Graduate Students

Matthew Austin

20th Century Literature, Contemporary Literature, Video Games, Digital Humanities, Ethics, Adaptation Studies and Infrastructure Studies

austi172@msu.edu
C712 Wells Hall

April Best

Poetry, Diaspora and Migration Literature, Transnational Feminisms, Digital Humanities, Feminist Theory, Environmental Humanities, Ecofeminism, Queer and Trans Ecologies

bestapri@msu.edu
C711 Wells Hall

Brittany Atkins

Film Studies, Comic Studies, Literary Studies, Black Studies, Afro Diasporic Literature, Post Colonial Studies, Popular Culture, Digital Humanities, Speculative Fiction

atkinsb4@msu.edu

Mashya Boon

Film Studies (Contemporary Film Theory, Film History, and Film-Philosophy), Post-Humanism, Issues of Subjectivity and Ethics

boonmash@msu.edu
C744 Wells Hall

Stephany Bravo

Chicanx and Latinx Cultural Production, Community Archives and
Curations, Decolonial Methods and Theory, Relational Race and Ethnicity

bravoste@msu.edu

Kailyn Carr

Critical Animal Studies, Feminist Primatology, Transnational Feminisms, Feminist Life-Writing, Feminist Theory, Environmental Humanities, Ecofeminism, Queer and Trans Ecologies

carrkail@msu.edu
C707 Wells Hall

Soohyun Cho

Contemporary Fiction, Digital Humanities & New Media, Disability Studies, Health Humanities, Cognitive Approaches to Fiction

chosooh1@msu.edu
C741 Wells Hall

Ariana Costales-Del Toro

Caribbean Studies and Literature, Queer Studies, Race and Gender Dynamics, Women of Color Feminism, Decolonial Thought and Theory

costale4@msu.edu

Lauren Crawford

Speculative Fiction, Fandoms, Digital Media and Culture, Critical Theory, and Narratology

crawf328@msu.edu
C711 Wells Hall

Ayana Dey

Postcolonial Literature and Theory, Diaspora Studies, Migration, Cultural Studies, and Film Studies

deyayana@msu.edu
C709 Wells Hall

Rutuja Deshmukh

Early Cinema, Gender, Popular Culture, Film History

deshmu31@msu.edu
C709 Wells Hall

Kiana Gonzalez-Cedeño

Puerto Rican/Latinx Literature; Ethnic Studies; Decolonial and Third World Feminisms

gonza728@msu.edu
C744 Wells Hall

Prabal Gupta

Victorian Literature and Culture, Mutiny Literature and Archives, Diaspora and Migration Literature, South Asian Anglophone Writings, Partition Literature, and Postcolonial Studies

guptap14@msu.edu
C707 Wells Hall

Global Film/Media, Middle East Cinema , Film Archives and Non-extant Films, Digital Humanities, Travel Literature, Cultural, Historical, Racial and Ethnic Studies, Gender/Sexuality in the Middle East, Immigration and Diaspora Studies

ebrahim8@msu.edu

Nicole Huff

19th- and 20th-Century African American Literature, Black Feminist Theory, Performance Theory in Modern Black Visual Culture

huffnico@msu.edu
C741 Wells Hall

Ayaat Ismail

Transnational and Postcolonial Narratives; Multicultural Feminisms and Gender Studies; Global Studies and Critical Theory; Space, Place and Intersectional Perspectives.

ismailay@msu.edu
C707 Wells Hall

Katherine Knowles

Early Modern Drama, Digital Humanities

knowle50@msu.edu

Amy Loji

20th- and 21st-Century Literature, especially transnational and postcolonial; global studies; disability studies; religious studies; ecocriticism; multicultural feminisms; critical theory

lojiamy@msu.edu

Marlisha Marcellin

20th-Century African Diasporic Literature

marcelli@msu.edu
C739 Wells Hall

Cristóbal Martinez

Golden Age Mexican Cinema; Latin American Cinema; Literary Studies; Critical Theory; Print Media; Piracy and Circulation

mart2258@msu.edu

Annabelle Miller

Queer and Feminist Theory, Victorian Literature

mill3359@msu.edu

Jennifer Mojica-Santana

Puerto Rican Studies; Caribbean and Latinx Studies; Performance Studies and Theory; Decolonial Thought and Theory; Womxn, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Race and Ethnicity.

mojicasa@msu.edu

Kaelyn Muiru

African American Literature, Children’s Literature, and Black Studies

muirukae@msu.edu
C739 Wells Hall

Christine Peffer

Ecocriticism, Ecofeminism, 20th- and 21st-Century Literature, Weird Fiction, Nonfiction Nature Writing

pefferch@msu.edu
C711 Wells Hall

Sinclair Portis

African American Literature, Afrofuturism, Pop Culture, Science Fiction, and Critical Theory

portissi@msu.edu

Sarah Potts

British Modernism, New Modernist Studies, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

pottssar@msu.edu
C711 Wells Hall

Melanie N. Rodríguez Vázquez

Afro-Caribbean Literature, Woman of Color Feminism, Queer Studies

rodri985@msu.edu

David Schwartz

Early Cinema, Film History, Film Philosophy, Film Theory, Contemporary Cinema, World Cinema, Ecocriticism, Religion, Transcendental and Slow Cinema, Critical Theory, Decolonial Thought and Theory

schwa564@msu.edu
C706 Wells Hall

Jada Similton

similto1@msu.edu

Cheyenne Symonette

19-Century British Literature, Decadence, Queer Theory, and Caribbean Studies

symonet1@msu.edu