Current Students
Sara Arribas Colmenar, Spanish, Dance and performance, theater, body representation, gender, modernism and the avant-garde
Joseph Glinbizzi, English, contemporary American novels, digitality and the phenomenology of reading, film and media studies
Rebecca Haddaway, English, visuality of race, empire, and the human in 19th-century American scientific and medical imaginaries
Dina Mahmoud, Comparative Literature, Arab/ic art and literature, comics, graphic novels, graffiti and performance
Michael Mclaughlin, German, Nazi-era occultism, comics, film, and contemporary representations of genocide
Aaron Montalvo, English, postmodernism, genre fiction, narrative, spatial, and visual understandings of the American West
Sierra S. Parker, English, visual rhetoric, sensation and experience, multimodal composition as applied to artificial intelligence, memory, art
Emma Rossby, French and Francophone Studies, comics and graphic novels, memory and popular culture
Ana Sofia Semo Garcia, Spanish, Jewish Diaspora in Latin America, the aesthetics of memory, cultural identity, memory, and nostalgia in photography, film, and art
Merve Sen, Comparative Literature, film, art, ethics and aesthetics of health and care in modern and contemporary narratives
Graduates
Kathryn Boyer, Ph.D. in English and Visual Studies, 2024. Assistant Professor of English, Randolph College. Dissertation title: “Fair Creature of an Hour”: Romantic Ballet and Its Affects of Disfigurement. Interests: Romantic ballet and performance, affect theory.
Jacqueline García Suárez, Ph.D. in Spanish and Visual Studies, 2023. Assistant Professor of Caribbean Studies, Columbia University. Dissertation title: El cuerpo (des)enritmado: Rompiendo con la habituación a la violencia en Cuba y Puerto Rico. Interests: Caribbean and diasporic literature, film, performance, and visual art; memory and trauma, displacement.
Camila Gutiérrez-Fuentes, Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Visual Studies, 2023. Assistant Professor of Video Games, CollegeUC and the Department of Communications at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Dissertation title: The Origins, Migrations, and Queer Imaginations of Global Women’s Comics Cultures. Interests: Japanese literature and visual culture, global graphic narratives, gender and sexuality, participatory culture.
Hannah A. Matangos, Ph.D. in German and Visual Studies, 2023. Program Assistant, Art of the Rural. Dissertation title: Light/Play: Art, Vision, and Futures since 1920. Interests: light-based art, photography and materiality, experimental cinema, ecocritical video game studies.
Robert Nguyen, Ph.D. in English and Visual Studies, 2023. Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Penn State. Dissertation Title: Silicon Valley Stories: Repetitions, Recursions, and Infinite Loops. Interests: television, film, and media studies; speculative fiction; Asian American studies., popular culture, speculative fiction, and representations of computing technology in film, television, and literature
Ibis Sierra Audivert, Ph.D in Spanish and Visual Studies, 2023. Fellow of the Consortium for Faculty Diversity and Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish, Davidson College. Dissertation title: Cultural Displacements: Intellectual Genealogies in the Latin American Queer Neobaroque (1950-1990). Interests: gender and sexualities, migration and diasporas, Latin American intellectual history, Black and Latina feminisms and the Caribbean, Latino/a feminism, emotion and affects.
Chrisann Zuerner, Ph.D. in German and Visual Studies, 2023. Assistant Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Virginia. Dissertation title: Shattered Frames, Re-Imagined Pasts: Objects of Memory in the Works of Maja Haderlap, Melinda Nadj Abonji, and Marica Bodrožić . Interests film, material representations of migration, memory, and trauma.