Research Fields: Comparative Modernisms, Modern and Classical Arabic Literature, Modern Hebrew Literature, Hebrew Bible, 20th Century Anglo-American and European Poetry & Fiction. ... Read more about Daniel Behar
Research Fields: Migration and diaspora studies; postcolonial literature and theory; women and gender studies; bilingualism; sociolinguistics; questions of identity and nationhood, particularly Mediterranean; Latin and Ancient Greek literature and philosophy, Italian literature, contemporary fiction and creative writing.... Read more about Francesca Bellei
Research Fields: 19th- and 20th-century European literature (German, Italian, Polish); literary criticism; aesthetics; music and theater; epics and elegies; translation studies; travel literature; literary criticism; multiculturalism and migration, cross-cultural encounters; European intellectual history; comparative arts and intermediality; cities in literature.... Read more about Cecily Cai
Research Fields:Modern poetry (British and American); psychoanalysis and critical theory; medieval religious literature; liturgy; literature and music; medical humanities.... Read more about Marina Connelly
Research Fields:Affect theory, biopolitics, memory studies, queer theory; questions of bilingualism, exile, displacements, Otherness, and cosmopolitism; 20th/21st century literatures of Spain and Latin America (in different languages spoken there); art history and visual studies (especially performance and body art).... Read more about Matylda Figlerowicz
Lecturer in Comparative Literature Tutorial Board Member
Research Fields:18th, 19th, 20th-century English and French, German through early 20th century, Women’s studies, the novel, poetry; cultural and political as well as aesthetic questions.
Lecturer in Comparative Literature Tutorial Board Member
Research Fields: Modernism, Dance, Performance, Music, Film and Visual Arts. Inter-medial Studies and Comparative Arts. Literary Theory, Poetry, Twentieth-Century Literature. French Studies, German Thought. History of Science, Embodied Cognition.... Read more about Cécile Guédon
Research Fields: Lyric poetry, premodern Chinese literature, poetry and poetics, gender theory, queer theory, affect theory, performance and performativity, philosophies of mind and cognition.
Research Fields: 19th and 20th c. French literature (poetry, thought, travel writing); structural anthropology; postcolonial studies, relationality, créolité; French auteur cinema, especially Bresson and Rohmer; East Asian modernity (1860s-1940s, Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea); contemporary Korean cinema; Hŏ Kyun studies; translation; world literature.... Read more about Shijung Kim
Research fields: 19th century European novel (French, Russian, British); Franco-Russian literary exchange (18th-20th centuries); sociology of literature; theory of the novel (narratology); medical humanities; Romanticism and its afterlives; epistolary novel and Enlightenment; Henry James and Gustave Flaubert.... Read more about Jacob Meister
Graduate Student in African American Studies with a primary field in Comparative Literature Tutorial Board Teaching Fellow 2018-2019
Research Fields: The Black Renaissance (Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, Alain Locke, etc.); American Expatriate Modernism (Lost Generation, Black Writers in Paris); Phenomenology (Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Fanon); Walter Benjamin... Read more about Ernie Mitchell
Research Fields: The underpinnings of my research are rooted in critical theory, specifically questions regarding gender & queer theory in a postcolonial context. To explore these questions I look to 20th and 21st century Latin American, African American, and Middle Eastern literature and media. My most recent research has focused on how maringalized authors are using the margins of the page to facilitate an ethical and egalitarian discourse. That is to say, in looking at how disenfranchised authors experiment with a text’s form, I hope to see how they are compelling us to rethink the normative ways in which we read and are thereby renegotiating the power dynamic between individual and institution.... Read more about Victoria Queneau
Gradutate Student in English Tutorial Board Teaching Fellow 2018-2019
Research fields: African American, Afro-Caribbean, and Afro-Latin American literatures; American multi-ethnic literatures; comparative literature and world literature; race and ethnicity; theories of genre, canon, archive; the novel.
Research Fields:Comparative visual and media studies; the digital and the virtual; materiality, text and texture; film theory; modernism and the avant-gardes; spectatorship, affect, and emotion; fashion theory; continental philosophy; aesthetics; art history; corporeality and performance; space theory and disorientation; urbanism and technology; architectural theory; psychoanalysis; the renaissance; trauma and memory studies; translation; Nabokov; Beckett.
Graduate Student in Slavic Languages and Literatures Tutorial Board Teaching Fellow
Fields of Interest/ Current areas of research: Russian literature; poetry and poetics; translation; feminist and queer theory; affect theory; psychoanalysis; Balkan and South Slavic languages and literatures; the Black Sea region; the early Soviet and post-Soviet periods; posthuman and animal studies; nonhuman beings and objects in poetry; travel narratives; literature and technology; film and television... Read more about Maria Vassileva
