Our graduate program includes students from countries in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa, and the Americas, making our program one of the most culturally diverse in the world.
Research interests: Persian and Islamic literatures; epic poetry; cultural and intellectual history; medieval and Renaissance studies; world literature; postcolonial studies; poetry and philosophy
Research interests: literary translation; fiction writing; Persian and Russian short stories; history of the novel; manga and anime; piracy of literature
M.A., Graduate Student
Research interests: l'architexte; philosophy of language; metaphor; evolution of classical themes
Research interests: mysticism; self-consciousness; romantic philosophy; literary form; aestheticism
Research interests: 20th-century American literature; Marxist aesthetic theory; critical race theory; phenomenology; religion and literature
M.A., Graduate Student
Research interests: book history and early printing; Renaissance literature; classical reception in the Renaissance; and translation
Research interests: lyric; poetic prayer; figuration
Research interests: fairy tale adaptations; folklore; structuralism and formalism; narratology; the monstrous feminine
Research interests: Francophone literature; postcolonialism; feminist and queer studies; film and video production; videographic essay; non-fiction film and literature
Research interests: postcolonial theory; contact linguistics; Lusophone literature
Research interests: inter-arts comparisons between poetry and plastic arts; the reception of Classical myth in contemporary poetry; poetic responses to climate change and environmental disaster
M.A., Graduate Student
Research interests: Pynchon; Nabokov; hyperreality; paranoia; mass culture
M.A., Graduate Student
Research interests: creative expression and radical politics in West Africa and the Americas
Research interests: ancient and modern conspiracy theory; new media; myth
M.A., Graduate Student
Ph.D., Graduate Student
Research interests: mythology; mythic in modern fiction; egolocation via weird and monstrous
Research interests: medieval heroic literature; travel narrative; the Mongol Empire
Research interests: French literature; literary translation; suffering as a theme in literature; Guillaume Apollinaire; Simone Weil
Research interests: private writing; documentary literature and film; documentalist strategies in literature; genres at the intersection of document and fiction; memory studies
Research interests: transnational literature and exophony; translation studies; rewritings and tradaptations; posthumanism; video game studies; East German cinema
M.A., Graduate Student
Research interests: Holocaust and catastrophe literatures; Yiddish literature; American Jewish literature; American Judaism; Jewish studies; Holocaust and genocide studies; religious studies
Research interests: 19th and 20th century Japanese literature; international readership of national texts; Orientalism and decolonialism; translation theory; intermediality
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