Alumni and Placements

Dissertation: “Colonial Ventures: the Poetics of Migration, Colonization, and Labor in Francophone North America”
Dissertation: “X-human: Radical Queer Politics in the wake of May ’68 France”
Dissertation: “The Phenomenal Body: Abstraction, Alienation, and Affinity in Translation”
Dissertation: “Radiant Mushrooms of Postwar Japanese Media”
Dissertation: “Tasty, Comestible Men: Metabolic Poetics in Senegal”
Dissertation: “Beyond the Sea that Separates: Francophone Voices of Oceania”
Dissertation: “Magic and Media: The Critical Concept of Telepathy (1918-1939)”
Dissertation: “The Anatomy of the Drives: An Intellectual History of Psychoanalysis in Russia from 1905 to 1930”
Dissertation: “Untimely Passages: Experiments in Venezuelan Literary and Visual Culture”

Placement: MLIS Program at University of California, Los Angeles

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

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

Placement: ACLS Fellow

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

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

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Placement: Writer/Editor at Sana

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”

Placement: Proposal Manager at Worldwide Clinical Trials

Dissertation: “Mnica Mayer’s collective art practice, 1978–2018”
Placement: Tenure track at University of Utah

Dissertation: “Dictatorial Duress: A Cinematic Mapping of Madrid from Dictatorship to Democracy”
Placement: Postdoctoral Scholar & Teaching Fellow at University of Southern California

Dissertation: “(Alter)Native Soil: Cultural Identity and National Consciousness in Transnational Taiwan Literature”
Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Southern California

Dissertation: “American Sovereignty and the Technologies of Global War”
Placement: Assistant Director of Peer Jacks at Northern Arizona University

Dissertation: “Errant Maternity: Threatening Femininity in Caribbean Discourses of Family, Nation, and Revolution”
Dissertation: “The Poetics of Disillusionment: The Legacy of the Eighteenth-Century Ceremonial Ode in Nineteenth-Century Russian Lyric Poetry and Pastoral Prose”

Dissertation: “Dances of Death: Verbal and Visual Transformations of the Body in Russian Modernism”
Placement: Instructor at the Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanities

Dissertation: “Alternative Realisms: Subjectivity-Production in Novels and Games”
Placement: Assistant Professor at California State University, San Bernardino

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

Placement: Assistant Professor at Boston College

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

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

Dissertation: “Witnessing Silence: Testimony, Performance, and the Poetics of the Unspeakable”
Placement: Assistant Director of Student Affairs at UC Berkeley School of Information

Dissertation: “Re-imagining Utopia in Post-Stalinist Science Fiction”
Placement: Program and Development Lead at USC Shoah Foundation

Dissertation: “Anti-Gritos: Screaming as Witnessing in Postwar Central America”
Placement: Adjunct Professorial Lecturer at American University

Dissertation: “The “Impersonal Project” in Lev Tolstoy’s Prose”
Placement: Assistant Professor at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Dissertation: “Mxico Necrtico: Queer Readings of the Politics of Death”

Placement: Assistant Professor at Santa Clara University

Dissertation: “The Veiled Screen: Uncanny Crystallizations in the Moving Image”
Placement: Fellow at the Centre for Renaissance & Reformation Studies, University of Toronto

Dissertation: “Blood is the Argument: Discourses of Blood, Character, and Affinity in Early Modern Drama”
Placement: IDEA Fellow at Stony Brook University

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

Placement: Associate Dean at The Cooper Union Library

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

Placement: Freelance (TV and Film Production)

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

Dissertation: “Becoming Darkness: Mexico, the United States and the Psychic Vanishing of Radical Blackness”
Placement: City University of Hong Kong

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

Dissertation: “Constructing Che Guevara: Figurations of an Epic Hero”
Placement: Assistant Professor of Teaching, Classics, at University of California, Irvine

Dissertation: “The Biopoetic: Toward a Posthuman Epic”

2023