First Year
Sookyung "Vero" Chai (B.F.A. Studio Art, NYU; M.A. Arts Administration, Teachers College; M.A. Interdisciplinary Studies, NYU)
Research Interests: Contemporary art, history and theory of photography, archival theory, counter-archives, image culture, film, decolonial thought
Alan Fabio Palacios (B.A. English, National University of Tucumán [Argentina]; M.A. Comparative Literature, Binghamton University)
Research Interests: Postcolonial literatures in English, Spanish, and Portuguese; epistemologies of the South; oralitura; South-South dialogue; decolonial thought
Second Year
Third Year
Sneha Khaund (B.A. [Honours] English, St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi; M.A. Comparative Literature, SOAS, University of London)
Research Interests: Twentieth-century South Asian literature, linguistic nationalism, print culture, multilingualism, minority literatures, world literature, cultural studies, and postcolonial theory.
Xingming Wang (B.A. English, Soochow University; M.A. English, Nanjing University)
Research Interests: Modern and contemporary Chinese literature, nineteenth-century British and American literature, critical animal studies, posthumanism, cultural studies, trauma and memory studies.
Fourth Year
Amanda González Izquierdo (B.A. English, Florida International University)
Research Interests: 20th- and 21st-century Caribbean theories and literatures; postcolonial identity formation; deconstructive ethics; languages of frustration; bearing witness.
Milan Reynolds (B.A. Individualized Study [Colloquium Topic: Memory], New York University)
Research interests: Italian literature, borders and migration, transnational literature of the Mediterranean, postcolonial theory, historical narrations, language and identity, translation.
Yingnan Shang (B.A. English Literature, Peking University; M.A. English Literature, King’s College London; M.A. Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College)
Research Interests: English and American literature, critical and literary theory, ethics in literature, philosophy, modern political discourse, modernity and the city, visual culture.
Phil Yakushev (B.A. Comparative Literature, Politics, Philosophy, New York University; M.F.A. Creative Writing - Fiction, The New School)
Research Interests: Late 20th- and early 21st-century Russian, American, and German literatures; madness, collective trauma, (post-)memory, late capitalism and narrative.
Fifth Year
Paulina Barrios (B.A. Comparative Literature, Colorado College and M.A. African Studies, Colegio de Mexico)
Research Interests: Comparative Latin American and West African studies; literature and social movements; African feminisms; political theater, graphic novels, self narratives, children's literature.
Yuanqiu Jiang (B.S. Geography, Nanjing University)
Research Interests: postwar French theory and classical Chinese writing; philosophy, religion, linguistics.
Thato Magano (B.A. Communication, University of Pretoria and M.A. African Literature, University of Witwaterstrand)
Research interests: African political thought, Black radicalism, decolonial thought, queer theory.
Mònica Tomàs White (B.A. Comparative Literature and French, UC-Berkeley and M.A. Gender Studies, University of Barcelona)
Research interests: environmental humanities and ecocriticism; post-human and animal studies; science fiction and feminism.
Penny Pui Chee Yeung (B.A. English, Northwestern University and M.A. Comparative Literature, Kings College London)
Research Interests: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction in English and French, Sino-French literary relations, the politics of nature writing, nationalism and sexuality, the postlingual (on leave in Japan 2019-2020).
Sixth Year
Rudrani Gangopadhyay (B.A., M.A., M.Phil. English Literature, Jadavpur University)
Research Interests: migration and diaspora studies, the literature of the Partition, literature in English, theories of gender and sexuality, media studies, digital humanities.
Fremio Sepulveda Ortiz (B.A. English, Rutgers University-Newark and M.A. English, SUNY-Buffalo)
Research Interests: Caribbean, diaspora, and transnational American studies, postcolonial theory, and gender/sexuality studies.
Advanced
Gabriel Bámgbóṣé (B.A. [Ed.] English, Tai Solarin University of Education and M.A. in English [Literature], University of Ibadan)
Research Interests: Poetry and poetics; Négritude and the African imagination; African women's poetry in Yorùbá, French, Portuguese, English, and Pidgin; feminist, postcolonial, and decolonial thoughts; translation and critical literacy studies.
Ke "Coco" Xu (B.A. English Language and Literature, Sun Yat-Sen University)
Research Interests: Translation theory and practice, ambiguity and its limits, modernism, theories of identity, Chinese literature and philosophy/religion, literary theory, the visual arts and film.
Maria Elizabeth Rodriguez (B.A. Classical Studies/English Literature, CUNY Hunter College)
Research Interests: Race theory, literary theory, slave narratives, colonialism, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century American literature and history, visual culture, theories of oppression, Caribbean literature.
