World Literature

Affiliated Graduate Students

Jay Gao

PhD Student

Research Interests

Asian American and Asian Diaspora

Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies

Poetry and Poetics

Experimental and Avant-Garde

20th and 21st Century

World Literature

Creative Writing and Creative-Critical

American and the Americas

Literary Prizes

Experimental Criticism

Kaagni Harekal

PhD Student

Research Interests

Global Anglophone Literature

World Literature

Postcolonial and Global South

African and South Asian Literatures

Comparative Literature and Translation

Cultural Studies

Gender and Sexuality Studies

Postcolonial Studies

Megan Maldonado (née Lonsinger)

PhD Student

Research Interests

Medieval Literature

Poetry and Poetics

Material Culture

Christian Theology

Islamicate World

Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies

World Literature

Comparative Literature and Translation

Nora Shaalan

PhD Student

Research Interests

Global Anglophone Literature

World Literature

20th and 21st Century American Literature

20th and 21st Century Literature

Contemporary Literature and Culture

Modernism and Postmodernism

Digital Humanities

sociology of the novel

Chloe Tsolakoglou

PhD Student

Research Interests

Global Anglophone Literature

World Literature

Contemporary Literature and Culture

Comparative Literature and Translation

Creative Writing and Creative-Critical

Poetry and Poetics

Critical Theory

Gender and Sexuality Studies

Modern Greek Literature

Srija Umapathy

PhD Student

Research Interests

Postcolonial Studies

Gender and Sexuality Studies

World Literature

Film, Media, and Visual Studies