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
Käthe Erichsen
PhD student, German (Modern Languages & Literatures)
BA/MA, Wayne State University
Research Interests: decolonization of German literary canon, Black-German Studies, poetics and creative writing, philology, women’s & gender studies
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: martial training, self-defense, private security, populism, Christianity, identity, sovereignty, ethics, political organizing and new media, United States (American South)
Francisco Perez Marsilia
PhD candidate, Spanish (Modern Languages & Literatures)
MA, Yale University; MA, Northern Illinois University; BA, University of Navarra
Research Interests: interplay of race, origins, diaspora, and literature in the Caribbean
Manon Page
PhD candidate, French (Modern Languages & Literatures)
MA, Michigan State University; BA, Lycée Descartes/Université François Rabelais
Research Interests: discourse and counterculture, France in the 1960’s and 1970’s, care and vulnerability, social media, history and representation of witches and witchcraft
David Patterson
PhD student, Spanish (Modern Languages & Literatures)
MA, Baylor University
Research Interests: 20th- and 21st-century Southern Cone literature, migration, and human rights
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
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
Christopher Taylor
PhD candidate, Comparative Thought & Literature
BA, Yale University
Research Interests: Media theory and history; animation and new media; Japanese cinema and literature; comparative film theory; philosophies of technology; history, philosophy, and aesthetics of artificial life
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