Finnegan Smith-Ruttan
Finnegan Smith-Ruttan
Pronouns: Ph.D. Student and Teaching Assistant
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CONTACT
English
400 Hall of Languages
Email: fasmithr@syr.edu
Office: 315.443.2173
Biographic Overview
● Degree: Began PhD program in 2024
● Concentration: American Literature (20th & 21st Century)
● Advisor: Professor Antonio T. Tiongson Jr.
Finn is a PhD student with special interests in posthumanist theory and narratives of
transformation. His research explores the disruption of traditional categories of being human,
particularly through attention to form and embodiment, and how such a disruption opens
space for subjectivities unbound by formerly restrictive binaries (self/other, nature/culture,
etc).
● B.A. English, Earlham College