Tag: student
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2024 Lore Metzger Dissertation Prize Winner
The Department of Comparative Literature congratulates Ishanika Sharma, this year’s recipient of the Lore Metzger Dissertation Prize. Ishanika will be graduating in Spring 2024 with a PhD in English and a Certificate in Comparative Literature. Her PhD dissertation, Postcolonial Eventality: Fictions of Catastrophe in South Asia, draws from postcolonial studies, psychoanalysis, and trauma theory in order…
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Aliza Philips and Sofia Di Gironimo Publish Book Chapter
Congratulations to PhD students Aliza Phillips Sofia Di Gironimo on the publication of their chapter “Capacities to Organize In/Through the Institution” in Capacities To: Affect Up Against Fascism from Imbricate Press. Purchase or download a PDF of the book here.
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Timothy Lavenz Publishes a Book Chapter
Congratulations to PhD student Timothy Lavenz on the publication of his chapter titled “Messianic Life-Iterature: Toward a Theory of the Formless-in-Form in Laruelle and Beyond” in Proceedings from the Acts of Reading Conference by Fendant & Cavalier Publishing. Timothy studies Hiatus of Speech, Void-bound Speaker, Disbelief in Idiom, Poetry and Poetics, Comparative and Critical Mysticism,…
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Sofia Di Gironimo Publishes Book Chapter
Congratulations to PhD student Sofia Di Gironimo on the publication of her work titled “Notes on End of the World Research” in the book Things We Lost in the Fire, with contributions by other Montreal-based writers. Sofia studies queer theory, affect theory, and psychoanalysis.
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Wenxin Liang Publishes Article in arcadia
Congratulations to Wenxin Liang on the publication of her article “Transtextual Paths: Dream of the Red Chamber as a Source of Borgesian Labyrinth” in arcadia. Read the article here. Wenxin studies transpacific literature, adaptation studies, women’s travel narratives, the politics of translation, and digital humanities.
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Meike Robaard Publishes Article in The Journal of Speculative Philosophy
Congratulations to PhD student Meike Robaard on the publication of “Plato’s Parasite: Re: turning with(in) Deleuze” in The Journal of Speculative Philosophy. Read the article here. Meike studies critical theory, post humanism, 19th and 20th century philosophy, literature, and visual culture, women and gender studies, and materiality.