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Graduate English Students

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• Samia Ahmed, PhD Student

  

  Samia is originally from Bhopal, India but now lives in New York where she is enrolled in the PhD creative writing program at ������Ƶ. Her work can be found in The Kenyon Review, Coffin Bell Journal, deLuge Literary and Arts Journal, Bluestem Magazine and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Old Dominion University. 

  Research Interests:

  Contemporary Fiction, Postcolonial Studies, Eco-criticism, Historical Fiction, Gender Studies, Translation.

  Publications:

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  Honors and Awards:

  “Bhopal, 1984” Honorable Mention AWP Intro Journal Award 2021, judged by Mary Grimm
  “When They Came For Us” Honorable Mention Jerri Dickseski Fiction Prize, judged by Janet Peery
  “A Cup of Chai and Never After” Nominated for Best of Net Anthology, Sundress Publication
  “Ars Poetica” Finalist 2018-19 ODU College Poetry Prize organized by the Academy of American Poets, judged by Ilya Kaminsky 
  Provost’s Doctoral Summer Fellowship, this distinguished Fellowship is given to a select number of students in recognition of their clear academic potential to do exceptionally high-caliber graduate work
  Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Department of English, General Literature and Rhetoric, ������Ƶ ($17,000)
  David Scott Sutelan Memorial Scholarship for exceptional merit
  The Sutelan Scholarship was established in 1995 and is awarded annually to one or two final-year MFA students who demonstrate exceptional merit
  SEES Graduate Travel Award ($500)
  Graduate Teaching Assistantship, College of Arts & Letters, Department of English, Old Dominion University ($10,000)

  
  Education:

  MFA (fiction)- Department of English, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, 2021 
  Thesis: When They Came for Us, stories
  Thesis Advisor: Kent Wascom
  Committee Members: John McManus, Benjamin Kingsley
  M.J. (Masters in Journalism) Department of Journalism, Makhanlal Chaturvedi National
  University, Bhopal, India, 2017
  B.A. Honors-Department of Economics, Institute for Excellence in Higher Education, Bhopal, India, 2015
  Major- Economics, Minor- English Literature

• Areej AlQowaifly, PhD Student

  

  Areej is a doctoral candidate in English Literature. Her dissertation centers around the intricate relationship between narrative, ethics, and memory. She focuses on the emerging field of Narrative Ethics, delving into how narratives convey, challenge, or reinforce ethical values. Informed by disciplines such as psychology and psychoanalysis, she investigates the concept of "memory narrative," which explores how memories are interpreted, constructed, and shared. By examining the interplay between memory, narrative, and ethics, Areej seeks to illuminate the complexities of human experience and contribute to a deeper understanding of identity, culture, and historical understanding.

  
  Advisor

  Dr. Jeffner Allen

  
  Research Areas

  Modern/postmodern global Literature, Narrative, Memory studies, Ethical theory, Kafka.

  
  Education

  Masters of Arts in English Literature, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS

  Bachelor of Arts in English, and a minor in Education, UQU, Makkah, SA

• Roudri Bandyopadhyay, PhD Student

  

  Roudri Bandyopadhyay is a creative writing nonfiction graduate who completed her MFA from Virginia and is now a part of the ������Ƶ to pursue her PhD in the same field. As a writer, she is greatly inclined to write about real-world women and their stories, all intertwined with age old beliefs, traditions, rituals, and often texts from the ancient Indian literature that has shaped the minds of so many. Her interests further dwells into unfolding intergenerational trauma, displacement, and the effects of colonialism in a post colonial world.

  
  Advisor

  Susan Strehle

  
  Research Areas

  Post colonial literature and South Asian feminism

  
  Publications, Conferences, Etc.,

  
  Education

  MFA in Creative Writing Nonfiction

• Khadijah Boxill, PhD Student

  Khadijah Boxill is a  PhD candidate in English Literature at ������Ƶ. Prior to starting her studies at ������Ƶ, Khadijah received a Masters of Arts in Africana Studies from the University at Albany, and received a Bachelors of Arts in Psychology and Africana Studies from ������Ƶ. Khadijah's upcoming dissertation, "Space and Place: The Displacement of Self in African American Literature," will dissect the value and intention of space and place in African American Literature, as African American characters exist and navigate through restricting measures to identify one's self. Khadijah currently serves as a Graduate Admissions Recruiter at ������Ƶ. Prior to this role, Khadijah has served as both a graduate and teaching assistant, receiving awards such as the Clifford D. Clark Fellowship and Lyceum Graduate Student Grant. After completing her degree, Khadijah hopes to foster her research interests to continue teaching and conducting research.

  
  Research Areas

  African American Literature post 1865-1900s, post 1900s-current, criminology, critical race theory, space and place, identity displacement

  
  Dissertation Title

  Space and Place: The Displacement of Self in African American Literature

  
  Publications, Conferences, Etc.,

  UMass EGO Conference “Reading Conflicts: Bodies, Spaces, Affects, April 2023

  Session Presentation: The Intention of Space and Place in African American Literature and Text.

