Comparative Literature Graduate Student Profiles

My research explores the fantastic in literature with an emphasis on the mystical, religious, and medical experiences it creates on the reader.

My research interests include socialist utopia, Ukrainian literature, Russian experimental fiction, theory and practice of translation.

My research interests include British Imperial Literature, South Asian Colonial and Post Colonial Literature, and the dialectics of cultural exchange in Theatre and Performative Arts.

My interests include the intersection of Postcolonialism with pop culture & media studies, depictions of national/queer identities, theories of control, & diasporic literature.

My interests include the complex world of fairy tales, the development of the vampire figure, re-writings of Classical myths, the influence of the Bible on literature and pop culture.

I am mainly interested in the intersection of literature and science, with a particular focus on physics. My languages are English, Persian, Spanish, French, German, and Mandarin.

My interests include narrative fiction that addresses questions of transitional justice, interdisciplinary humanities, graphic design, language education, and academic writing.

My dissertation is about literary depictions of boredom from the late nineteenth century to the present.

My thesis focuses on representations of bureaucracy in literature and cinema in the second half of the 20th century.

My area of research includes Neocolonialism, Poststructuralism, Social & Political Discourse, Poetry, Literature of Iranian Diaspora.

My interests include depictions of capitalism and its consequences in absurdist and uncanny 20th century North American literature

Working at the intersection between medieval Arthurian romance and history of medicine, I am investigating the phenomenon of the fighter/healer in reality and fiction.

My research interests include representations of Holocaust in Ukrainian & Russian literature, Ukrainian & Russian literary modernism & avant-garde, literature of Ukrainian Diaspora in North America.

My research interests include crime and detective fiction and the evolution of the dāstān tradition in Urdu literature.