Graduate Students

Jose Miguel Alvarado

Frank Cahill

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

Cole Carvour

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

Albert Castro

Languages: French, Spanish, Ancient Greek, English

Carli Cutchin

I am a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature, where my research focuses on Anglophone and German literature and film of the long twentieth century, trauma and memory, gender and sexuality, and affect theory. My dissertation, Allusive Remembering: Violence, Loss, and the Poetics of Allusion, explores the relationship between the textual dynamics of allusion and the problem of trauma in Anglophone and German literature of the long 20th century.

My project seeks both to historicize trauma and to uncover its emergence as an aesthetic problem from modernism forwards. Through...

Anna Dini

Languages: Italian, English, Arabic (Modern Standard Arabic), French Book Review
Lives of the Great Languages: Arabic and Latin in the Medieval Mediterranean (Karla Mallette), Interdisciplinary Studies on the Mediterranean, Vol. 2 (2023): 131-133.

Hannah Frakes

Languages: English, German, French, Biblical Greek Academic Area: religious mysticism, theology, feminisms, visual art, continental philosophy, psychoanalysis

Linda Gao

Ron Godoy

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

Layla Hazemi

Office Hours: Mondays 3-5pm, Dwinelle 4414 Languages: English, Japanese, Persian (Farsi) Periods: 20th Century Academic Area: Performance Studies; Queer Theory; Cultural and Postcolonial Studies; Race and Performance; the musical