Congratulations to our new PhD Graduates!

Dr. Oluwakanyinsola Ajayi

who defended her dissertation titled
“Postdramatic African Theater and Critique of Representation”
on Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Faculty advisors: Professors Mariano Siskind, Sylvaine Guyot, Annette Lienau, & Françoise Lionnet

Dr. Phoebe Carter

who defended her dissertation titled
“Troubling Diaspora: Literature Across the Arabic Atlantic”
on Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Faculty advisors: Professors Annette Damayanti Lienau, William Granara, Shady Nasser, & Mariano Siskind

Dr. Joseph Gauvreau

who defended his dissertation titled
“The Contrafacta of Thomas Watson and Simon Goulart: Resignifying the Polyphonic Song in 16th-century England and France”
on Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Faculty advisors: Professors Katharina Piechocki, Kate van Orden, & Tom Conley

Dr. Botagoz Ussen

who defended her dissertation titled
“Red Feminism: The Politics and Poetics of Liberation”
on Monday, April 22, 2024
Faculty advisors: Professors Karen Thornber, William Todd, Marc Shell, & Tomiko Yoda

Dr. Mehmet Yildiz

who defended his dissertation titled
“Correlative Object Ontology: Pragmatism and Objects of Literary Interpretation”
on Friday, April 26, 2024
Faculty advisors: Professors David Damrosch, Verena Conley, & John Hamilton