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Comparative Literature Graduate Students
| Philip Anselmo | |  B.A. University of Long Island, 2002
Research Interests: Literature of catastrophe, 20th-century French novel, psychoanalysis, phenomenology, film studies, aesthetic theory (especially of the avant-garde).
Emphases: Critical Theory Emphasis |
| | Tamara Beauchamp | |  B.A., Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University, 2004
Research Interests: Psychoanalysis; critical theory; gender and sexuality studies;
Francophone and Anglophone decadence and modernism; masochism
Emphases: Critical Theory Emphasis and Graduate Feminist Emphasis
Nanterre Fellowship, University of Paris-Nanterre, 2009-10 |
| | Dan Costello | |  B.A., University of Chicago, 2005
Research Interests: Post-war German and American
literature, collective memory, and the tensions between fiction, memoir, and history |
| | Halah Darwazeh | | B.A. UC Berkeley 2007
English(with Honors) and French, Minor Creative Writing
M.A. New York University 2011
Interdisciplinary Master's in Humanities and Social Thought
Research Interests: Literatures of the Maghreb, Palestinian fiction and poetry |
| | Sharareh Frouzesh | | B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science, University of California, Irvine
M.A. in Social Sciences with an emphasis in Social Thought, University of
Chicago
Research interests: Modern Iranian literatures and cultural productions; transnational literatures and feminisms; political and legal theory; postcolonial literatures and theory; psychoanalysis and phenomenology; dialectics of resistance and modernisms. Dissertation: 'The Use and Abuse of Guilt.'
Emphases: Critical Theory Emphasis and Graduate Feminist Emphasis |
| | James Goebel | |  B.A. in Philosophy, California State University, Fullerton 2011
Research Interests: European philosophy; animal and environmental studies; Indigenous histories; activist literature |
| | C.J. Gordon | |  B.A. in English and History, University of Kansas, 2007
Research interests: Medieval and early modern
literature; tragedy; the classical tradition; religion and literature; literary theory;
psychoanalysis |
| | Brandon J. Granier | |  B.A., in English, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2001
M.A. in Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College, 2006; M.A. in French, Middlebury College in France, 2007
Research interests: deconstruction; long 19th century European literature |
| | Jennifer Gutierrez | | B.A., Chicana and Chicano Studies, San Diego State University, 2009
B.A., Comparative Literature, San Diego State University, 2009
Research interests: Critical Theories of Gender and Sexuality, the Latin
American Avant-Garde, Postmodern Geography, Art and Politics of
Subcultural Connections, and Border Studies. |
| | Crystal Hickerson | |  M.A., SUNY Buffalo, 2008
Research interests: aesthetics and models of thought; intersections between poetry, continental philosophy, urban design and visual culture; problematics of voice, style, and tone in discourse; hybridity and genre; poetic novels of 20th c. Latin America and postmodern world literature; modernisms and the avant-garde |
| | Kim Icreverzi | | B.A. in Linguistics and English with concentration in Culture and
Performance, Georgetown University, 2002
Research Interests: Visual rhetorics; spectacularity; cinematic, urban and corporeal space; Japanese literature and cinema; feminist theory and cultural studies
Emphases: Graduate Feminist Emphasis, Visual Studies Emphasis |
| | Alexander Jabbari | |  B.A. in Community Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2008
Research interests: Persianate literary historiography; nationalism and
nationhood; colonialism and resistance |
| | Karen Jallatyan | |  B.A., in Comparative Literature, minor in Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles
M.A. in Comparative Literature, University of Indiana, Bloomington, Indiana
Research Interests: Post-structuralism; post-colonial studies particularly in East European and post-Soviet contexts; Nietzsche, Bergson, Blanchot, Deleuze; deconstruction; translation; cinema; contemporary, diaspora Armenian literature. |
| | Will Jordan | | B.S. in Computer Science, Yale University, 2005
Research interests: Media theory; Japanese; games |
| | Sarah Kessler | |  B.A., Art and Semiotics, Brown University, 2003
M.A., English, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 2008
Research interests: postcolonialism, neo-pragmatism, feminist film theory, queer methodologies, third cinemas, science fiction, imagination and close reading |
| | Joseph Krall | |  B.A. in English and American Indian Studies, University of Minnesota -
Twin Cities, 2011
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Dakota Language and Translation,
Media Theory, Modernism/Postmodernism, Race Theory, Video Games |
| | Ryanson Alessandro Ku | |  B.S. in Economics, The George Washington University, 2004
M.A. in Comparative Literature, Louisiana State University, 2008
M.A. in Philosophy, Louisiana State University, 2009
Research interests: Critiques of the given, theories of non-equivalence, semiotics/pragmatics, experimental fiction and film |
| | Christopher Malcolm | |  B.A. Contemporary History and Politics, University of Sussex, UK, 2008.
