Graduate Student Directory

PhD Students

1st Year

Kacie Allen

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Office: 542 Clemens Hall

aesthetics (film/visual art), affect & embodiment, cultural studies, horror studies

Email: kacieall@buffalo.edu

Gagne

Pronouns: they/them/theirs

20th and 21st century North American poetics, DIY community and small press publishing, ephemera, archival studies, lesbian studies, queer studies

Email: jggagne@buffalo.edu

Hawa Saleh

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Office: 442 Clemens Hall

mid to late nineteenth and twentieth cen. Anglophone literature, melodrama, transnational studies, and critical theory (emphasis on postcolonial & affect theory)

Email: hjsaleh@buffalo.edu

Adam Ray Wagner

Pronouns: he/him/his

Office: 442 Clemens Hall

poetics, performance and the sensorium, Gesamtkunstwerk, spatial studies, collecting

Email: wagner48@buffalo.edu

2nd Year

Florencia Bravo

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Office: 442 Clemens Hall

Victorian literature, gothic literature, ethnic and gender studies, sensationalist fiction, literary depictions of madness

Email: fbbravo@buffalo.edu

Mathilda Cullen

Pronouns: she/her

Office: 546

Modern and Contemporary Poetics, Psychoanalysis, Trans Studies

Email: mcullen2@buffalo.edu

Kamla Persaud

she/her/hers

Modernism, Twentieth- and Twenty-first Century American and British Literature, Psychoanalysis, Theory, World Literature, Linguistic Justice

Email: kamlaper@buffalo.edu

Shinjan Pramanik

Pronouns: any

Office: 546 Clemens

Modernism; Joyce Studies; Theory; Genetic Criticism and Archival Studies; Film, Sound, and Media Studies; Language

Email: shinjanp@buffalo.edu

Sam Runge

Pronouns: they/them

Office: 548 Clemens Hall

Eighteenth-century Literature, Poetics, Marxism, Materialist Philosophy, Sociology, the Public Sphere, Urban Planning, Representations of Homelessness

Email: shrunge@buffalo.edu

Katarina Wagner

she/her

Eighteenth-century British poetry, women writers, the lyric, melancholy and suicide

Email: wagner42@buffalo.edu

Jacob Walhout

Pronouns: him/him

Office: 532 Clemens Hall

20th-century American poetry and poetics; comics; Black studies; cultural and fan studies

Email: jjwalhou@buffalo.edu

Thom Eichelberger-Young

Pronouns: they/them

Office: 32 Clemens Hall

Language philosophy, DC and Bay Area Language Poetry, trans poetics, Anti-Imperialist/Anti-State theory, Heideggerean ontology, audience/reception theory, fetishism and psychoanalysis.

Email: tyoung4@buffalo.edu

3rd Year

Tristan Beiter

he/him/his

contemporary poetry and poetics, speculative fiction, feminist and queer literature, publishing history, genetic criticism

Email: tabeiter@buffalo.edu

E. Jesse Capobianco

Pronouns: he/ze/they

Office: 502 Clemens Hall

20th century avant-garde poetics, semiotics, continental philosophy of language, aesthetics, poetic epistemologies, postmodernity, aesthetics, (post)-phenomenology, metafiction, asemic writing, intersections of poetry & philosophy, mimetic ontologies, theory of the avant-garde

Email: ejcapobi@buffalo.edu

K Hatch

they/them

20th century avant-garde poetics, Modernism, aesthetics of mysticism, culture industry

Email: kevinhat@buffalo.edu

Alana Murphy

she/her/hers

Modernism, women writers, archival recovery work, twentieth century publishing networks, poetry anthologies

Email: am443@buffalo.edu

Tommy Murter

they/them

Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics, documentary and indexical poetics, performance, intermediality, aesthetics, mimesis, trauma studies, the unpublishable work

