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 Binghamton University. 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:
https://kenyonreview.org/journal/julyaug-2020/selections/samia-ahmed/
https://coffinbell.com/a-cup-of-chai-and-never-after/
https://bluestemmagazine.com/s2022/#Samia_Ahmed
https://www.barzakhmag.net/summer-2022-prose-2/2022/7/14/samia-ahmed
https://www.thechakkar.com/home/goodgirls
https://barelysouthreview.com/2019/02/11/living-brave-writing-braver-an-interview-with-jon-sands/
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, Binghamton University ($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.
AdvisorDr. Jeffner Allen
Research AreasModern/postmodern global Literature, Narrative, Memory studies, Ethical theory, Kafka.
EducationMasters 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 Binghamton University 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.
AdvisorSusan Strehle
Research AreasPost colonial literature and South Asian feminism
Publications, Conferences, Etc.,
EducationMFA in Creative Writing Nonfiction
- Khadijah Boxill, PhD Student
Khadijah Boxill is a PhD candidate in English Literature at Binghamton University. Prior to starting her studies at Binghamton University, 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 Binghamton University. 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 Binghamton University. 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 AreasAfrican American Literature post 1865-1900s, post 1900s-current, criminology, critical race theory, space and place, identity displacement
Dissertation TitleSpace 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 2023Session 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 2023Session 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 2022Session Presentation: “The Legacies of Historical Fiction in American Literature.”
• Served as the session chair.
College English Association (CEA) Conference, March-April 2022Session 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 & AwardsClifford D. Clark Fellowship Recipient
Lyceum Graduate Student Grant Recipient
EducationMasters of Arts in Africana Studies, SUNY Albany
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Africana Studies, Binghamton University
- Alycia Calvert, PhD Student
Alycia Calvert is a 3rd year Fiction PhD. She graduated with MFA in Fiction Creative Writing from UNLV in 2022. She was recently shortlisted for the Writer's Rebel Flash Fiction Competition. She has a weakness for a small indy journal and her work has been featured in several including, The Hunger Journal, The Banshee, Pyre Magazine etc... You can find her work at https://alyciacalvert.wixsite.com/alyciacalvertwriter
Research Interests:
Feminism, Monstrosity, Modern Literature, Flash Fiction, French Translation, Narrative Structure,
Advisor:
Claire Luchette
Publications:
Arquetopia Foundation and International: Resident
Shifting Tides Anxious Borders: Presenter
Maison Verte Résidence d’Artiste: Artist in Residence
Black Mountain Institute Festival: Wave in: Presenter
“A.I.Daptation” and "Nesting Garden" shortlisted for the Extinction Rebellion: Writers Rebel Flash Fiction Competition, May 2024.
“Mama Paula’s Baby Jam.” The Banshee Journal Issue 3, February 2024
“Unboxing Day.” Pyre Magazine, January 2024
“Woodpecker House Guest” Flash Flood National Flash Fiction Day, June 2023.
“No Drought of Sound in the Desert.” Double Down with Nevada Humanities, October 2022.
Education:Master of Fine Arts— Creative Writing
Department of English
College of Liberal Arts
Graduate College
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
December 2022
- 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, Binghamton University's literary magazine. See some of her work at www.hannahcarrmurphy.com
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)
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Lisa Compo, PhD Student
Lisa Compo has poems forthcoming or recently 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 the literary magazines Harpur Palate and The Shore.
Research Interests:
Poetry, Poetry of Place
Education
MFA from University of North Carolina at Greensboro
- 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 Binghamton University.
Research AreasShort fiction, speculative fiction, hybrid & experimental form, myth & folklore, queer narratives, multiethnic literature, medieval studies
EducationMFA, 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.:Poem - "Under a Country Sky"
Poem: "Cloud Studies"
Poem: "What I want when I confess..."
3 Poems - https://piccolo-watermelon-h79k.squarespace.com/winter2022/project-ellis
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 Binghamton University 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.