  
  Popular Culture Association/ American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) 2022 National Online Conference, April 2023

  Session Presentation: The Intention of Space and Place in African American Literature and Text.

  • Served as the session chair.

  
  Stony Brook 2023 English Graduate Conference, February 2023

  Session Presentation: The Intention of Space and Place in African American Literature and Text.

  
  Popular Culture Association/ American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) 2022 National Online Conference, April 2022

  Session Presentation: “The Legacies of Historical Fiction in American Literature.”

  • Served as the session chair.

  
  College English Association (CEA) Conference, March-April 2022

  Session Presentation: “African American Orphans and Exiles: The Forgotten and the Ignored.”

  
  Popular Culture Association/ American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) 2021 National Online Conference, June 2021.

  Session Presentation: “African American Orphans and Exiles: The Forgotten and the Ignored.”

  
  Honors & Awards

  Clifford D. Clark Fellowship Recipient

  Lyceum Graduate Student Grant Recipient

  
  Education

  Masters of Arts in Africana Studies, SUNY Albany

  Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Africana Studies, ������Ƶ

• Alycia Calvert, PhD Student

  

  Alycia Calvert is an emerging writer and photographer. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Hunger Journal, The Las Vegas Writes Anthology, Hecate Magazine, The Boulder City Review and Double Downs with Nevada Humanities Blog. She’s just finished an her first year of PhD, and will spend summer preparing for her first few exams. Last year she finished an MFA at UNLV, and a summer Residency in France. She loves house plants, beignets made by her daughter; traveling; and weird and compelling little stories, some of which she’s written herself.

  Research Interests:

  Flash Fiction, Monstrosity and Gender, Speculative, Science, Earth writing, and folklore. 

  Publications:

   

  
  Education:

  MFA Fine Arts Creative Writing - UNLV August 2022
  Bachelors of English with a Creative Writing Concentration - UNLV - May 2016

• Hannah Carr-Murphy, PhD Student

  Hannah Carr-Murphy is a poet and musician from Black Hawk County, Iowa. Her poetry has appeared in journals Common Ground Review, Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry, and Adanna as well as anthologies Exs (Final Thursday), Double Kiss (Mammoth Books), and Spectral Lines (Alternating Currents). Previously, Hannah worked as Production Coordinator for North American Review at University of Northern Iowa and as Layout/Design Editor for An Focal at University of Limerick, Ireland. She is currently Co-Editor in Chief of Harpur Palate, ������Ƶ's literary magazine. See some of her work at

  Research Interests:

  Creative Writing Pedagogy | Sound in American Poetry | Contemporary Opera 

  Honors and Awards:

  Provost’s Doctoral Fellowship

  Education:

  Bachelor of Arts, English, University of Northern Iowa
  Bachelor of Music, Instrumental Performance (flute), University of Northern Iowa
  Master's of Arts, Community Music, University of Limerick (Ireland)

• Lisa Compo, PhD Student

  

  Lisa Compo has poems published in journals such as: Colorado Review, EPOCH, Arts & Letters, Chicago Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She is a PhD student in SUNY Binghamton’s creative writing program and obtained her MFA from UNC – Greensboro. She has received several nominations for the Pushcart award and Best of the Net. She is the social media manager for both The Shore and Harpur Palate.

  Education

  BA in Creative Writing 

  MFA in Poetry

• Sam Corradetti, PhD Student

  Sam Corradetti’s work has been supported by The Fabulist, Fourteen Hills, Folklore Review, the Rin Kelly scholarship for speculative fiction, a Yellow Door fellowship at Prospect Street Writers House, a Bookends fellowship at the Lichtenstein Center of Stony Brook University, and others. Sam received an MFA from Temple University and is pursuing a PhD in English at ������Ƶ.

  
  Research Areas

  Short fiction, speculative fiction, hybrid & experimental form, myth & folklore, queer narratives, multiethnic literature, medieval studies

  
  Education

  MFA, Creative Writing - Fiction, Temple University

  MS, International Marketing, Saint Joseph's University

  BS, Italian, Saint Joseph's University

• Samantha Covais, PhD Student

  Sam's academic research focuses primarily on masculinity and philia in 20th and 21st century American literature with a concentration on the works of John Steinbeck. She is also interested in the intersection of philosophy, theology, and literature. When she's not on campus, you can find her running, hiking, or cheering on the Phillies and the Mavericks!

