Bieser
Ben Bieser

Degrees: B.A. Comparative Literature & Society, Columbia University, 2019
Research Interests: Black Critical Theory; Continental Philosophy; Wertkritik and Open Marxism; Deconstruction; Psychoanalysis; Legal Studies; Anticolonial Poetry & Literature; Experimental Film & Music; Nonsovereignty and the Nonpolitical

benjamin-connor
Benjamin Connor

Degrees: M.A. English Literatures, University of British Columbia, 2023; B.A. Sociology w/Honours, Simon Fraser University, 2021
Research Interests: Indigenous literatures; Caribbean studies; Pacific Islands studies; Black studies; Post-structuralism; Holocaust studies

Gillespie
John Gillespie

Degrees: B.S. Philosophy and Religious Studies, Towson University, 2017
Research Interests: Black Literature, Theory and Performance Studies; Science, Technology and Society studies; Continental philosophy; Psychoanalysis; Anti-psychiatry and Madness Studies

Guiyangco
Christine Guiyangco

Degrees: M.F.A. Studio Art, UC Irvine, 2020; B.A. Art, UCLA, 2014
Research Interests: words as characters and characters as words

jonah henkle
Jonah Henkle

Degrees: M.A. Interdisciplinary Studies, NYU, 2025; B.A. Media & Cultural Studies/Critical Theory, Macalester College, 2022
Research Interests: Marxism, Psychoanalysis, German Idealism, Structuralism, AI and Computation Criticism, Political Economy of Media, German Media Theory, Computational Philosophy, Philosophy/History of Mathematics

Hoenicke
Sarah Hoenicke Flores

Degrees: M.F.A. Journalism, UC Berkeley, 2019; B.A. English, Mills College, 2016
Research Interests: Postcoloniality; Displacement; Anglophone and diaspora literatures; longform nonfiction; conflict studies
Recent Publications: "Measles, Media and Memory: Journalism’s Role in Framing Collective Memory of Disease," J Med Humanit (2021); "Doulas Hope to Regain Momentum as Covid Restrictions Ease," The New York Times, July 26, 2021


 

Carolin Huang updated 2024
Carolin Huang

Degrees: B.A. Urban Geography/Art History, McGill University, 2014; Master of Library & Information Studies (MLIS), University of Alberta, 2019
Research Interests: psychoanalysis; critical theory; aesthetics; east asian cinema; queer cinema; philosophy of history; the concept of east asian modernity

Jerge
Noah Jerge

Degrees: M.A. Philosophy, SDSU, 2022; B.A. Philosophy, UCSD, Magna Cum Laude/High Distinction, 2020
Research Interests: noise, history of continental philosophy (with specific emphasis on Heidegger, Derrida, and the destruction/deconstruction of traditional metaphysics), critical theory, aesthetics, and contemporary literature

olamina jimenez sanchez 5-2025
olamina jiménez sánchez

Degrees: B.A. African American Studies, Emory University, 2023
Research Interests: Afro-pessimism, psychoanalysis, continental philosophy, aesthetics, poetics

Kilolo
Munyao Kilolo

Degrees: Postgraduate Certificate, Seagull School of Publishing, 2020; B.A. Journalism, the United States International University – Africa, 2019
Research Interests: inter-African Language Translation, Theorizing in African languages, African and World Literature, Media theory, Multilingualism, and Post-colonial literature.

jligunas
Joseph Christian Labagnao Ligunas

Degrees: B.A. English, University of California, Los Angeles, 2016
Research Interests: Pilipinx studies; Pilipinx literature; transnationalism; colonial historiography; travel narratives; poetry; film; postcolonial studies; multicultural literature; diaspora; short story forms; popular culture; visual arts; queer theory; issues of canon; critical theory

Chenglin
Chenglin Lee

Degrees: M.A. English, CSU Fullerton, 2020; B.A. English, CSU Fullerton, 2017
Research Interests: Asian American studies, Asian Latin America, Diaspora, Political Economy, Psychoanalysis

calvin-liew
Calvin Liew

Degrees: M.A. Sociology, San Diego State University, 2022; B.A. Sociology, San Diego State University, 2020
Research Interests: politics of language, (un)translatability, translingualism, cosmopolitics, non-Eurocentric and interspecies relationalities, Global South literatures in Portuguese and Mandarin, ecocriticism, critical theory, memory

Madison Mackenzie

Degrees: M.A. Literary Studies/Comp Lit, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 2022; B.A. Comparative Literature, UCI, 2020

dmathur
Diya Mathur

Degrees: M.A. Sociology, Concordia University, 2018; B.A. Anthropology & Sociology, Concordia University, 2009
Research Interests: critical theory; postcolonial studies; Black studies; the civilizing process; history of philosophy

