Affect Theory
Affiliated Graduate Students
Andy Chan Lisheng
PhD Student
Research Interests
Ethnicity, Race, Indigenous Studies, Asia/South, Contemporary Literature and Culture, Poetry and Poetics, Aesthetics, Cultural Studies, Critical Theory, Affect Theory, Digital Humanities, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer Theory, Film, Media, Visual Studies, Psychoanlaysis
Alec Joyner
PhD Student
Research Interests
19th and 20th Century American Literature, the Novel, Modernism, Affect Theory, Feminist Theory, African American and African Diaspora Literature, Humor, Comedy, and Laughter, Francophone LiteratureDissertation / Thesis Title
"Going to Pieces: The Laughter of the Other in US Novels of the 1930s"
Ruby Lark Mendelsund
PhD Student
Research Interests
Global Anglophone, Creative Writing, Creative-Critical, Affect Theory, Disability Studies, Science and Environmental Studies, Medical Humanities, Psychoanlaysis, Madness Studies
Channelle Russell
PhD Student
Research Interests
African American and African Diaspora, Caribbean Studies, 20th and 21st Century American Literature, Contemporary Literature and Culture, Creative Writing and Creative-Critical, Aesthetics, Affect Theory, Critical Theory, Black Studies, Cultural and Intellectual History, Feminist Theory, Slavery, Film, Media, Visual Studies, Slavery, Feminist Theory
Chloe Tsolakoglou
PhD Student
Research Interests
American and the Americas, Global Anglophone, World Literature, Europe, 20th/21st Century American, Contemporary Literature and Culture, Comparative Literature and Translation, Creative Writing, Creative-Critical, Poetry and Poetics, Marxism, Postmodernism, Aesthetics, Modern Greek Literature, Affect Theory, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer Theory, Film, Media, Visual Studies, Marxism, Philosophy, Psychoanlaysis, Modern Greek Literature
Jane Walker
PhD Student
Research Interests
Early Modern, Poetry and Poetics, Affect Theory, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer Theory, Psychoanalytic Theory
Vivian Ziqi Lei
PhD Student