  
  Research Areas:

  20th and 21st century American literature; masculinity studies

  
  Publications, Conferences, Etc.:

  Presentations at NeMLA, the International Steinbeck Conference, SEPCHE, John R. Milton Writers’ Conference, PAMLA, NEPCA;

  Publications in the Steinbeck Review, CONCEPT, and the Hemingway Review;

  
  Education:

  Chestnut Hill College, BA; Villanova University, MA;

• Derek Ellis, PhD Student
  

  DEREK ELLIS is a writer from rural Kentucky. He is currently a PhD candidate at Binghamton University. He holds a BA in English Literature from Western Kentucky University, and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Maryland. His work has appeared in Five Points: A Journal of Literature and Art, Prairie Schooner, Action Spectacle, BODY, and Leavings Literature Magazine.

  
  Advisor:

  Tina Chang

  
  Research Areas:

  Creative Writing and mid 20th Century American Literature

  
  Publications, Conferences, Etc.:

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  Education:

  B.A. in English Literature - Western Kentucky University (2015) 

  M.F.A. in Creative Writing - University of Maryland, College Park (2019)

• Ella Flores, PhD Student

  Ella Flores is a first year Ph.D. candidate in poetry at ������Ƶ and received an MFA from Northern Michigan University.

  
  Advisor:

  Susan Strehle

  
  Research Areas:

  Poetry, History of the Americas, Paleoanthropology, Linguistics

  
  Publications, Conferences, etc.:

  Summerset Review, South Caroline Review, Willow Springs, RHINO and others. 

  
  Education

  BA from Salisbury University, MFA from Northern Michigan University

• Jordan E. Franklin, PhD Student

  Jordan E. Franklin is a poet, Clark fellow and doctoral student in the Department of English at ������Ƶ. Originally from Brooklyn, NY, she earned her MFA from Stony Brook Southampton where she served as a Turner Fellow. Jordan is the author of the full-length poetry collection, when the signals come home (Switchback Books, 2021), and a poetry chapbook, boys in the electric age (Tolsun Books, 2021). Her work has appeared in Breadcrumbs, Frontier, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, the Southampton Review and elsewhere. She is the winner of the 2017 James Hearst Poetry Prize, the 2020 Gatewood Prize and a finalist of the 2019 Furious Flower Poetry Prize.

  Publications:

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  Honors and Awards:

  2022 - Clifford D. Clark Diversity Fellowship, ������Ƶ
  2020 - Gatewood Prize, Switchback Books
  2020 - February Poem of the Month Winner, Brooklyn Poets
  2019 - Furious Flower Poetry Prize, Finalist
  2018 - NYC Teaching Fellows
  2017 - James Hearst Poetry Prize, First Place, North American Review
  2015 - W. Burghardt Turner Fellowship, Stony Brook University

  
  Education:

  M.S Ed, Students with Disabilities Grades 1-6, Brooklyn College, 2020
  M.F.A, Creative Writing and Literature, Stony Brook Southampton, 2018
  B.F.A, Creative Writing, Brooklyn College, 2012

• Lena Gemmer, PhD Student

  

  Lena N. Gemmer is a multimedia artist originally from the quiet foggy town of Montara CA. She received her BA in English and History from Allegheny College in Meadville PA, and her MFA in Writing from University of New Hampshire. Her work has been published in Wild Roof Journal, Burningword Literary Journal, The Bangalore Review, among others. When she is not in graduate school pursuing a PhD in English CW at SUNY Binghamton, you can find her taking photographs or scolding her Norwegian Forest cat Mitchy

  
  Research Areas

  hybrid memoir, creative writing pedagogy, nonlinear narrative

  Advisor

  Alexi Zentner

  Publications, Conferences, Etc.,

  Selected Publications

  Photography: “The Edges of a Storm” Changing Skies: Hindsight Literary Journal, forthcoming. 

  Collaboration Multimedia Art: “Manifold,” If We: Connections Through Creative Process, Wild Roof Journal, August 2024. 

  Fiction: “Under the Oak Tree,” Bardics Anonymous, Issue #2 (forthcoming)

  Fiction: “Kitchen Cabinets,” Bardics Anonymous, Issue #2 (forthcoming)

  Fiction: “Amanda,” Bardics Anonymous, Issue #2, (forthcoming)

  Contributor Essay: “How My Cat Became My Muse in Flash Fiction,” Wild Roof Journal, June 2024 

  Creative Nonfiction: “Dinosaurs Before Dark,” The Bangalore Review, May 2023. 

  
  Honors & Awards

  May 2023 Young Dawkins III Prize, English Department, University of New Hampshire 

  2022-2023 Full Tuition Teaching Assistantship, English Department, University of New Hampshire

  2021-2022 Half Tuition Scholarship, English Department, University of New Hampshire

  Spring 2017    Sigma Tau Delta, National English Honors Society, Allegheny College 

  
  Education

  2024 - 2028: SUNY Binghamton, English Department, English CW PhD Candidate

  2021- 2023:  University of New Hampshire, English Department, MFA in Writing

  2016 - 2020 Allegheny College, English & History Department, English & History B.A. 

