Marietta Agakhanyan
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Arabic, English, French
Modern Arabic literature, comparative immigration literature, spatial theory, and the architectural imagination
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Noa Bar
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Tamar M. Boyadjian received her B.A from UCLA in 2002 with a degree in English literature and a minor in Near Eastern Languages and cultures. She received her M.A. from NELC in 2002 and is now working towards the completion of her PhD in the Department of Comparative Literature. Her dissertation focuses on the representation of the city of Jerusalem in the literature and chronicles (Arabic, Armenian, Latin, Old French, and Middle English) of the early crusading period. Her other interests include: western and eastern paleography and codicology, medieval philosophy, theology, and historiography.
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Languages: English, French, and German
Research Interests: 18th-century British and French literature, cultural studies, theories of identity, the narrative
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Research interests: 20th-21st century American literature, Yiddish literature, monsters, horror film, the intersection of Jewish American literature and popular culture.
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Allison Crumly is writing a dissertation that examines representations of Europe, Africa, and African diaspora in contemporary Black European literature. She works primarily on fiction of the 1990s and 2000s written in French, Portuguese, and Italian. Her research interests include Francophone and Lusophone African fiction, comparative migrant literatures, representations of race and racialization, world literature and paradigms of transnational comparison, metafiction, domesticity, humor, and postcolonial theory.
Zen Dochterman
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Zen received his B.A. from U.C. Santa Cruz in Modern Literature, with an emphasis in French. He is currently working on the influence of radical social movements (particularly, Peronismo and the Cuban & Sandinista revolutions) on Latin American literature and aesthetics. His other interests include the German Aesthetic Tradition, European Romanticism & Modernism, Vitalism, the Anthropology of Religion, Communism and the Cosmic.
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Languages: Armenian, Russian, French
Research Interests: 19th-20th century literature; contemporary film & drama; translation theory & practice
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Languages: French, Italian, Spanish, Modern Greek
Research Interests: early Modern European literature
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Languages: Pilipino (Tagalog), Spanish
Lisa Felipe is a Ph.D. candidate working on her dissertation tentatively titled "New Heroes, National Burdens:
Interrogating Representations of Philippine Overseas Contract Workers." Her research interests include Asian American, Filipino, and Filipino American film and literature, representations of labor and migration, transnational
labor movements, intersections of Marxist and psychoanalytic theory and postcolonial studies. Marian Gabra
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Languages: Arabic and Spanish
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Languages: German, English, Spanish
Research Interests: 20th century German lit, media studies (digital/new media, film), history and literature, humanities computing
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Languages: Arabic, French
Research Interests: Modern Arabic Literature, Francophone Literature, postcolonial theory, narrative theory, historical novels
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Inkoo Kang studies comparative Asian American identities in North and South America, concentrating on the Japanese-Brazilian community. She works with literature and film in Portuguese, English, and Spanish.
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Languages: Armenian, English, Spanish
Research Interests: 20th Century Armenian and American Literature; literary translations; the interrelations of literature, politics and identity
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Neetu Khanna
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Languages: Hindi/Urdu and Spanish
Research Interests: Postcolonial and Ethnic Studies, Third world/transnational feminism, queer theory, Bollywood film in the South Asian diaspora Michelle Lee
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Tim Shing-him Lee holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and reads in the areas of modern and contemporary Chinese, sinophone, late 20th-century Russian, and Asian American literatures.
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Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, French
Research Interests: 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"); raism and aesthetics; the vicissitudes and critique of dependency theory,including current debates on globalization in Brazil and Latin America. Justin Lim
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Languages: Arabic, French, German, Hebrew, Romanian
Research Interests: 20th century Diasporic thought, Linguistic and Thematic exile, Cross-Concepts in
Phenomenology, Hermeneutics and Theory.
