Graduate Students
Gregory Baker Brian Ballentine Brian works mostly on early modern British and French literature. He earned his bachelor's degree in philosophy and mathematics at St. John's College, in Santa Fe, NM. Signe Christensen Lillian Darwin Lopez Lillian received her M.A. in Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon in 2007. Her research focuses on contemporary women’s writing and music in English, Portuguese and Spanish. At the heart of her research is her commitment to assisting to uncover genealogies of resistance. Currently, she is working on hip hop and mythohistorical poetry in Brazil, Cuba, and the U.S. Grounding her readings in critical race, postcolonial and feminist theories as well as historiography and cultural studies, her work strives to be historically specific at the same time that it reveals diasporic, transnational networks in struggles for liberation and social justice. Lillian_Darwin_Lopez@brown.edu Moustapha Diop - B.A in Germanic Studies, graduated summa cum laude from the University of Liege (Belgium) in 2004 Kristi Eastin Yuriko Furuhata Ghenwa Hayek Ghenwa received her BA in English Literature from the American University of Beirut, and her MA in Twentieth-Century Literature from the University of Leeds. She is interested in Anglophone and Francophone literatures from the Arab world. Robert Hilliker Mariah Isely
Hilary Kaplan
Kelley Kreitz Kelley focuses on Latin American, American, and French literature of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Her research interests include Latin American literatures of modernity; nineteenth-century French print culture; American realism; and media theory. Her dissertation, The Foreign Correspondent in the Modern Imagination, takes up late-nineteenth century writing by foreign correspondents for newspapers in the United States and Latin America. Kelley graduated cum laude from Columbia University with a B.A. in Comparative Literature.
Chana Morgenstern Catalina Ocampo
Nora Peterson Nora Martin Peterson graduated magna cum laude from Carleton College in Northfield, MN and is most interested in medieval/early modern French and English literature. Fluent in German, reading knowledge of Latin. Cristina Serverius Cristina graduated cum laude with a BA in Translation Studies and a Master in International Business, and magna cum laude with an MA in American Studies at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. Her research interests are psychoanalysis, trauma, film, and women's studies, mainly in twentieth century works. Languages: native speaker of Dutch; fluent in Italian, English, and French; reading knowledge of Spanish and German; basics of Modern Greek.
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Geoffrey Shullenberger B.A., Sarah Lawrence College; M.St., European Literature, University of Oxford. Prior to coming to Brown, he lived in Peru, Chile, and the U.K, where he wrote a dissertation on novelistic representations of the avant-garde artist in Mann, Joyce, and Carpentier. He is interested in circum-Atlantic networks of cultural and intellectual exchange, resonances between colonial and contemporary cultural systems, and the literature of the Andean countries. Geoffrey_Shullenberger@brown.edu Susan Solomon Yumi Tanaka Amy Vegari Amy graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard University's Literature Concentration in 2002. At Brown, she studies a range of topics in modern critical theory, particularly film theory, aesthetics, the city, and psychoanalysis. Her dissertation plans involve an evaluation of the traditional opposition between aesthetics and politics, likely in contemporary film. Languages: English, French, and German. Reading knowledge of Latin, spoken knowledge of Farsi. Teresa Villa-Ignacio Teresa received a BA in English and French from DePaul University in Chicago, and an MA in French Cultural Studies from Columbia University's Programs in Paris. Focusing on contemporary poetry in French and English, her dissertation will inquire into the transformations of the category of the poetic in the writing of poetry, literary theory, and philosophy since World War II. She is also interested in issues of embodiment, especially in the comparative contexts of literature and dance, and literature, health, and illness. Teresa has been the producer of a radio program aired on Brown Student Radio, "Poetry Like Bread," which features political poetry. Tiffany_Villa-Ignacio@brown.edu Philip Walsh Phil graduated summa cum laude from the College of William and Mary in May 1999 with a BA in Classical Studies. His research interests include Greek and Roman comedy, translation studies, ancient literary criticism, the genre of the dialogue, and the classical tradition. He hopes to write his comparative project and dissertation on English translations of Aristophanes in the 19th century. Languages: proficiency in ancient Greek, Latin, and English; reading knowledge of German; introductory knowledge of Italian. Derek Wong |