• Shannon Hearn, PhD Student

  

  Shannon Hearn is a poet and teacher in Binghamton and Brooklyn, NY whose work has appeared or is forthcoming with Action, Spectacle, Bruiser, cream city review, Fugue, Ghost City Press, Voicemail Poems, and others; their poem “WHAT MARRIAGE IS / TENDER CARE” was an Academy of American Poets Prize honorable mention, selected by Leah Umansky. She is the author of the chapbook tracing circles in dirt (Bottlecap Press).

  Research Areas

  Contemporary Poetry, Playwriting, Hybrid, Gender & Sexuality, Queer Studies, Ecopoetics, Nature, Apocalypse & Notions of the Divine

  Advisor

  Claire Luchette

  Publications, Conferences, Etc.,

  https://ghostcitypress.com/poetry-91/2024/10/5/shannon-hearn; “ON THE SOLSTICE I WATCH MY LAG / NEVER KNEW I COULD / SLEEP FOR THIS LONG” 

  https://www.bruisermag.com/hearn_citi; excerpts from “Paranoid citi”

  Education

  MFA, Queens College; thesis advisor, Kimiko Hahn

• Joseph Heiland, PhD Student

  Joseph is a first-year PhD student at ������Ƶ, where he studies English and creative writing. He holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. His work has appeared in Lumina Journal, Eastern Iowa Review, and Reed Magazine

  Research Areas

  Narrative, Form, Cultural Studies, Film & Media Studies  

  Education

  BA, Ithaca College; MFA, Sarah Lawrence College

• Shruti Jain, PhD Student

  

  Shruti's research is interested in the global eighteenth century and the enlightenment with a specific focus on the networks of race and caste. She is also the co-host and co-producer of the podcast "Immigrants Wake America", which helps her explore the role the expansion of archival processes in the eighteenth century and beyond. www.immigrantswakeamerica.com

  Research Interests:

  Eighteenth Century Studies, Critical Race Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Caste Studies

  Advisor:

  Dr. John O. Havard

  Publications:

  (Forthcoming) "Sexualized Racial-Colonial Grotesque in the Company Archives" in Eighteenth Century Fiction

  in Tête- à-Tête: Journal of French and Comparative Literature 

  "Religion Enlightenment and Empire: British Interpretations of Hinduism in the Eighteenth Century" by Jessica Patterson. Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies. 

  SO! Amplifies: Immigrants Wake America Podcast and the Work of Engaged Digital Humanities

  
  Honors and Awards:

  Graduate Student Excellence Award in Service and Outreach, 2023

  
  Education:

  MA English, University of Hyderabad (2018); BA English, Performing Arts and Psychology, Christ University, Bangalore, India (2016).

• Allen Loomis, PhD Student

  

  Allen Loomis is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at ������Ƶ. His work examines the confluence of the domestic sphere and public theater in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. More specifically, he studies how increased availability and improved quality of window glass influenced these realms. His dissertation argues that shifts in window glass production changed how public theater participated in the discourse of the home as a cynosure and borrowed from windows in conceptualizing the so-called fourth wall. 

  He is also interested in early modern true crime narratives told via ballads, pamphlets, court documents, and the fascinating yet frightening dramatic genre of domestic tragedies. Some of his favorites include – Arden of Faversham, Two Lamentable Tragedies, A Yorkshire Tragedy, and A Warning for Fair Women. 

  Research Interests:

  Material Culture of Glass, Shakespeare Studies, Domestic Architecture, Early Modern Literature  

  Dissertation Title

  Transparent Window Glass and the Theatricality of Dwelling in Early Modern England

  Advisor:

  Dr. John Kuhn

  
  Honors and Awards:

  Rakow Grant for Glass Research, Rakow Library, Corning Museum of Glass
  Harpur College Graduate Student Research Grant, ������Ƶ
  Francis X. Newman Endowment for Support of Research, ������Ƶ 

  
  Education:

  B.A. and M.A. in English at Loyola University Chicago. 

• Matthew Midgett, PhD Student

  

  Matt is interested in how the 19th century British novel understands time, particularly as related to labor, community, and genre. 

  Research Interests:

  Marxist Theory, 19th century British novels, Political Violence in Literature and Film

  Education:

  B.A. English - Temple University; M.A. English and Media Studies - Rutgers University-Camden

• Grace Miller, PhD Student

  Grace is from Rochester, NY. While attending Nazareth College, she studied at Université Rennes 2 and Universidad Católica de Valencia San Vicente Mártir. She received her MA in 2021 from ������Ƶ in Comparative Literature. 

