Literature

Pelin Kivrak received her PhD in Comparative Literature from Yale University in 2019. Her dissertation, “Imperfect Cosmopolitans: Representations of Responsibility and Hospitality in Contemporary Near Eastern Literatures, Film and Arts,” brings into...

Corey Byrnes is Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese Culture at Northwestern University, where he teaches courses in Chinese literature and visual culture, Sinophone cinema, and the environmental humanities. He received a PhD in Chinese Literature from...

Konstanze Baron studied Modern History and Modern Languages (French) at the Queen’s College, Oxford University (BA 2000, MSt 2001) and at Université Denis Diderot Paris VII (DEA 2002) before moving on to Konstanz, where she obtained her PhD in 2010 after...

Julia Ng received a Ph.D. in Comparative Literary Studies from Northwestern University in 2012 with a dissertation on Walter Benjamin's mathematical revision of the formal possibility of Kant's perpetual peace project. Her research, which centers on the...

Michaela Schäuble is Assistant Professor in Social Anthropology at Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (Germany), where she also received a Ph.D. in 2010. She studied comparative literature and social anthropology at Tübingen University and Yale...

Kyung-Ho Cha is Assistant Professor of German Literature at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. He received his PhD in German Literature from the Technical University Berlin in 2008. His primary work is in the field of literature and science, focusing on...

Nirvana Tanoukhi’s current scholarship and pedagogy asks: How does a work of literature like a novel, especially one from or about a "distant" place, establish a sense of context to ground an interpretation? On what scale – geographic, social, linguistic...

Rachael Duarte Riascos is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature, and Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. Her dissertation, “We Speak Violence: The Political Effects of Our Narrative Structure,” reevaluates the ethics that are...

Zhou Hau Liew received his PhD in comparative literature and literary theory from the University of Pennsylvania in 2017. His current project rethinks the archives of the Malayan Emergency (1948-60), focusing on British resettlement policies imposed as...

Valeria G. Castelli received her PhD in Italian Studies from New York University in 2016, with a dissertation on the rhetoric, ethics, and politics of contemporary Italian documentary film. Her current project examines Italian documentary films made over...