University of Southern California
USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences  

graduate students

Nada Ayad
Email: nayad@usc.edu
Education: BA USC,08/2001 MA University of Leeds,06/2005
Interests: After living in France for a couple of years, earning an MA in Modern English Literature, and then teaching community college, Nada returns to USC to ... [more]
 
Caterina Crisci
Email: crisci@usc.edu
Education: Laurea University of Rome La Sapienza,12/2002
Biography: Caterina Crisci received her Laurea in Hebrew from the University of Rome's "La Sapienza" after completing a translation of selected works by Yehuda A ... [more]
 
Monica Cure
Email: cure@usc.edu
Education: B.A. Kenyon College ,05/2002
Biography: Monica Cure received her BA from Kenyon College, majoring in English and Spanish Literature, minoring in Art History. After graduating, she spent two ... [more]
Dissertation: Text with a View: Turn-of-the-Century Literature and the Invention of the Postcard
 
Eike Exner
Email: eexner@usc.edu
Education: NONE Univ of Tokyo, BA Harvard University,06/2008
Biography: After getting his BA from Harvard and spending a year at Tokyo University, Eike is now working on his PhD at USC. His academic interests include tran ... [more]
 
Michelle Kim
Email: kimmiche@usc.edu
Education: B.A. English, Oberlin College,05/1995 M.A. Comparative Literature, UC - Los Angeles,01/2003
Dissertation: Antipodes of Asian American Literature: Heterolingualism and the Asian Americas
 
Sandra Kim
Email: sandrask@usc.edu
Education: BA Stanford Univ,09/2001
 
Ana Lee
Email: analee@usc.edu
Education: M.A. Spanish, New York University, B.A. English, SUNY - Binghamton,
Biography: I am interested in the intersections of different diasporas and collective memories that find hybrid expression at the convergences of literature, pop ... [more]
Employment: University of Southern California, Pre-Graduate Advisor
 
Yu-Kai Lin
Email: yukailin@usc.edu
Education: B.A. English, National Central University, Taiwan,08/2004 MSc. Gender Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK,11/2006
Biography: I am interested in literary and critical theory, queer feminist theory and cultural study in general. My current focus includes deconstructionism, tr ... [more]
 
Phillip Lobo
Email: plobo@usc.edu
Education: BA Tufts University,05/2008
 
Shao-Ling Ma
Email: shaolinm@usc.edu
Education: M.A. National University of Singapore, B.A. National University of Singapore,06/2004
Biography: Shaoling Ma graduated from the National University of Singapore with an MA in English Literature. Her research interests include Marxism, continental ... [more]
Dissertation: The Social Life of Nations: A Comparative Study of American and Chinese Utopian Fiction, 1888-1906
 
Seth Michelson
Email: smichels@usc.edu
Education: B.A. Johns Hopkins Univ, M.F.A. Sarah Lawrence College,
Biography: Seth Michelson studies the poetry and poetics of the Americas in both English and Spanish, with a particular interest in their relation to questions o ... [more]
 
Lindsay Nelson
Email: lrnelson@usc.edu
Education: B.A. Univ Texas Austin,05/2000 BFA Univ Texas Austin,05/2000 M.A. Sophia University,07/2006
Biography: After obtaining undergraduate degrees in English literature and drama, Lindsay Nelson studied Japanese literature at Tokyo's Sophia University, where ... [more]
 
Lacey Schauwecker
Email: lschauwe@usc.edu
Education: BA Santa Clara University,06/2008 MA University of Sussex,09/2009
Biography: Lacey's interests include theories of subjectivity, autobiography, feminine writing, and Chicano/a literature. For her Master's degree in Critical Th ... [more]
 
Jaclyn Simon
Email: jaclynsi@usc.edu
Education: NONE Eugene Lang College, NONE Richmond Intl Clg, NONE William Rainey Harper College, BA New School University,05/2000 MA Art Center College of Design,04/2007
 
Richard Snyder
Email: rbsnyder@usc.edu
Biography: Rick Snyder studies ancient and contemporary literatures, with a focus on the social and historical dimensions of poetic production and reception. Hi ... [more]
 
Samuel Solomon
Email: sbsolomo@usc.edu
Education: B.A. Brown University,05/2005
Biography: Sam Solomon grew up in New York City and has an AB in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University. He is currently working on the status of "repro ... [more]
 
Lauren Weindling
Email: weindlin@usc.edu
Education: BA Brown University,05/2009
 
Ricardo Wilson
Email: rawilson@usc.edu
Education: BA Brown University,05/2000
Biography: Ricardo is interested in 20th and 21st century literature from the Americas. His explorations thus far include: racial construction in Latin America w ... [more]