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Comparative Literature Graduate Students
| Kimberly Ball | | B.A. in Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles
M.A. in Folklore, University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests: Folk narrative, the concept of tradition, the devil,
Irish language and literature, narrative theory, Scandinavian lore and
literature, anthropomorphic beings of lower mythology |
| | 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 |
| | 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: autobiography; Victorian literature; theory; 20th-century Arabic
literature |
| | Juan R. Buriel | | B.A. in Communication and American Studies, Univ. of New Mexico, 1998
M.A. in American Studies, Univ. of New Mexico, 2001
Research Interests: Latino culture and literature; multiculturalism;
subalternity; subjectivity |
| | Anna Cavness | |
B.A., University of Virginia, 2003
Research interests: Postcolonialism; twentieth-century North African and
Arabic literature and culture |
| | Jian (Chuan) Chen | | B.A., English and Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1995
Research Interests: transpacific postcolonialisms; queer and transgender
race studies; international feminisms; Taiwanese and Hong Kong cinemas; critiques of colonial modernity
Emphases: Feminist and Critical Theory Emphases |
| | 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 |
| | Trudi Connolly | | 
B.A. in Politics and Comparative Literature, with Sociology minor, New York University, 2005
M.A. in Comparative Literature, New York University, 2007
Research interests: Hegel, Bataille, Balzac, violence, immortality, disease
and physical porousness, restricted and generalized economies, realism,
China, sadism, and sacrifice, plus Cookies and Puppies. |
| | 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 |
| | Maryam El-Shall | |
B.A. in English, University of Florida, 2004
M.A. in English, University of Florida, 2006
Research interests: Contemporary Arabic literature and popular culture;
critical theory; feminism; subaltern studies |
| | Chandra Garber | | B.A. in Modern Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2005
Research interests: human rights discourses; the rhetoric of
intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations; postcolonial
theory; political theory and philosophy (particularly citizenship and
sovereignty); religion and the state; international relations |
| | 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: Francophone and Anglophone literary and philosophical exchange, critical theory, early Derrida, Paul de Man, Turkish history, culture and literature, French colonial history, North African literature, European studies, mediterranean studies |
| | Jane D. Griffin | | B.A. in Spanish and Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000
Research interests: gender studies, democracy studies in the Southern Cone, Chilean cultural studies of the late 20th century, and Latin American feminism.
Her Master's thesis analyzed the work of feminist Chilean writer Pia Barros and her work under dictatorship in Chile during the 1980s. She is currently working on a dissertation entitled Fields of Representation: Gender and Literary Cultures in Chile from Dictatorship to Democracy, which documents the history of progressive cultural movements and literary cultures during the democratic transition in Chile. |
| | 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 |
| | Brook Haley | | B.A. in French, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Research interests: poetics; formalisms; ancient philosophical materialisms
and their returns; psychoanalysis; nineteenth-century French poetry;
pedagogies of public education; cultures and armatures of university bureaucracies |
| | 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 |
| | 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 a concentration in Culture and
Performance, Georgetown University, 2002
Research Interests: Visual rhetorics; spectacularity; cinematic, urban and
corporeal space; Japanese literature and cinema, especially contemporary
horror; 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 |
| | Shannon Kaussen | |
B.A. in French, University of California, Los Angeles
Research interests: African studies; postcolonialism; fetishism; psychoanalysis |
| | Sara Kirker | | B.A. in Comparative Literature, University of Oregon, 2004
Research Interests: Rhetoric; 20th century American literature;
contemporary tourism and travel literature; public policy and
subjectivity; critical theory |
| | Elizabeth Kiszely | |
B.A. in Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Research interests: 2oth-century narrative |
| | Polina Kroik | | B.A. in English, Boston University, 2004
M.A. in English, Syracuse University, 2006
Research Interests: theories of subjectivity and representation;
poststructuralist theory; modernism; film; 20th century non-figurative art |
| | Marina Ludwigs | | Research interests: European novel; theories of explanation, decision and
interpretation, especially as related to narrative |
| | Katherine Mack | | 
B.A. in History, Columbia University, 1997
Research interests: Katherine Mack is working on her dissertation,
A Provocative Failure: Public Truth Telling and South Africa’s Truth and
Reconciliation Commission. She is also collaborating on a multi-phase,
qualitative research project on pedagogical memory and the transferability
of knowledge. Her interests include: truth commissions and transitional
justice; public memory; rhetorical theory and histories of rhetoric;
composition pedagogy; transnational theories; and the analytics of race
and gender. |
| | Annie Moore | |  B.A., English and History, University of British Columbia, 2003
M.A., 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 |
| | 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 |
| | Alexandra Oana | | B.A., Rutgers University, 2005
Research interests: European literatures and languages, translation, poetry |
| | Erin Obodiac | |
B.A., Cornell University
Research interests: film production and film theory |
| | Kurt Ozment | | B.A., English, Wayne State University
M.A., English, Wayne State University
Research interests: experimental forms of poetry, art, and music; texts which comment on these forms, and the philosophical and theoretical approaches necessary for understanding both; more broadly, aesthetics, literary theory, American poetry, twentieth-century French literature, experimental film and video, and the relationship between literature and philosophy in both French and German |
| | 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 |
| | 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 |
| | Lindsay Puente | |  B.A., Comparative Literature and Spanish, USC, 2001
Research Interests: Postcolonial theory, Subaltern/Popular, race theory,
contemporary cultural Pproduction in the Caribbean
I participated in the International Conference
on Hispanic Literatures in Bayahibe, Dominican
Republic in March 2005. I will present at the Enkidu Institutes Testimonial
Texts, Lives and Stories conference in Mexico City in June 2006:
http://www.enkidumagazine.com/eventos/texts/
abstracts/A_025_TT.htm/ .
