2009-2010 Graduate Students
Joshua Adams
Track II: Literature and Philosophy
Research Interests: Lyric poetry
Dissertation Title: "Some Problems of Paraphrase"
Advanced Residence
Melissa Anderson
Track II: History of Science
Research Interests: 19th-Century Science, the Novel, 19th-Century British Literature, 19th-Century French Literature
Dissertation Title: "Pathological Relations: Inheritance, Heredity, and the Family in the Victorian Novel"
Teaching Experience: The Writing Program, The College, UIC College of Medicine
Advanced Residence
Millie Bahn
Track II: Literature & History of Science
Research Interests: Late Nineteenth/Early Twentieth Century American Literature, History of the Neurosciences
Dissertation Title: "American Genius: Character and Representivity"
Teaching Experience: Humanities Core Instructor, "Media Aesthetics" (Fall 2002) and "Readings in World Literature (Winter 2003)
Advanced Residence
Michael Baltasi
Track II: Philosophy and Literature
Research Interests: Ethics, 19th and 20th C Irish Literature, the history of educational systems in Europe and Britain, the German concept of Bildung
Teaching Experience: Humanities 11000 Readings in World Literature; English 25920: Autobiography in the 20th Century; CA: English 24102 "The Idiot as Hero"; English 32300 "Marxism and Modern Culture"; Humanities Core Intern: (Readings in World Literature, Philosophical Perspectives on the Humanities, Human Being and Citizen); Drill Instructor: Polish Language
Dissertation Title: Ethical Revivals: Irish Literature and Moral Questions
Advanced Residence
Katarzyna (Kasia) Bartoszynska
Track I: English, Polish
Research Interests: The novel, intersections between history and literature, narrative theory, historiography, modernity, irony, utopias, post-1989 literature, autobiography
Dissertation Title: "Barbaric Ironies: Travels in Polish and Irish Literature"
Teaching Experience: Humanities 11000 Readings in World Literature; English 25920: Autobiography in the 20th Century; CA: English 24102 "The Idiot as Hero"; English 32300 "Marxism and Modern Culture"; Humanities Core Intern: (Readings in World Literature, Philosophical Perspectives on the Humanities, Human Being and Citizen); Drill Instructor: Polish Language
Advanced Residence
Tristan Bates
Track I: 20th Century German and Turkish Literature
Research Interests: Translation theory, representations of nationality, "body" theory, thing theory, memoirs, lyric poetry
Teaching Experience: Writing tutor at the Colorado College Writing Center 07-08
Second Year
Greg Baum
Track I: Spanish and English
Research Interests: Translation theory, especially with regard to English translations of Spanish and Italian texts during the Baroque / Early Modern period(s). Translations and texts of early Spanish and English colonialism. The application of translation theory to adaptations across media, primarily from literature to film
Teaching Experience: Oral English teacher at DaoXian No. 2 High School, Hunan Province, China
Second Year
Brian John Dominguez Berry
Track II: Philosophy and Literature
Research Interests: Philosophy and theater, 17th and 20th centuries, Spanish and French
First Year
Megan Boatright
Research Interests: Postcolonial studies; animal
representation; disability theory; psychoanalysis; Werther's
syndrome and similar failures/excesses of empathetic
reading, particularly in protest literature or confessional
writing
Teaching experience: French tutor at Oxford College of Emory
University, Jan 06-May 07
First year
Arno Bosse
Track II: German and Film Studies
Research Interests: German Film, Modernism, Film Sound
Teaching Experience: MAPH Preceptor; German Language Instructor; Little Red Schoolhouse Writing Intern
Dissertation Title: "From Kinema to Caligari: Expressionist Cinema in Wilhemine Germany"
Advanced Residence
Joel Calahan
Track II: Literature and Translation
Research Interests: 20th-century American and Italian poetry, translation theory, multilingual literature, linguistics, philosophy of language
Second Year
Ketlen Celestin
Track: I: English, French, Francophone and Arabic
Research Interests: French, Francophone & Arabic Literature; Translation Theory; The Poetics of Aperçu; Metaphysics, Phenomenology & Epistemology; Aesthetics; The Sublime; Black Modernism; Exoticism; Social Thought
Teaching Experience: Visiting Instructor, English I &II and African-American Literature (Suffolk Univ-Dakar); Instructor, English I & II (Suffolk Univ); Teacher of English, Literature & Rhetoric (The Governor's Academy); Graduate Assistant, Revisiting the Old World (Kokrobitey Institute)
Second Year
Beppi Chiuppani
Track I: English, Portuguese, Arabic
Research Interests: 20th c. Anglophone Literature, Modern Arabic Fiction, Luso-Brazilian Literature, Postcolonial Studies, Theories of Globalization, Theories of Comparative Literature and World Literature, Comparative Conceptions of Literature
Teaching Experience: Writing Intern at the University of Chicago Writing Program
Second Year
Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud
Track I: English, French, Arabic
Research Interests: Romantic Popular Culture; Exoticism in Literature and the Visual Arts; the Aesthetics of Historicist Genres; Race, Sexuality and Imperial Politics
