Application GuidelinesM.A./Ph.D due 12/15/09Free-Standing M.A. due 4/15/10 Degree Programs Master of Arts Master of Philosophy Orals Reading Lists Doctor of Philosophy Program Particulars Registration Courses Teaching & Fellowships Leaves of Absence Prizes & Travel Grants Placement & Employment Dept Organization Department Officers Staying Informed Graduate Student Directory Graduate Student Council Carnegie Initiative University Resources Libraries & Computing Centers & Organizations Student Services GRADUATE STUDENT DIRECTORY M.A. Students Advanced Graduate Students Al-Mutairi, Fahad Balanson, Naftali nab2101@columbia.edu Brecht, Kristi Cornog, Sarah Doggart, Caitlin cod2001@columbia.edu Fitzpatrick, Jennifer Fox, Anne acf2106@columbia.edu Igarashi, Yohei Kau, Esther erk2102@columbia.edu Kessler-Zacharias, Morisa Kim, Hyunah hk2195@columbia.edu 19th- and 20th–century American and English novel and women's literature; feminist and gender studies; Asian-American literature; detective fiction and empire; postcolonial literature and theory; cultural studies; theory of race, gender and sexuality Korman, Alexis LaPorte, Nicole ncl2006@columbia.edu Lenaghan, Elizabeth Lucchesi, Paolo Luehr, Christopher Mastrogiovanni, Armando Monsam, Angela Mueller, Jay jm868@columbia.edu Ordinaire, Mirabelle (Theater) Park, Jung Youn jp2259@columbia.edu 19th-century British and European literature Pinsky, Levi Riddell, Robert Rivlin, Madeline mjr2108@columbia.edu Sharfin, Andrea als2034@columbia.edu Singhasri, Lalita ls2167@columbia.edu Asian-American studies; comparative literature & critical theory; 20th-century American literature; transnational culture, particularly identity politics Stadlen, Rachel rbs42@columbia.edu Stokes, Shilarna (Theater) Strapp, Vered vms2103@columbia.edu Tan, Hsien Chong ht2123@columbia.edu Weber, Matthew mdw22@columbia.edu 19th- and 20th-century poetry and poetics Wetherington, Corey Whittlesey, Elizabeth ejw2104@columbia.edu Poetic meter and formalism; Christian Idealism within literature; 19th-century American Zellinger, Elissa Zuber, Heather Abramowicz, Sarah Ackerman, Ondrea oea2101@columbia.edu Akhimie, Patricia poa2001@columbia.edu 16th- and 17th-century literature; the representation of racial and religious difference in material and visual culture; hybridity; globalism Alkan, Tiffany Werth tjw50@columbia.edu Early Modern literature and culture; romance theory and religious history Andersson, Andrea asa2002@columbia.edu 20th- and 21st-century poetry and poetics; poetry’s relationship to music and visual arts Armetta, Flora fcp8@columbia.edu 19th-century realism; 19th-century religion and aesthetics; modernism Beaumont, Craig cb2034@columbia.edu 20th-century British and American literature Bersohn, Leora lb395@columbia.edu Bird, John jeb69@columbia.edu 16th- and 17th-century English poetry and poetics; genre theory Dissertation: "The Tyrant Love: Elizabethan Epyllia" Boggs, Nicholas ntb11@columbia.edu 20th-century American and African American literature; expatriate American writing; theories of race and sexuality Dissertation: "The Critic and the Little Man: Black Culture and the Reconfiguration of American Literary History" Boissonnault, Courtney crb2105@columbia.edu 20th-century African-American literature, American studies Bryant, Brantley blb28@columbia.edu 12th-15th-century English literature; medieval intellectual history; history of magic and witchcraft Bussell, Donna dab74@columbia.edu Buthelezi, Mbongiseni Calcagno, Rebecca rac2103@columbia.edu Cheetham, Joanna jlc221@columbia.edu Early Modern drama and literature; gender studies Cole, Sarah Rose src20@columbia.edu 19th-century British literature and culture; history of the novel; gender studies Dissertation: "Unheroic Heroes: Plotting Masculinity in the 19th-Century British Bildungsroman" Conisbee Baer, Benjamin bc227@columbia.edu Cynn, Christine cjc13@columbia.edu De Boever, Arne ard2012@columbia.edu 20th-century fiction and poetry; philosophy, literary theory and postmodernist fiction; aesthetic thought and ethics; literature and science De Gennaro, Mara mgd9@columbia.edu Dean, Rebecca rad161@columbia.edu Victorian literature and culture; 18th-century literature; the rise of the novel Deutermann, Allison akd2006@columbia.edu Dohrn, Zayd zd2102@columbia.edu Duffey, Jr., Denis dpd7@columbia.edu Emmerich, Karen kre2001@columbia.edu Erturk, Nergis Farmer, Alan abf17@columbia.edu 16th- and 17th-century drama; history of the book; news and politics in Caroline England Dissertation: " 'Made like the times Newes': Drama and News in Caroline England" Farrell, Nathaniel ncf2@columbia.edu 