Graduate Students

Natalie Adler 

Natalie_Adler@brown.edu
Natalie received her B.A. from the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at NYU. Before coming to Brown, she was an English teacher at a primary school in Besançon, France. She studies modernism and psychoanalysis.

Qussay Al-Attabi

Qussay_Al-Attabi@brown.edu

Filip Ani

Filip_Ani@brown.edu
BA in History and Spanish Language and Literature; MA in History (U. Alberta).  Filip works on a diverse range of topics ranging from W. Benjamin's aesthetics of history to W. Shakespeare’s relationship to philosophy.  He also has particular interests in P. Celan, P.B. Shelly, H. Heine. H. von Kleist, H. Melville, Aeschylus, Aristophanes and Horace.  In addition, Filip has worked on the Brown University Petra Archeological Project (BUPAP) in Jordan.

Gregory Baker

Gregory_Baker@brown.edu

Charlotte Buecheler

Charlotte_Buecheler@brown.edu

Silvia Cernea Clark

Silvia_Cernea_Clark@brown.edu
B.A. magna cum laude, Kenyon College. Silvia is interested in 20th and 21st century literature and theory, phenomenology, semiotics, and the relationship between literature, visual arts, and new media. Languages: native speaker of Romanian; fluent in English and French; reading knowledge of German, Italian, and Spanish; basics of Latin.

Signe Christensen

Signe_L_Christensen@brown.edu

Elizabeth Gray

Elizabeth_Gray@brown.edu

Felix Green

Felix_Green@brown.edu
Felix received his B.A. from the University of Adelaide and his B.A. (Honours) from the University of Melbourne and has spent time studying in both Spain and Italy. He is interested in an array of European literatures, with a particular focus on the Romantic and Modernist movements of England, Germany and France. Special interests in these areas include the role of the artist; the aesthetics of poetry; intertextuality and influence; the construction of the self; and irrationality in the creative imagination. Languages: native speaker of German and English, fluent in Italian and Spanish and a reading knowledge of French and Latin.

Anja Jovic

Anja_Jovic@brown.edu

Hilary Kaplan

Hilary_Kaplan@brown.edu

Marcelo Lotufo 

Marcelo_Lotufo@brown.edu
Marcelo received his B.A. from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. Broadly, his main interests are Postcolonial studies, power relations between North and South or center and periphery, Brazilian literature and literary criticism and Marxist cultural theories.

Natalie Lozinski-Veach

Natalie_Lozinski-Veach@brown.edu





Chana Morgenstern

Chana_Morgenstern@brown.edu

Catalina Ocampo

Catalina_Ocampo@brown.edu

Bruno Penteado

Bruno_Penteado@brown.edu
Bruno's research touches upon questions of epistemology and ideology in 19th-century Europe and America. He is also interested in the current status of theory and the representation of violence in contemporary European cinema. He is fluent in Portuguese, English, French, and Spanish, and has reading knowledge of Italian.

Katerina Seligmann 

Katerina_Seligmann@brown.edu
BA in Comparative Literature and Society (Columbia University, 2005); MA in Comparative Literature (Brown University, 2012).
Research interests: Caribbean literary and intellectual history; literary decolonization, especially in Latin America and the Caribbean; theories of textual, intellectual and aesthetic exchange; literary magazines; genre; translation; modernist and anti-racist poetics, rhetoric and narrative. Languages: native Spanish and English; fluent French and Portuguese; basic Haitian Creole.

Cristina Serverius

 Cristina_Serverius@brown.edu
BA in Translation Studies; Master in International Business; MA in American Studies from the University of Antwerp, Belgium. She focuses on early modern English, Italian, and French literature. In her dissertation, she uses early Protestant treatises on conscience and Giordano Bruno’s Italian dialogues to reexamine Shakespeare’s use of conscience/consciousness in Richard III, Henry VIII, and Hamlet. Cristina is also interested in early modern comedy, and in the influence of the Italian sonnet tradition on English poets. Languages: native speaker of Dutch; fluent in English, Italian, and French; reading knowledge of Spanish, German, and Latin; basics of Modern Greek.

Stefanie Sevcik

Stefanie_Sevcik@Brown.EDU

Susan Solomon

Susan_Solomon@Brown.EDU
Susan earned her M.A. and B.A. from the University of Connecticut, Storrs, has participated in exchanges with Eberhard Karls Universität in Tübingen and Saint Petersburg State University, and with the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin as a Fulbright Student. Her dissertation concerns avant-garde experiments in language and the arts in transatlantic modernism. Some of her interests include Theodor W. Adorno, formalism, punctuation marks, World War I, Russian Futurism and Symbolism, German Expressionism, and modernist magazines.

Antoine Traisnel

Antoine_Traisnel@brown.edu

Yizhi Xiao

Yizhi_Xiao@brown.edu
BA in English from Beijing Language and Culture University, MA from Peking University. Xiao's interest is in the acceptance and dissemination of Western literature in China, especially realist fiction and its role in shaping modernist Chinese literature. He is also interested in theorizing space, in particular, the representation of urban space in literary works.