Celia Marshik
Dean of the Graduate School and Vice Provost for Graduate and Professional Education
Celia Marshik was selected as the Graduate Dean and Vice Provost for Graduate Education in May 2023. In this role, she oversees the strategic vision of the Graduate School and has worked collaboratively with campus leadership to improve resources and services for graduate students, faculty, staff, and postdocs. Celia is a strong advocate for graduate education both internally and externally and is focused on increasing awareness of graduate student and postdoctoral contributions to the University and greater community. Her mission to support graduate students from application to graduation is the driving force behind her work as dean.
With the support of a dedicated team of professionals across different areas, the Graduate School has launched a variety of new initiatives under her leadership related to community engagement, professional development, mentoring, health and wellness, curriculum review, improving policies and procedures, admissions and recruitment, housing, and financial services.
Celia is a product of the Midwest and the Big Ten: she holds a Bachelor of Arts in English and Women’s Studies from the University of Minnesota and a PhD in English and Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies from Northwestern University. She is a first generation college graduate and the first in her extended family to receive an advanced degree.
As a faculty member in the English Department since 2001, her scholarly research has focused on British modernism, including the relationships between literature and the law and between modernism and cultural studies. She is the author of British Modernism and Censorship, At the Mercy of Their Clothes: Modernism, the Middlebrow, and British Garment Culture, and, with Allison Pease, Modernism, Sex and Gender as well as the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Culture.
Dean Marshik serves on the Executive Committee for the Association of Graduate Schools, an AAU constituency group. She proudly holds the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Service, the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Service by a Graduate Program Director, and the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching. When she’s not on campus, she enjoys gardening, live music, and getting outside for a run, a bike ride, or a trip to the beach.
CONTACT:
Gianna Juliano-Hooper
Executive Assistant to the Dean
Phone: 631.632.7035
2401 Computer Science Bldg.
Stony Brook, NY 11794-4433