Graduate Students

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

Sam Jackson

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

Mufei Jiang

Pumho Karimi

Hannah Katznelson

Landon Kramer

Office: Dwinelle 4414 Office Hours: Thursday 2-4 Languages: English, French, Russian, Spanish Academic Area: Symbolism, decadence, aestheticism, modernism

Steffi Lang

Alexander Lin

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

Jamari Littlejohn

Jamari is a first year PhD student in Comparative Literature. Their interests are centered on literary connections between Chinese and Afro-diasporic writers in the 20th and 21st centuries. Their work draws on sociolinguistics and political, critical, and post-colonial theories to interrogate constructions of identity and liberation and draw out insights to modern globalizing activism.

Languages: English (AAL), Chinese

Periods: 20th and 21st Centuries