Gender and Sexuality Studies
Affiliated Faculty
Full-time Faculty
James Adams
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Research Interests
Full-time Faculty
Rachel Adams
Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Provost's Senior Faculty Teaching Scholar
Research Interests
Full-time Faculty
Jack Halberstam
Director of the Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality; David Feinson Professor of Humanities
Research Interests
Full-time Faculty
Eleanor B Johnson
Director of Graduate Admissions; Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Research Interests
Full-time Faculty
C Riley Snorton
Professor of English and Comparative Literature and ISSG
Research Interests
Affiliated Graduate Students
Margaret Banks
PhD Student
Research Interests
African American and African Diaspora, Black Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Public Humanities
Andy Chan Lisheng
PhD Student
Research Interests
Ethnicity, Race, Indigenous Studies, Asia/South, Contemporary Literature and Culture, Poetry and Poetics, Aesthetics, Cultural Studies, Critical Theory, Affect Theory, Digital Humanities, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer Theory, Film, Media, Visual Studies, Psychoanlaysis
Wesley Cornwell
PhD Student
Research Interests
Theatre, Drama, Performance Studies, Aesthetics, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Film, Media, Visual Studies, Architecture, Design, Technology
Evelyn Giron-Aguilar
PhD Student
Research Interests
Ethnicity, Race, Indigenous Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Central America, Latinx Diaspora
Dylan Kennelly
PhD Student
Research Interests
Marxism, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer Theory, Film, Media, and Visual Studies, Psychoanalysis, Horror, Feminism, 20th and 21st Century
Jessica Lee Orluck
PhD Student
Research Interests
Medieval, Poetry and Poetics, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Sumant Rao
PhD Student
Research Interests
Premodern Women's Literature, Early Modern Culture, Gender and Sexuality Studies, History of Science and Philosophy
Connor Spencer
PhD Student
Research Interests
20th/21st Century American,, Contemporary Literature and Culture, novel studies, Aesthetics, Critical Theory, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer Theory, Film, Media, Visual Studies, Marxism
Lauren Stockmon Brown
PhD Student
Research Interests
African American and African Diaspora, Postcolonial and the Global South, Theatre, Drama, Performance Studies,, Digital , Humanities, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Film, Media, Visual Studies, Public Humanities
Lilith Todd
PhD Student
Research Interests
18th-Century English Literature, Ethnicity and Race, Poetry and Poetics, Medical and Health Humanities, Indigenous Studies, American and the Americas, Caribbean Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Early American Literature, Aesthetics, Marxism, Public Humanities
Chloe Tsolakoglou
PhD Student
Research Interests
American and the Americas, Global Anglophone, World Literature, Europe, 20th/21st Century American, Contemporary Literature and Culture, Comparative Literature and Translation, Creative Writing, Creative-Critical, Poetry and Poetics, Marxism, Postmodernism, Aesthetics, Modern Greek Literature, Affect Theory, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer Theory, Film, Media, Visual Studies, Marxism, Philosophy, Psychoanlaysis, Modern Greek Literature
Srija Umapathy
PhD Student
Research Interests
Global Anglophone, Postcolonial and the Global South, Postcolonial Studies, Asia/South Asia, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Africa, Critical Theory, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer Theory, Film media, Visual Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Psychoanlaysis
Jane Walker
PhD Student
Research Interests
Early Modern, Poetry and Poetics, Affect Theory, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer Theory, Psychoanalytic Theory
Sam Wilcox
PhD Student