Comparative Literature
Current Students
Current Students
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Ahmad Abu Ahmad
Research Interests: 20th and 21st century minority literature (with an emphasis on Palestinian literature), state-sponsored violence, silence, loss, (inherited/transgenerational) trauma, memory, and identity -
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 -
Elsa Charlety
Research Interests: Representation of bodies and voices in 19th and 20th century literature from the American South and the Caribbean, the literary history of gothic and horror narratives, collective trauma, memory, and loss -
Sneha Chowdhury
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
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 -
Dennis Hogan
Research Interests: Decadence and Aestheticism -
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 -
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 -
Connie McNair
Research Interests: Twentieth-century texts (including literature and film) of resistance and refusal, particularly Afro-diasporic literature and black radical theory -
Alessandro Moghrabi
Research Interests: Irony, late medieval and 20th century Italian narrative and theater, renaissance French theater, 20th century French theory, Shakespearian comedy, poetics -
Deema Nasser
Research Interests: Modern and contemporary Arabic literature, comparative translation studies, postcolonial studies, visual culture studies, world literature -
Mariajose Rodriguez-Pliego
Research Interests: critical Latinx Indigeneities, transnational Indigenous studies, Latinx literary and cultural studies, 20th and 21st-century Latin American literature, critical race and ethnic studies, ecocriticism -
Chenyu Tu
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 -
Baoli Yang
Research Interests: Tang imperialism and its modern repercussions; digital humanities
