Queer Theory
Affiliated Faculty
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
C Riley Snorton
Professor of English and Comparative Literature and ISSG
Research Interests
Affiliated Graduate Students
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
Winona H. Guo
PhD Student
Research Interests
Asian American and Asian Diaspora, 20th/21st Century American, Critical Theory, Black Studies, Queer Theory, Chinese Buddhism
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
Ashley Leader
PhD Student
Research Interests
Medieval Literature, Comparative Literature and Translation, Disability Studies, Queer Theory
Christine Prevas
PhD Student
Research Interests
Queer Theory, Trans Studies, Film, Media, and Visual Studies, Video Game Studies, 20th and 21st Century American LiteratureDissertation / Thesis Title
"Architectures of Gender in the American Haunted House"
Kit Pyne-Jaeger
PhD Student
Research Interests
Classical Reception, 19th-Century Literature, Queer Theory, Comparative Literature , Material Culture/ Object Studies
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
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