Alumni
Philip Anselmo (Graduated: 2019)Karen Jallatyan (Graduated: 2019)UC Irvine
Aubrey Tang (Graduated: 2019)UC Irvine
Placement: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Dissertation: Becoming Diaspora: Global Armenian Literature and Film After 1950
Research Interests: Diaspora, Multilingual Multiculturalism, Survival
I am grateful for UCI Comparative Literature for having provided me with one of the most dynamic Ph.D. experiences in the country.
Jamie Rogers (Graduated: 2018)UC Irvine
Placement: Chapman University
Advisor(s): Ackbar Abbas, Man Fung Yip, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Dissertation: Johnnie To's Cinema and the Phenomenology of the Senses
Research Interests: Film Phenomenology, Sensory Studies, Chinese and Sinophone Cinemas
Parisa Vaziri (Graduated: 2018)
Placement: Clemson University
Advisor(s): Adriana Johnson
Dissertation: After the Revolution: Memory, Absence, and Carrying On in Black Literature and Film of the Americas
Research Interests: Postcolonial Literature and Film; Black Literature and Film; Decolonial and Black Feminist Thought
I am currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Clemson University, where I teach hemispheric American literature and film, and African American literature and film.
Alexander Jabbari (Graduated: 2017)
Placement: Comparative Literature and Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University
B.A. in Comparative Literature with French minor, New York University, 2007
Research Interests: Iranian film and history, theories of racialization, theories of history, intellectual histories of poststructuralism and postcolonialism, African-American film and theory, legacies of third cinema
Monica Katiboglu (Graduated: 2017)B.A. in Community Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2008
PhD in Comparative LiteraturePlacement: University of Oklahoma
Advisor(s): Nasrin Rahimieh
Research Interests: Persianate literary history and historiography; language; sexuality; modernization
UC IrvineRyanson Alessandro Ku (Graduated: 2017)Placement: Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey
Research Interests: critical translation theory, modernity, Turkish and French literatures
Chris Malcolm (Graduated: 2017)
B.S. in Economics, The George Washington University, 2004
M.A. in Comparative Literature, Louisiana State University, 2008
M.A. in Philosophy, Louisiana State University, 2009
Placement: Postdoctoral Associate in English and Asian American Studies
at Duke University, 2018--
Research interests:semiotics/genealogy/pragmatics; imperialism, trauma, intimacy, justice; economy, sublimation, time, and the queer
Ghada Mourad (Graduated: 2017)
B.A. Contemporary History and Politics, University of Sussex, UK, 2008.
M.A. Social & Political Thought, York University, Toronto, 2011.
Placement: Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities and coordinator of the minor in Sustainable Ecosystems: Art & Design at the Maine College of Art in Portland, ME, Fall 2019---; Visiting Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies Program, Humboldt State University
Research interests: Documentary film; Visual Studies; Environmental Humanities; Film and Media Studies; Critical Theory. My dissertation, Perceiving Extraction: Landscape, Use and the Conditions of Visuality, tracks a history of extraction in landscapes affected by an absence of life, value, habitat, or political possibility to show that the experience of climate change helps produce a theory of perception.
Sarah Kessler (Graduated: 2016)B.A. in English, CSU Los Angeles, 2007
Research interests:
Modernity, politics, subjectivation, sexuality and the body in postcolonial Arabic and Francophone literature in the Middle East and North Africa. critical theory emphasis; literary translation emphasis.
