Research Fields: Comparative poetics, Classical Chinese poetry, early modern lyric consciousness, folk and fairy tales, "World Literature" and the humanities. My dissertation is on eleventh-century Chinese poets and the practice of poetic modeling.… Read more about Lindsey Aakre
Research Fields: Comparative Modernisms, Modern and Classical Arabic Literature, Modern Hebrew Literature, Hebrew Bible, 20th Century Anglo-American and European Poetry & Fiction.
Research Fields:Modern poetry (British and American); psychoanalysis and critical theory; medieval religious literature; liturgy; literature and music; medical humanities.
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.
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: Literary Theory, Interarts, Transhistorical Approaches, Continental Philosophy, Media History, Cultural History, Music, Dance, History of Emotions.
Graduate Student in African and African American Studies Tutorial Board Teaching Fellow
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
Gradutate Student in English Tutorial Board Teaching Fellow
Fields of Interest/ Current areas of research: 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
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
Research Fields: Early modern literature, aesthetics, philosophy, and science; the Renaissance; the Baroque; classical literature (Greek and Latin); Hellenistic poetry; Augustan poetry; classical philosophy and oratory; epic; art history; philology; continental philosophy; post-45 French theory; cultural studies; history of literary theory (classical to postmodern)… Read more about Hudson Vincent
