Cla Calabresi
PhD student, Italian (Modern Languages & Literatures)
Current CAMS Liaison
MA, University of Turin/University of Coimbra; BA, University of Genova
Research Interests: Feminist and Queer Film Theory; Semiotics of Gender and Visual Media; Post-Lacanian Psychoanalysis
Marta Cerreti
PhD student, Italian (Modern Languages & Literatures)
MA, University of Sapienza/University College Dublin; BA, University of Sapienza
Research Interests: philosophy of identity and recognition, comparative studies, gender studies, narratology, women’s writing
Yuyi Chen
PhD student, Anthropology
MA, University of Chicago, MA, Northwestern University; BA, Nankai University
Research Interests: mental illness, ethics, care, linguistic anthropology, media and technology, China
Rhiannon Clarke
PhD student, Spanish (Modern Languages & Literatures)
BA, Whitman College
Research Interests: Southern Cone literature, trauma and memory studies, visual media, film and graphic narrative
Bruno Franco
PhD student, Spanish & Portoguese (Modern Languages & Literatures)
BA, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Brazil; MA and Ph.D., Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.
Research Interests: Literary, Audiovisual, and Pharmacological Manifestations of Queer Experiences in America
Hans Frex
PhD student, Spanish & Portoguese (Modern Languages & Literatures)
Research Interests: Ecocriticism; Border Literature; Racialized Immigration; Community Care Practices
Bradley Harmon
PhD student, German (Modern Languages & Literatures)
MA, University of Washington; BA, University of Minnesota
Research Interests: German and Nordic studies; phenomenology and existentialism; philosophies of time, truth, and translation; environmental studies, materiality, corporeality; feminist, queer and intersectional theory
Jonas Stark Johnson
PhD student, Anthropology
BA, Brown University
Research Interests: New media, craft, online communities, gunsmithing, self-defense subcultures, gun ownership, United States (American South)
Marco Pomini
PhD student, History of Art
MA, Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa); BA/MA, University of Pisa
Research Interests: Christian sacred images (with focus on Early Modern period); history of the body; history of the senses; history and theory of cinema
Silvia Raimondi
PhD student, Italian (Modern Languages & Literatures)
BA/MA, University of Roma Tre
Research Interests: modern and contemporary Italian literature and cinema, women’s and gender studies
Camille Roche
PhD student, French (Modern Languages & Literatures)
MA, Paris-IV Sorbonne
Research Interests: Writings of the Self (journals, diaries, letters, autofiction, and other autobiographical forms); Documentary Photography
Verónica Ríos Saavedra
PhD student, Spanish (Modern Languages & Literatures)
BA, Universidad de Lima
Research interests: national identity, memory studies, indigenous archives, film studies, audiovisual representation of Amazonian culture, found footage
Lisa Schmitz
PhD student, German (Modern Languages & Literatures)
BA, University of Duisburg-Essen; MA, University of Connecticut
Research interests: Modernist to Contemporary Literature; Film & Literary Theory; Intersections of Philosophy and Literature
Holden Turner
PhD student, Spanish (Modern Languages & Literatures)
MA, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Research Interests: Narrative, Ethnography, Permaculture in the age of Anthropocene
Julien Tribotté
PhD student, French (Modern Languages & Literatures)
BA/MA, Ecole Normale Supérieure/Sorbonne (Paris)
Research Interests: Contemporary French literature and cinema, film aesthetics and theory, writing, documentary
Ignacio Veraguas
PhD student, Spanish (Modern Languages & Literatures)
MA, University of Chile (UCH); BA, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
Research Interests: Latin American Thought; Representation of Latin America