Alumni and Placements

Dissertation: “Naming Violence: The Politics and Possibilities of Naming in Latin America and the Caribbean”

Dissertation: “Constelaciones de lo comn: arte y utopa en Latinoamrica”

Dissertation: “Disobedient Aesthetics: Radical Intimacies Among Indigenous Peoples and Plants in the Americas”

Dissertation: “Experiments in Belief: Chris Marker, The Book, and the Technics of Documentary, 1952–1966”

Dissertation: “Deciphering Representation: Sowing The Seeds of Afro-Descendant Aesthetics In Contemporary Latin American Film”

Dissertation: “Polticas de la (in)traducibilidad: Amrica latina y la tachadura del origen”

Dissertation: “On Vegetables and Vermin: The Politics of Insect-Plant Encounters from the Early Modern to the Anthropocene”

Dissertation: “Chattel Viewership of Black Histories in the Streaming Age”

Dissertation: “To See with Eyes Unclouded: The Alternative Epistemologies of Fantasy Fiction”

Dissertation: “Vital Sounds: Unsettling Voice in Latin America”

Advisor: Erin Graff Zivin

Dissertation: “Colonial Ventures: the Poetics of Migration, Colonization, and Labor in Francophone North America”

Advisor: Lydie Moudileno

Placement: Grants Manager, Los Angeles LGBT Center

Dissertation: “X-human: Radical Queer Politics in the wake of May ’68 France”

Advisor: Panivong Norindr

Placement: Communications Officer, Antidiskriminierungsstelle des Bundes, Berlin, DE

Dissertation: “The Phenomenal Body: Abstraction, Alienation, and Affinity in Translation”

Advisor: Akira Mizuta Lippit

Placement: Assistant Professor of World Languages and Cultures, North Carolina State University

Dissertation: “Radiant Mushrooms of Postwar Japanese Media”

Advisor: Akira Mizuta Lippit

Placement: Lecturer of French and Francophone Studies & Spanish, California State University, Long Beach

Dissertation: “Tasty, Comestible Men: Metabolic Poetics in Senegal”

Advisor: Lydie Moudileno

Placement: Dornsife Fellow in General Education, University of Southern California

Dissertation: “Beyond the Sea that Separates: Francophone Voices of Oceania”

Advisor: Olivia C. Harrison

Placement: Instructor, Composition, University of California, Irvine

Dissertation: “Magic and Media: The Critical Concept of Telepathy (1918-1939)”

Advisor: Akira Mizuta Lippit

Placement: Dornsife Fellow in General Education, University of Southern California

Dissertation: “The Anatomy of the Drives: An Intellectual History of Psychoanalysis in Russia from 1905 to 1930”

Advisor: Thomas Seifrid

Dissertation: “Untimely Passages: Experiments in Venezuelan Literary and Visual Culture”

Advisor: Erin Graff Zivin

Placement: Research and Instruction Librarian, University of Connecticut

Dissertation: “The Chinovnik and the Rond-de-cuir: Bureaucratic Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Russian and French Literature”

Advisor: Natania Meeker

Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Southern California

Dissertation: “Seeing Where There’s Nothing to See: French Filmmakers and Writers and Everyday Life in Postwar Social Space”

Advisor: Panivong Norindr

Placement: Lecturer, Modern Languages and Literatures, Santa Clara University

Dissertation: “Writing Resistance: sex, love and feminine protest in Moroccan literature and film”

Advisor: Olivia C. Harrison

Placement: French Instructor, World Literatures, Flintridge Sacred Heart

Dissertation: “Identity Trouble: National Bodies and French Hospitality”

Advisor: Panivong Norindr

Placement: Writer, Fitness+, Apple

Dissertation: “Writing The Three Amigos in English: A Case Study Examining the Ethics and Politics of Writing Journalistic and Academic Film Criticism on (Trans)National Cinema in the United States”

Advisor: Laura Isabel Serna

Placement: Proposal Manager at Worldwide Clinical Trials

Dissertation: “Monica Mayer’s collective art practice, 1978–2018”

Advisor: Panivong Norindr

Placement: Assistant Professor of World Languages and Cultures, University of Utah

Dissertation: “Dictatorial Duress: A Cinematic Mapping of Madrid from Dictatorship to Democracy”