Toru Oda (Graduated: 2016)
Placement: Lecturer, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California
B.A., Art-Semiotics, Brown University, 2003
M.A., English, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2008
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine (Visual Studies and Critical Theory Emphases), 2016
Research interests: 20th and 21st Century Transatlantic Media and Culture, Film and Media History and Theory, Voice and Sound Studies, Television Studies, Queer and Critical Race Theory
B.A. in Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, University of Tokyo, 2003Kim Icreverzi (Graduated: 2015)
M.A. in Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, University of Tokyo, 2006
Ph.D. University of California, Irvine, 2016Placement: University of Shizuoka, Language and Communication Research Center, Full-time Instructor,
2018-
Research interests: literary anarchism; cultural history in the late 19th
and early 20th centuries; French naturalism; English modernism
B.A. in Linguistics and English with concentration in Culture and Performance, Georgetown University, 2002Ameeth Vijay (Graduated: 2015)
UC IrvinePlacement: UC San Diego
Advisor(s): Rei Terada, Akira Mizuta Lippit
Dissertation: Reproduction without End: The Gendered Labor of Japanese High Growth Cinema
Research Interests: Japanese film, literature, and cultural studies; feminist theory; film theory; labor studies
Last year I taught a course on film theory to an incredible group of students. My students were so ready to try out everything I introduced them to, that by end of term I was truly moved. I shared with them then that what theory - and my training in theory at Irvine - had given me were the languages to express, think through and wrestle with ideas I had been trying to work through but hadn't had the tools to address. It was powerful to thus see them trying on these languages for themselves, playing with and testing what they could discover in them.
B.A. in Comparative Literature, Brown University, 2004Tamara Beauchamp (Graduated: 2014)
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Summer 2015Placement: Tenure Track, Assistant Professor of Literature, UC San Diego Fall 2016--; Visiting Assistant Professor of Western Languages and Literatures Bogazici Univ Istanbul, Turkey Fall 2015-16
Research Interests: migration, globalization
B.A., Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University, 2004Dan Costello (Graduated: 2014)Research Interests: Anglo-American, Continental European, and global modernisms, critical theory, psychoanalysis as theoretical and clinical practice, feminist and critical race theory, anti-psychiatric theories of subjectivity.
Emphases: Critical Theory Emphasis and Graduate Feminist Emphasis
Nanterre Fellowship, University of Paris-Nanterre, 2009-'11
B.A., University of Chicago, 2005Brandon J. Granier (Graduated: 2014)
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, summer 2014Research Interests: Post-war German and American literature, collective memory, and the tensions between fiction, memoir, and history
B.A., in English, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2001Olivia Gunn (Graduated: 2014)
M.A. in Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College, 2006; M.A. in French, Middlebury College in France, 2007
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Fall 2014Research Interests: deconstruction; long 19th century European literature
B.A. in Norwegian and English, with Dance minor, University of Washington, 2002Will Jordan (Graduated: 2014)
M.A. in Performance Studies, New York University, 2003Placement: Asst Prof, Department of Scandinavian Studies,University of Washington, Seattle, 2015-- ; Visiting Assistant Professor position in Norwegian and Scandinavian Area Studies, Pacific Lutheran University, Fall 2012- 2015
Research Interests: European culture at the fin de siècle; Scandinavian literature; decadence; literary expatriation; cosmopolitanism; queer theory; deconstruction
B.S. in Computer Science, Yale University, 2005Ali Meghdadi (Graduated: 2014)
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Fall 2014Placement: K-12 Computer Science curriculum, San Francisco
Research Interests: Media theory; Japanese; games
B.A. in English with Theology minor, Loyola Marymount University, 2005Nasser Mufti (Graduated: 2014)
M.A. in English, Loyola Marymount University, 2007; M.F.A. in poetry, Otis College of Art and Design, 2008
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, summer 2014Placement: UCI Lecturer in English, Fall 2014--
Research interests: My critical and creative writings articulate a hybridized language that mediates between American and Iranian cultures and their specific histories, with an explicit focus on the political and theological aesthetics established in their literatures.
B.A. in Political Philosophy and History, Hampshire College, 2005Mark Pangilinan (Graduated: 2014)Placement: Asst Prof, Dept of English, Univ of Illinois, Chicago
Research Interests: Civil War and its relationship to the British empire, Victorian literature, Global Anglophone literature, postcolonial theory, political theory.
