graduate students

Husni Abu Bakar
Research Interests: Precolonial Malay and Indonesian Literature, Literary Translation.

Mark Biswas
Research Interests: Political, Psychological, and Philosophical Science Fiction; Utopias and Dystopias; Kafka.

Kengee Bostic
Research Interests: Japanese and American Literature and Culture, Freud, Anime, Manga.

Carmen Braun
Research Interests: Film and Visual Culture, Women’s Studies, Postcolonial Theories.

Anne Chang
Research Interests: Chinese Literature, Theories of Translation.

Angela Chung
Research Interests: arcane symbolism, alchemy, fetishes, subversion; psychoanalytic and critical theory, philosophy; German and English/American literature, specifically myth, folklore, fantastic, and gothic literature.

Susannah Copi
Research Interests: Francophone and African American Literature and Cinema, Feminist Theory, Queer Theory.

Jane Correia
Research Interests: Japanese and French 20th Century Literature, Spatial Theory, Liminality, Film and Visual Culture, and Buddhism.

Anthony Cristofani
Research Interests: 20th Century French and German Philosophy, Italian, Critical Theory, The Frankfurt School, Prison Studies, Memoir and Metafiction.

Nicoletta Da Ros
Research Interests: Short Stories and Novels, Italian, English and Spanish/Latin American Language and Literature, Literature and Photography, Literary Translation, Protest Songs.

April Durham
Research Interests: French, Irish, and American Literature; French, Italian, Russian and American Film; Science Fiction and Philosophy.

Stephanie Fousek
Research Interests: Modernism, Magic Realism, Mythology, Fairy Tales, the Fantastic, Phenomenology, Indian Thought, & German & Spanish Literature.

Pamela Gressier
Research Interests: Comparative Literature: English, French, and Law.

Ruijuan Hao
Research Interests: Classical and Modern Chinese Literature, 20th Century Japanese Literature, Romanticism, Women and Religious Studies.

Sue Hertzog
Research Interests: multiculturalism and national interconnection within Romantic literature and their influences on modern text and film.

Kang Kai
Research Interests: Comparative Study of 20th Century Chinese and British/American Women's Literature, Comparative Religious Studies, Film Studies, Gender Studies.

Immanuel Kim
Research Interests: Modern Korean Literature, North Korean Literature, Continental Philosophy, and Critical Theory.

Panida Lorlertratna
Research Interests: British literature, Thai literature, travel writing, perception and representation.

Jonathan Lee
Research Interests: Philosophy of Language and Literature, 19th C. Russian Novel, Victorian Novel , Intertextuality, Affect and Ontology, Ethics.

Fontaine Lien
Research Interests: Fantastic Literature, Translation, Postmodern Mythology,Postcolonialism and Nationalism, Media and Pop Culture,Digital/Interactive Narratives, Food in Literature, French and ChineseLiterature, Magic Realism, Labyrinths.

Chun Liu
Research Interests: Classical Chinese and Greek Literature, Medieval Literature, east-west Cultural Studies.

Mingming Liu
Research Interests: Classical Chinese Literature, Religious Studies and Women Studies.

Vartan P. Messier
Research Interests: Critical and Literary Theory, Film and Visual Culture, 18th Century Literature and the critical discourses on Modernity, Modernism, and Postmodernism.

Minh Nguyen
Research Interests: Vocational life of the modern Vietnamese middle class; music and memoirs of the Vietnam War and diaspora.

Tanya Rawal
Research Interests: Indian Women Literature and the partition of India, Italian Film, Southern Literature, Post-Katrina Studies, and Critical Theory.

William Sun
Research Interests: 19th~20th Century American Literature, Chinese Fiction, French Theories adopted for literary criticism, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Popular Culture, Carnival, Labyrinth, and Metafiction.

Xi Tian
Research Interests: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature and Culture, 19th and 20th Century Russian Literature, Literary Institutions.

Wen-ling Tun
Research Interests: British Romanticism, Comparative Chinese Literature, Asian Philosophy, Wisdom Literature, Zen Buddhism, Pedagogy.

Hongjian Wang
Research Interests: 20th century Chinese and British literature, 19th century French literature, film studies, drama,naratology,aesthetic theories

Flannery Wilson
Research Interests: French and Italian Literature and Film, Critical Theory/Philosophy, and Autobiography and Memory.

Dan-ju Yu
Research Interests: Asian American Studies, Postcolonialism, Chinese Literature and Japanese Literature.

Regina Yung
Research Interests: English, French, Mandarin, Science Studies, and Feminist Theory.

Mingming Zhang
Research Interests: Chinese, English, and Japanese Literature.

Chenshu Zhou
Research Interests: Contemporary Chinese Film and Literature, Film and Visual Culture, and French.

Yi Zhou
Research Interests: Asian American Literature including Sinophone Chinese American writings and disaporic writings; Sino-Western comparative studies with emphasis on literary and ethnic issues; continental philosophy, French post-structuralism, post-colonialism and gender theories.

Bryan Ziadie
Research Interest: Filipino and American Cultural Studies.