Email: macymcdo@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

Adam Mitts

AIDS writing, poetics, disability studies, queer theory

Lawrence Mullen

Pronouns: They/Them/Theirs

Nineteenth-century American Literature; Gothic Studies; Marxism; Feminism; Cultural Studies; Archival Studies; Critical Race Studies; Digital Humanities

Email: llmullen@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

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

Sarah Sgro

Pronouns: she/her

Discard studies, poetics, digital studies, queer theory

Phone: Clemens 532

Email: sarahsgr@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

Eric Vanlieshout

Pronouns: He/Him/His

William S. Burroughs; Science and Literature; Language

Email: ericvanl@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