Julie Bowman <jdbowman@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Literary and Cultural Studies
Julie Bowman is a Ph.D. student in Literary and Cultural Studies.
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David Cerniglia <dcernigl@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Literary and Cultural Studies
David Cerniglia is a Ph.D. student in Literary and Cultural Studies.
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Nilak Datta <ndatta@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Literary and Cultural Studies
Nilak Datta is a Ph.D. student in Literary and Cultural Studies.
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Geoffrey
Glover <gglover@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. candidate, Literary and Cultural Studies
Geoffrey Glover is a Ph.D. candidate in Literary and Cultural Studies.
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David Haeselin <dhaeseli@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Literary and Cultural Studies
David Haeselin is a Ph.D. student in Literary and Cultural Studies.
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Jeffrey Hinkelman <jh51@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Literary and Cultural Studies
Jeffrey Hinkelman is a doctoral student in Literary and Cultural
Studies.
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Emily
Klein <ebklein@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. candidate, Literary and Cultural Studies
My teaching and research are located at the disciplinary intersection of performance theory, feminist studies and cultural studies. In my dissertation, “Constructing the American Activist: Twentieth Century Political Performances and Discourses of Social Change” I argue that successful, well-known political activists in the Americas have used both traditional and emergent theatre forms to construct and quite literally, rehearse new models of activist subjectivities. My sources include scripts, production notes, and oral histories from emblematic moments in American theatre history, from the Federal Theater Project’s innovation of the Living Newspaper program in 1935, to El Teatro Campesino’s appropriation of the diasporic carpa tradition in the 1960s, to Eve Ensler’s V-day campus initiatives in the 1990s. My fourth chapter, “Feminist Anti-War Activism and The Structures of Trauma in the Plays of Eve Ensler and Kathryn Blume” will be published by the University of Michigan Press as part of Jenny Spencer’s forthcoming anthology, Patriotic Dissent: Theatrical Responses to the War on Terror. I am this year’s recipient of the 2009-2010 Schaffer Dissertation Fellowship and I also serve as the Vice President of Development and Outreach for the Women and Theatre Program of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.
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Sheila
Liming <sliming@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Literary and Cultural Studies
Sheila Liming is a Ph.D. student in Literary and Cultural Studies.
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Daniel Markowicz <dmarkowi@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Literary and Cultural Studies
Daniel Markowicz is a Ph.D. student in Literary and Cultural Studies.
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Rebecca May <rmaatta@andrew.cmu.edu>
Doctoral Candidate, Literary and Cultural Studies
I completed both my BA and MA degrees here at CMU with a brief two-term study at Oxford University during undergrad. Currently, I am ABD, having completed my exams in the British long nineteenth century, emphasis on the novel. My interests (both research and teaching) include gender, histories of sexuality and medicine as well as all things gothic. In addition to teaching freshmen comp here at CMU, I have taught Intro to Gender Studies, Looking Forward, Sliding Back?: Nineteenth Century Stories of Progress and Decay and The Man(-) Made Monster from Frankenstein to Dracula. I have also led a seminar on Shakespeare at Chatham’s Pittsburgh Teacher’s Institute. My dissertation Morbid Parts: Gender, Seduction and the Necro-Gaze considers eroticized representations of corpses in travel and execution narratives, novels, poems, medical textbooks and engravings from the mid-eighteenth through the nineteenth centuries. A compressed version of it is forthcoming from Palgrave in A History of Sexual Perversion 1650-1850, edited by Julie Peakman. Finally for the academic year 2007-2008 I am interim director of the LCS MA program.
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Kurt Sampsel <k`el@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Literary and Cultural Studies
I am new to Carnegie Mellon, an alumnus of Kent State University (B.A., 2004) and Ohio University (M.A., 2007). My scholarly interests are informed by my commitment to both literature and cultural studies/critical theory, and I tend to focus my reading, research, and teaching on traditional and non-traditional texts of the twentieth century, paying particular attention to the ways in which pop cultural trends inform and are inflected by texts of various kinds. I’m especially interested in the notion of body-as-text and in exploring the cultural and textual politics of body modification (e.g., tattoos and body piercing). I also like talking and thinking about issues related to teaching cultural studies as well as teaching students from working-class or first-generation backgrounds.
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David Schuldt <dschuldt@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Literary and Cultural Studies
David Schuldt is a Ph.D. student, in Literary and Cultural Studies.
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Salita Seibert <sseibert@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Literary and Cultural Studies
Salita Seibert is a Ph.D. student in Literary
and Cultural Studies.
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Heather Steffen <hsteffen@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Literary and Cultural Studies
I have a BA in English from Bowling Green State University and an MA in LCS from Carnegie Mellon. My research interests include late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature and culture, animal studies, cultural and critical theory, and the history of the university. My dissertation is a cultural history of the reorganization of human-animal relationships that took place in the last decades of the nineteenth century in the US. I am also managing editor of the minnesota review and assessment team coordinator for English placement at CMU.
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Christopher Taylor <cjt@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Literary and Cultural Studies
Christopher Taylor is a Ph.D. student in Literary and Cultural Studies.
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Angela
Todd <at3i@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. candidate, Literary and Cultural Studies
Angela Todd is a Ph.D. candidate focusing on eighteenth-century
literature and culture and Birmingham School cultural studies. She
has previously published and presented papers on teaching the eighteenth
century, ethnographic methodologies, and the eighteenth-century
beauty patch. Currently she is an archival assistant at the Hunt
Institute for Botanical Documentation.
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Eric Vazquez <evazquez@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Literary and Cultural Studies
I am principally interested in how the processes of globalization register in the United States. A common misunderstanding about these processes is that they radiate from the center (the U.S.) and move outward. I want to explore how American culture tries to make globalization “knowable” to itself in the contemporary moment. How does this seemingly unseen development become represented as a reality? To that end I want to explore the questions of the “real” in things like documentary, fictional and pornographic modes of representation. Other things that interest me include: theories of desire, theorizing the social substrate, the relationship of technology to culture, and materialisms.
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Jessica Wilton <jwilton@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Literary and Cultural Studies
Jessica Wilton is a Ph.D. student in Literary and Cultural Studies.
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Joel
John Woller <jw5m@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. candidate, Literary and Cultural Studies
Joel Woller studies American literature and culture, with a focus
on the emergence and consolidation of Fordism in the US (roughly
1910-1950). His areas of interest include cinema, proletarian fiction,
and popular memory.
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