Advisor: Julian Gutierrez-Albilla

Placement: Dornsife Teaching Fellow in General Education, University of Southern California

Dissertation: “(Alter)Native Soil: Cultural Identity and National Consciousness in Transnational Taiwan Literature”

Advisor: Brian Bernards

Placement: Program Officer, US Programs, American Council of Learned Societies

Dissertation: “American Sovereignty and the Technologies of Global War”

Advisor: Samuel Steinberg

Placement: Director, Peer Jacks Mentoring, Northern Arizona University

Dissertation: “Errant Maternity: Threatening Femininity in Caribbean Discourses of Family, Nation, and Revolution”

Advisor: Roberto Ignacio Diaz

Dissertation: “The Poetics of Disillusionment: The Legacy of the Eighteenth-Century Ceremonial Ode in Nineteenth-Century Russian Lyric Poetry and Pastoral Prose”

Advisor: Sarah Pratt

Dissertation: “Dances of Death: Verbal and Visual Transformations of the Body in Russian Modernism”

Advisor: John Bowlt

Placement: Assistant Teaching Professor of English
English Department Head, The Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanities, Ball State University

Dissertation: “Alternative Realisms: Subjectivity-Production in Novels and Games”

Advisor: Hilary Schor

Placement: Associate Professor of English, California State University, San Bernardino

Dissertation: “Poetics and Poetisas of the U.S. Spanish-Language Press, 1854-1915”

Advisor: Roberto Ignacio Diaz

Placement: Assistant Professor, Hispanic Studies, Boston College

Dissertation: “Gastropoetics: Cultural Figurations of Eating in Modern Argentina, Brazil, and Cuba”

Advisor: Erin Graff Zivin

Placement: Independent Scholar

Dissertation: “The Translation of American Comic Strips in Pre-World War II Japan and the Origins of Contemporary Narrative Manga”

Advisor: Akira Mizuta Lippit

Placement: Editor-in-Chief of Cobra Milk

Dissertation: “Witnessing Silence: Testimony, Performance, and the Poetics of the Unspeakable”

Advisor: Akira Mizuta Lippit

Placement: Assistant Director of Student Affairs, University of California, Berkeley School of Information

Dissertation: “Re-imagining Utopia in Post-Stalinist Science Fiction”

Advisor: Thomas Seifrid

Placement: Program Manager, Educational Media Innovation Studio, Arizona State University Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation

Dissertation: “Anti-Gritos: Screaming as Witnessing in Postwar Central America”

Advisor: Erin Graff Zivin

Placement: Adjunct Professorial Lecturer, World Languages and Cultures, American University

Dissertation: “The “Impersonal Project” in Lev Tolstoy’s Prose”

Advisor: Alexander Zholkovsky

Placement: Consultant, and Lecturer, University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice

Dissertation: “Mexico Necrotico: Queer Readings of the Politics of Death”

Advisor: Erin Graff Zivin

Placement:  Assistant Professor of Cinema and Television Arts,  California State University, Northridge

Dissertation: “The Veiled Screen: Uncanny Crystallizations in the Moving Image”

Advisor: Julian Guterriez-Albilla

Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of English and Film Studies Wilfrid Laurier University

Dissertation: “Blood is the Argument: Discourses of Blood, Character, and Affinity in Early Modern Drama”

Advisor: Heather James

Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Asian and Asian American Studies, Stony Brook University

Dissertation: “The Anxiety of Interrupted Kinship: Transpacific Cultures of Korean Historical Trauma”

Advisor: Akira Mizuta Lippit

Placement: Acting Dean and Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, The Cooper Union

Dissertation: “Revolution and Domesticity in Egyptian Women’s Political Texts”

Advisor: Antonia Szarbari

Placement: Freelance (TV and Film Production)

Dissertation: “Neighbor Plots: The Ethics of Strangeness in the Modern Gothic”

Advisor: Hilary Schor

Placement: Associate Professor of English, Williams College

Dissertation: “Becoming Darkness: Mexico, the United States and the Psychic Vanishing of Radical Blackness”

Advisor: Roberto Ignacio Diaz

Placement: Lecturer, City University of Hong Kong

Dissertation: “Conditions of Literary Modernism: A Conceptual History of Chinese Literature, 1860-1925”

Advisor: Dominic Cheung