Graduate Students

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Jose Miguel Alvarado

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Wendi Bootes

Academic Area: modernism, the novel, colonial/postcolonial studies, critical theory, literature and philosophy
Languages: English, Russian, German
Periods: 19th and 20th centuries

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Frank Cahill

Languages: English, Japanese, German, Ancient Greek, Latin

Cole Carvour

Academic Area: Feminism, Affect, Postcolonial Theory
Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese
Periods: 20th and 21st Century francophone African and Central American literatures

Albert Castro

Languages: French, Spanish, Ancient Greek, English

Matteo Cavelier Riccardi

PhD Candidate
Academic Area: Psychoanalysis, Film and Media (DE), Socialist China, Postwar Italy
Languages: Chinese, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese
Periods: 20th Century

Carli Cutchin

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Anna Dini

PhD Candidate
Languages: Italian, English, Arabic (Modern Standard Arabic), French

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Hannah Frakes

Languages: English, German, French, Biblical Greek

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Linda Gao

Marlena Gittleman

Academic Area: Hemispheric American, Latin American, Global South, Feminisms & Queer Theory, Performance Studies, Translation
Languages: Spanish, English, Catalan, Portuguese, French
Periods: Late-19th Century, 20th Century, 21st Century

Ron Godoy

Academic Area: Novel theory, Latin American studies, Fascism and totalitarianism, Self-help and literature, Masculinity studies, Postcolonialism
Languages: English, Spanish, French
Periods: 19th and 20th centuries

Christián González Reyes

Academic Area: Marxism-Leninism, Indigenous Cosmolectics, Central American Studies, Latinx/Chicanx Studies
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Spanglish, & English
Periods: 20th & 21st Centuries

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Layla Hazemi

Academic Area: Performance Studies; Queer Theory; Cultural and Postcolonial Studies; Race and Performance; the musical
Languages: English, Japanese, Persian (Farsi)
Periods: 20th Century

Pedro Hurtado Ortiz

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Sam Jackson

Lianbi Ji

Academic Area: Literary Translation, Multilingualism, Migration, Asian American Literature, "Chinese" & Southeast Asia
Languages: English, Mandarin Chinese, Wu Chinese, classical Chinese, Spanish (Latin America), Hindi

Mufei Jiang

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Max Kaisler

Languages: English, German, Latin, Ancient Greek, Polish, Old & Middle English

Hannah Katznelson

Landon Kramer

Academic Area: Symbolism, decadence, aestheticism, modernism
Languages: English, French, Russian, Spanish, Italian, Latin, Ancient Greek

Madeleine Kresin

Languages: Russian, English, Norwegian

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Steffi Lang

Dinah Lensing-Sharp

Graduate Student Instructor
Academic Area: German Literature, French Literature, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Translation
Languages: German, French, Spanish
Periods: 19th and 20th centuries

Alexander Lin

Academic Area: Romantic/Post-Romantic literatures; poetics; Marxist theory; negative theology; psychoanalysis
Languages: German, Japanese, English, Chinese, French, Latin
Periods: 18-20th century

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Jacob Malone

Thomas Maude-Griffin

Harry Mizumoto

Languages: Japanese, German, English, Russian
Periods: Post-WWII, modernism

Mary Mussman

Academic Area: Victorian and Modernist literatures; sexuality and transgender studies; Classical reception
Languages: English, French, Ancient Greek, Latin
Periods: 19th–20th century British and French; archaic and classical Greek

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Rachel Min Park

Academic Area: critical disability studies, gender & sexuality, feminist science & technology studies
Languages: Korean, French, Vietnamese
Periods: 20th and 21st Century

Tara Phillips

PhD Candidate
Academic Area: Food studies, U.S., Latin American literatures
Languages: Spanish, with reading ability in Portuguese and French
Periods: Late nineteenth and early twentieth century

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Joseph Rager

Kyle Ralston

Academic Area: History of historiography, critical theory, intellectual history, philosophy of history, Roman history, classical reception, history & literature
Languages: Latin, Ancient Greek, German
Periods: Greek & Roman Antiquity, 19th Century Germany

Laila Riazi

Academic Area: Critical Theory; Translation; Visual Studies; Poetics; Psychoanalysis
Languages: English, French, Arabic, Persian
Periods: 20th & 21st centuries

Gladys Rivas

Languages: Spanish, Russian, French (reading knowledge)
Periods: 20th/21st Century

Pedro Rolon

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Caitlin Scholl

Danielle Stephenson

Academic Area: Black Diaspora Studies
Languages: English, Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese
Periods: 20th and 21st centuries

Haley Stewart

Academic Area: Latin American literatures, Latin American art, environmental art and literature
Languages: Spanish, French, English, German, Luxembourgish
Periods: 19th, 20th & 21st centuries

Kevin Stone

Candidate
Academic Area: Aesthetics, Critical Theory, Queer Theory
Languages: Major: English, German; Minor: French, Yiddish, Russian
Periods: 20th century

Evan Strouss

PhD Candidate
Academic Area: Renaissance & Early Modern Studies; Sound Studies; 18th Century Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies
Languages: German, Italian, French, Latin

Ata Sunucu

Academic Area: Poetry, rhythm & meter, diurnal/seasonal periodicity, sensory experience, visual arts, translation
Languages: Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, English, German, French

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Saniya Taher

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Mary Vitali

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Gianna Ward-Vetrano

Languages: Italian, French

Tessa Wood

Academic Area: Spanish American and Brazilian literatures; hemispheric American studies; educational theory in Latin America; the novel; critical race and gender studies
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, English, Catalan
Periods: 19th-21st centuries

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Madeline Zimring

Languages: French, German, Norwegian, Italian

Yana Zlochistaya

Academic Area: Translation theory and practice, narrative theory, children's literature, urban humanities
Languages: Russian, English, French, currently learning Spanish