
Finnegan Smith-Ruttan
DEPARTMENTS
- English
Ph.D. Student and Teaching Assistant
CONTACT
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400 Hall of Languages
Email: fasmithr@syr.edu
Biographic Overview
Finn is a PhD student studying understandings and representations of extinction in 20th and 21st century American literature, primarily drawing on methodologies from the environmental humanities and postcolonial studies. Other research interests include the interaction between scientific and religious epistemologies, and posthumanist theory.