Vaughn Anderson (B.A. from Vassar College '07)Research Interests: 20th-Century Andean fiction, science fiction,literary urbanism
Lauren Fanelli (B.A. from Cornell University and an M.F.A. in poetry from American University) Research Interests: 20th-Century global poetry, modern women's fiction, Italian literature, and feminist theory
Mavis Tseng (M.A. in Foreign Literatures from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)Research Interests: Urban literature, gender studies, psychoanalysis and critical theory |
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Caroline Godart (B.A. from Université Libre de Bruxelles and an M.A. in English and Women's Studies from Brandeis University)Research Interests: Contemporary women's cinema and literature, feminist theory
Anna Maria Kager (Doctoral (equivalent of BA and MA combined) in Comparative Literature, August 2005, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)Research Interests: Language and national identity; the 20th century novel; modernist fiction; dialect writing; Irish literature
Alessio Lerro (B.A./M.A.: Laurea in Lettere Moderne, University of Bologna, Italy 2005)Research Interests: Giambattista Vico, Baroque Art and Literature. Aesthetics and Rhetoric Philosophy and Literature. Italian Modernism and F. T. Marinetti. German Romanticism, Theory of tropes |
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Steven Gonzagowski (M.A. Dartmouth College, 2005)Research Interests: Lusophone and Hispanic literature, Psychoanalytical Approaches to Literature, Masculinity and Gender Studies, Travel Narratives
Neil Pischner (B.A. Boston University, 1996; MA SUNY Center Albany, 2006)Research Interests: Peru, performance studies, ecocriticism
Jennifer Raterman (Undergraduate Degree: B.A. from Kenyon College, 2005)Research Interests: British and French literature, 19th-century novels, women's writing, translation, narrative
Hugo Rios (Comparative cinema)Research Interests include film and literature, contemporary world cinema, early cinema, European silent film |
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Monica Filimon (B.A. in English and Romanian, University of Craiova, Romania, 1999; M.A. in American Studies, University of Bucharest, Romania 2002; M.A. in Liberal Studies, CUNY--The Graduate Center, 2005)Research Interests: Melodrama theory, post-1945 European film, and public sphere theory
Katrine LvovskayaSalvatore Pappalardo - B.A. (Italian laurea) from the Scuola Superiore di Lingue Moderne per Interpreti e Traduttori at the University of Trieste, Italy, 2003Research Interests: Modernism, the idea of Europe, Austrian, Italian and Irish literature, and postcolonial theory |
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Mahriana Rofheart (B.A. Columbia University 2004; M.A. Rutgers 2008)Research Interests: Contemporary West African literature in French; Wolof language literature; oral poetry, performance, and song; urban African culture; diaspora studies; media studies
Sandra Sokowski (B.A. Rutgers University in French and Comparative Literature, 2000; M.A. Rutgers University in English, 2004) Research Interests: Literatures in English and French, 19th century cultural studies, the novel, post-structuralist and feminist theory
Jennifer McBryan (B.A., Comparative Literature and History of Art, Bryn Mawr College, 2001)Research Interests: Primitivism in Modernist Art and Literature; Archaeology and
Reception Theory; Theories of Aesthetics and Space/Time Relations
Sergey Toymentsev (M.A. Kazan State University, 2000 & European Humanities University, 2002)Research Interests: French Theory (Blanchot, Foucault, Deleuze, Barthes)
Ping Zhu (B.A. Soochow University, 2000; M.A. East China Normal University, 2003)Research Interests: Modern Chinese literature, Chinese films, and literary theory. My dissertation explores the unconscious roots of the “subject” in Chinese literary modernity from 1919 to 1937.
Melanie HolmShirli Sera-Levavi (B.A. from Tel-Aviv University 1988-1992; MA from Tele-Aviv University, 1993-2001)Research Interests: Jewish literature, more specifically, Jewish-American and Hebrew immigrant and travel literature and the interface between Hebrew and Yiddish literature in the beginning of the 20th century
Kathleen Sclafani (B.A. from Colgate University, 1984)Research Interests: Contemporary German film
Josh Beall (B.A. in Comparative Literature, 1998; M.A. in Comparative Literature, 2004)Research Interests: Central European literature, modernism, the novel,
world literature
Patricia Ferrer-Medina (B.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Puerto Rico)Research Interests: Early modern European narrative, especially that of the Spanish Golden Age AND Colonial Literatures of the Caribbean (in Spanish, English, and French). Literary Theory: Ecological Criticism; Colonial and Postcolonial Theory; Theories of Race, Gender, Subjectivity; Narrative Theory
Kael Ashbaugh (B.A. from Princeton University with a Certificate in Visual Arts (1998))Research Interests: 20th-Century Latin-American fiction, literary theory,
frivolity and aesthetics. Playfulness in 20th Century Latin American narrative, with a focus on Jorge Luis Borges Guillermo Cabrera Infante. Recent research includes papers given on the topic of laughter in Tres tristes tigres (2009), philosophy and folly (2007), and a chapter on Nietzsche’s aestheticism in Art and Life in Aestheticism (2008)
Yvette HsiehJacqueline Loeb - B.A. in English and Spanish from Binghamton, The State University of New York and M.A. in comparative literature from Rutgers University
Research Interests: Psychoanalysis, Jewish mystical writing, postmodern literature
Yingjiu Lu (B.A. Beijing University, 1991)Research Interests: Urban literature and culture, modern intellectual history (China and West), history and theory of the novel (Chinese and English)
Silvia Navarre (B.A. from Stellenbosch University, South Africa and an M.A. from The University of the Western Cape, South Africa)Research Interests: Aesthetics (the sublime), nineteenth-century women poets (Emily Dickinson and Annette von Droste-Hülshoff), romanticism, and feminist theory
Liesl Owens (B.S. Biology Juniata College, PA.; M.A. Spanish Temple University, PA.)Research Interests: Contemporary Caribbean Literature, Historical Fiction, Post-Colonialism, Globalization, Early Modern Dictionaries
Kalliope ValadakisKrisztina DomjanTolanda Tolbert (B.A. University of Colorado, Boulder 1991M.A. in Comparative literature with Certificate in Women's Studies--Rutgers University, New Brunswick 2001)Research Interests: 20th Century Literatures of the Americas by Women of Color
Lisette MoralesTamas DemenyMary Jo Watts (B.A. from The University of Tulsa in French, 1992; M.A. from Rutgers in Comparative Literature, 1996)Research Interests: New media, Web 2.0, instructional technology, the intellectual history of comparative literature, theories of reading
Kenneth Sammond (B.A. 1992 and M.A. from Rutgers University, 2000 and an M.P.A from Baruch College - CUNY )
Research Interests: The Epic, the Graphic Novel, Mythology, Roman Poetry |
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