2021 - 2022

Tess McNulty is a PhD candidate at Harvard, working in the areas of contemporary literature, digital culture, and the digital humanities. Her dissertation project, "Content Culture: Literature in the Age of Viral Media" examines how literary writers are...

Raymond De Luca is a Ph.D. candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures with a secondary field certification in Art, Film, and Visual Studies (AFVS) at Harvard University. His dissertation is tentatively titled “The Lives and Deaths of Animals in Soviet...

Barbara Sostaita received her PhD in Religious Studies from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2021. She is currently working on a manuscript based on her dissertation, an (auto)ethnographic experiment titled "Sanctuary Everywhere...

Catherine H. Nguyen earned her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her project Children Born of War, Adoptees Made by War: Vietnamese Diasporic Contestations of Empire and Race investigates the Vietnamese mixed...

Nicholas Myers is a historian of Mexico and the North American West. His book project, The Wayward Edge: Autonomy and Revolt in Greater Apachería, 1765-1896, is a longue durée history of Indigenous and peasant autonomy in the southern Rocky Mountains and...

Alessandra Jones received her PhD in Musicology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2021. Her research seeks to understand how people were and are moved by music, in terms both poetic and material. At the Mahindra Humanities Center she will...

Ali Glassie received her Ph.D. (English) from the University of Virginia in 2019. Her research explores the ways that the ocean’s biology, physical dynamics, and cultural histories influence the literature of the Americas; in doing so, it draws upon her...

Dr. Nicole Eitzen Delgado– from Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico–is a scholar of Latinx literary and cultural studies, nineteenth century American literature, and the literatures of the Americas. Her dissertation, Captivity Narratives Unbound: Mexican, Mexican...