Graduate Students

José Alvarez Posada (B.P.S. Fashion Merchandising and Marketing, LIM College [New York]; M.A. Experimental Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies, New York University)

Research interests: Translation theory, performance studies, radical (re)interpretations, queer legacies, visual culture, new media, trauma and shock value, queer linguistics and translations, 19th-century romanticism

Aditi Saraswat (B.A. History [Honours], Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi; M.A. Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences [Mumbai])

Research interests: Women's writing and readership, South Asian literatures, Gender and print culture, film and cultural studies, post-structuralism, language and difference

Sadaf Hakimian (B.F.A. Studio Arts, Concordia University; M.A. Performance Studies, New York University)

Research interests: Autobiographical fiction, mythologies of the self, turn-of-the-century French literature, the writings of women Surrealist artists, deconstruction, post-structuralist feminist theory, Persian diaspora, cinema and sound studies

Suddhadeep Mukherjee (B.A. [Honours], M.A. Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University [Kolkata])

Research interests: Gender studies, South Asian women's writings, Dalit literatures, indigeneity, oral narratives, translation studies, literary theory

Sookyung "Vero" Chai (B.F.A. Studio Art, New York University; M.A. Arts Administration, Teachers College [New York]; M.A. Interdisciplinary Studies, New York University)

Research interests: Contemporary art, history and theory of photography, archival theory, counter-archives, image culture, film, decolonial thought

Pandemic year -- no new students.

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

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

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

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

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: Seventeenth-century Dutch culture and history, African political thought, Black radicalism, decolonial thought, queer theory

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

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: Narratology and translation studies, nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction in English and French, Sino-French literary relations, the politics of nature writing, nationalism and sexuality