B.A. in English with Spanish minor, Christopher Newport University, 2006Sharareh Frouzesh (Graduated: 2013)Placement: 2016--Full time position at Chadwick School in Palos Verdes and will also be teaching at Punahou School in Honolulu summer2016; 2015--Senior Critical Reading Director, Manager of Reading Curriculum, Hamilton College Consulting
Research interests: Pilipino literature and culture; cultural studies; critical theory;
ethnography; Anglophone modernist literature; postcolonial theory; gender studies;
translation studies
B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science, University of California, IrvineColby Gordon (Graduated: 2013)
M.A. in Social Sciences with an emphasis in Social Thought, University of Chicago
PhD in Comparative Literature, 2013Research Interests: Modern Iranian literatures and cultural productions; transnational literatures and feminisms; political and legal theory; postcolonial literatures and theory; psychoanalysis and phenomenology; dialectics of resistance and modernisms. Dissertation: 'The Us
Emphases: Critical Theory Emphasis and Graduate Feminist Emphasis
B.A. in English and History, University of Kansas, 2007Eddie Pinuelas (Graduated: 2013)Placement: Assistant Professor of Renaissance Literature, Bryn Mawr College, 2016-. Assistant Course Director, 39B, UCI Composition Program, 2015-2016. Lecturer, UCI Composition, 2014-2016.
Research Interests: law and literature, architecture, global Shakespeare.
B.A. in Comparative Literature, University of California, Los AngelesAbraham Romney (Graduated: 2013)
PhD in Comparative Literature, 2013Placement: Assistant Professor of English, Comp Lit and Linguistics, CSUF, 2016-- ;Duke University, Fall 2013---2015 Thompson Writing Program Fellow;
Research interests: Postcolonialism; diasporic literature and culture
B.A. in English with Spanish minor, BYU-Idaho, 2005Denise Spampinato (Graduated: 2013)
M.A. in English, University of Oregon, 2007
PhD in Comparative Literature, 2013Placement: Asst Prof, Department of Humanities at Michigan Technological University
Research interests: History of rhetoric; translation; 19th-century Hemispheric
American literature; 19th-century rhetoric and philology; digital rhetoric.
B.F.A., Art Center College of DesignEngel Szwaja-Franken (Graduated: 2013)
M.F.A. in Writing, Cal Arts, 2002
PhD in Comparative Literature, 2013Placement: Comparative Literature, UCI, Fall 2013; Denise Spampinato has received a Fulbright Award to conduct research at the Universita` degli studi di Napoli “L’ Orientale” beginning in October 2015, until February 2016
B.A. in Comparative Literature and History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005Jason Willwerscheid (Graduated: 2013)
PhD in Comparative Literature, 2013Placement: Tenure track, Bellevue College, Seattle, Washington 2014--
Research Interests: Latin American literature and poetry (mostly 20th century), modernism, French literature (19th and early 20th century)
B.S. in Mathematics and French Studies, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2003Robert Wood (Graduated: 2013)
PhD in Comparative Literature, 2013Research Interests: 19th and 20th Century British and Irish Drama, Poetry, and Fiction; Ecocriticism; Science and Literature; Theories of Games; Critical Theory
B.A. in History (minor in Comparative Literature), University of Minnesota, 2003Anna Cavness (Graduated: 2012)
Ph.D. Comparative Literature, UC IrvinePlacement: Writing Center Specialist SOKA university, 2014-present
Research Interests: Marxism, modernism, science fiction, crisis, the body and production, critical theory, the avant-garde, the fantastic
B.A., University of Virginia, 2003Vuslat D. Katsanis (Graduated: 2012)
PhD in Comparative Literature, 2012Placement: Soka University
Research interests: Postcolonialism; twentieth-century North African and
Arabic literature and culture.
