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Comparative Literature Graduate Students
| Kristen Anthony | | 
B.A. in French and English, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1998
M.A. in Comparative Literature and Translation, University of Essex, 2004
Research interests: postcolonialism; West African languages, literature and culture; internal
tensions and conflicts within hybrid languages; transcription and translation |
| | 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 |
| | Sharareh Bennett | | 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: Theories of subjectivity and subjection, culpability
and guilt as they relate to Law/s; philosophy and critical theory;
postcolonial theory; 20th century revolutions; modern Persian literature |
| | Benjamin J. Bishop | |  B.A. in Philosophy, Mary Washington College, 2001
Research Interests: Victorian literature and culture; literary and philosophical realisms;
French and Arabic novel; psychoanalysis. |
| | Anna Cavness | |
B.A., University of Virginia, 2003
Research interests: Postcolonialism; twentieth-century North African and
Arabic literature and culture |
| | Zainab Cheema | | 
B.A. in English, Johns Hopkins University, 2004
Research interests: postcolonialism, African-American women's literature, 20th century Urdu literature,
and modern Arab women's literature; women speaking from the margins; global literary communities
challenging the borders and narratives of nationalisms |
| | Michelle Cho | | B.A. in Comparative Literature, Northwestern University, 2003
Research interests: documentary film and video; affect and temporality of
modernization in East Asian cinema; psychoanalysis, memory,
subjectivity, and phenomenology; theories of diaspora |
| | 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 |
| | Margaux Cowden | | B.A. in English, Ohio University, 2001
Research interests: French and American modernism;
queer theory and sexuality studies; psychoanalysis; travel writing |
| | Vuslat Demirkoparan | |  B.A., English and Studio Art, University of California, Riverside, 2004
M.A. ,Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine, 2007
Research interests: Postcolonial critique, Orientalism, cultural studies, critical race theories, contemporary Turkish film and visual culture |
| | Maryam El-Shall | | 
B.A. in English, University of Florida, 2004
M.A. in English, University of Florida, 2006
Research interests: psychoanalysis and trauma theory; emerging subjectivities and their cultural
representations; cultural studies and Marxist theory |
| | 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: cultural and literary theory, especially Marxist and feminist perspectives; philosophy; questions of love, death and suffering; European modernism, particularly the novel and poetry from 1910 to 1925; la Belle Époque; Romance languages and literatures; masculinities; ethics |
| | Reed Grantham | | 
B.A. in Comparative Literature with French minor, University of California, Irvine, 2006
Research Interests: twentieth century French and Francophone literature; literary theory and criticism; critical theory; deconstruction; the relationship between literature and theory; postcolonial theory; world literature.
On leave 2009-10 |
| | Anna Guercio | | 
B.A. in Comparative Literature and Literary Translation, Brown University, 2003
M.F.A., University of Iowa, 2007
Research interests: literary translation; translation
theory (particularly as it applies to ethics,
authorship, and gender); poetry;
contemporary and post-Franco Spanish
and Catalan literature; Latin American
literature; power, framing, and art objects |
| | Olivia Gunn | |  B.A. in Norwegian and English, with Dance minor, University of Washington, 2002
M.A. in Performance Studies, New York University, 2003
Research Interests: European culture at the fin de siècle; Scandinavian literature;
decadence; literary expatriation; cosmopolitanism; queer theory; deconstruction |
| | Jessica (Jay) Haile | | Research interests: modern French, German, and English language
lyric poetry; philosophy; Heideggerian and poetic notions of the thing |
| | Emma Heaney | | B.A., Smith College, 2003
Research Interests: The 20th century French novel (Duras and Genet in
particular); fascist and anti-fascist women writers in Paris between
WWI and WWII; right-wing America after 1980; Virginia Woolf; feminist
critical theory and philosophy |
| | 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 |
| | Vicky Hsieh | |  B.A. in Comparative Literature and Psychology, Cornell University, 2006
Research Interests: Contemporary poetry; language
learning; postcolonial literature and theory; cultural comparison; disciplinary formations |
| | Erin Yu-Tien Huang | | B.A. in Comparative Literature and Psychology, University of California, Davis, 2004
Research Interests: East Asian Cinema; psychoanalysis; sexuality and
space; the city, the body, and urbanism |
| | 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 |
| | 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 |
| | Polina Kroik | |  B.A. in English, Boston University, 2004
M.A. in English, Syracuse University, 2006
Research Interests: Modernism and the avant-gardes;
