Current Students

Ahmad Abu Ahmad

Research Interests: Palestinian literature and film, Classical and Modern Arabic literature, linguistic and (inter)cultural contact zones, translation, settler colonialism and postcolonial studies, language and death

Alexandra Algaze González

alexandra_algaze_gonzalez@brown.edu

Research Interests: Latinx literature and pop culture, 20th/21st-century Caribbean literature and culture, poetics and aesthetics, obscenity and vulgarity, gendered trauma and affect, critical theory, queer studies, reggaetón, pornography, class, gender, and sexuality

Research Interests: Paul Celan, 20th century German poetry, 20th century Anglophone poetry, contemporary Indian poetry in English, lyric theory, phenomenology, philosophy of time, political theology, deconstruction, and the death penalty

Claire Climer

claire_climer@brown.edu

Research Interests: literatures of the Americas, in Spanish, Portuguese, and English, from the nineteenth century onward; Latin American Boom, Cold War cultural diplomacy, and modern versions of the pastoral

Isabel Farías Velasco

isabel_farias_velasco@brown.edu

Research Interests: reception studies, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and (self)translation processes in early modern Mexico

Andrés Emil González

andres_gonzalez@brown.edu

Research Interests: Horror literature and film, narratology, aesthetic representations of class and political economy, genre literature in Latin America and the Caribbean

Caroline Holyoak

caroline_holyoak@brown.edu

Research Interests: metaphysical poetry, early modern studies, Hispanophone literatures, Iberian studies, border studies, queer studies, translation

Lucas Joshi

lucas_joshi@brown.edu

Research Interests: Afro-Asian studies, Indian Ocean worldmaking, Chesapeake Bay cultural theory, Indo-Portuguese literature, oceanic temporalities, mourning and memory

Clare Kearns

clare_kearns@brown.edu

Research Interests: Imperial Greek literature, the ancient novel, Greco-Roman tragedy and its reception, narrative theory, gender and sexuality studies, Classical reception in 20th and 21st century anti-colonial literature

Asher Lober

asher_lober@brown.edu

Research Interests: Histories of science, the development of botany, practices of collection, visual culture, theories of language, Europe and the Americas in the early modern period

Tianren Luo

tianren_luo@brown.edu

Research Interests: Global Speculative Fiction (Sinophone, Japanese, African); Late Capitalism; Economic Criticism; Critical Finance Studies; Critical Infrastructure Studies; Trans-Asian Studies; Vernacular Modernism; New Materialism; Media Theory; 20th French Thought

Steven Manuel

steven_manuel@brown.edu

Research Interests: translation; Modernism; classical reception; meter (especially Greek choral meters and "vers libre"); 20th-century "New American Poetry"; myth; Romantic and neo-Romantic chamber play

Alessandro Moghrabi

alessandro_moghrabi@brown.edu

Research Interests: continental philosophy, critical theory, 20th century italian literature, Leonardo Sciascia, aesthetics, poetics, irony, stupidity, nonsense, conspiracy

Michele Moghrabi

michele_moghrabi@brown.edu

Research Interests: Ancient Greek philosophy, tragedy, and medicine, Medieval Christian and Islamic reception of Greek thought, Galenic medicine, 19th century experimental psychology, Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, phenomenological and Daseinanalytic psychologies

Alejandro Morales

alejandro_morales@brown.edu

Research Interests: Comparative modernisms, crisis theory, capitalocene/plantationocene, utopian studies, 20th-century marxist literary theory

Deema Nasser

deema_nasser@brown.edu

Research Interests: Modern and contemporary Arabic literature, comparative translation studies, postcolonial studies, visual culture studies, world literature

Katerina Ramos-Jordán

katerina_ramos@brown.edu

Research Interests: Caribbean literature and film, Literary and Cultural Theory, aesthetics, Race and Slavery, environmental history, literary tropes in film, 20th century and contemporary experimental cinema, continental philosophy

Armin Schneider

armin_schneider@brown.edu

Chenyu Tu

chenyu_tu@brown.edu

Research Interests: early modern European literature, particularly Renaissance Latin texts, reception of a rhetorical figure in the Later Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Classical Chinese philology, the role Manchu language played in early modern Sino-European interface