B.A. in Foreign Languages, Universidad de Puerto Rico-Río Piedras, 2008 M.S. in International Relations, Università di Bologna, 2014 M.A. in Hispanic Literatures and Cultures, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 2017
Research interests: 20th/21st-century Caribbean literature and Latinx/Afro-diasporic narratives; neocolonialism; affect; aesthetics; visual culture; critical theory; gender and ethnicity; Western imperialism; debt and democracy; trauma
Research Interests: Representation of bodies and voices in 19th and 20th century literature from the American South and the Caribbean, the literary history of gothic and horror narratives, collective trauma, memory, and loss.
Licence de LLCE Anglais, Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), 2011 Licence de Lettres Modernes, Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), 2011 Master de Littérature Française et Comparée, Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), 2013
Research interests: 19th/20th/21st century French and francophone literature; Maghrebi literature and colonial history; postcolonial theory; feminism and gender studies; transnational literature, identity, bilingualism, modes of translation; food studies.
Dissertation in progress: Disorienting Women: transcultural encounters in women's writings in the Maghreb
Languages: French, English, Spanish, Arabic, German
B.A. in English Literature and French Literature, Haverford College, 2014
Research interests: Colonial and nineteenth-century American literature, nineteenth- and twentieth-century French and Italian literature; first contact; race; monsters; intellectual history.
Dissertation in progress: The figure of the monster in written records and imagined rehearsals of contact between Anglo-American culture and other cultures (Eastern Algonquian, African, South Pacific, Creole, Japanese).
Languages: English (native), French (near-native), Italian (near-native), Japanese (advanced)
Research interests: Twentieth-century texts (including literature and film) of resistance and refusal, particularly Afro-diasporic literature and black radical theory.
B.A. in Comparative Literature, New York University, 2017 M.S. in Economics, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, 2018
Research interests: irony, late medieval and 20th century Italian narrative and theater, renaissance French theater, 20th century French theory, Shakespearian comedy, poetics.
Languages: Italian, French, English, Spanish, German (beginning)
B.A. in Comparative Literature, Emory University, 2014
Research interests: Animal Studies, German Idealism, Post-structuralism, English, French and German literature.
Dissertation in progress: the concept of doxa in the work of Gilles Deleuze. This dissertation holds that doxa, or opinion, is the key concept in the Deleuzian corpus from beginning to end. It explores the aristocratic bent of an anti-doxa stance in relation to the democracy-to-come of deconstruction, asking after the political future of post-structuralism in this argumentative context, supplemented with readings from American 20th-Century Literature.
B.A. in English (with minor in creative writing and diploma in media studies), American University of Beirut, 2013 M.A. in English, American University of Beirut, 2016
Research interests: Modern and contemporary Arabic literature, comparative translation studies, postcolonial studies, visual culture studies, world literature.
B.A. in English, Shanghi International Studies University, 2016 M.A. in English Literature, Peking University, 2019
Languages: Chinese, English, French; German, Classical Greek, Old Occitan (Provençal), Old English (intermediate); Classical Chinese, Latin, Old French (reading)
A.B. in Comparative Literature, University of California, Davis, 2010 M.A. in Art History, University of California, Davis, 2012 Whitney Independent Study Program, 2012-2013
Research Interests: Poetry in English, French, German, and, increasingly, Spanish; Postcolonial Studies; Minority Literature; Critical Theory; Political Theory; Philosophical Aesthetics; Performance and Installation Art
Dissertation in progress: Germanophone literature, particularly from eastern Europe, and Francophone literature, primarily from Africa and the Caribbean
Languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Classical Greek, Latin
B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature, Beijing Normal University, 2007 M.A. in Chinese Language and Literature, Beijing Normal University, 2011 A.M. in Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College, 2013
Research Interests: How literary texts perceive and portray borders, frontiers, and migration routes in medieval Eurasia, especially in Tang era China and its neighboring states; the repercussions of the medieval consciousness of sovereignty and territory in modern times; and incorporating state-of-art developments in digital humanities, hoping to illuminate the effects of distant reading and discover larger patterns of medieval literary phenomena.
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