{"id":8356,"date":"2023-09-06T10:49:56","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T14:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/?page_id=8356"},"modified":"2024-04-30T13:41:56","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T17:41:56","slug":"graduate-students","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/spanish-and-portuguese\/graduate-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate Students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Rhiannon Clarke<\/strong> is a PhD student in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. Her research interests include Southern Cone literature, Hispano-Filipino studies, and trauma and memory studies across visual media, particularly film and graphic narrative. Prior to Hopkins, she won a Fulbright award to Argentina and spent two years in the Peace Corps in Indonesia. She earned her BA in Spanish, with honors, and Philosophy, manga cum laude<\/em>, from Whitman College, where she also won a Louis B. Perry Summer Research Award to research Spanish graphic narrative.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n Lila Fabro<\/strong> is a PhD student in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. Her research centers on the intersections between Yiddish and Spanish in Argentine literature. She is particularly interested in the bilingual Yiddish-Spanish publications in Argentina, and in the emergence of postvernacular Yiddish in the works of Argentine contemporary authors. She earned her BA in Art History with an emphasis on Musicology from the University of Buenos Aires. Prior to Hopkins, she worked at the Research Area on Performing Arts and Jewishness at the Institute of Performing Arts \u201cDr. Ra\u00fal H. Castagnino\u201d based in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of Buenos Aires.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n Bruno Franco Medeiros<\/strong> is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Johns Hopkins University. His current research revolves around the uneven, nonetheless connected, stories of humans and nonhuman entities across the Americas as they appear through the lens of queer experiences that are represented in a myriad of forms, with a focus on their literary, audiovisual, and pharmacological manifestations. He earned his BA in History from Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Brazil, and his MA and Ph.D. in Social History from Universidade de S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil. As a historian, his research and publications examined the emergence of national historiographies and the modern experience of time in the nineteenth-century European and Lusophone worlds.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n Tanavi Jagdale<\/strong> <\/strong><\/strong>is a PhD candidate in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and the editorial assistant for the MLN<\/em> Hispanic Issue. Her research interests include 20th and 21st century Latin American literature, science fiction, fantastic literature, and comparative literature. She is also interested in examining fictional representation of economic crisis periods in Latin America as well as how cross-cultural narratives emerge\u2014an interests that comes from her rich cultural and multilingual Indian background. Prior to coming to Hopkins, Tanavi completed her MA in Economics from Fergusson College, Pune, and received the equivalent of a BA in Spanish from University of Pune, India. She taught Spanish for six years at Symbiosis Institute for Foreign and Indian Languages (SIFIL) and University of Pune, and also worked as Spanish Section Head at SIFIL, Pune. Tanavi has presented at the V Encuentro<\/span> Pr\u00e1ctico<\/span> de Profesores de Espa\u00f1ol organized by Instituto Cervantes, New Delhi in 2015. She was one of the five recipients of a MAEC-AECID scholarship from India in 2010. In addition to her academic work, Tanavi is a trained Indian Classical vocalist and holds a Bachelor equivalent degree in Indian Classical Music. <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n Ricardo Macias Cardoso<\/strong> <\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>received a B.A. in Philosophy from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and an M.A. in Contemporary Philosophy from the University of Paris 1 Panth\u00e9on – Sorbonne in France. His main research interests are the intersections between philosophy, literature, music, film, and photography in the twenty-first century. He also has a keen interest in literary translation. Ricardo has worked as a Lecturer in Philosophy at the Autonomous University of the State of Morelos and other academic institutions in Mexico. He has received the Punto de Partida Literary Essay Prize, the FICUNAM – Alfonso Reyes Film Criticism Prize, the Olga Harmony Theatre Criticism Prize, and the D\u00e9cima Muerte Poetry Prize.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>
Lila Fabro<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Bruno Franco Medeiros<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Tanavi Jagdale<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Ricardo Macias Cardoso<\/h2>\n\n\n\n