People

Colton Barton
Graduate Student
At Rutgers Since: 2025
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Primary Areas of Specialization: Queer theory and cultural production; Black, feminist, and queer sexual politics; contemporary literature; social theory
Field of Interest: African-American & Diaspora, Gender & Sexuality, Theory, Twentieth Century, Twenty-first Century
Education: M.A. English, University of Kentucky (2025); B.A. Gender & Women's Studies, B.S. English, University of Kentucky (2023)

Mayrose C. Beatty
Graduate Student
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Primary Areas of Specialization: Long 19th Century British Literature, Sensation Fiction, Gothic, Adaptation & Reception, Classics, Empire & Postcolonial Studies
Field of Interest: Gender & Sexuality, Theory, Victorian
Education: M. A. Rutgers University, Department of Literatures in English (2024) B. A. Smith College, English (2020)

Chelsea Jaylene Portorreal
Graduate Student
At Rutgers Since: 2024
Primary Areas of Specialization: Carceral Studies, Visual Culture Studies, Black Feminism, 20th and 21st African American Literature, Intimacy/Kinship Studies, and Queer Theory.
Field of Interest: African-American & Diaspora, Critical Race Studies, Gender & Sexuality, Twentieth Century, Twenty-first Century
Education: Lehman College, CUNY - B.A in English Literature.

Emmett Pinsky
Graduate Student
At Rutgers Since: 2024
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Primary Areas of Specialization: 20th century fiction, the novel and narrative theory, literary worlds and textual space, queer/trans studies, artists' books
Field of Interest: Book and Media History, Gender & Sexuality, Theory, Twentieth Century
About:
Emmett is a third-year PhD student specializing in 20th century fiction, in particular experimentalism in the American novel. His research and writing engages with narrative theory, spatial theory, psychoanalysis, queer/trans studies, black studies, and book history. Emmett is a Graduate Fellow at the Rutgers Initiative for the Book.

Prior to joining the Rutgers English Department, Emmett worked as a bookseller, editor, and curator of artists' books, experience which informs his interest in experimental form.
Education: B.A. in English and American Studies, Tufts University, 2019