Current MA/PhD Students


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			Current MA/PhD Students

Current Graduate Students
Name / Email	Research & Teaching Interests
Ahnert, Laurel leahnert@syr.edu	Laurel started the MA program in 2008. Her interests are in new media and popular culture, specifically in low and middle-brow art, subcultures, and women's genres. Her approach is in analyzing the kinds of public discourse that erupts when subcultural texts emerge in the mainstream and the kinds of cultural exchange that happens in those instances.
Banerjee, Sandeep sandeepban@gmail.com	Sandeep entered the PhD program in 2007. His research focuses on spatial aspects of the Indo-British colonial encounter during the long nineteenth-century. His intellectual interests revolve around travel narratives, photography, theories of landscape, Marxism, theories of Michel Foucault, postcolonial studies and materialist approaches culture.
Barkin, Sarah sbarkin@syr.edu
Bluewolf-Kennedy, Tammy tbluewol@syr.edu	Tammy began the MA program in 2004, and pursues interests in ethnicity and Native American studies.
Chatterjee, Rinku rchatter@syr.edu	Rinku began the PhD program in 2006. Her research and teaching interests center around Early Modern literature and culture, especially drama; theories of history, post-colonial theory and Marxism. She is also interested in translation studies and Indian writing in English.
Collins, Rachel racollin@syr.edu	Rachel started her PhD at Syracuse in 2004.Her research and teaching interests include American fiction 1890-1940; realism, naturalism & modernism; popular feminisms; class and Marxian cultural theories; and cultural geography.
Doles, Steven smdoles@syr.edu	Steven began the PhD program in 2007.
Dosch, C.J. cjdosch@syr.edu	C.J. entered the PhD program in 2007. His research interests include American realism, Native American studies, the novel, early images of the American West, and critical approaches to American imperialism.
Dwyer, Michael D. mddwyer@syr.edu	Michael began the PhD program in 2004. His research interests include: Hollywood film; pop culture; adolescence, cultural memory; DIY; Dyer; Gramsci; Foucault and Williams. He teaches courses in film, pop culture, and cultural studies.
Ghosh, Tanushree taghosh@syr.edu	Tanushree is writing a dissertation on "Social Detectives at Home and Abroad: British Constructions of Criminality." Her other research interests include globalization, film studies and postcolonial literatures. She began the PhD program in 2004.
Gupta, Soumitree soumitree.gupta@gmail.com	Soumitree's interests include transnational cultural studies; 20th century US literature; immigrant/diasporic literature; postcolonial & transnational feminisms; queer studies; and globalization. She began the PhD program in 2005
Hughes, Joseph jmhugh02@syr.edu
Kuskey, Jessica jekuskey@syr.edu	Jessica began the PhD program in 2006. She researches Victorian literature and culture, especially the influence of political economy and natural science on representations of class and the body in literature.
Lozo, Sarah selozo@syr.edu
Majumder, Auritro amajumde@syr.edu	Research interests extend to a variety of areas, including but not limited to Marxist theory, the colonization � imperialism complex, cultural studies especially theories of cultural contact, cinema from �arthouse' to Penthouse , but not too many things in between, and last but not the least, anything to do with India.
Mersich, Lauren	Entered the MA program in 2007.
Miller, Michael mbmill06@syr.edu
Mitchell, Caitlin comitche@syr.edu
O'Connor, Michael mpoconno@syr.edu	Michael began the PhD program in 2003. His research centers on 19th century American and Irish-American literature & culture; ethnic studies; African American literature; women's fiction;19th century visual culture; and Marxian cultural theory.
Poole, Megan mepoole@syr.edu
Porter, E.F. efporter@syr.edu	Victorian literature and print culture
Sherwin, Jillian jksherwi@syr.edu
Siddiqui, Gohar gtsiddiq@syr.edu	Gohar began the PhD program in 2006.
Singleton, Jonathan jdsingle@syr.edu	Jon researches the cultural forces surrounding Victorian novels that quote the Bible, and the convergence of Victorian culture and religion more generally. His other scholarly interests include imperialism, critical theory, and cognitive theory. He began the PhD program in 2005.
Stasia, Cristina Lucia clstasia@syr.edu	Cristina's work addresses film theory, 3rd wave feminism, constructions of femininity, the figure of the girl, and action cinema. She began the PhD program in 2002.
Van Hoose, Eric ejvanhoo@syr.edu	Eric began the MA program in 2008. He is interested in visual culture and how environments can work to shape communities and discourses.
Welshans, Melissa mlwelsha@syr.edu
West, TJ tjwestii@syr.edu	Film/Television Studies, Popular Culture, Visual Culture, Feminist/Gender/Queer Theory, History on Film, the Classical Tradition.
Witholt, Thomas tbwithol@syr.edu	Thomas is a first-year PhD student with an interest in bodies as read/seen through text and image, as well as the social consequences of such. Within this broad scope, he is most interested in masculinity and male sexuality, superheroes and mythic archetypes, and, more recently, apocalyptic dreams and nihilism in popular culture.

Current Graduate Students