  Research:

  Historical Amnesia, Native American Literature, Postcolonial Theory, Trauma Studies, Intergenerational Trauma, US Imperialism, American Pluralism

  Publications:

   

  
  Education:

  M.A., Comparative Literature, ������Ƶ 
  B.A., French Language and Literature with minor in History, Nazareth College 2019
  B.A., Spanish Language and Literature with minor in Psychology, Nazareth College 2019

• Md Hasan Ashik Rahman, PhD Student

  

  Hasan completed his previous studies in English Literature and Film Studies from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. For his PhD dissertation at ������Ƶ, he intends to study the cultural landscape of South Asia in the second half of the 20th century, mainly through its film adaptations and remakes. His interdisciplinary framework includes perspectives  from the diverse fields of postcolonialism, transnationalism, cultural studies, and Bangladesh studies.

  Research Interests:

  South Asia; Popular Culture; Adaptation Studies; Postcolonial and Transnational Perspectives

  Education:

  BA (English), MA (English Literature), MSS (Television and Film Studies) from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

• Suzanne Richardson, PhD Student

  Suzanne Richardson earned her MFA at the University of New Mexico. She is a writer living in Binghamton, New York, and a Ph.D. student in creative writing at SUNY Binghamton. Her writing has appeared in Bomb Magazine, Gulf Coast, Poet Lore, Florida Review, DIALOGIST, Columbia Journal and New Ohio Review, among others. Find more of her writing at: www-suzannerichardsonwrites.tumblr.com/ 

  
  Research Areas

  Creative Writing: Memoir

• Kenny Roggenkamp, PhD Student

  Kenny is a PhD candidate whose work focuses on mystical theology, medieval vernacular mystical literature, the legacy of German Idealism in psychoanalysis, and literary and cultural theory. 

  Research Areas

  Mysticism, Negativity, Hegel, German Idealism, Psychoanalysis, Lacan, Deconstruction

  Advisor

  Dr. Marilynn Desmond

  Publications, Conferences, Etc.,

  Samuel R. Delany: A Reference Guide to His Life and Works (published by Rowman & Littlefield; co-author and lead author for theory)

  Conferences and Invited Talks including CEMERS Colloquium Series (������Ƶ), LACK, ACLA, NEMLA, Villanova University Gender and Women's Studies Conference, and Vagantes Medieval Studies Conference.

  Education

  MA Thesis Distinction, Villanova University Department of English

• Hena Sarkar, PhD Student

  A PhD student in the Literature track, Hena broadly works with postcolonial studies, global south theories, gender studies, and film and media. 

  Education:

  MA - Jadavpur University (2020)
  BA - Jadavpur University (2018)

• Saloni Shokeen, PhD Student

  

  I am from New Delhi, India. Currently in my third year of PhD at the department of English, SUNY Binghamton. Prior to being a full time academician, I was a professional Taekwondo athlete. I think my experiences in sports have significantly shaped me as a person today.

  Research Areas

  I am interested in literature's treatment of the environment, especially rivers. Studying rivers as diverse and heterogenous voices, I am curious about their existence at the peak of imperialism and their transformations since then. Along with this, my research area includes areas such as: Epistemological studies, Post-colonial theory, Modern World Literature, Existentialism and Oceanic Studies.

  Advisor

  Dr. Joseph Keith

  Publications, Conferences, Etc.,

  I am currently working on a column and article for the journal Open Rivers and a book chapter for a collection of essays titled The Planetary Subaltern. Also, I have written for environmental blogs like Arcadiana about my river experiences. 

  I have published an essay titled,A Repository of Possibility and Freedom: Reading Arjuna's Existential Crisis through Kierkegaard's Concept of Anxiety " to Prajñā Vihāra: Journal of Philosophy and Religion.

  Honors & Awards

  Provost Doctoral Fellowship (2022-2026)

  Education

  I finished my Undergrad from Miranda House, University of Delhi (2014-17). Following this I enrolled in my Masters at University of Delhi in 2017 until 2019, college allotted by the department was Miranda House.

• Nimisha Sinha, PhD Student

  

  Nimisha's interests are at the intersection of Environmental Humanities and Human Rights Scholarship. She works on both literary and visual cultures that respond to climate violence and articulate resistance via a claim to rights. She offers classes on 'Cultures of Human Rights,' and 'Climate, Crime and HMRT.' She is the 2024 IASH Public Humanities Fellow, for which she is working in collaboration with environmentalists around Binghamton areas to create a storytelling project.

  Research Areas

  Environmental Humanities, Human Rights

  Advisor

  Dr. Alexandra Moore

  Publications, Conferences, Etc.,

  Sinha, Nimisha. “Speculative Fictions for Decolonial Futures.” Studies in Social Justice, vol. 17, no. 3, 3, Oct. 2023, pp. 340–49. journals.library.brocku.ca, https://doi.org/10.26522/ssj.v17i3.4385.

