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]
 
Basile Beaty,
Email: bbeaty@usc.edu
Education: BA Amherst College, NONE Connecticut Coll, MA Univ Mississippi,
Biography: Amherst College 2008 Double Major Russian Literature, English University of Mississippi 2008-2010 Masters of Curriculum and Education North Pano ... [more]
 
Kristen Besinque,
Email: kbesinqu@usc.edu
Education: BA USC,05/2010
 
Vincent Cervantes,
Email: vcervant@usc.edu
Education: B.A., Religious Studies, University of California, Riverside,2010 M.T.S., Theology, Harvard Divinity School,2012
Interests: Within Latin American and theological discourses, my work seeks to explore the social, existential, and embodied representations of queer subjects in ... [more]
Biography:

With an extensive background in religious studies and theology, Vincent Cervantes is interested in exploring the intersectionality and intertextual ... [more]

 
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]
 
Inessa Gelfenboym,
Email: gelfenbo@usc.edu
Education: BA Russian, Amherst College,05/2009
Interests: My research interests include perception in modernism and its precursors, science in literature (especially physics), and everything to do with Peters ... [more]
 
Sandra Kim,
Email: sandrask@usc.edu
Education: BA Stanford Univ,09/2001
Biography:

Research interests:

war and memory; ethnicity and identity; diaspora and phenomenology; transculturalism and translocalism; representations ... [more]

 
Ali Kulez,
Email: kulez@usc.edu
Education: B.A. Bogazici University,2009 M.A. University of Warwick,2010
Biography:

Having spent a year in Argentina, Ali studied Civil Engineering for a year and a half. Ali changed his major to English in 2004 (He is very happy a ... [more]

 
Ana Lee,
Email: analee@usc.edu
Education: M.A. Spanish, New York University, B.A. English, SUNY - Binghamton, Pós-Graduação Lato Sensu em Cultura e Arte Barroca Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto,01/2012
Interests: Nineteenth and twentieth-century Brazilian and Cuban literature and visual culture; modern Chinese history; post-memory
Employment: USC, Nanking Massacre Testimonies - Project co-lead
 
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,11/2006
Interests: My dissertation focuses on the epistemology of Chinese fiction (xiaoshuo) in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. I investigate how the mo ... [more]
Employment: East Asian Studies Center, USC, Language Instructor/Teaching Associate
 
Phillip Lobo,
Email: plobo@usc.edu
Education: BA Tufts University,05/2008
 
Richard McLaughlin,
Email: richarsm@usc.edu
Education: MA SUNY-Center at Stony Brook, BS Towson University,12/2009
Interests: The history of (de-)colonization and the question of postcolonialism, African and Caribbean Francophone relations, history and theory of revolutions, ... [more]
Biography:

Richard had the opportunity to study in a department and with faculty at Towson that encouraged interdisciplinarity; thus, he found himself focusin ... [more]

 
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]
 
Vanessa Ovalle,
Email: vovalle@usc.edu
Education: B.A. Comparative Literature, Cornell University,2010
Biography:

My interests include poetry and poetics of Latin America, the French Caribbean and the United States; translatio ... [more]

 
Ksenia Radchenko,
Email: kradchen@usc.edu
Education: Specialist. Philosophy, Moscow State University,2007
 
Guillermo Rodriguez,
Email: grodriqu@usc.edu
Education: BA Princeton Univ,06/1999 MFA USC,05/2004
Biography:

Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Guillermo published his first short story when he was twelve years old. He went on to pursue a degree in ... [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]
 
Laurel Schmuck,
Email: schmuck@usc.edu
Education: B.A. Russian, University of Maryland, College Park,12/2009
 
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]
 
Mary Traester,
Email: traester@usc.edu
Education: B.A. Tufts University ,05/2000
Biography: Mary Traester’s research interests include 19th and 20th century British and American literature, French and German literature, and the places these s ... [more]
 
Thomas Watson,
Email: tmwatson@usc.edu
Education: BA Lawrence Univ,06/2011 B.A. Russian, Lawrence University,06/2011
 
Lauren Weindling,
Email: weindlin@usc.edu
Education: BA Brown University,05/2009
 
Ricardo Wilson II,
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]