Morrell, Iris
Iris Morrell

Degrees: B.A. Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley, 2020
Research Interests: Jewish studies, especially Jewish mysticism; memory and trauma studies; psychoanalysis; deconstruction; legal studies, especially standards of proof

Namukasa, Glaydah
Glaydah Namukasa

Degrees: M.F.A. Creative Writing, University of California, Riverside, 2022; B.S. Community Psychology, Makerere University, Uganda, 2017; Diploma in Midwifery, Rubaga Hospital Nursing School, Uganda, 2008
Research Interests: Comparative analysis of the intersection of literature and medicine; Representations of disease and health in contemporary African literature and Global Black Literatures, Medical Humanities, Disability studies, Postcolonial studies, Creative Writing

Caroline Oliver

Degrees: B.A. Comparative Literature & Psychology, Barnard College, 2020

danely ramos segoviano
Danely Ramos Segoviano

Degrees: M.A. English - Literature option, CSU Dominguez Hills, 2018; B.A. English, UCSB, 2012
Research Interests: Feminism, Film & Media Studies

 

Reimber
Jacob Reimer

Degrees: M.A. Cultural Theory & History (Kulturwissenschaft); Humboldt Universität zu Berlin; B.A. Comparative Literature, Minor in European Studies, NYU
Research Interests: Psychoanalysis, Transatlantic Modernism, Jewish Studies, Black Studies, Frankfurt School & French Critical theory (Structuralism, Poststructuralism), German Idealism, Marxism(s), Aesthetic Philosophy

Maryam Salehi

Degrees: M.A. Sociology and Anthropology, CEU, 2022
Research Interests: Thinking with seda and margins inspired by psychoanalysis, Persian Literature, and Women’s Writing to reflect on language, power, political imagination, and social formation

Stephanie Shu
Stephanie Shu

Degrees: B.A. Chinese, Reed College, 2023
Research Interests: early 20th century Chinese fiction; short stories; queer theory; gender & sexuality studies; critical translation theory; decolonizing the archive; digital humanities, especially bridging close reading and computational literary analysis

egor-sofronov
Egor Sofronov

Degrees: M.F.A. Art Criticism and Writing, School of Visual Arts, NY, 2014; B.A. Area Studies, USA and Canada, State University for the Humanities, 2011
Research Interests: My study interest nests primarily in deconstruction and aesthetics, and in the work of Jacques Derrida, in his disquieting inheritance of the tradition of metaphysics, as the latter is marked by events, trips, inscriptions in and from the history of meaning, to which it remains in addiction or withdrawal. With a background in contemporary art, wherefrom I am quitting or in exile for a reading broader and better founded in languages, such as French, Ancient Greek, besides my Russian, I aspire to understand and transmit deconstruction with its roots in phenomenology, absolute idealism, psychoanalysis, religion, political economy, translation, and literary theory...

Dylan Taylor updated 2024
Dylan Taylor

Degrees: B.A. Sociology & Comparative Literature, Indiana University, 2018
Research Interests: environmental history; critical geography; early, avant-garde and vernacular cinemas; Black studies; critical philosophy of race; concepts of nature; cartography, chorography, and survey; extension; epistemicide; deconstruction; political theology; decreation

Jul Tran

Degrees: B.S. Global Public Health & Chemistry, NYU, 2024

Martín Vela-Sánchez
Martín Vela-Sánchez

Degrees: B.A. Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley, 2016
Research Interests: Afro-Cuban Percussion, African Metaphysics, Beats, Brazilian Drumming,  Bembé,  Bomba  y Plena, Drummologie,  Drum Language,  Embodied practice, Guaguancó, Rhythmanalysis, Soundscape Theory, Samba, Makuta, Palo, Yuka

tianmo-w
Tianmo Wang

Degrees: M.A. Literary & Cultural Studies, University of Hong Kong, 2021; B.A. Gallatin Individualized Major, NYU, 2020

Alex Yan
Alexandra Yan

Degrees: M.A. Comparative Literature, University of California, Riverside, 2016; B.A. Comparative Literature, German, & Japanese, Boston University, 2012
Research Interests: My research investigates Japanophone literature written by colonized Koreans and Taiwanese authors between 1850 and 1945 under the Japanese empire. I concentrate on subjects such as: multi-ethnic empire, colonial imaginaries and world-building, modernism, social realism, naturalism, literary satire, theories of race and empire, colonial modernity and postcolonialism in East Asia, the relationship between empire and nation-state, colonial and imperial Japanese critiques of liberal democratic modernity, and the influence of German and Austrian literary movements in modern Japanese literature