Teaching Experience: Lecturer for self-designed course in the College, "Empire and Intimacy: Race and Sexual Fantasy in European Literature"; French Lecturer (101-203) in the College; TA for "The Arab-Israeli Conflict in Film and Literature"
Dissertation Title: Captive Audiences: Romantic Exoticism, Liberalism and the Publicity of Sensation"
Advanced Residence
Don Fette
Track I: British and German Literature and Philosophy
Research Interests: 19th Century British Literature (Romantic and Gothic); German Romanticism; 18th /19th Century German Philosophy; Nietzsche; Epic (Esp. Greek); Aesthetics; History of Philosophy
Teaching Experience: Course Assistant: Fairy Tales; Lector: Little Red Schoolhouse; Humanities Core Instructor: Greek Thought and Literature, Human Being and Citizen, Readings in World Literature; Lector: Effective Writing in Business and the Professions; Writing Intern Training Specialist: Pedagogies of Writing; Lector: Writing for Research: The Critical Importance of 'Problem'; Teaching Assistant: English Composition (Arizona State)
Advanced Residence
Laura Freseman
Track I: English, Urdu, Arabic
Research Interests: Orientalism in British literature; 19th Century Urdu Literature; Abbasid Poetry
Teaching Experience: Lector, Little Red School House, Intern, Readings in World Literature
Advanced Residence
Susan L. Hohl
Track II: Music
Research Interests: Romanticism, Nineteenth Century English, French & German Literature and European Art Music,reader-response theory and cognition, creative process
Dissertation Title: "The Reading Liszt: The Alchemy of Words and Music in the Reading Life and Song Composition of Franz Liszt"
Teaching Experience: Graduate Affairs, English (ESL); International House, Writing (ESL)
Advanced Residence
Selena Monika Horn
Track II: Philosophy and Literature
Research Interests: American and German Modernism, History of Literary Theory and Criticism
Dissertation Title: "Unlikely Muse: Rilke in American Poetry"
Teaching Experience: Humanities Intern, and Global Fictions TA
Advanced Residence
Haitham Ibrahim
Track II: Philosophy and Literature
Research Interests: Literature, Philosophy and the social sciences in the Modernist period; interdisciplinary approaches to literature; Modernism; English, Arabic, German literature
Teaching Experience: Instructor: University of Chicago: Reading Cultures (Fall 2008, 2007, 2006); University of Jordan: -Literary Theory and Criticism, 19th Century American Literature (Summer 2008) -Historical Introduction to Literary Theory (summer 2007) -Introduction to English Lit (summer 2003); Humanities Intern: (Reading Cultures, Media Aesthetics, Philosophical Perspectives); Arabic language instruction
Dissertation Title: “Body Analysis and the Breakdown of Action: A Study of a Modernist Paradigm”
Advanced Residence
Fumiko Kitamura
Track I: Japanese as the Major and the 20th C American Literature as the Minor, Spanish (Latin American Lit in the Viewpoint of Modernism Movements in the Future)
Research Interests: Modernism Movements in Early 20th C in Japan and America
Dissertation Title: "Aesthetics and Politics of Modernism in the Japanese Empire"
Advanced Residence
Valerie M. Levan
Track I: Modern Chinese Literature, Malay-Chinese Literature, German late 18th,19th C Literature
Research Interests: Chinese May Fourth/New Culture Movement;language reform and new vernacular literature; confessional narrative; discourses of love, new sexual morality and the Women's Movement. Specifically: Yu Dafu and the Creation Society writers
Dissertation Title: A Case for Self-Consciousness: Rereading Yu Dafu’s Longing for a World Literature
Teaching Experience: HUM Core Instructor (Readings in World Lit), Preceptor for Comp Lit undergraduate major, Writing Intern (Readings in World Lit), Elementary German for Beginners
Advanced Residence
Stephen Longmire
Track II: Literature and Art
Research Interests: Autobiography; Photography; Image/Text Relations; Landscape Studies
Dissertation Title: "Placing a Life: Autobiography in the Photo-texts of Wright Morris"
Teaching Experience: Dept. of Art, Music & Theatre, Georgetown University; Photo. Dept., Columbia College Chicago; Humanities Common Core, the College
Advanced Residence
David Markus
Track II: Literature and Art
Research Interests: 20th Century French and American
Literature and Art, Psychoanalysis, Postcolonialism, Visual
Culture, Testimony, Violence and Masculinity, Trauma Studies
Second Year
William Martin
Track I: German/Polish
Research Interests: Literature, Film, Translation
Dissertation Title: The Better, More Cheerful Life: Socialist
Comedy in the GDR, Poland, and Czechoslovakia
Teaching Experience: (2007-present) Preceptor, MAPH Program, Univ. of Chicago; (2005-2006) Lecturer, Core Humanities
Program, The College, Univ. of Chicago; (2000-2007) Lecturer,
German Dept., Univ. of Chicago; (2000-2002) Adjunct
Instructor, Writing Program, School of the Art Institute of
Chicago
Advanced Residence
Scott Mehl
Track I: Japanese and Spanish
R
esearch Interests: Japanese modernism; visual poetics
