Comparative Literature
Current Students
Current Students
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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
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 -
Sneha Chowdhury
Research Interests: Modernist poetry in English, German and Hindi, global modernism, theories of translation, lyric theory and continental philosophy -
Claire Climer
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
Research Interests: reception studies, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and (self)translation processes in early modern Mexico -
Andrés Emil González
Research Interests: Horror literature and film, narratology, aesthetic representations of class and political economy, genre literature in Latin America and the Caribbean -
Caroline Holyoak
Research Interests: metaphysical poetry, early modern studies, Hispanophone literatures, Iberian studies, border studies, queer studies, translation -
Lucas Joshi
Research Interests: indo-portuguese studies, african-american literature, race and the early modern, botany, translation -
Asher Lober
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
Research Interests: Afro-Asia Studies; Racial Capitalism; Financialization; Critical Infrastructure Studies; Extractivism and Extractive Capitalism; Critique of Political Economy; World-System and World-Ecology; Black Theory; Surveillance Studies; Computational Media -
Steven Manuel
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
Research Interests: continental philosophy, critical theory, 20th century italian literature, Leonardo Sciascia, aesthetics, poetics, irony, stupidity, nonsense, conspiracy -
Michele Moghrabi
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
Research Interests: Comparative modernisms, crisis theory, capitalocene/plantationocene, utopian studies, 20th-century marxist literary theory -
Deema Nasser
Research Interests: Modern and contemporary Arabic literature, comparative translation studies, postcolonial studies, visual culture studies, world literature -
Katerina Ramos-Jordán
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
Research Interests: Classical German (Hegel), ancient Greek, early modern, 20th cent., contemporary continental philosophy; set theory, logic; psychoanalysis; critique of political economy; aesthetics; cultural/media studies; hist. of science & technics; hist. of metaphysics -
Baoli Yang
Research Interests: Tang imperialism and its modern repercussions, digital humanities