  “Visualizing Climate Violence: The Visual Cultures of Recognition, Witnessing, and Testimony” at the 22nd Annual Meeting of ACLA

  “Reading Generic Disruptions in Contemporary Migration Narratives” at CCNY’s Third Critical Perspectives on Human Rights Conference

  “Visual Technologies of the Climate Migrant, Refugee, and Evacuee” - Special Session at the 2024 MLA Convention, Philadelphia, USA

  “Filmic Non-Spectatorship: A Recent Examination of Boycotts in Bombay Cinema“ at Shifting Tides, Anxious Borders (STAB), Department of English, ������Ƶ

  Sinha, Nimisha. “‘I See What I Have Been Dreading’: Witnessing Food and Violence in Waiting for the Barbarians and In the Heart of the Country.” Digital Literature Review, vol. 8, no. 1, 1, Apr. 2021, pp. 27–35. openjournals.bsu.edu, .

  Honors & Awards

  2024: Humanities Center Initiative – Public Humanities Grant (Humanities New York)

  2024: Honored by Services for Students with Disabilities (BU) at Faculty Recognition Event

  2021: Material Visual Worlds Transdisciplinary Area of Excellence Fellowship, Binghamton University

  Education

  M.Phil English, University of Hyderabad

  MA English, Jawaharlal Nehru

  BA English, University of Delhi

• Leah Slocum, PhD Student

  

  Leah is a PhD candidate in the English department at ������Ƶ. She specializes in Victorian novels, the 19th-century British Empire, material and print cultures, and the Anglophone Caribbean with a focus on slavery and abolition. She is currently working on a dissertation, provisionally titled “Slavery, Abolition, and the Literary Creole in Anglophone Transatlantic Literature, 1787-1863"

  Advisor

  Mary Grace Albanese 

  Publications, Conferences, Etc.,

  Articles:

  “South African Allegories in Richard Jefferies’ After London: or Wild England (1885),” Victoriographies, vol. 14, no. 2 (July 2024)

  “Provision Grounds, Fruit and Labor Conflicts in Jamaica, 1830s-1850s,” Slavery & Abolition, June 2024

  Conference Papers:

  “Enslaved Occultism and the Southern Gothic in Frances Trollope’s Antislavery Fiction” at

  “Esotericism, Occultism and Magic,” Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (June 2024) 

  “Portable Property in Jane Eyre: The Case of a Morocco Pocket-book” at "Play Things," Annual Princeton-Rutgers Victorian Symposium (February 2024)

  
  Honors & Awards

  Spring 2025 Dissertation Year Fellowship (������Ƶ); 2021-2022 William V. Spanos Award (������Ƶ), 2020 Outstanding Master's Thesis in English (University at Albany).

  
  Education

  MA, English, University at Albany, 2020. BA, English and Psychology, University at Albany, 2018 (Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa honor society).

• Kaushik Tekur, PhD Student

  

  Kaushik's research studies the intersections of the long 18th century, its literary forms, and the British Empire’s evolving policing and surveillance practices that regulated access to liberal personhood. Understanding police power to be embroiled in 

  Research Interests:

  Eighteenth-century Studies, Black Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Adaptation Studies, Digital Humanities

  Advisor:

  Dr. John O. Havard, Dr. Alexandra Moore

  
  Publications:

  "Police Time: Equiano, Blackness, and Custody," Forthcoming in Eighteenth-Century Fiction

  
  "Gone With the (West) Wind: Shelley, Apostrophe, and Inept Interpellation," Forthcoming in The Keats-Shelley Review

  
   

  
  

  
   

  Honors and Awards:

  Keats-Shelley Essay Prize, 2022 (Second prize)

  Education:

  B.A. in English, Madras Christian College, 2016
  M.A. in English, Hyderabad Central University, 2018

• Jordan Traut, PhD Student

  

  Jordan Traut is a first-year PhD student in English, General Literature and Rhetoric at ������Ƶ. She graduated with her M.A. in English from Millersville University of Pennsylvania where she specialized in Native American Literature. She has two B.A. degrees from Millersville in English and Anthropology. She also has various global educational experience, earning an Asian Studies certificate from Kansai Gaidai University in Japan, where she participated in a homestay program, and a Central European Studies certificate from Jagiellonian University in Poland. Her thesis fieldwork took place in Manistee, Michigan with the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians. At Binghamton, her research areas include Indigenous feminisms, postcolonial masculinity, and pluricultural identity studies. She was awarded the Provost’s Doctoral Summer Fellowship. Jordan's aim in her doctoral research and teaching is to center ethical, community-engaged scholarship in the field and constructivism approaches in the classroom.

  Research Areas

  Indigenous Feminism, Post-Colonial Masculinity, Pluricultural Identity

  Publications, Conferences, Etc.,

  BROADCAST RADIO PROGRAMS: 

  •Shrink Wrap with Dr. Michael Loecher. KIPI 93.5, Eagle Butte, 8 March 2024.

  •“Broadway-Style Musical About Native American Culture Comes to Lancaster.” The Spark. 

  WITF, Lancaster, 8 November 2022.

