Comparative Literature at UCI Students
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Comparative Literature Recent Students

Thomas Albrecht
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 1997
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Modern and Contemporary Studies, UCLA, 2002-03; Assistant Professor of English, Tulane University, 2003-present. Author of The Medusa Effect: Representations of Horror in Psychoanalysis and Victorian Aesthetics (Albany: SUNY Press, 2009); ed., Selected Writings of Sarah Kofman (Stanford UP, 2007).

Matthew Ancell
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2006
Assistant Professor of Humanities and Comparative Literature, Brigham Young University

Jeffrey Atteberry
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2003
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley (declined, 2005)

Jennifer Bajorek
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2002
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley (2005-07); Lecturer, Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London (tenure-track). Author of Counterfeit Capital: Poetic Labor and Revolutionary Irony (Stanford UP, 2008)

Kimberly Ball

Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2009

Oliver Berghof
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 1996
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, California State University, San Marcos

Juan R. Buriel
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2009
Assistant Professor of English, College of the Canyons (CA)

Mark Calkins
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 1997
Lecturer, Comparative and World Literature, San Francisco State University

Craig Carson
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2007
Collegiate Assistant Professor and Harper-Schmidt Fellow in Humanities, University of Chicago

Jian Chen
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2009
Postdoctoral Fellow, Gallatin School of Individualized Studies, New York University

Patricia Dailey
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, 2002
Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University (2002-2004); Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Columbia University, 2004- . Trans. of Giorgio Agamben, The Time That Remains (Stanford University Press, 2005)

Lan Duong
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2005
Assistant Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, University of California, Riverside

Thomas Dutoit
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 1994
Professor of English, Universite de Lille-III. Author, A Rose, a Ghost, in Edith Wharton: Reading Proserpinean Poetics in The Custom of the Country (Editions du Temps, 2000); co-ed. with Philippe Romanski, Angles on Derrida: Jacques Derrida and Anglophone Literature), Oxford Literary Review, 2004; translator of Jacques Derrida, Sovereignties in Question (2005), Aporias (2003), and On the Name (1995)

Erin Ferris
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2002
Humanities Fellow, Stanford University, 2006

Jane D. Griffin
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2009
Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish, Indiana University

Brook Haley
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, 2007
Winner of the Charles Bernheimer Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association for best dissertation of 2008 in the U.S., for Atomic Poetry: Materialist Rhythms in Lucretius, Du Bellay and Mallarme; Lecturer, Pomona College and Humanities Core Program, UC Irvine

Benjamin Huang
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2002
Council of Library Resources Fellow, USC, 2005; Lecturer in Humanities, Mount St. Mary's College

Kir Kuiken
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2006
Assistant Professor of English, University at Albany

Christopher Kuipers
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2001
Assistant Professor of English, Indiana University, Pennsylvania. Author of Canon (Taylor & Francis, 2009).

Rosemary Kwa
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2004
Associate Professor of English, Glendale Community College

Mariam B. Lam
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2006
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Vietnamese, UC Riverside; author of Surfin' Vietnam: Memory, Trauma, and Cultural Politics (under review); co-editor, Journal of Vietnamese Studies

Gregory Lambert
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 1995
Dean's Professor of Humanities, Syracuse University; author of Who's Afraid of Deleuze and Guattari? (Continuum, 2007); The Return of the Baroque in Modern Culture (Continuum, 2005); and The Non-Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze (Continuum, 2002)

Marina Ludwigs
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2007
Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Stockholm University

Katherine Mack
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2008
Assistant Professor of English, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

Michael Mageean
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 1996
Professor of English and Literature, Mt. San Antonio College (CA)

Scott McClintock
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 1995
Assistant Professor of Humanities, National University

Tracy McNulty
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 1998
Associate Professor of French, Cornell University; author of The Hostess, My Neighbor: Hospitality and the Expropriation of Identity (University of Minnesota Press, 2006)

Steven L. Miller
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2002
Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University Society for the Humanities, 2003-04; Assistant Professor of English, University at Buffalo, 2006-present. Co-translator with Jason Smith of Jean-Luc Nancy, Hegel: The Restlessness of the Negative (University of Minnesota Press, 2002); editor, Literature and the Right to Marriage (special issue of Diacritics, 2007)

Kimberly Moekle
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2000
Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric, Stanford University

Patience Moll
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2005
Teaching Fellow, University of Dundee, Scotland, 2007-08; Lecturer, Humanities Core Program, UC Irvine, 2008-

Erin Obodiac
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, 2006
Researcher, Leeds University, 2008-09; Lecturer, Humanities Core, UC Irvine, 2008-

Glenn Odom
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2007
Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Grinnell College (2008-09); Assistant Professor of English, Rowan University (NJ), 2009-

Kurt Ozment
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, 2007
Visiting Assistant Professor, Bilkent University (Turkey)

Patricia Pierson
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2005
Assistant Director of Literary Journalism, UC Irvine

Matthew Potolsky
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 1997
Associate Professor of English, University of Utah; author, Mimesis (The New Critical Idiom) (Routledge, 2006); co-ed. with Liz Constable and Dennis Denisoff of Perennial Decay: On the Aesthetics and Politics of Decadence (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998)

Gabriel Riera
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 1997
Assistant Professor of Spanish, University of Illinois, Chicago; author of Intrigues: From Being to the Other (Fordham University Press, 2006) and Alain Badiou: Philosophy and its Conditions (Albany: SUNY Press, 2005)

Rodney A. Rodriguez
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, 2007
Instructional Specialist, Writing and Reading Center, Long Beach City College

Simona Sawhney
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 1996
Associate Professor of Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Minnesota; author of The Modernity of Sanskrit (University of Minnesota Press, 2008)

Armando Silva
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 1996
Professor of Humanities, Universidad Externado de Colombia; co-author, Imaginary Cities: Documenta 11; see http://www.divulgacion.unal.edu.co/exposiciones_imaginarios.html

Naomi Silver
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2001
Associate Director, Sweetland Writing Center, University of Michigan

Jonathan Singer
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2005
Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts, Seneca College (Toronto)

Jason E. Smith
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2006
Placement: Assistant Professor in the Graduate Studies in Art department at Art Center College of Design
Manya Steinkoler
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, 1996
Assistant Professor of English, BMCC-City University of New York

Jennifer Thompson
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2000
Assistant Professor of Humanities and Communication, Embry-Riddle University

Erin Trapp

Ph.D., Comparative Literature, 2009

R. John Williams
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2008
Assistant Professor of English, Yale University

Catherine Winiarski
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2007
Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Pomona College