Graduate Students

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

Christopher Gutierrez

Languages/Literatures: Ancient Greek, Latin, English (Early Modern), Spanish

Christopher received his B.A. in Classics and English from Columbia University (2025). He is interested in the classical reception of archaic Greek lyric poetry, the rhetorical armature of the Platonic dialogues, the afterlife of classical rhetorical theory, early 16th century humanism, and late Elizabethan (and early Jacobean) literature. He received the Douglas Gardner Caverly Prize in Classics for his senior thesis “Shakespeare’s Lucretian Dream: The Renaissance...

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

Lianbi Ji

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