I am working on the Spanish Emphasis and the Critical Theory Emphasis. |
| | 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. |
| | Rodney Rodriguez | | B.A. in English with a Spanish minor, University of Utah
M.A. in English, University of Utah
Research interests: Intersections of science and literature in
the long eighteenth century |
| | 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 |
| | Matthew Rozen | |  B.A. in Literature, Harvard University, 2003
Research Interests: 19th and 20th Century French and Latin American (especially Argentinean) fiction and poetry; in particular, experiments with narrative form in the writings of the historical avant-gardes (1910s and 1920s) and neo avant-gardes (1950s and 1960s); theories and figures of urban space, temporal experience, and community
Teaching Experience:
Spanish 2A: Intermediate Spanish (Winter 2006)
English 28A: The Poetic Imagination (Fall, 2005)
Writing 39C: Argument and Research (Spring, 2005)
Writing 39B: Critical Reading and Rhetoric (Fall, 2004; Winter, 2005) |
| | Annette Rubado-Mejia | |  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. Thesis on
representations of women’s experience in the Brazilian
novels Perto do coração selvagem (Clarice
Lispector) and As horas nuas (Lygia Fagundes Telles).
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: My emphasis is in Rhetoric and Composition
and my research interests include the history of rhetoric, composition
studies, and public writing. Specifically, I am interested in the
rhetorical history of the American West. My dissertation will focus on the
public controversy surrounding the City of Los Angeles’s acquisition of
water rights from the Owens Valley in the early 20th century. I am
currently the Graduate Writing Fellow in the office of the Campus Writing
Coordinator: http://www.writing.uci.edu/. |
| | 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 (which 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 |
| | Rebecca Thom | | |
| | Erin Trapp | |  B.A., Ohio Wesleyan University
Research Interests: 20th Century poetry, especially
German-language and contemporary U.S.; also, questions
about why things matter; psychoanalysis; prosopopoeia, or the agency of objects |
| | Ameeth Vijay | | 
B.A. in Comparative Literature, Brown University, 2004
Research interests: migration, globalization |
| | Kyle Wanberg | |  B.A., Philosophy, Skidmore College, 2002
Research Interests: Psychoanalysis, postcolonial studies, Pima language, translation limits, ecolinguistics, political resistance, prison/torture, unamerican activities |
| | R. John Williams | |  B.A., Brigham Young University
M.A., Utah State University, 2001
Research Interests: American Orientalism, Asian-American studies, technology, film
studies |
| | Jason Willwerscheid | | B.A., University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2003
Research interests: Psychoanalysis, French modernism, critical theory |
| | Catherine Winiarski | | B.A. in Literature, Harvard University
Research Interests: Shakespeare; Virgil in the Renaissance; iconography and
iconoclasm; early modern political theory; authorship |
| | 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 |
| | Johanna Wyers | | 
B.A. in English, SUNY-Buffalo
Research Interests: Greek tragedy and the afterlives
of Medea, Electra, and Antigone; feminist critiques of
psychoanalysis; Luce Irigaray; tragic drama; stagings of sexuality and race; the gift |
| | Liang-Hua Yu | | 
B.A. in Comparative Literature and East Asian Studies, New York University, 2006
M.A. in East Asian Studies, New York University, 2007
Research interests: Cultural politics and ethics;
visual culture and the problematic of representation;
20th-century Chinese (especially Taiwanese) literature, film, and intellectual movements |
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