twentieth-century American literature; gender and sexuality; visual studies; critical theory |
| | 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: Marxism, psychoanalysis, poststructuralism, imperialism, coloniality, globalization, revolution, imagination/creation |
| | 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. |
| | Annie Moore | |  B.A. in English and History, University of British Columbia, 2003
M.A. in Peace Studies, Lancaster University, UK, 2004
Research Interests: ethics and politics of critical
theory; philosophy and literature; Paul Celan; trauma;
specters and hauntology; biopolitics; 20th-century
Irish literature; the limits of language and articulation; the virtual |
| | Nasser Mufti | |  B.A. in Political Philosophy and History, Hampshire College, 2005
Research Interests: Civil war and its relationship with British colonialism; political
theory, postcolonial theory, 20th-century South Asian political literature |
| | Tetsuro Namba | | 
B.A. in English, Reed College, 2007
Research interests: interpretation, subjectivity, psychoanalysis, critical and literary theory,
modernism, postmodernism, and post-postmodernism |
| | Duy Lap Nguyen | |  B.A. in Modern Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2002
Research Interests: Vietnamese colonial literature and history; Vietnamese popular fiction; Hegel and paleo-Marxist approaches to time, social space and the critique of political economy |
| | 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 |
| | Wendy Piquemal | |
B.A., Duke University, 1998
M.A., University of Edinburgh, 1999
Research interests: Postcolonialism; Francophone Caribbean literature
and culture |
| | Burcu Polat | | B.A. in Philosophy, Emory University, 2005
Research interests: Political theory, subjectivity.
On leave 2009-10 |
| | Lindsay Puente | |  B.A., Comparative Literature and Spanish, USC, 2001
Research Interests: Postcolonial theory, Subaltern/Popular, race theory,
contemporary cultural production in the Caribbean; Spanish Emphasis and Critical Theory Emphasis. |
| | Gaelle Raphael | | 
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 |
| | Bernard Richter | |  M.A., University of California, Santa Cruz, 2003
Research interests: the Holocaust and related issues of affect and epistemology in postwar German literature and culture; critical theory. |
| | Abraham Romney | | 
B.A. in English with Spanish minor, BYU-Idaho, 2005
M.A. in English, University of Oregon, 2007
Rsearch interests: History of rhetoric; translation; 19th and 20th-century
Latin American literature and philology |
| | Annette Rubado | |  B.A. in Comparative Literature and International Studies with Spanish minor, University of
Oregon, 1996
M.A. in Comparative Literature, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 2001
Research interests: colonial and postcolonial narrative of the Americas, political theory, transnational studies, and feminism |
| | Alexandra Sartor | | B.A. in English and Spanish, Loyola Marymount University, 2001
Research Interests: history of rhetoric, composition
studies, and public writing; rhetorical history of the American West;
public controversy surrounding the City of Los Angeles’s acquisition of
water rights from the Owens Valley in the early 20th century |
| | Matthew Schilleman | | B.A. in Philosophy and German, Michigan State University, 2005
Research interests: media studies, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, and
philosophy, especially through the lens of cybernetics |
| | 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) |
| | Jonathan Tanner | |  B.A. in English (Creative Writing: Poetry), University of Oklahoma, 2003
B.A. in French Language and Literature, University of Oklahoma, 2003
Emphases: French Emphasis, Critical Theory Emphasis
Research interests (will, hopefully, not forever be limited to): epic poetry; 19th-century French poetry; German and English Romanticism; scientific romance; Godzilla; and zinfandel. |
| | Travis Tanner | | B.A., Texas Tech University, 2003
Research interests: Native American culture, indigenous cultures,
postcolonialism, psychoanalysis |
| | Danielle Tinkoff | |
B.A. in English and German, North Central College, Illinois, 2007
Research interests: critical theory; questions of history, memory,
and trauma; theories of representation and visuality |
| | Ameeth Vijay | | 
B.A. in Comparative Literature, Brown University, 2004
Research interests: migration, globalization |
| | Kyle Wanberg | | B.A. in Philosophy, Skidmore College, 2002
Research Interests: critiques of reason, poco and translation studies, psychoanalysis, “minor” languages and literatures, orature |
| | Jason Willwerscheid | |  B.A. in French, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2003
Research interests: Psychoanalysis, French modernism, critical theory |
| | Tim Wong | |  B.A., Philosophy, University of California, Santa Cruz 2000
M.A., Philosophy, University of California, Santa Cruz 2002
Research Interests:
Continental philosophy (especially Kant, Heidegger and Foucault), French post-war literature, theories of violence, aesthetic theory, U.S. modernism and post-war literature |
| | 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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