Category: Alumni

Bio: Wade is a PhD Student in Visual and Cultural Studies. An interdisciplinary scholar and researcher whose work focuses on the political and social implications of new media and technology, Wade is interested in the ways publics are made and unmade through the many disparate channels of social media and forever delighted/terrified by the role of meme images—the visual culture of the internet—in this process. 

Bio: Marcie Woehl is a third year English PhD student at the University of Rochester. Rooted in post-45 American nonfiction and the digital and public humanities, Marcie’s research focuses on the role of new media in overcoming the barrier between academics and the larger public as well as its potential to fundamentally shape the future of the academy. In addition to her research, Marcie is a project assistant on the William Blake Archive. When not studying for exams, Marcie can be found thinking about making a new website, listening to podcasts, or cooking.

Education: MA University of Rochester, History; Andrew W. Mellon Advanced Residency Program in Photograph Conservation, Image Permanence Institute, Rochester Institute of Technology, and George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY; Postgraduate Study in Culture Management, Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland; MA, Nicholas Copernicus University, Torun, Poland, Conservation and Restoration of Art.

Bio: Ania Michas is a sixth-year PhD student in the Department of History and Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester.

Ania’s studies include modern European history and the democratization of art enabled by photography. Her dissertation examines the use of postcards by women as a tool for their emancipation and explores the role that postcards played in the development of feminist ideas. She is interested in how postcards served democracy as a “common experience” of communication and collecting.

By incorporating DH methods into her research, she hopes to reveal commonalities and outliers in the collections with which she works and to tie the stories of her dissertation more closely together.

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Education: B.A., Elmira College, English, 2009; M.F.A., California College of the Arts, Writing, 2011; M.A., University of Rochester, English, 2018. 

Bio: Erin Francisco is a third-year Ph.D. student in the English Department at the University of Rochester specializing in twentieth-century American literature. Her research interests are grounded in Environmental Humanities with a particular focus on back-to-the-land memoirs and critical discourse surrounding race, gender, and nature in both fiction and non-fiction narratives.

Education: M.A., University of Rochester, History, 2017; M.A., Villanova University, History, 2016; B.A., University of Rochester, History & Religion, 2014.

Bio: Daniel Gorman Jr. is a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at the University of Rochester. 

Dan studies nineteenth- and twentieth-century religious and cultural history in the United States. His dissertation explores the expulsion of Spiritualist medium Frederick Willis from Harvard in 1857 and the ensuing debate between Spiritualists and anti-Spiritualists that occurred in the greater Boston area,. This project illuminates differing ideas of the function of religion and science in U.S. society, as well as the relationship between Spiritualism and the broader liberal religious movement in New England. In the digital realm, Dan is interested in online archives and oral history repositories, digital mapping, and documentary editing.

Education: BA, American University, Art History, 2014; MA, University of British Columbia, Art History and Theory, 2017

Bio: Madeline Ullrich is a third-year PhD student in the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester.

Maddie’s current research explores visual and narrative forms of female collectivity on television, to investigate how contemporary mainstream feminism imagines collectivity as its mode of subjectivity. Thinking through the televisual quality of seriality, her research explores how the concept of a female collective is constructed through visual and narrative paradigms of repetition, accumulation and standardization.

Currently, Maddie is working with the University of Rochester’s Digital Scholarship Lab on Mediate, a web-based platform that allows users to annotate and analyze time-based audiovisual media.

Education: BS, Susquehanna University, Ecology, 2013; MA, Bangor University, Medieval literature, 2016.

Bio: Alex is a fourth-year PhD student in English at the University of Rochester. He is also an operations coordinator at the Lazarus Project, which uses multispectral imaging and statistical processing software to digitally recover damaged manuscripts and cultural heritage objects. His research focuses on ghosts, horror, and hermeneutics in the Middle Ages.