EducationBA 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 Binghamton University. 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:
when the signals come home (Switchback Books, 2021)
boys in the electric age (Tolsun Books, 2021)
"Multiverse of Madness (in Technicolor)," Frontier Poetry
"Inheritance," Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Volume 5, Issue 4
"Find the River," Guesthouse
"Widower," the Ekphrastic Review
Honors and Awards:2022 - Clifford D. Clark Diversity Fellowship, Binghamton University
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 Areashybrid 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 & AwardsMay 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
Education2024 - 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 Binghamton University, 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
"Pharos the Egyptian and the Gothic Other as Excess" in Tête- à-Tête: Journal of French and Comparative Literature
Book Review: "Religion Enlightenment and Empire: British Interpretations of Hinduism in the Eighteenth Century" by Jessica Patterson. Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies.
Feature: 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).
- Bora Kang, PhD Student
Bora Kang is a PhD candidate specializing in modern and contemporary British literature, film and media, visual studies, and cultural studies. Her dissertation explores how literature and media examine the emotional dimensions of identity, focusing on how emotions shape and reflect personal and collective identities through diverse narrative forms. By bridging literary analysis with media studies, Kang’s research offers an interdisciplinary approach to understanding how emotions play a pivotal role in the construction of identity across literature, film, and other media.
Research Interests:
Modern and Contemporary British Literature, Film and Visual Studies, New Media, Affect Theory, Cultural Studies
Advisor:
Praseeda Gopinath
Honors and Awards:
William V. Spanos Graduate Student Scholarship
Dissertation Year Fellowship
- Allen Loomis, PhD Student
Allen Loomis is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at Binghamton University. 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, Binghamton University
Francis X. Newman Endowment for Support of Research, Binghamton University
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 Binghamton University in Comparative Literature.
Research:
Historical Amnesia, Native American Literature, Postcolonial Theory, Trauma Studies, Intergenerational Trauma, US Imperialism, American Pluralism
Publications:
"Reverberations of Boarding School Trauma in Upstate New York"
Education:M.A., Comparative Literature, Binghamton University
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
- Jennifer Powers, PhD Student
Jenn Powers is a writer and artist from New England. She’s currently at work on a mystery thriller novel and a poetry collection. She has over 70+ publications in literary journals, such as Witness, Gemini, Lunch Ticket, Prime Number, and The Pinch, among others. Her work has been anthologized with Kasva Press, Scribes Valley Publishing, and Running Wild Press and nominated for Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, and The Pushcart Prize. In addition, she is a recipient of the Link Fellowship for Fall 2024 semester. Please visit www.jennpowers.com for more information.
Research Interests:
Gothic Literature, Contemporary Mysteries and Thrillers, and Creative Writing
Advisor:
Alexi Zentner
Publications, Conferences, Etc.,
Please visit www.jennpowers.com.
Honors and Awards:
Please visit www.jennpowers.com.
Education:
PhD-English Literature and Creative Writing
- 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 Binghamton University, 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 AreasCreative 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 (Binghamton University), 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
Hena is a PhD candidate and is interested in the complicated relationship between dance and masculinity in Indian cinemas from the 1950s through the early 2000s. Her research interrogates how this relationship is mediated by class, caste, industrial relations, and socio-technological processes.
Advisor
Monika Mehta
Honors & Awards
Public Humanities Fellow with IASH, supported by Humanities NY (2024-2025)
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, Binghamton University
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, https://doi.org/10.33043/DLR.8.1.27-35.
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 Binghamton University. 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 & AwardsSpring 2025 Dissertation Year Fellowship (Binghamton University); 2021-2022 William V. Spanos Award (Binghamton University), 2020 Outstanding Master's Thesis in English (University at Albany).
EducationMA, 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 Tekur studies the long, global eighteenth century and literary forms, focusing on the interactions between different forms of police power and literature.
