Elizabeth Richmond-Garza, Director
208 W. 21st St. Stop B5003, Austin, Tx 78712 • 512-471-1925
Graduate Student List
Hannah Alpert-Abrams
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Interests:Spanish & Latin American Literature, Jorge Luis Borges, nationalism, mythology, performance theory, folklore, apocalyptic literature, heteroglossia, (abnormal) psychology.Carlos M Amador
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Ph.D., Program in Comparative Literature, The University of Texas at AustinAndrew Bennett
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My research interests include 20th Century Cuban Literature, Cuba's Theatre of the Absurd, 20th Century Latin American Literature, European Avant-Garde Theatre, Modernism/post-modernism, Joyce/Beckett.Sarah (Pearl) Brilmyer
Graduate student
s.pearl.brilmyer@mail.utexas.edu
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the 19th-century novel and literary sketch, the history of German philosophy and science, and 21st-century digital literacies.Fu-Ying (Flora) Chuang
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Chinese literature, Chinese/Taiwan Cinema, and Popular Culture in East Asia; Faculty Adviser: Yvonne ChangYekaterina Cotey
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My research interests include the works of Alexander Pushkin and Fyodor Dostoevsky, English and Russian novel in the 19th century, English and Russian folklore and folk superstition, interconnection of literature and folklore, the 19th century popular journalism, representations of uncanny children, everyday life in Victorian England.John Destafney
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My research interests center on intersections between literature and continental philosophy with particular emphasis on Brazilian literature, Drama, and the long nineteenth century.Heather Eure
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Nineteenth-Century French and British Literature, Italian Language and Literature, Art History, Fashion Studies, Women's and Gender StudiesJonathan Fleck
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I study literary modernisms, especially in poetry, focusing on Chile, Argentina, Brazil, and the United States. As an offshoot of the cross-cultural nature of this study, I study the theory and practice of literary translation.Marina Flider
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My interests include Russian and Hebrew literature and cultural studies focused on kitsch, media and violence.Michael Flynn
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Combat trauma narratives and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Renaissance literature (English and Italian), Chinese Classical poetry, psychology, critical theory, Spanish literature.Cory Hahn
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My research interests include Inter-American literature and film, violence and human rights, and new media.Dustin Hixenbaugh
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19th & 20th Century; Gender Studies; Border Studies; Translation.Anna Katsnelson
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anna_katsnelson@mail.utexas.edu
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American drama, Brazilian and Russian 20th century fiction, Jewish Studies.Julianna Leachman
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19th and 20th century Russian literature; literature of the American South; space and place; the bodyKatie Logan
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Contemporary Arabic literature; Arab women writers; conflict, trauma and lossMartino Lovato
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I am interested in the modern Mediterranean. I focus on orientalism and the post-colonial in Arabic, French and Italian literatures, paying particular attention to the intersections between aesthetics and historiography.Anna M Marin
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Global youth and violence, specifically narco-literature and the "War on Drugs" in Colombia and literature on the "War on Terror" from the Middle EastMiguel Santos-Neves
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I am interested in representations of the plantation home in the Americas during the modernist period and in representations of miscegenation in American and Brazilian literature during the 19th and 20th century.Simone Sessolo
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Education
Doctorate, The University of Texas at Austin
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Violence Studies, 20th/21th C British and Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Literary TheoryMaryam Shariati
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Contemporary English and Persian Literature, Diaspora Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Film StudiesRoanne Sharp
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I work on Latin American authors who spent significant time in South Asia and the writings they produced as a result. I also work on responses to a globalizing market for South Asian texts in Hindi, Urdu and English, especially responses to writing from Latin America.Irina Simova
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Latin, Ancient Greek and German. I am interested in studying contemporary literary theory with a focus on German critical theory of the 20th century (Heidegger, Blumenberg, hermeneutics).Jayita Prashant Sinha
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Women's Writing, Folk Art, Mystic Traditions in Medieval England and India, Christianity and Hinduism.Thammika Songkaeo
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Emile Zola, multicultural identity (“third-culture kids”), the role of food in culture and identityFrank Strong
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Music and Archive in Literature; 20th Century Latin American literature; African American Literature; James JoyceFatma Tarlaci
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19th - 20th century British Literature, Contemporary Turkish Literature, Identity Politics, Orientalism, World Literature and translation studiesBhavya Tiwari
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Translation, Comparative and World literature, Latin American and South Asian Parallels, Poetry, and Literary AestheticsMehdi Torabian
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Early modern drama, Iranian contemporary drama, new historicismNathaniel Zingg
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