Graduate Students

Degrees: 
B.A. in English Language and Literature, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), 2013
M.A. in Literary Studies, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), 2018
Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (CELTA), Saxoncourt, London, 2011

Research Interests: ContemporaryQueer/Cuir/lesbian Caribbean, Brazilian and Latin American literature; Poetry translation; Decolonial and Anticolonial thought and aesthetics; Global South; Afrodiasporic thought, Sexual dissidence, Grassroots activism, Freirean Pedagogy

Degrees:
B.A. in English Language and Literature, American University of Kuwait, 2011
M.A. in Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, Kuwait University, 2017

Research Interests: Modern and Contemporary Arab/ic Literature; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Indigeneity and Race in the Middle East; Queer Theory/Queer Theory of Color; Critical Race Theory; Decoloniality and Anticoloniality; The Monstrous, the Grotesque, the Abject

Research Interests: 20th century poetic movements in the United States and Mexico, critical theory, queer theory, border studies, translation and hemispheric studies

Research Interests: Continental philosophy, Critical Theory, Philosophy of history, Dialectical thought, Historical novel, Postcolonial Literature, Theories of the Novel, Feminist Studies

Degrees:
B.A. in English/Lib. Studies, Sonoma State University, 2013

Research Interests: 20th Century North American Literature; LGBTQIA+ Literature, Film, Visual & Performing Arts; Cultural Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies; HIV/AIDS Activism, Trauma, and the Literary, Visual and Performing Arts; Feminist and Queer Fantasy and Speculative/Science Fiction

Research Interests: Francophone and Hispanic Caribbean literature (19th century - contemporary); the production of space; archipelagic thinking; postcolonial studies; anthropological studies of the Martinican peasantry; the decolonization of belonging and attachment; the preservation of colonial waste

Research Interests: Michael's dissertation The Poetry of Origins: Odes, Palinodes, and Literary History reevaluates the ode and its influence on the study of lyric poetry. Whereas twentieth-century criticism has viewed the ode as a constitutive genre of Western literature, I show that its development is essentially modern. Examining the Atlantic context of the ode, I trace how this genre became a medium for allegories of colonial authority that relied upon a racialized sense of literary futurity. Inherently unstable, these efforts ran up against the genre of poetic recantation (“palinode”), which served as an anticipatory counterbalance to the progressive literary history encoded in the ode.

For more information see his website.

M.A. in English Literature, Claremont Graduate School, 2017
B.A. in English Literature, Brigham Young University, 2014

Research Interests: U.S. Literature 19-20th Century, Religion and Secularism; Political Theory; Critical Theory; Translation Studies; Settler Colonialism: Zionism and the American West; Millenarianism and Utopias

Research Interests: 20th century Latin American literature, film, and culture; critical theory; critical university studies; neoliberalism; anarchist pedagogies

Degrees:
M.A. English, National Central University, Taiwan (2016)
B.A. Foreign Language & Literature, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan (2012)

Research Interests: Gender & Sexualities Studies, Gender Governance, Critical Race Theory, Theory of the State, History of Nationalism and Nation-Building, Affect Theory, Phenomenology, Political Theory, Historiography in East Asia, Postcolonialism in East Asia
 

Research Interests: Latin American thought, contemporary Latin American literature, film, essay as form, scientificity of form, negativity, mediation, continental philosophy, psychoanalysis.

Research Interests: Transatlantic modernism; feminist and queer studies; critical race studies; affect; literary and aesthetic engagements with subjectivity, structure, and space.

Degrees:
B.S. Philosophy and Religious Studies, Towson University, 2017

Research Interest: Black Literature, Theory and Performance Studies; Science, Technology and Society studies; Continental philosophy; Psychoanalysis; Anti-psychiatry and Madness Studies.

B.A. in Philosophy, California State University, Fullerton 2011

Research Interests:20th Century Literatures of the U.S. Southwest Deserts; Critical Animal and Environmental Studies; Ecocriticism and Place Studies; History and Philosophy of Science and Ecology; New Materialism and Posthumanism    

Research Interests: Embodiment; phenomenology; Medieval and Early Modern literature and visual art

Degrees: 
B.A. in Literature and International Studies, American University, 2020

Research Interests: Development studies through Literature and Film; Anglophone African Literature (Kenya and Nigeria); Third World Literature and Film; Eco-criticism; Post-colonial literature; Latin American Literature and Film; Representations of Violence

Degrees: 
B.A. in Urban Geography and Art History, McGill University, 2014
Master of Library and Information Studies (MLIS), University of Alberta, 2019

Research Interests: psychoanalysis; critical theory; aesthetics; east asian cinema; queer theory, literature, and cinema

B.A. in Rhetoric, UC Berkeley, 2013

Research Interests: continental philosophy, with an emphasis in german idealism and existentialism; rhetoric, understood as the phenomenology of language; the tension between hermeneutics and poetics; nihilism; morbidity; tragedy

BA Comp Lit, University of Chicago, 2013

Research interests: Medical humanities; immigration and transnational/trans-cultural identities; feminist theory and critical race theory; East Asian history; autobiography; liberation movements.