  •“Millersville Exhibit Brings Attention to Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.” Smart 

  Talk. WITF, Lancaster, 6 May 2022.

  PUBLICATIONS AND EXHIBITIONS:

  •Traut, Jordan, et al. MMIWGT2S Red Dress Project Exhibition. 5 May 2022 – Present, Ford 

  Atrium, McComsey Hall, Millersville University, Pennsylvania. 

  •Traut, Jordan. “Social Constructs as Instruments of Freedom.” Made in Millersville Journal, 

  Vol. 5, 2019.

  •Traut, Jordan. “Now You’ve Come So I Can Go.” George Street Press, Vol. 2, 2019.

  CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:

  •“Magical Resurgence: The Modern Queer Community’s Reclamation of Otherized Characters in Harry Potter,” Northeast Popular Culture Association Conference, Dudley, MA, 5 October 2024. 

  •“Storytelling is Leadership: The Value of Mutually Shared Personal Narratives in 

  Community-Based Group Learning,” Student Leadership Conference, Erie, PA, 1 August 2023.

  •“Shifting Museum Discourse: Subverting Relative Invisibility in Native American Exhibits 

  Through the Use of Visual Artifacts,” Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association, virtual, 10 November 2021.

  •“Social Norms as an Instrument for Freedom in Slave Narratives,” Made in Millersville, 

  Millersville, PA, 16 April 2019.

  •“Red Sorghum (1986) Literature and Film: A Message to the World,” Made in Millersville, 

  Millersville, PA, 17 April 2018.

  Honors & Awards

  Provost’s Doctoral Summer Fellowship, ������Ƶ (2024)

  Teaching Development Fellowship, ������Ƶ (2024)

  Richard Cecil Todd & Clauda Pennock Todd Fellowship, Millersville University (2021)

  Dr. Cynthia Dilgard English Department Award, Millersville University (2019)

  AHSS McCollough Summer Research Fellowship, Millersville University (2019)

  Education

      PhD in English, General Literature & Rhetoric - Current

       ������Ƶ, State University of New York

       Advanced Certificate: Genocide & Mass Atrocity Prevention

       Dissertation: forthcoming  

       MA in English - May 2022

       Millersville University of Pennsylvania                

       Certificate: Grant Writing

       Thesis: Doing the Good Work: First Americans Decolonizing the Mind with Performance 

           Arts

       summa cum laude

       BA in English - May 2020

       BA in Anthropology - May 2020

       Millersville University of Pennsylvania

       Minor: Japanese Language and Culture

       University Honors Thesis: The Occurrence of the Universal Deluge Archetype in the 

       Traditional Teachings of the Anishinaabe American Indian and the Japanese

       magna cum laude

• Michael Williamson, PhD Student

  Michael's interests broadly include postcolonial theory and materialist histories in South Asia, Africa, and the United States; migration; cosmopolitanism; the nation; development; globalization; means of identity formation and self-fashioning; literary theory; as well as borders and other metonymic and physical sites of power from the mid-twentieth century to our contemporary moment.

  
  Research Areas

  20th and 21st century global Anglophone literatures

  
  Publications, Conferences, Etc.,

  “For I Can Here Disarm Thee With This Stick:” Magical (In)Abilities and Transitional Economies in The Tempest (forthcoming book chapter)

  
  “Scarcity and Identity Crisis: Ideological dissolution in Paul Bowles’ The Sheltering Sky,” Northeast Modern Language Association, Boston, March 2024

  
  “Literary Structural Adjustments: Characters, Form, and Genre in Five Star Billionaire,” Roundtable Participant - “Textualizing Surplus: People, Labor, Form,” Northeast Modern Language Association, Boston, March 2024

  
  “Resisting Border Technologies: Makina's Journey in Herrera's Signs Preceding the End of the World,” Roundtable Cohost - “How does it feel to be the problem?' Brownness and Being in the 21st Century,” Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association, Portland, October 2023

  
  “The Border Within: Shifting Borders and the Australian Temporary Work Program in Adiga’s Amnesty,” Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association, Portland, October 2023 

  
  “Colonialism upon an (Un)Natural Backdrop: Infrastructural Projects in Cary and Achebe,” Northeast Modern Language Association, SUNY Buffalo, March 2023

  
  “A Stand-In For Empire: The Synecdochic Function of Scientists in Victorian Monster Fiction,” Masters in English Regional Conference, Bridgewater State University, February 2023

  
  “Afropolitanism and Migratory Identities in Helon Habila’s Travelers,” Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, UCLA, November 2022 

  
  Education

  M.A. in English, the University of Vermont, 2023

  B.A. in English and History, the University of Houston, 2020

  A.A. in Liberal Arts, Lone Star College, 2016

• Liz Ann Young, PhD Student

  

  Liz Ann Young grew up in Michigan and then spent a few decades bouncing around the country between Washington, Vermont, Montana, and New York. She has worked in dozens of industries to support her poetry habit and has been the poetry editor of Atlas + Alice for almost a decade. She lives on a farm in the woods with lots of animals, her husband, and a few small humans she made. 