B.A., English and Studio Art, University of California, Riverside, 2004Maryam El-Shall (Graduated: 2012)
M.A. Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine, 2007
Ph.D. Comparative Literature, 2012Placement: The Evergreen State College
Research Interests: Postcolonial critique, Orientalism, cultural studies, race critical theory, contemporary Turkish film and visual culture
Previous Posts: Visiting Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition, and Manager of the University Writing Center, Soka University 2013 - 2017
B.A. in English, University of Florida, 2004Anna Guercio (Graduated: 2012)
M.A. in English, University of Florida, 2006
PhD in Comparative Literature, 2012Placement: Santa Fe College
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Cultural Studies
Teaching Interests: English composition and research, World Culture, World Literature, Introduction to Islamic Studies
Teaching Modalities: online, hybrid and face-to-face
B.A. in Comparative Literature and Literary Translation, Brown University, 2003Emma Heaney (Graduated: 2012)
M.F.A., University of Iowa, 2007Placement: Translation Editor of Drunken Boat; online journal contributing editor
Research interests: literary translation; translation theory (particularly as it applies to ethics, authorship, and gender); poetry; contemporary and post-Franco Spanish and Catalan literature; Latin American literature; power, framing, and art objects
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, 2012Vicki Hsieh (Graduated: 2012)Placement: Tenure Track, Assistant Prof of English,William Patterson University, NJ, Fall 2016--; NYU's John W. Draper Interdisciplinary Master's Program in Humanities and Social Thought
B.A. in Comparative Literature and Psychology, Cornell University, 2006Erin Yu-Tien Huang (Graduated: 2012)
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2012Placement: Public Policy Institute of California
Research Interests: Contemporary poetry; language learning; postcolonial literature and theory; cultural comparison; disciplinary formations
B.A. in Comparative Literature and Psychology, University of California, Davis, 2004Duy Lap Nguyen (Graduated: 2012)
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2012Placement: Assistant Professor in East Asian Studies and History, Princeton University Fall 2014-; Visiting Assistant Professor, East Asian Department, NYU 2013-14
Research Interests: East Asian Cinema; psychoanalysis; sexuality and space; the city, the body, and urbanism
B.A. in Modern Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2002Bernard Richter (Graduated: 2012)
PhD in Comparative Literature, 2012Placement: PostDoc, Pembroke Center, Brown University 2013-14; Tenure Track, Department of Modern and Classical Languages / World Cultures and Literatures Program Univ of Houston, 2014-
Research Interests: Vietnamese colonial literature and history; Vietnamese popular fiction; Hegel and paleo-Marxist approaches to time, social space and the critique of political economy
M.A., University of California, Santa Cruz, 2003Annette Rubado (Graduated: 2012)
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2012Placement: Cal State University, Chico
Research interests: the Holocaust and related issues of affect and
epistemology in postwar German literature and culture; critical theory.
PhD in Comparative Literature, 2012Matthew Schilleman (Graduated: 2012)Placement: 2014-current, Dept of Romance Languages, University of Oregon
Research interests: Luso-Brazilian language and culture, Hispanic language and culture, Cinema and Political Economy, Modern Subjectivities, Political Theory
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, 2012Jonathan Tanner (Graduated: 2012)Placement: 2015-- Yearlong Fellow at the Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Amherst College. Full time research appointment at the Center.
Research interests: media studies, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, and
philosophy, especially through the lens of cybernetics
B.A. in English (Creative Writing: Poetry), University of Oklahoma, 2003 B.A. in French Language and Literature, University of Oklahoma, 2003Kyle Wanberg (Graduated: 2012)
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, 2012Emphases: French Emphasis, Critical Theory Emphasis
Research interests (will, hopefully, not forever be limited to): epic poetry; 19th-century French poetry; German and English Romanticism; scientific romance; Godzilla; and zinfandel.
B.A. in Philosophy, Skidmore College, 2002Tim Wong (Graduated: 2012)
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2012Placement: Clinical Associate Professor of Liberal Studies, NYU
Research Interests: critiques of reason, poco and translation studies, psychoanalysis, “minor” languages and literatures, orature
B.A., Philosophy, University of California, Santa Cruz 2000Juan R. Buriel (Graduated: 2011)
M.A., Philosophy, University of California, Santa Cruz 2002
PhD in Comparative Literature, 2012Placement: Pacific Ridge School, Carlsbad
Research Interests:
Continental philosophy (especially Kant, Heidegger and Foucault), French post-
war literature, theories of violence, aesthetic theory, U.S. modernism and post-war
literature
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2011Michelle Cho (Graduated: 2011)Placement: College of the Canyons
Advisor(s): Adriana Johnson
Dissertation: Textual Misfits: Subaltern Narratives and Chicano Representation in an Age of Multiculturalism
Research Interests: Subaltern Studies, Critical Theory, Chicano Studies
Currently, I am full professor, as well as former chair, of the English Department at College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita, CA. My Humanities graduate degree has, in general, fostered my ability to craft and explore critical questions on how historically disenfranchised communities are, and have been, represented and serviced. Working in a community college setting has allowed me to apply my training in theory in a variety pedagogical and administrative settings in the service of students and communities with diverse needs, challenges, and goals. In turn, these professional experiences have, sometimes in surprising ways, shaped my own scholarly orientations and work.