Research Interests:
Black studies, Post colonial studies, Digital Humanities, and Translation Studies
Advisor:
Dr. Alexandra Moore and Dr. John Havard
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
"Slave Narrative to Selfie Narrative: Equiano and Instagram," LA Review of Books
"Chennai Floods and the Limits of Compassion," CountercurrentsHonors and Awards:
Best Graduate Student Paper, North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, 2024
Runner Up, Keats-Shelley Essay Prize, 2022
Binghamton University Graduate Student Excellence Award in Research, 2024
Education:
B.A. in English, Madras Christian College, 2016
M.A. in English, Hyderabad Central University, 2018
- Jordan Traut-Jellad, PhD Student
Jordan Traut-Jellad is a first-year PhD student in English, General Literature and Rhetoric at Binghamton University. 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, Binghamton University (2024)
Teaching Development Fellowship, Binghamton University (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
Binghamton University, 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 is from Houston, Texas. He has a cat named Jada. Michael's interests broadly include postcolonial theory and materialist histories in South Asia, Africa, and the United States; the urban; theories of space; migration; cosmopolitanism; the nation; development; globalization; race; gender; 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 Areas20th and 21st century Global Literature
Publications, Conferences, Etc.,Creative Work:
Between Two Homes: A Novel, Onion River Press, February 2024
Journal Articles and Academic Chapters:
“Criminalizing Movement: Stasis and Mobility in Contemporary Fiction,” The Global South, Special Issue: Incarceration and Resistance, Indiana University. (Fall 2025)
“Paving the way from Colonialism to Decolonization: Joyce Cary’s Infrastructure and Chinua Achebe’s Counter Representation,” Bandung: Journal of the Global South, Special Issue: Coloniality, (In)Justice, and literature of the Global South, Vol. 12, Issue 3, Brill Academic. (Forthcoming October 2025)
“In ʿishnā lan nansā wa-lan nusāmiḥ: Transitioning from a Necropolitical Today to a Decolonial Tomorrow,” Cairo Studies in English: Journal of Research in Literature, Linguistics and Translation Studies, Special Issue: Conjuring up Decolonial Alternatives: Subversive Navigations of Transnational Colonialisms, Cairo University. (December 2024)
“National Belonging and the War on Terror: Islamophobia in Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire,” International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies, Special Issue: Conversations on Conviviality and Critical Diversity Studies, Witwatersrand University. (December 2024)
“Intervals of Impotence: Symbolic Castration as Lynching in Black American Fiction,” Decoding Lynching: Reading of African American and Dalit Literature. Ed Shubhanku Kochar. (Forthcoming, Brill)
“Textualizing the Muktijuddho: Literary Witnessing and the Bangladesh Genocide,” Marginalities in South Asian Literature: Text, Context, and Theory. Eds Arunima Ray, Karuna Rajeev, and Goutam Karmakar. (Forthcoming)
“Literary Structural Adjustments: Characters, Form, and Genre in A Fine Balance and Five Star Billionaire,” Reiterating Urbanisms: Staging the City in Literature and Media from the Global South. Eds Subashish Bhattacharjee and Indrajit Mukherjee. (Forthcoming, Bloomsbury Academic)
“‘For I Can Here Disarm Thee With This Stick’: Magical (In)Abilities and Transitional Economies in The Tempest,” Woke Shakespeare. Ed Ian McCormick. (November 2024)
EducationM.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
EducationMichigan State University, BA in English
Michigan State University, BA in History
Vermont College of Fine Arts, MFA in Poetry
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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 Binghamton University 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): https://www.pakistaninewyorkers.com/
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, Binghamton University
Public Humanities Grant from Humanities New York
Provost’s Doctoral Summer Fellowship, Department of English, Binghamton University, New York.
Education:
PhD Candidate
MA English (Binghamton University)
- Chenrui Zhao, PhD Student
Chenrui Zhao is a PhD candidate and adjunct teaching member in the English department at Binghamton University, 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