20th Century British and American literature; Modernism; the avant-garde; race and gender studies Fisher, William wvf1@columbia.edu 20th-century American novel; African American and American studies; popular culture; photography Dissertation: “ ‘Is It Something I Said?’: Race, Respectability, and African American Comedic Performance” Forbes, Jessica jf287@columbia.edu Frydman, Jason jf2062@columbia.edu Latino & Latin American literatures Fulton, Sharon saf2105@columbia.edu Ganguly, Avishek ag2111@columbia.edu Cultures of cities; literary and cultural theory; postcolonial studies; travel writing; globalization studies Gilmore, Dehn dwg2101@columbia.edu Victorian novel; visual arts; cultural institutions Gogineni, Bina bsg2002@columbia.edu late 19th- and 20th-century British and (post)colonial literature; transnational literature and culture; the novel; travel writing Goldman, Judith jeg48@columbia.edu Goren, Joshua jag94@columbia.edu Goyal, Rishi rkg6@columbia.edu Gracombe, Sarah sfg8@columbia.edu Victorian literature and culture, especially representations of Jewishness and English national identity; narrative and the novel; Victorian poetry and aesthetics Dissertation: " ‘Epoch of Expansion’?: Jews and Cultural Englishness in the Victorian Novel” Gurman, Hannah hrg2005@columbia.edu Transnational culture and globalization; American Studies; Holocaust consciousness Habinek, Lianne lah2103@columbia.edu Early modern and medieval literature; literary theory; history of ideas Hannah, Sarah sg46@columbia.edu Poetry; 20th-century poetry in English; 16th- and 17th-century English poetry; ancient literary criticism and philosophy Dissertation: "Only Through Time: The Structure and Philosophy of the Modern Poetic Sequence" Hao, Tianhu th277@columbia.edu Early modern poetry; history of the book; late Qing missionaries Dissertation: "Hesperides, a manuscript commonplace book in the early modern media" Hardesty, Michele mlh44@columbia.edu 20th-century American literature; globalization and culture; cultural studies Higginbotham, Derrick dh479@columbia.edu Medieval literature; late medieval and early modern theater; feminist theory; gay and lesbian studies; Marxism Dissertation: “All the World's A Market: The Transformation of Dramatic Form and Function, c. 1400 – 1600” Hollibaugh, Lisa lkh5@columbia.edu American modernism; Southern literature; modern drama Dissertation: “Experiments with Experience: Science, Religion and Gender in Southern Women's Writing between the Two World Wars" Hooks, Adam Ikoku, Alvan Im, Jeannie ji48@columbia.edu Johnson, Jami jsj37@columbia.edu 19th-century English novel; technology and fiction Jones, Radhika raj21@columbia.edu Contemporary fiction; postcolonial criticism; Victorian literature; reception and curricular/ disciplinary history Dissertation: "Required Rereading: Contemporary Responses to Canonical Novels" Ketels, Ellen erk2003@columbia.edu Late medieval English literature and drama; liturgy and popular religion; urban studies Khanmohamadi, Shirin sak58@columbia.edu Kisery, Andras ak508@columbia.edu 16th- & 17th-century literature; print culture; history of criticism and theory Klock, Sarah stk2103@columbia.edu Postcolonial theory; 20th-century British and American literature Kowsary, Roya rzk1@columbia.edu Kurnick, David dsk29@columbia.edu Laizik, Suzanne spl8@columbia.edu Laufer, Matthew mil12@columbia.edu 20th-century British and American literature; novel theory; 19th-century American literature; dramatic theory Dissertation: “Strange Interludes: Why the Novel Turns to Drama” Lee, Christopher cal36@columbia.edu Legassie, Shayne sal52@columbia.edu Leja, Christine cel2005@columbia.edu 19th-century British fiction; the novel; the 1880s and 90s; female aesthetes/women and art; the embodied self; gender and sexuality Lennon, Brian Lespinasse, Patricia pgl2002@columbia.edu 20th -century American literature; African-American and American studies; jazz studies; gender studies Llobrera, Kairos kgl2002@columbia.edu Lordi, Emily ejl2005@columbia.edu Lynn, Andrew all2101@columbia.edu Maiwandi, Zarina zwm3@columbia.edu Malik, Asifa akm30@columbia.edu Mallick, Michael mgm3@columbia.edu Massimilla, Stephen sm106@columbia.edu Matthews, Kevin kjm52@columbia.edu McArthur, Elizabeth eam2001@columbia.edu McGann, Tara tem18@columbia.edu Mead, Brenna brm41@columbia.edu Melville, Joan jmc12@columbia.edu Meyers, Alyssa anm2101@columbia.edu Medieval literature; hermeneutics; cultural history Nadir, Christine ccn13@columbia.edu 20th-century literature; feminist theory; poststructuralism; modernism and postmodernism; ecocriticism and environmental ethics