Email: tmmurter@buffalo.edu

Hal Nichols

Pronouns: they/them

Office: 542 Clemens Hall

Early Modern English Drama, Early Modern Trans Studies, Queer Theory

Email: emnichol@buffalo.edu

Seth Stobart

he/him/his

Theory of the Novel, Psychoanalysis, Popular Literature, 20th Century American Novel, History of the American Conservative Movement

Email: sethstob@buffalo.edu

PHD Candidates (ABD)

Ryan Bell

Pronouns: he/him

Twentieth-century poetics, sound, and intermedia

Email: rbell3@buffalo.edu

Gabriel Coffman

Pronouns: he/him/his

20th/21st Century Poetry/Poetics, Experimentalisms, Horror, Pedagogy, Translation, Aphorism Studies, Philosophynd New Materialism, Queer Theory, Embodied Cognitive Studies, Contiguity, Cosmic Pessimism, Transcontinental Philosophy, and Nothingness.

Email: gcoffman@buffalo.edu

Eli Didier

Pronouns: he/him

Twentieth-century American literature; theories and practices of translation; critical theory; post-structuralism; postmodernity and non-sense

Email: elididie@buffalo.edu

Carissa Dulchinos

Pronouns: she/her

speculative fiction, violence, trauma studies

Email: cdulchin@buffalo.edu

Emma Duncan

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

Nineteenth-century American literature, American poetry, poetics, cultural studies, Modernism, Queer Theory, speculative fiction

Email: eduncan@buffalo.edu

Katie Engel

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

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

Email: kjhenry@buffalo.edu

Luke Folk

Pronouns: He/Him/His

Modernism, biopolitics, continental philosophy

Email: jlfolk@buffalo.edu

Ciara Fulton

Pronouns: she/her/hers

early modern print culture, ephemera, Shakespeare studies, Bardolatry, comics studies, cultural studies

Email: ciaraful@buffalo.edu

Sebastian Galbo

Prounouns: He/Him/His

Health humanities, libraries/archives, medicine and literatureā€ (instead of "Health humanities, libraries/archives, medicine and literatureine, Health Humanities, Libraries/Archives

Email: scgalbo@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

Tyler Hudson

Pronouns: he/him/his

Modernism, poetry, film history and theory, media studies, cultural studies, philosophies of history and historical consciousness

Email: tylerhud@buffalo.edu

Michael Jaeggle

Pronouns: He/Him/His

modernism, phenomenology, critical theory, the New American poetry, genetic/archival 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 American literature, the novel

Email: isaackol@buffalo.edu

Kaitlyn Liu

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Environmental humanities, speculative fiction, media studies, new materialism

Email: keliu2@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

Global Anglophone Literature; Critical Bibliography & Book History; Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Diaspora Literature; Parsi Writing

Email: smehri@buffalo.edu

Bianca Messinger

Prounouns: She/Her

Poetics, 18th Century Studies, Romance Languages and Literatures, Trans Studies, Continental Philosophy

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

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

Pronouns: she/her/hers

African American Literature, post colonial studies, Black feminist studies, yoga studies

Email: brrice2@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

Claire Tranchino

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

Twentieth- and twenty-first century American literature; Black studies; aesthetic theory; psychoanalysis

Email: clairetr@buffalo.edu

Aaron VanSteinberg

he/him/his

poetics, twentieth- and twenty-first century American literature, Black studies, Marxism, sociology of culture, cultural studies

Email: avanstei@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

Callahan Wesley

Pronouns: He/Him/His

Twentieth-century American literature, Southern Gothic, disability studies, medical humanities

Email: cwesley@buffalo.edu

Spencer Williams

Pronouns: she/her

Poetics, Transgender Studies, Transgender Poetry, Media Studies

Email: sw237@buffalo.edu

Sojung Yang

Clemens 518

Email: sojungya@buffalo.edu

Corey Zielinski

Clemens 544

Email: coreyzie@buffalo.edu