First	Last	Year	Languages	Research Interests	Email
Christopher J.	Ames	2002	American, French, Spanish, Latin	Marxist theory, Postcolonial theory, Narratology, Classical (Greek and Latin) thought and literature, early to mid-20th century Transatlantic (High) Modernism, French Avant-Garde movements, Noir, and Caribbean lit.	officiumvocat@yahoo.com
Rebecca	Blustein	1999	ld/Middle Irish, Old/Middle English, Welsh, Latin	Medieval literatures of the British Isles, oral tradition, and medieval legendary histories	rblustei@ucla.edu
Whitney	Braun	2004	English, French, and German	18th-century British and French literature, cultural studies, theories of identity, the narrative	wbraun@ucla.edu
Chris	Cao	1997	English, Vietnamese, French, Mandarin	African, Caribbean, and Vietnamese literature, postcolonialism, diaspora, feminism, art history	hoyden@ucla.edu
Talar	Chahinian	2001	Armenian, French	French-Armenian writers, who have survived the Trauma theory; Armenian genocide of 1915 and are writing in France during the period between the World Wars. I'm interested in reading the works of these writers as testimony to trauma in the Aftermath.	chahiniantalar@hotmail.com
Thosaeng (Jib)	Chaochuti	2002	German, English, Thai	media theory, question of the Other, Thai literature/film	thosaeng@ucla.edu
Allison	Crumly	2004	French, Italian, English	Francophone African literature; postcolonial studies; textbooks/children's literature;  immigration, exile, and nationality	acrumly@ucla.edu
Ashley	Davidson	2003	Spanish, Portuguese	Right now, Literature of the Americas, Chicano/a Literature, African-American Literature, issues of nation, gender, and identity	ashley10@ucla.edu
Myrna	Douzjian	2003	Armenian, Russian, French	19th-20th century literature; contemporary film & drama; translation theory & practice	douzjian@aol.com
Magdalena	Edwards	2001	English, Spanish, Portuguese, French	Literature of the Americas, Contemporary Poetry, Modernism, Translation	edwardsm@ucla.edu
Rita	Emmanouilidou	NA	French, Italian, Spanish, Modern Greek	early Modern European literature	NA
Lisa B.	Felipe	2004	Pilipino (Tagalog), Spanish	Filipino Literature in both Pilipino and English, Post Colonial studies, Asian-American Literature/Studies	lfelipe@ucla.edu
David	Fieni	1999	French and Arabic	My dissertation treats the concept of decadence in a comparative framework, examining the intersection of disourses that claim to evaluate cultural and social vitality. Writers I work on include Jean Genet, C‚line, Abdelwahhab Meddeb, Tahir Wattar, al-Khansa, Georges Perec, Mahmoud Darwish, Tayeb Salih,  Georges Bataille, Patrick Chamoiseau, Assia Djebar, and Tahar Djaout.	dfieni@ucla.edu
Marian	Gabra	2003	Arabic and Spanish	NA	mgabra18@yahoo.com
Claire	Gallou	2000	French, American (United States), German	Twentieth century poetry, St‚phane Mallarm‚, James Merrill, Symbolism; theories of language and signs, occultism, music theory and history. [Dissertation Title: "A irgin's Lovers: James Merrill, St‚phane Mallarm‚, and the Symbolist Quest"]	cgallou@yahoo.com
William	Hendel	1997	French, English, philosophy	17th and 18th centuries: Representations of nature; landscape painting and garden design; history of aesthetics; rhetoric of narrative form; theater history	hendel@humnet.ucla.edu
Barbara	Hui	2002	German, English, Spanish	20th century German lit, media studies (digital/new media, film), history and literature, humanities computing	bhui@humnet.ucla.edu
Seth	Jameson	2000	Arabic, French	Modern Arabic Literature, Francophone Literature, postcolonial theory, narrative theory, historical novels	NA
Lilit	Keshishyan	2002	Armenian, English, Spanish	20th Century Armenian and American Literature; literary translations; the interrelations of literature, politics and identity	keshishl@ucla.edu
Neetu	Khanna	2003	Hindi/Urdu and Spanish	Postcolonial and Ethnic Studies, Third world/transnational feminism, queer theory, Bollywood film in the South Asian diaspora	ni2@ucla.edu
Nick	Kramer	2000	Spanish and French	Literature of the Americas, contemporary Latin American literature, dictatorship and indigenismo	nmkramer@ucla.edu
Michael	La Masse	2003	English, Latin, German, ancient Greek	Poetry and Modern Technology; Fusion of Antiquity and Modernity	mlamasse@ucla.edu
Tim Shing-Him	Lee	2004	Chinese, Russian, Japanese	Yu Hua, Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature, Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia	TimSLee@ucla.edu
