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The Department of English and Comparative Literature logo The Department of English and Comparative Literature

Ethnicity

Affiliated Graduate Students

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Amy S. Barenboim

PhD Student

Research Interests

African American and African Diaspora
Ethnicity
Race
Indigenous Studies
Caribbean
20th/21st Century American
Contemporary Literature and Culture
Critical Theory
Marxism
Jewish Studies
Theories of the Novel
Geopolitics
Social Movement
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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
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Evelyn Giron-Aguilar

PhD Student

Research Interests

Ethnicity
Race
Indigenous Studies
Cultural Studies
Gender and Sexuality Studies
Postcolonial Studies
Central America
Latinx Diaspora
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Mitch Jurasek

PhD Student

Research Interests

Ethnicity
Race
Indigenous Studies
American and the Americas,
19th Century American
20th/21st Century American
Critical Theory
Ecocriticism
Science and Environmental Studies
Gender and Sexuality Studies
Queer Theory
Philosophy
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Nathan Motulsky

PhD Student

Research Interests

Ethnicity
Race
Indigenous Studies
American and the Americas
Caribbean
Early Modern
Early American
19th Century American
Ecocriticism
Science and Environmental Studies
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