Nelson, Lisa lkn10@columbia.edu O'Brien, Cary cpo6@columbia.edu Olson, Katherine kqo1@columbia.edu Omarsdottir, Brynhildur bho2001@columbia.edu O'Neal, Jeffrey jso18@columbia.edu Outland, Allison amo4@columbia.edu Palmer, Deborah dhp4@columbia.edu Palmer, Felicity fjp36@columbia.edu 20th-century South African literature and cultural history; literary theory; feminism; psychoanalysis; nationalism Park, Sunyoung sp446@columbia.edu Comparative study of modern Korean and Japanese literature; realism and postcolonial studies Dissertation: "Representing Colonial Reality: Korean Realist Literature 1920s-1930s" Parsons, Coilin csp22@columbia.edu 19th-century British and Irish literature; colonial and postcolonial literature Pfeiffer, Douglas dsp14@columbia.edu Pietrafetta, Matthew mpp12@columbia.edu Pilinovsky, Helen hp2022@columbia.edu Ramos, Adela amr2105@columbia.edu Late 18th- and 19th-century novel; Virginia Woolf; Elizabethan drama Rizzuto, Nicole nmr18@columbia.edu Rosenthal, Jesse jr2075@columbia.edu 19th-century British novel; narrative theory Ryan, Dermot dar44@columbia.edu Saddlemire, Karl kjs47@columbia.edu Sage, Andrew aas179@columbia.edu Sandler, Matthew mfs2001@columbia.edu Sastrawidjaja, Stephan sts63@columbia.edu Sastry, Sailaja ss909@columbia.edu Scott, Marilee mls286@columbia.edu Scutts, Joanna js2430@columbia.edu Seary, Nicole nas23@columbia.edu Shoop, Casey cs884@columbia.edu Siemann, Catherine cas47@columbia.edu Smith, Alexander as2065@columbia.edu 20th-century British literature; modernism and the European catastrophe (1914-45) Smith, Kathleen kms2105@columbia.edu So, Richard rjs2007@columbia.edu 20th-century American and Asian American literature; transnationalism; cultural Marxism; postcolonial theory Sobelle, Stefanie ses77@columbia.edu Sonntag, Jennifer jrs2011@columbia.edu Steel, Karl kts15@columbia.edu Medieval literature Dissertation: "Eating and Not Eating Meat in the Middle Ages" Stephens, Paul ps249@columbia.edu 20th-century Anglo-American poetry; avant-gardism; modernism; history of literary theory Dissertation: “Beyond the Creative/Critical Divide: Poetics Criticism as Innovative American Writing” Stevens, Jason jws31@columbia.edu Surgal, Jon js130@columbia.edu Sweet, Nancy nfs3@columbia.edu 19th-century American literature; American women's writing; literature of American religion Swift, Daniel dts23@columbia.edu Takayoshi, Ichiro it2009@columbia.edu Tate, Kristen ket13@columbia.edu Victorian literature; 18th- and 19th-century British novel; book history Tromanhauser, Vicki vat5@columbia.edu Tsou, Elda eet7@columbia.edu Tung, Toy-Fung tnt2@columbia.edu Vargo, Gregory gv63@columbia.edu Varnado, Christine Veneciano, Jorge jdv7@columbia.edu American literary modernism, African-American literature, visual culture and aesthetics, jazz studies Dissertation: Aesthetic Praxis in American Cultural Modernism (Whitman, Marti, Armstrong, Baker/Ellison) Vlagopoulos, Penny ptv1@columbia.edu 20th-century American literature and film; cultural studies; theories of race and ethnicity; radical cultures and politics Vrotsos, Karen kv1@columbia.edu Vydrin, Eugene ev2010@columbia.edu Walls, Charles caw43@columbia.edu Walsh, Lauren lmw25@columbia.edu 20th-century literature, primarily postmodern and contemporary fiction Weaver, William wpw23@columbia.edu Weber, Laura lmw34@columbia.edu Weber, Mark mcw31@columbia.edu 20th-century avant-garde texts; British Romantic poetry; bibliography West, Paul pw52@columbia.edu White, Jennifer Rose jw765@columbia.edu 20th-century US and transnational fiction and poetry; narrative and cultural theory; theories of modernity and postmodernity; ecology and ecocriticism; jazz culture; science fiction Wiesen, Elizabeth ew13@columbia.edu Williams, Jon jkw2002@columbia.edu Medieval European literature; travel narratives Wilson, Rodger rew6@columbia.edu Woo, Ilyon iw28@columbia.edu 19th-century American literature and history, film Wulick, Anna amw2004@columbia.edu 19th c British fiction Zarnowiecki, J. Matthew jmz2003@columbia.edu Zelenetz, Alan az19@columbia.edu Medieval English and French literature; modern & contemporary Anglo-Irish & Irish literature; popular culture & film studies Dissertation: “Midrash and Mystery: Reimagining the Book of Genesis in Rabbinic Legend and Middle English Drama” Ziegler, Garrett gsz2101@columbia.edu Victorian literature & culture; urban studies; literature & economics Zucker, Adam alz3@columbia.edu 16th- and 17th-century literature; early modern urban culture; historical formalism Dissertation: "Comedies of Place: Space, Status, and the Social Work of Comic Form in Early Modern England"