B.A. in Comparative Literature, Northwestern University, 2003Polina Kroik (Graduated: 2011)
PhD in Comparative Literature, 2011Placement: Cogut Humanities Center Postdoctoral Fellowship in East Asian Studies and Modern Culture and Media at Brown University;Fall 2013: Tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies at McGill University.
B.A. in English, Boston University, 2004Annie Moore (Graduated: 2011)
M.A. in English, Syracuse University, 2006
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2011Placement: Lecturer, English Dept, Lane Community College, Eugene, OR, 2014; Adjunct Assistant Professor of English at York College (The City University of New York) August 2015--
B.A. in English and History, University of British Columbia, 2003Benjamin Bishop (Graduated: 2010)
M.A. in Peace Studies, Lancaster University, UK, 2004
PhD in Comparative Literature, 2011Placement: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, University of Victoria- 2013;Research Educator and Grant Facilitator Vancouver Island Health Authority Canada 2013-
Research Interests: 20th & 21st C poetry; 20th& 21st C Irish and
Canadian literatures; global Englishes; lyric theory and history; vitalisms;
biopolitics; animal studies; queer theory; ecocriticism; politics and limits of
language; trauma and memory
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2010Wendy Piquemal (Graduated: 2010)Placement: NTT Assistant Professor of English/Writing/Linguistics, Western Oregon University
B.A., Duke University, 1998Lindsay Puente (Graduated: 2010)
M.A., University of Edinburgh, 1999
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2010Placement: currently freelance translator
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2010Alexandra Sartor (Graduated: 2010)Placement: Assistant Prof of World Languages; Literatures, and Cultures, Univ of Arkansas, 2010-2014; Adjunct Professor of Spanish, Tarrant County College, TX 2014-
PhD in Comparative Literature, 2010Travis Tanner (Graduated: 2010)Placement: Lecturer, UCSD Sixth College
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2010Kimberly Ball (Graduated: 2009)Placement: Tulane University 2016
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2009Jian Chen (Graduated: 2009)Placement: UCLA
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2009Margaux Cowden (Graduated: 2009)Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Gallatin School of Individualized Studies, NYU, 2009-11; Assistant Professor of Queer Studies,English Department & Interdisciplinary Sexuality Studies Program, Ohio State University, Columbus, 2011-
PhD in Compararive Literature, 2009Jane D. Griffin (Graduated: 2009)Placement: Ohio University
Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Williams College 2015
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2009Erin Trapp (Graduated: 2009)Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish, Indiana University, 2009-10; Associate Professor of Modern Languages, Bentley University (Boston)
PhD in Comparative Literature, 2009Liz Kiszely (Graduated: 2008)Placement: Senior Lecturer, Cultural Stdy and Comp Lit, Univ of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, 2009;
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2008Katherine Mack (Graduated: 2008)Placement: English Dept, Fullerton College
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2008R. John Williams (Graduated: 2008)Placement: Dept Chair, Associate Professor of English, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2008Matthew Ancell (Graduated: 2007)Placement: Associate Professor of English, Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies, Yale University
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2007Craig Carson (Graduated: 2007)Placement: Associate Professor of Humanities and Comp Lit, Brigham Young University
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2007Brook Haley (Graduated: 2007)Placement: Unviersity of Chicago, 2007-2010; Assistant Professor of English, Adelphi University, 2010-present
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, 2007Marina Ludwigs (Graduated: 2007)Placement: Lecturer, Pomona College and Lecturer in French, UC Irvine -2013; 2013-French instuctor, The Bishop's School, La Jolla, CA
Winner of the Charles Bernheimer Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association for best dissertation of 2008 in the U.S., for Atomic Poetry: Materialist Rhythms in Lucretius, Du Bellay and Mallarme;
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2007Erin Obodiac (Graduated: 2007)Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Stockholm University
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, 2007Glenn Odom (Graduated: 2007)Placement: Researcher, Leeds University, 2008-10; Lecturer, Comparative Literature, UCI, Fall 2010 2012-13 Society for the Humanities Fellowship, Cornell University 2013-15 Post-doc, Department of Comparative Literature, Cornell University
