David Alexander Cary
is a second-year English major with an emphasis in Creative Writing, because he
has wanted to be a novelist since he was nine years old. He enjoys a
range of academic subjects, everything from
language to physics to human nature, and is considering adding a major in
Political Science. He is currently writing short stories
set in Guatemala, which he hopes to use as he
writes a novel for his senior thesis.
Lucas Chan is an English and Biology double major. He is currently a fourth-year senior hoping to graduate in the spring of 2010. Once finished with college, he hopes to
continue his education in medical school.
Elaine Chou
is a fourth-year English major interested in modernist literature and critical
theory. She hopes to teach English abroad and to later attend graduate school,
specializing in early American twentieth-century
literature, with emphases in French and German thought.
Floreana Edwards-Younger is a fourth-year Comparative Literature and Spanish major with interests in identity construction, alienation, and media studies. She's a
House Assistant for the International Village House and also a Campus Tour Guide. She loves being a UCI student. Before going to graduate school, she wants to work with social media.
Bryan Ho is a senior at UCI majoring in in Comparative Literature. His interests are critical theory and war history.
Jeff Liu is a graduating English and Political Science Major currently looking into law school. When he isn't frantically writing his thesis, he enjoys Paul de Man, Kobe Bryant
and that oddly placed bench in the middle of Aldrich Park.
Dawn McCutcheon is majoring in English as well as minoring
in Art History. Her interests include
dance, modern art, and music. After
college she hopes to find a job to
pay off her
copious student loans.
Mark Moubarek is currently in his second year at UCI. Critical Theory (and all humanities for that matter) is a completely new venture for him and has provided a whole
new perspective from which to interpret literature. Mark works as an Emergency Medical Technician with Care Ambulance and the LA County Fire Department; he recently
switched majors from Biology to Philosophy.
Quynh-Ahn Nyugen is a third-year double major in Comparative Literature and Film & Media Studies. Some of her interests are: contemporary Japanese media, film theory,
and gender studies. In the future, she plans to apply to graduate school and continue with her studies in film theory.
After two years in a hospital internship, Julie Pang left the golden road to medical school and channeled her scientific interests in the human body into her literary studies. When she graduates this spring with degrees in English and Biochemistry, she plans to travel and later pursue graduate studies in literature.
Angelica Pinedo is a third-year Comparative Literature major. She plans on pursuing a Ph.D. in the same field, hopefully with an emphasis in Critical Theory.
Aaron Ponoroff is a senior-level English major currently applying to medical school. His academic interests link medicine and critical theory, including power theory, illness
and difference, and abnormal cell division (cancer).
D. Christian Quezada is a fifth-year double major in Comparative Literature and Religious Studies interested in the intersections of identity, narrative, memory and
representation.
Leaving his third and entering his fourth year here at UCI, Jonathan Radocay is both an English and Philosophy major with graduate school aspirations after a year of
hiatus, taken once he completes his Bachelor’s. He also enjoys alternative press and journalism, currently serving as co-editor for Forest Fire, an on-campus journal. In the
years to come, he wants to travel and move from Southern California before settling down to pursue a Ph.D in English literature.
Bryon Riggs is a third-year English major presently in his first year of study at UCI after transferring from College of the Desert. Presently he is interested in (predominantly
modern) mythology, especially the myth of modern economics and its impact on society. Bryon hopes to attend grad school upon completing his degree at UCI though he is not
yet certain where he wishes to attend.
Jordan Schonig is a fourth-year English major and Film Studies minor. In the future, he hopes to attend graduate school in either English or Film Studies.
Toshi Tomori is graduating with a degree in Comparative Literature. He is a founding member of an imaginary band called “The Batailles.”
Christine Verango is a second-year English major whose tentative plans are to teach English at the high-school level.
Jason Ian White is a third-year Philosophy student and recent transfer from UC Santa Cruz who plans to pursue a Ph.D. in either continental philosophy or comparative
literature. At the moment, his academic interests center primarily around existential phenomenology
Gearing up to face the “real world,” fourth-year Aylin Zafar graduates this June with degrees in English and Drama. She plans to brave the economy and pursue her love of
journalism in any form in which it still exists, which appears to be “new media.” She is a firm believer in the fact that theory is best discussed over a pint with friends and
professors at the Anthill Pub, and is a proud member of the newly formed Comp Lit band (created by friend and fellow classmate, Toshi Tomori), The Batailles, in which she
will play the tambourine.