Comparative Literature at UCI Undergraduate program

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Graduate Mentoring

Beginning in Fall 2008, undergraduate majors can have at their request Comp Lit graduate student mentors.  Mentors help students with their progress through the major and share their perspectives about advanced work in the field.

For more information about Comp Lit mentoring, contact Susan Jarratt at sjarratt@uci.edu

Current Graduate Mentors

Anna Guercio (aguercio@uci.edu): literary translation; translation theory; poetry; contemporary and post-Franco Spanish
and Catalan literature; Latin American literature; power, framing, and art objects

Vicki Hsieh (hsiehv@uci.edu): contemporary Chinese literature; theories of community and privacy; language learning; opacity and non-comprehension

Mark Pangilinan (mpangili@uci.edu): Pilipino literature and culture;  cultural studies; critical theory; ethnography; Anglophone modernist literature; postcolonial theory; gender studies; translation studies

Ameeth Vijay (avijay@uci.edu): surveillance; political theology; disciplinary formation and history; Gramsci and Foucault