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Katherine McLoone is writing her dissertation on the relationship between translatio imperii et studii and Underworld and Otherworld scenes in medieval romances. She works on literatures written in Anglo-Norman, Old French, Middle English, Italian, and Latin, and is also interested in adultery and familial relationships in medieval literature, ekphrasis and its relationship to literary conceptions of time and space, and nineteenth-century British medievalism and its impact on modern critical practices. Shad Naved
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Shad holds an undergraduate degree in English literature from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, a Masters degree in Women’s Studies from the University of Oxford as well as an MA in Cultural Studies from the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad. His research at UCLA addresses questions about versification, literary theorization and the sexual/textual topos of the pre-modern Urdu literary sphere. He is also interested in the Arabic and Persian literary traditions and their historical circulation within South Asia. His other research interests include psychoanalysis, film studies, dalit studies and gay-lesbian movements in South Asia and the non-west. In his work he is committed to the analytical and political frameworks of feminism and cultural materialism. Before joining the program he was a full-time editor with an independent leftist publishing house in India.
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Languages: English, French, and Vietnamese
Research Interests: Vietnamese Diasporic writings, Vietnamese French Colonial literature; 20th century French and Francophone literature and thought; Asian American studies; Postcolonial studies; Immigration and exile; Theories of space and place; Spectrality and liminality.
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Languages: French, Spanish, English
Research Interests: Postcolonial Theory, Caribbean Literature
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Languages: English, Persian, French
Leila Pazargadi is currently a Ph.D. Candidate. Her research interests include: Iranian American literature, Arab American literature, diaspora tudies, postcolonial studies, exile, gender and women's studies, ethnic American literature and contemporary Persian literature. Her dissertation discusses the comparative works of Iranian American and Arab American women writers who are publishing autobiographical material in fiction and
nonfiction since 9/11.
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Languages: English, Arabic, Spanish
Interests: 20th and 21st century (Ethnic) American Literature, Disability Studies, Posthumanism Susana Rodriguez
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Languages: Spanish, English, Portugese
Research Interests: Mexican, Latin American, Chicano Literature and Post-colonial studies
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Languages: English, French, Korean
Research Interests: Asian and Asian diasporic literature/culture, African and Caribbean literature, theories of modernism/postmodernism, critical theory.
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Languages: Persian, French, some Arabic
Research Interests: Psychoanalytic and social theory; representations of national identity/alterity; historiography
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Kirk is currently working on Africa and African Diaspora literatures and cultural production at the intersections of postcolonial discourses on humanity and human rights. Within the Anglophone and Francophone Atlantic world, Kirk's project attempts to uncover the routes of TransAtlantic traffic, both the movement of human beings and the trajectories of discourses about humans and human rights. Related to this, he also interrogates the transition between modernism and postmodernism as epistemological categories and their role in categorizing peoples vis-a-vis the nation, and other spaces of representational hegemony. Race and language politics become important markers in Kirk's project as it interrogates postcolonial cultural production in terms of minor transnationalisms and the place of the human in globalization discourse.
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Languages: Japanese, Spanish, English, Korean
Jordan Smith is a doctoral candidate completing a dissertation that examines transpacific literature via alternate trajectories of travel and translation, primarily between Japan, Latin America, and the U.S. He is also interested in visual cultures, translation politics/poetics, kimono, allohistorical manga, (neo)narratology, urban music/hip hop, ethnicity and (post)national identity, comedy/humor theory.
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Languages: English, Farsi, German
Amy Tahani-Bidmeshki is a fifth-year Comparative Literature graduate student. Her research interests include resistance literature and forms of literary and visual representation. Her focus centers on African-American
and Iranian literature and culture post-WWII and the theoretical paradigms of Marxism, post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, Diaspora, and post-colonialism. Nicolas Testerman
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Henry Wu
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Duncan Yoon finished a BA in French and English from DePauw University and an MA in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth College before coming to UCLA in the fall of 2008. His interests broadly lie in Sino-African relations, third world Marxist movements, globalization, national consciousness, and the aesthetics of development. His most recent research has been focused on comparative analyses of Frantz Fanon, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Lu Xun, and Mao Zedong and their views on Marxism and national culture. He works in English, French, Chinese and Korean.
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Languages: German, French
Research Interests: Monumentality and disaster in Berlin and Los Angeles
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