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2007Michael Kurt Ozment (Graduated: 2007)Placement: Visiting Asst Professor of English, Grinnell College (2008-09); Asst Prof of English, Rowan University (NJ), 2009-2014; Senior Lecturer (equivalent to an Associate Professor) Dept of Drama, Theatre, and Performance Roehampton Univ UK, F 14-
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, 2007Rodney A. Rodriguez (Graduated: 2007)Placement: Bilkent University (Turkey)
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, 2007Catherine Winiarski (Graduated: 2007)Instructional Specialist, Writing and Reading Center, Long Beach City College
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2007Kir Kuiken (Graduated: 2006)Placement: Instructor, Writing and Reading Success Center, Long Beach City College
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2006Mariam B. Lam (Graduated: 2006)Placement: Associate Professor of English, University at Albany
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2006Jason E. Smith (Graduated: 2006)Placement: UC Riverside, associate vice chancellor for diversity and inclusion
author of Surfin' Vietnam: Memory, Trauma, and Cultural Politics (under
review); co-editor, Journal of Vietnamese Studies
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2006Lan Duong (Graduated: 2005)Placement: Graduate Art MFA program, Art Center College of Design
Co-editor, Hegel After Spinoza: A Volume of Critical Essays, ed. Hasana Sharp
and Jason E. Smith (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2011);
editor and Introduction. Vittorio Morfino, Plural Temporality: Transindividuality and
the Aleatory between Spinoza and Althusser (Brill, 2010)
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2005Patience Moll (Graduated: 2005)Placement: Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, USC
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2005Patricia Pierson (Graduated: 2005)Placement: F 2016-- Lecturer, USC's honors humanities program, Thematic Option; Fellow, University of Dundee, Scotland, 2007-08; Lecturer, Humanities Core Program, UC Irvine, 2008-10; Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of English, Tulane University
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2005Jonathan Singer (Graduated: 2005)Placement: UC Irvine
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2005Rosemary Kwa (Graduated: 2004)Placement: Seneca College (Toronto)
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2004Jeffrey Atteberry (Graduated: 2003)Placement: Glendale Community College
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2003, JD UC BerkeleyJennifer Bajorek (Graduated: 2002)Placement: Practicing Law
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley (declined, 2005)
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2002Patricia Dailey (Graduated: 2002)Placement: Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley (2005-07); Lecturer, Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London (tenure-track)
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley (2005-07); Lecturer, Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London (tenure-track). Author of Counterfeit Capital: Poetic Labor and Revolutionary Irony (Stanford UP, 2008)
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, 2002Erin Ferris (Graduated: 2002)Placement: Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University (2002-2004); Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, 2004- Awarded TT 2013
. Trans. of Giorgio Agamben, The Time That Remains (Stanford University Press, 2005)
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2002Benjamin Huang (Graduated: 2002)Placement: Stanford University
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2002Steven L. Miller (Graduated: 2002)Placement: Council of Library Resources Fellow, USC, 2005; Lecturer in Humanities, Mount St. Mary's College
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2002Christopher Kuipers (Graduated: 2001)Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University Society for the Humanities, 2003-04; Assistant Professor of English, University at Buffalo, 2006-present
. Co-translator with Jason Smith of Jean-Luc Nancy, Hegel: The Restlessness of the Negative (University of Minnesota Press, 2002); editor, Literature and the Right to Marriage (special issue of Diacritics, 2007)
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2001Naomi Silver (Graduated: 2001)Placement: Indiana University, Pennsylvania
Graduate Faculty Member in Literature and Criticism, Indiana University,
Pennsylvania. Author of Canon (Taylor & Francis, 2009).