Peter	Lehman	2003	Portuguese, Spanish, French	Brazilian Literature and cultural studies; the interwar avant-garde, colonial motifs, and figures of incorporation (in poetry, fiction, film, and theory, from anthropophagy to the mimetic faculty); the intersections of hermetic modernism and urban restructuring (from images of urban ruins and the pilot plan to the "geopolitics of hibernation"); rxism and aesthetics; the vicissitudes and critique of dependency theory, including current debates on globalization in Brazil and Latin America.	pjlehman@ucla.edu
Katherine	McLoone	2005	English, French, Italian, Latin	Medieval epics and romances, narrative theory, ekphrasis, intertextuality, and medieval theories of reading	kmcloone@ucla.edu
Simona	Livescu	2004	Arabic, French, German, Hebrew, Romanian	20th century Diasporic thought, Linguistic and Thematic exile, Cross-Concepts in Phenomenology, Hermeneutics and Theory.	slivescu@ucla.edu
Emad	Mirmotahari	2002	Persian, Spanish, French, Studying Swahili	Islam and Nationalism in the Sub-Saharan African novel.	river@ucla.edu
Lisa	Mora	1997	Italian, Spanish, Latin	Women and religion, Late-Medieval/Early Modern, spiritual treatises and visionary literature	lmora@ucla.edu
Indra N.	Mukhopadhyay	2001	French, Bengali	Comparative Colonialisms, Comparative Orientalisms, 19th Century Popular French Literature, Representations of the Relation Between France and India, South Asian Historiography, Literary Theory	mukhopad@ucla.edu
Jeannine	Murray-Roman	2001	French, Spanish	Comtemporary Francophone and Latin American literatures with an emphasis on performance and diaspora studies	jmr@ucla.edu
LaShonda	Nat‚ Long	1998	Portuguese, Shona, Ndebele and Yoruba	Sub-Saharan African Literature; Afro-Lusophone Literature; Brazilian Literature; Portuguese Literature; Postcolonial theory; Third-World film theory; African Diaspora Studies; Popular Culture; Collective memory, trauma, and historical reconstructions in literature and film.	lnl@ucla.edu
Rachelle	Okawa	2003	French, Spanish, English	Postcolonial Theory, Caribbean Literature	rokawa@ucla.edu
Sarah	Older Aguilar	2003	English, Spanish, French	20th C Literature of the Americas: memory, history, & representation	NA
David	Sarabia	1996	Spanish, English, Portugese	Mexican, Latin American, Chicano Literature and Post-colonial studies	dsarabia@ucla.edu
Jeff	Schroeder	2001	English, French, Korean	Asian and Asian diasporic literature/culture, African and Caribbean literature, theories of modernism/postmodernism, critical theory	jeffschr@ucla.edu
Kimiko	Sera-Tacorda	2001	Japanese, French	Postwar Literature, Modernism, "the I-Novel," Decadence, Aesthetics and Hermeneutics, Theories of Empire	kimiko_sera@yahoo.com
Mirana May	Setzo	1997	Chinese, French, Japanese	Rethinking Radicalism in Contemporary Chinese Communities Feminist and Postcolonial Politicization of Lacanian Psychoanalysis Modern & Contemporary Film & Literature: Chinese, Asian American, South Asian, Caribbean	szeto@humnet.ucla.edu
Guilan	Siassi	2003	Persian, French, some Arabic	Psychoanalytic and social theory; representations of national identity/alterity; historiography	gsiassi@ucla.edu
Jordan	Smith	2002	Japanese, Spanish, English, Korean?	Comparative psychoanalysis, hip hop lyricism, politics of self-representation; constructions of, representations across, and movement through the Pacific Rim; immigrant, diplomatic, and "returnee" literatures between Latin American and East Asia	oyabaka@ucla.edu
Amy	Tahani-Bidmeshki	2004	English, Farsi, German	Postcolonial studies/theory with an emphasis on diaspora. I am interested in the formation of the self and questions of identity, especially as they relate to the intersections of Orientalism and the Enlightenment in the Middle East.	atahani@ucla.edu
Chay	Tower-Hughes	2001	Anglo-American, Latin American, Central European (Czech and Polish)	political novels, Marxism, Lacanian psychoanalysis	ctower@ucla.edu
Kathryn M.	Tucker	2000	English, French, Latin	Romantic period, madness, theatre, classical mythology, fantasy literature	ktucker@ucla.edu
Melissa	Valdez	2003	English, Spanish, Italian, Portugues (a little)	American Literature (esp. "ethnic" American lit.), 20th century Latin American Lit (inc. Brasil), and contemporary Italian Lit (1900 to now). I'm particularly interested in the 60's and the sort of literature that comes out of social revolutions. right now.	mjvaldez@ucla.edu
Carole	Viers	2001	French, Italian, English, Classical Latin	Translation Studies, 20th Century Experimental Narrative	carole@ucla.edu
Erin	von Hofe	2000	French, Portuguese	Performance practices of the African diaspora (capoeira, bboying, ladja)	erinvh@ucla.edu
Dave	Youssef	2004	German, French	Monumentality and disaster in Berlin and Los Angeles	daveyous@ucla.edu