Teaching Experience: EFL (3 years); positions at the U. of Wisconsin-Madison & the U. of Wyoming; study abroad courses at Kobe Jogakuin Daigaku (Kobe, Japan); CA in the College
Advanced Residence
Marta Napiorkowska
Track I: American, Polish, and Czech Literatures
Research Interests: 20th century poetry, philosophy, social thought; social and literary imaginary; non-theological conceptions of soul; the Avant-garde; the Disillusionment
Teaching Experience: Writing Program, Polish Language Instructor
Advanced Residence
Monica Olaru
Track I: French and English
Research Interests: History of the novel; political philosophy of the 17th and 18th century, time and narrative; barbarism and civilization, heroism, egoism and the autobiographical genre
Teaching Experience: Writing Intern in the Writing Program (in the Human Being and Citizen core), French lector (French 101, 102 and 103), and CA for History and Theory of Drama, II
[Fourth Year
Chandani Patel
Track I: English and Portuguese
Research Interests: Postcolonial studies, migration & translation theory; modernism and immigrant literature; Indian Ocean & South Asian studies
Teaching Experience: English & Writing tutor at the Upward Bound Program, New York University (3 years)
Second Year
Brian Patrick Quinn
Track II: Literature and History
Research interests: Late-colonial and postcolonial African history; lived experiences of deprivation and development (the "poetics of poverty"); political economy of democracy and conflict in Africa; the "responsibility to protect"; Anglophone and Francophone sub-Saharan literature; methodology and interdisciplinarity in the humanities and social sciences;
scholarship in the public interest
Third Year
Theresa Semler
Track II: Literature and Philosophy
Research Interests: Psychoanalysis, Continental and analytic philosophy, the representation and concept of antisemitism, English, German, French, Israeli literature
Advanced Residence
Lauren Silvers
Track II: Literature and History
Research Interests: Fin-de-siècle (1848-1914) French and
German literature; French Symbolism; the intersection of 19th
century literature with the history of science and psychology;
psycho-physiology; pragmatism and phenomenology
Teaching Experience: The Writing Program, University of Chicago; Cowell T.A.ship, UC Santa Cruz—Humanities Core Course
Advanced Residence
Dustin Simpson
Track I: English, American and French Modern Literature
Research Interests: Poetry and poetry translation. Criticism. Modernist movements. Contemporary poetry
Teaching Experience: College Writing and Literature at several schools for last seven years
Advanced Residence
John Edward Stone-Mediatore
Track I: American Literature (Major) and 20th-Century French Literature (Minor)
Research Interests: Postmodernist Fiction, Psychoanalysis, Aesthetics, Interrelations of Music and Literature
Teaching Experience: taught courses in Comparative Literature, Indiana University; Intern and Lector in the Writing Program and Humanities, University of Chicago; currently teaching courses in Philosophy and Humanities-Classics at Ohio Wesleyan University
Dissertation Title: "Postmodernism and Schizophrenia: Theory, Literature, Culture"
Advanced Residence
Kathryn Swanton
Track I: Early modern English, Spanish, and Italian drama, and theater theory
Dissertation Title: “More Human than Divine: the Complexity of Forgiveness in Shakespeare and Golden Age Comedias”
Advanced Residence
Arthur T. Thornton
Track II: Literature and Geography
Research Interests: 20th century Anglo-American urban literature and the city
Teaching Experience: Currently at Yokohama National University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Rikkyo University
Dissertation Title: "Representing the Modern City: Tokyo in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Visual and Verbal Arts"
Advanced Residence
Jeanne Tillman
Track I: English and French
Research Interests: Sixteenth and seventeenth English drama, especially plays about France; seventeenth and eighteenth century French drama, especially plays about England
Advanced Residence
Jonathan Ullyot
Track I: French and German 19th-20th century
Research Interests: 20th C German and French novel and theater, philosophy and cultural theory
Dissertation Title: "Aesthetics of Failure: Beckett, Céline, Kafka"
Advanced Residence
Lyubomir-Michele Todorov Uzunov
Track 1: English Literature as the major and French Literature as the minor
Research Interests: English, French, and Italian 18th century literature; Aesthetic morphology and socio-historical figuration; theory and practice of literary interpretation
Advanced Residence
Shengyu Wang
Track I: Chinese, English
Research Interests: Chinese vernacular fiction, Renaissance literature, the epic genre, narrative theory
Teaching Experience: Fall 2006-Spring 2008: Instructor of Freshman Composition at Iowa State University; Summer 2007: Language facilitator (Mandarin) in Upward Bound Program, Iowa; Summer 2009: TA, Summer School on Literary and Philosophical Theory (Academia Sinica), Taipei
Second Year
Dongfeng Xu
Track II: Religion and Literature
Research Interests: Missionary literature in China
Dissertation Title: "The Culture and Rhetoric of Friendship: When the Occident Meets the Orient"
Advanced Residence