  
  Publications, Conferences, Etc.,

  "Saint Barbara" - Autofocus

  "Thinking of My Husband’s Mistress” and “Breakfast”  - Book of Matches 

  “Next to Your Shotgun” - San Pedro River Review 

  “A History Major” - Tinderbox Poetry Journal

  “Her Nails Were Dirty” - CHEST 

  “Vapor Rising” and “Day Lilies” - Big Muddy 

  “Prince Charming” - Black Heart

  “This is the Story of the Scar beneath Your Lip” - Inscape

  “The Day after We Broke Up” - Out of Our

  “Seventy Percent Chance of Storm in Hamilton, NY” - Alehouse

  
  Education

  Michigan State University, BA in English

  Michigan State University, BA in History

  Vermont College of Fine Arts, MFA in Poetry

• Zunaira Yousaf, PhD Student

  

  Zunaira Yousaf is pursuing her PhD in English Literature. She works on  postcolonial theory, indigenous literature, and digital humanities. She received the 2023 Graduate Student Excellence Award from ������Ƶ as well as the Public Humanities Grant from Humanities New York. She translated into English the first Sindhi novel, Zeenat, to make indigenous literature accessible to a global audience. She is committed to community engagement and social justice, and actively participates in various literary and academic conferences. When Zunaira is not working she spends time with her three super creative kids.

  
  Research Areas:

  Postcolonial literature, Indigenous literature, Digital Humanities, Decolonization, Environmental Literature

  
  Advisor:

  Birgit Brander Rasmussen

  
  Publications, Conferences, Etc.,: 

  Pakistani New Yorkers (Website):

  Zeenat (translated Mirza Kalich Beg's Sindhi novel Zeenat into English) Jamshoro: University of Sindh Press, 2009.

  Book Review: “American Dream: From Utopia to Nightmare,” International Research Journal of Arts and Humanities, (Vol.36) Jamshoro: University of Sindh, 2008, pp.151-155 

  South Asian Digital Humanities (Seminar organizer and presenter), ACLA, Montreal, Canada

  Postcolonial Digital Humanities (Panel organizer and presenter), MLA, Philadelphia, PA

  “Nostalgia and Refugees in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West,” 54th NeMLA Convention, Niagara Falls, NY.

  “Planetarity” as a Subaltern Perspective: A Study of Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide, Forman Christian College University Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

  “Planetarity in The Hungry Tide”, 50th NeMLA Convention, Washington, DC (March)

  “Nostalgia and Identity in Mohsin Hamid’s Fiction”, 49th NeMLA Convention, Pittsburgh, PA

  “The Precariousness of Muslim Women in Post-9/11 United States: A Study of Shaila Abdullah’s Saffron Dreams”, 18th South Asian Literary Association Conference, NYC, NY 

  “A Passage to the United States: A Postcolonial Study of The Reluctant Fundamentalist" 48th NeMLA Convention, Baltimore, MD (March)

  “The Unchanged Imperial Structures: A Study of Forster’s A Passage to India and Hamid’s 

  The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, The Graduate Conference, Comparative Literature Department, University at Buffalo 

   “The Rhetoric of the Repressed: A Study of E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India” 17th Biennial Rhetoric Society of America conference, Atlanta, Georgia (May 2016) 

  “Terror and the Self”, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, Nov. 5-6, 2015

  
  Honors & Awards:

  Dissertation Year Fellowship (Fall 2024)

  Francis Newman Endowment Award for Archival Research in Pakistan

  Graduate Student Excellence Award in Service and Outreach, ������Ƶ

  Public Humanities Grant from Humanities New York

  Provost’s Doctoral Summer Fellowship, Department of English, ������Ƶ, New York.

  Education:

  PhD Candidate

  MA English (������Ƶ)

• Chenrui Zhao, PhD Student

  Chenrui Zhao is a PhD candidate and adjunct teaching member in the English department at ������Ƶ, SUNY. She focuses her research on the global impact of neoliberalism through the analysis of literary and cultural texts. Specifically, she explores the manifestation of neoliberalism in East Asia, examining its influence on the limits of political alliances, economic transactions, and cultural interactions. Currently, she is in the final stages of completing her dissertation, which delves into the transformative effects of neoliberalism in China, turning it into a global service provider and consumer while providing building blocks to reshape its cultural identities. Her research contributions have been acknowledged through awards from the American Studies Association. Additionally, she is in the process of preparing her first publication, which centers around the popular cinematic representation of the infamous zombie figure in Hong Kong Cinema from the 1980s to the early 2000s.

  
  Research Areas:

  Marxist Theories,  Neocapitalism and Neoliberaism, The Global Asia