Current Graduate Students

French

Name

Areas of Interest
Maria Canal — Medieval French
Abigail Celis
 — Khatibi, Goytisolo
Keith Christensen
 — Renaissance literature
 
Matthieu Dupas
 — Gender and queer studies, masculinites in 17th century France
Maxime Foerster
 — Gender studies, philosophy, romanticism, decadent literature

Jocelyn Frelier

 

 — Women's studies, Belle Epoque France, early 21st century French literature, and Francophone North African literature
Tanya Camela Logan
 		 — 20th- and 21st-century Francophone literature, portrayals of identity, evolution of customs and traditions, construction of memory through storytelling
Tapha Ly
 — African novel, focusing on Francophone and English
Thomas Maranda
 — Medieval French literature; Celtic influences on early romance, Crusade lyric poetry
 
Helena Skorovsky
 — Renaissance France
Marie Stoll
 — 18th to 20th French literature, cultural studies. The Marquis de Sade, Libertinism, religion, power and the construction of the sexual being in literature. Philosophies: Epicurianism, Hedonism, Materialism and Nihilism.

 

Italian

Name

Areas of Interest
Mattia Beghelli — Cinema and contemporary Italian literature
Pierluigi Erbaggio — Contemporary Italian literature and film
Francesca Minonne — Mediterranean
Roberto Mosciatti — Philosophy, political theory, and literature
Alessia Salamina — 19th century poetry
Roberto Vezzani — Films and literature

 

Spanish

Name

Areas of Interest
Susan Abraham — Medieval and early modern Ibero-Muslim and Judaic studies, the role of language in negotiating cultural and religious difference; Mediterranean studies
Pedro Aguilera-Mellado — Peninsular studies: Philosophy; Ideas in relation to Literature and Film
Erika Almenara — History, memory, violence in Latin America
Elizabeth Barrios — 20th century and contemporary Venezuela and Argentina, political documentaries, the interplay between mass-culture and nationalism, cinema in rural areas, historical re-enactments
Juanita Bernal — 20th century Latin American literature, Italian culture, and transatlantic flows between them
Matias Beverinotti — Argentinian humor and political resistance
Aaron Boalick — Gender and queer studies, masculinities, post-Franco Spain, contemporary discourses surrounding immigration, film
David Collinge — Contemporary Spain
Diogenes Costa Curras — Contemporary Spain: literature, film, trauma
Shannon Dowd — Contemporary Latin American literature, critical theory, translation
Catalina Esguerra — Memory, trauma, space, tensions of memorialization and resistance in post-dictatorship Southern Cone
Karen Frazier — Gender and race, Mexico, and Andes
Laura Herbert — US-Mexico border and representations of time, space and history
Gabriel Horowitz — 20th-century Latin America, especially Borges
Anna Mester — Equatorial Guinean and Cape Verdean literatures
Manuel Modesto — XIXth century Latin American literature, liberal thinking and its relation to nation formation, particularly in Chile
Paige Rafoth — Contemporary Mexican literature, cultural production of autonomous Mexican social movement, the state and neoliberalism
Lucía Naser Rocha — Performing arts and politics of aesthetics, dance and writing and dance as writing, research methods, ways of thinking and knowledge construction within creative processes in dance
Mariano Olmedo — Early modern Spanish literature, 17th century narrative forms deriving from Cervantes, comparative culture studies
Mara Pastor — 20th century Caribbean & Brazilian poetry and its relation w/ visual arts
Jessica Piney — Cultural production (literature and music) under dictatorship examining issues of memory and diaspora as well as deconstruction and reconstruction of cultural history and national identity in Castro's Cuba and Franco's Spain
Federico Pous — Political theory and social movements in the Southern Cone
Maria Robles — Contemporary Spanish literature & audiovisual culture
Angelica Serna — Colonial Latin America
Rachel TenHaaf — Peninsular studies
Rodrigo Toromoreno — Wit and the construction of the colonial Amazon
Martin Vega — Coloniality, mestizaje and gender in post-Conquest Mexico
Marcelino Viera — 20th-century, Southern Cone literature and psychoanalysis and their relationship in subjectivities production
Giselle Vitaliti — Latin America allegories
Brian Whitener — Neoliberalism & Latin American studies; poetry & translation
Silvina Yi — Contemporary Peninsular and Latin American literature and film