Marxism

Affiliated Faculty

photo of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Full-time Faculty

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

University Professor in the Humanities

Research Interests

19th and 20th Century Literature

General French Theory

Globalization and Postcolonial

Political Theory and Critical Social Theory

Affiliated Graduate Students

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

Deeva Gupta

PhD Student

Research Interests

Postcolonial and Global South, Critical Theory, Marxism, Psychoanalysis

Dylan Kennelly

PhD Student

Research Interests

Marxism, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer Theory, Film, Media, and Visual Studies, Psychoanalysis, Horror, Feminism, 20th and 21st Century

Pranav Menon

PhD Student

Research Interests

Studies legal and literary imaginations of space and place, American empire, Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies, American and the Americas, Global Anglophone Literature, Postcolonial and Global South, 20th and 21st Century American Literature, Contemporary Literature and Culture, Poetry and Poetics, Cultural Studies, Ecocriticism, Science and Environmental Studies, Public Humanities, Law and Humanities, Marxism

Eduardo Pavez Goye

PhD Student

Research Interests

Metaphor, Memes, Marxism, Latin America, Theatre, Playwriting

Connor Spencer

PhD Student

Research Interests

20th/21st Century American,, Contemporary Literature and Culture, novel studies, Aesthetics, Critical Theory, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer Theory, Film, Media, Visual Studies, Marxism

Lilith Todd

PhD Student

Research Interests

18th-Century English Literature, Ethnicity and Race, Poetry and Poetics, Medical and Health Humanities, Indigenous Studies, American and the Americas, Caribbean Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Early American Literature, Aesthetics, Marxism, Public Humanities

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