Research interests: Pilipinx studies; Pilipinx literature; transnationalism; colonial historiography; travel narratives; poetry; film; postcolonial studies; multicultural literature; diaspora; short story forms; popular culture; visual arts; queer theory; issues of canon; critical theory.

Degrees:
B.A. in English, CSU Fullerton, 2017
M.A. in English, CSU Fullerton, 2020

Research Interests: East Asian literature and cinema; Latin American literature and cinema; affect theory; political theory; media studies

Research Interests: Chinese literature, cinema, and media cultures; decolonial politics of East Asia; memory studies; media studies; urban studies; documentary; speculative fiction; translation theory; political theory

Degrees: 
B.A. Anthropology & Sociology, Concordia University, 2009
M.A. Sociology, Concordia University, 2018

Research Interests: critical theory; postcolonial studies; Black studies; the civilizing process; history of philosophy

Emphases: Critical Theory; Translation Studies

Research Interests: Contemporary Persian literature, literary translation (theory and practice), exile literature. 

Select Publications: 

“Where is Akbar Radi’s Home? A Study of the Concept of Exile at Home in Through the Windowpanes by Akbar Radi,” Text & Presentation: Journal of the Comparative Drama Conference, April 2019, 111-124.

“Mapping the Unmappable: A Critical Study of Dead Reckoning: A Novel by Bahman Sho‘levar,” Iran Namag, Volume 6, Number 1 (Spring 2021), 30-45.

“Will I Be Strong Enough for You? Nasim Marashi’s I’ll Be Strong for You” World Literature Today [Online], 6/22/21
https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=https%3A%2F%2Fww%0Dmazloumi&title=Will%20I%20Be%20Strong%20Enough%20for%20You%3F

Translation:

Jamali, Rosa. “Here is the Promised Latitude” [“Inja Aez-e Mo’ud Ast”] by Rosa Jamali. Los Angeles Review of Books. [online]
https://lareviewofbooks.org/short-takes/here-is-the-promised-latitude/

Degrees: BA, MA, M.Phil in Literature, University of Delhi

Research Interests: Theorization(s) of Contemporary Indian culture, Contemporary Indian Writings in English, Indian Mass-Culture, Postcolonial Studies, Marxism. 

BA English, Stephen F. Austin State University, 2010
MA Literature, Texas State University, 2013

Research Interests: Mixon's research and teaching interests include 20th-century U.S. literature and film, gender and sexuality studies, and comparative race studies, with specializations in literatures and media of U.S. social movements, multi-ethnic cultural productions about the U.S. south, and the intellectual and institutional history of queer theory. Their dissertation, Queerer, My God, to Thee: Twentieth-Century White Southern Lesbian Writers & Anti-Racist Praxis, frames Lillian Smith (1897-1966), Rita Mae Brown (1944-), Minnie Bruce Pratt (1946-), Mab Segrest (1949-), and Dorothy Allison (1949-) as a distinct political tradition whose concern with how people are trained to inhabit and (re)produce whiteness radically departs from anti-racist political thought and activism among white southern women of nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The project is currently supported by a 2019-2020 American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellowship and received archival research funding from Duke University, the University of Virginia, and UCI Humanities Commons.

BA: English and Philosophy, Texas Christian University
MA: Philosophy, California State University, Los Angeles

Research Interests: Narrative, representation, adaptation and translation, online discourse and culture, queer theory and gender studies, postcolonialism (India), hermeneutics, critical theory, popular culture, fan culture, transnational Anglophonism

Research Interests: 20th Century Persian literature; intersection of Islam and Marxism; exile; diaspora.

B.A. in English and World Literature, Pitzer College
M.S.W. in Clinical Social Work, Columbia University
M.A. in Comparative Literature, San Francisco State University

Research interests: Histories of psychoanalysis; critical theory; accumulation and enclosure; homelessness; Gothic Marxism; the picaresque novel; 20th century literature of the Americas.

B.A. in Comparative Literature, University of California Irvine, 2012

Research Interests: history of philosophy; psychoanalysis; Frantz Fanon

B.A. in Social Communications, Potíficia Universidades Católica do Rio de Janeiro, 2013

Research Interests: comparative race studies, humor, and popular culture/ new media, cross-racial and multicultural comedy, language, accents, critical refugee studies  

Research Interests: visual culture, spatiality, postcolonial studies, popular Indian cinema, psychoanalysis 

Research Interests: Marxism; critical theory; political theory; postcolonial/decolonial theory; colonialism and imperialism; postmodernity and globalization; theories of spatiality and mapping; anticolonial and socialist literary internationalisms.

Research Interests:  My research investigates Japanophone literature written by colonized Koreans and Taiwanese authors between 1850 and 1945 under the Japanese empire. I concentrate on subjects such as: multi-ethnic empire, colonial imaginaries and world-building, modernism, social realism, naturalism, literary satire, theories of race and empire, colonial modernity and postcolonialism in East Asia, the relationship between empire and nation-state, colonial and imperial Japanese critiques of liberal democratic modernity, and the influence of German and Austrian literary movements in modern Japanese literature.