M.A. Social & Political Thought, York University, Toronto, 2011.
Research interests: Marxism. Critical theory: Adorno, Benjamin, Derrida, Deleuze.Dialectics; natural-history; the concept.The postwar; postmodern literature; film. |
| | Ali Meghdadi | |  B.A. in English with Theology minor, Loyola Marymount University, 2005
M.A. in English, Loyola Marymount University, 2007; M.F.A. in poetry, Otis College of Art and Design, 2008
Research interests: My critical and creative writings articulate a hybridized language that mediates between American and Iranian cultures and their specific histories, with an explicit focus on the political and theological aesthetics established in their literatures. |
| | Ghada Mourad | |  B.A. in English, CSU Los Angeles, 2007
Research interests: critical theory; postcolonial theory; translation; colonial and postcolonial Arabic
and French literary productions; the Lebanese/French encounter; 20th-century Russian political and literary
theory; feminism in the Middle East |
| | Nathaniel Murphy | |  B.A. In Philosophy, CSU Fullerton 2012.
Research Interests: Anarchism, political motivation, global justice, parecon, poetry, platonic love, democratic practice, spontaneous self-organization. |
| | Tetsuro Namba | |  B.A. in English, Reed College, 2007
Research interests: "Modernism, science fiction, biopolitics, psychoanalysis, race, colonialism, Pacific/Oceania literature, sovereignty, nuclear testing and apocalypse." |
| | Toru Oda | | B.A. in Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, University of Tokyo, 2003
M.A. in Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, University of Tokyo, 2006
Research interests: literary anarchism; cultural history in the late 19th
and early 20th centuries; French naturalism; English modernism |
| | Mark Pangilinan | |  B.A. in English with Spanish minor, Christopher Newport University, 2006
Research interests: Pilipino literature and culture; cultural studies; critical theory;
ethnography; Anglophone modernist literature; postcolonial theory; gender studies;
translation studies |
| | Ariel Perloff | |  B.A. in Rhetoric with minors in Philosophy and Creative Writing, UC Berkeley, 2005
Research interests: phenomenology, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis; modern and postmodern novel;
painting and photography; affect |
| | Eddie Pinuelas | | B.A. in Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles
Research interests: Postcolonialism; diasporic literature and culture |
| | Jamie Rogers | |  B.A. in Print Journalism, Cal State Long Beach, 2003
B.A. in Spanish, Western Washington University, 2010
M.A. in English Studies, Western Washington University, 2008
Research interests: Visual culture; radical politics; feminism; critical race theory; Latin American and Caribbean film and literature; theories of subjectivity and representation. |
| | Abraham Romney | |  B.A. in English with Spanish minor, BYU-Idaho, 2005
M.A. in English, University of Oregon, 2007
Research interests: History of rhetoric; translation; 19th-century Hemispheric American literature; 19th-century rhetoric and philology; digital rhetoric.
Fall 2013: Tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition in the Department of Humanities at Michigan Technological University. |
| | Kirsty Singer | |  B.A. in Gender Studies, Brown University, 2003
M.F.A., School of Critical Studies, California Institute of the Arts, 2010
Research Interests: poetry; death and sacrifice; political protest; current and antiquated scientific theories; personal mythologies and belief systems; queer theory; phenomenology; globalization and alternative development models |
| | Denise Spampinato | | B.F.A., Art Center College of Design
M.F.A. in Writing, Cal Arts, 2002 |
| | Engel Szwaja-Franken | |  B.A. in Comparative Literature and History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005
Research interests: Latin American literature and poetry (mostly 20th century), modernism, French literature (19th and early 20th century) |
| | Aubrey Tang | |  B.A. in Comparative Literature, The University of Hong Kong 1998
M.A. in Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages, The University of California, Riverside 2012
Research Interests: theory of perception; voice in cinema; Cantonese opera; Chinese and Sinophone cultures |
| | Parisa Vaziri | |  B.A. in Comparative Literature with French minor, New York University, 2007
Research Interests: memory, theories of narrative, psychoanalysis, its appropriations, phenomenology, trauma, narratives of secularization |
| | Ameeth Vijay | |  B.A. in Comparative Literature, Brown University, 2004
Research interests: migration, globalization |
| | Robert Wood | | B.A. in History (minor in Comparative Literature), University of Minnesota, 2003
Research Interests: Marxism, modernism, science fiction, crisis, the body and production, critical theory, the avant-garde, the fantastic |
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