Graduate Students

Abigail Drach (B.A. Joint Honors in Theater and Gender Studies, McGill University; M.A. English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University)

Translation studies, intellectual history, critical race studies, the Black Atlantic, Black radicalism, post-1945 social movements, and psychoanalytic theory

Sophie Hirtle (B.A. Comparative Literature and French Studies, Brigham Young University)

Francophone and Lusophone literature and culture, with an emphasis on gender and sexuality, the representation of the female body, and transnational cultural interactions

Roni Lakin (B.A. English and Spanish, Boston University; M.A. English, Boston University)

Postwar speculative fiction with a focus on questions of nationhood, citizenship, and borders, as well as U.S.–Latin American relations

Emily Martin (B.A. English, Hunter College; M.A. Media Studies, The New School)

Research interests: Affect theory, human, nonhuman and machine relations; speculative posthumanism; gothic imagination; fin de siècle literature and poetry; Japanese aesthetics; the Kyoto School; Christian and Eastern mysticism and religion; climate fiction and apocalyptic literature; media theory; impersonal theories of desire and eroticism

Inês Monteiro (B.A. History, University of Porto, Portugal; M.A. Modern Culture, Literature, and Languages, University of Coimbra, Portugal)

Research interests: Women writers and exile, Russian and Eastern European émigré literature, self-writing, history and memory, gender and sexuality, 19th- and 20th-century Francophone and Lusophone literatures

Ziyin Qian (B.A. Comparative Literature, Hampshire college; M.A. Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College)

Research interests: Biopolitics, critical theory, language philosophy, philosophy of literature, comparative modernism, bureaucracy studies, everydayness, political domination in global contexts

Chen Xing (B.A. English, Sun Yat-sen University; M.A. Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Hong Kong)

Research interests: Women’s writings, memory and trauma studies, modern and contemporary Sinophone literature, affect theory, non-human studies, environmental humanities

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: Gendered space, South Asia, archives and archival theory, translation, decoloniality, orality and the visual.

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.

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

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