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2001Kimberly Moekle (Graduated: 2000)Placement: Sweetland Writing Center, University of Michigan
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2000Jennifer Thompson (Graduated: 2000)Placement: Program in Writing and Rhetoric, Stanford University
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2000Tracy McNulty (Graduated: 1998)Placement: Embry-Riddle University
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 1998Thomas Albrecht (Graduated: 1997)Placement: Cornell University
author of The Hostess, My Neighbor: Hospitality and the Expropriation of
Identity (University of Minnesota Press, 2006)
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 1997Mark Calkins (Graduated: 1997)Placement: Tulane University
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Modern and Contemporary Studies, UCLA, 2002-03; Assistant Professor of English, Tulane University, 2003-present. Author of The Medusa Effect: Representations of Horror in Psychoanalysis and Victorian Aesthetics (Albany: SUNY Press, 2009); ed., Selected Writings of Sarah Kofman (Stanford UP, 2007).
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 1997Matthew Potolsky (Graduated: 1997)Placement: San Francisco State University
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 1997Gabriel Riera (Graduated: 1997)Placement: University of Utah
author, Mimesis (The New Critical Idiom) (Routledge, 2006); co-ed. with Liz
Constable and Dennis Denisoff of Perennial Decay: On the Aesthetics and Politics
of Decadence (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998)
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 1997Oliver Berghof (Graduated: 1996)Placement: University of Illinois, Chicago
author of Intrigues: From Being to the Other (Fordham University Press, 2006)
and Alain Badiou: Philosophy and its Conditions (Albany: SUNY Press, 2005)
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 1996Michael Mageean (Graduated: 1996)Placement: Associate Professor of Literature and Writing, California State University, San Marcos
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 1996Simona Sawhney (Graduated: 1996)Placement: Mt. San Antonio College (CA)
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 1996Armando Silva (Graduated: 1996)Placement: IIT, Delhi
author of The Modernity of Sanskrit (University of Minnesota Press, 2008)
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 1996Manya Steinkoler (Graduated: 1996)Placement: Universidad Externado de Colombia
co-author, Imaginary Cities: Documenta 11; see
http://www.divulgacion.unal.edu.co/exposiciones_imaginarios.html
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, 1996Gregory Lambert (Graduated: 1995)Placement: BMCC-City University of New York
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 1995Scott McClintock (Graduated: 1995)Placement: Dean's Professor of Humanities, Syracuse University; Founding Director, The SU Humanities Center, 2008-present; Project Director, Mellon CNY Humanities Corridor, 2008-present
Author of Who's Afraid of Deleuze and Guattari? (Continuum, 2007); The Return of the Baroque in Modern Culture (Continuum, 2005); and The Non-Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze (Continuum, 2002)
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 1995Thomas Dutoit (Graduated: 1994)Placement: National University
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 1994Julia Watson (Graduated: 1979)Placement: Universite de Lille-III
Author, A Rose, a Ghost, in Edith Wharton: Reading Proserpinean Poetics in The
Custom of the Country (Editions du Temps, 2000); co-ed. with Philippe Romanski,
Angles on Derrida: Jacques Derrida and Anglophone Literature), Oxford
Literary Review, 2004; translator of Jacques Derrida, Sovereignties in
Question (2005), Aporias (2003), and On the Name (1995)
University of California, IrvineDaniel Carnie (UCI Graduate)Placement: Ohio State University
Advisor(s): Alexander Gelley Richard Regosin
Research Interests: Autobiography, Feminist Theory
I was a professor in English, Humanities, and Comparative Studies depts. for 35 years and have published seven books with a co-author as well as many articles, traveled widely (two Fulbrights, five NEH summer seminars), and had a rewarding career. I urge students to learn languages and travel as much as possible during their studies--! there will never be a better time. Follow your passion, but seek an academic career only if nothing else will satisfy you. It's a long, hard struggle, but ultimately rewarding--and a lifetime of working with students is energizing and fun.
Michael Simmons (UCI Graduate)B.A. in Comparative Literature, UCLA 2012;
B.A. in Philosophy, B.A. in Women's Studies, UCI, 2012