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. Carrie Geng
who defended her dissertation titled
“Of Unsound Mind: Madness and Mental Health in Asian American Literature”
on Friday, September 8th, 2023
Faculty Advisors: Professors Ju Yon Kim, Karen Thornber, and Kelly Rich.
Dr. Rachelle Grossman
Who defended her dissertation titled
“Cultural Capitals: Postwar Yiddish between Warsaw and Buenos Aires”
on Wednesday, May 10th, 2023
Faculty Advisors: Professors Mariano Siskind, Saul Zaritt, and David Damrosch
Dr. Kathleen Ong
who defended her dissertation titled
“Blindness, Deafness, and Cripping the Grounds of Comparison in Comparative Literature.”
on Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Faculty advisors: Professors Marc Shell, Karen Thornber, & David Wang
Dr. Elisa Sotgiu
Who defended her dissertation titled
“Counter-Republics of Letters: Politics, Publishing, and the Global Novel”
on Tuesday, September 5th, 2023
Faculty Advisors: Professors Louis Menand, David Damrosch, and Mariano Siskind.
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
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