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- Lynn Fellowship
Steven Gooch
- Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship
Peirui Su
- PRF Summer Research Grant
Simone Caroti
Yilin Liao
Purdue's Comparative Literature Program is very proud of its graduates, some of whom have gone on to become professional academics, while others have pursued different careers. Here are some of our students who have submitted information about their time here at Purdue and their current careers.
Carolina Andrade
Carolina received her M.A. in Comparative Literature in August 2009.
Monica Arnett
Monica received her M.A. in Comparative Literature in May 2007.
Manuel Apodaco-Valdez
Manuel received the Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in August 2006. His dissertation is entitled "Ritualistic Hybridities: A Comprehensive Study of Mexico's Costa Chica Devils Dance".
Maura Bergonzoni
Maura received her M.A. in Comparative Literature in August 2007.
Tracy Bradenburg
Tracy received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in December 2002. The dissertation was entitled "Beyond Words in Oaxaca: Journey to the Center of Visual Thought".
Ya-Chen Chen
Ya-Chen received the Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in May 2005. The dissertation was entitled "The Chinese Feminism Which is Not One".
Melissa Coburn
Melissa earned the Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in December 2002 and her dissertation was titled "The Creation of Color Changing Valuations of Race in Italian Women's Writings since Unification".
Lynn Cornell
Lynn received an M.A. in Comparative Literature in May 2005. Her dissertation is titled "Destrutive Rebellion: The Bacchae and Its Impact on The Blithedale Ramance and Quicksand"
Simone Caroti
Simone earned the Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in August 2009. His dissertation was titled "Theater of Memory Against a Background of Stars: The Generation Starship Concept from 1934 to 2002."
Hiromi Dollase
Hiromi graduated in December 2003 with a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature. Her disseratation was "Mad Girls in the Attic: Louisa May Alcott, Yoshiya Nobuko and the Development of Shojo Culture".
Jose Dos Santos
Jose received the Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in December 2001. His dissertation was "Probing the Limits of Mind and Knowledge: A Study of Selected Short Stories by Ambrose Bierce and Machado de Assis".
Catalina Florescu
Catalina successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation in August 2007. Her dissertation was entitled "Transacting Sites of the Bodily Liminal Spaces."
Sohelia Ghaussy
My name is Sohelia Ghaussy and I graduated in 2001 with a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature. I specialized in diasporic cultural productions by women. Currently, I am employed as a full-time faculty member at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. I find that this position perfectly matches my training and my interest. MICA was looking for someone eclectic, someone who was interested in a variety of disciplines and who had an interest in theory. They also wanted an interdisciplinary person who could relate to the art-based curriculum that dominates the art institute. Throughout my studies, I was drawn to visual cultures and film in addition to textual production and theory. My personal experience of up-rootedness and diasporic wandering may have influenced my choice of engaging with disciplines such as postcolonial studies and feminist theory; at Purdue, I found the vocabulary to express my interest and tie some of the myriad strings together. At MICA, I have the chance to design courses that closely reflect what I studied. I am teaching an upper-level course called "Gender and Film," and another upper-level course entitled "Third World Women Writers." Next year, I will teach a graduate course called "Psychoanalysis and Film", and three upper level courses, "Colonial Literature"; "From Women's Novels to Men's Films"; and "Body Discourses".
Ana Gomez-Laguna
Ana took her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in December 2002 with a dissertation entitled "Defleshing Jealousy, an Ideological Device in Shakespeare, Cervantes and Zayas".
Steven C. Gooch
Steven received his M.A. in Comparative Literature in May 2009. He will continue to the Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in August 2009.
Lei Jin
Lei Jin earned the Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in August 2009 with a dissertation titled "Gardens of Good and Evil: Chinese Supernatural Tales and American Gothic Stories"
Jason Lotz
Jason received his M.A. in Comparative Literature in May 2008. He will continue on to the Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in August 2008.
Mahmoud took his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in May 2007.
Maria Hadjipolycarpou
Maria took her M.A. in Comparative Literature in May 2005.
Sirene Harb
Sirene received the Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in August 2002. The dissertation was entitled "Metissage, Memory and Resistance in Postcolonial Narratives".
Tso-Wei Hsieh
Tso-Wei received a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in May 2005. The dissertation was entitled "The Rhetorical Strategy of Travel Narrative in Li Ruzhen's Jinghua Yuan and Herman Melville's Mardi."
Yuwen Hsiung
Yuwen received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in August 2007. Her dissertation was entitled "Exressionism and Its Deformation in the Contemporary Chinese Theatre." Yuwen is now teaching at Vassar College.
Chung Kuang Hu
Chung Kuang received an M.A. in Comparative Literature in May 2005.
Numsiri Kunakemakorn
Numsiri was awarded the Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in May 2005. The dissertation was entitled "Threatening Young Ladies: Re-Inscribing National Borders through Images of Adolescent Women in Twentieth-Century Mexican, Brazilian, and Ethnic North American Novels"
Tatyana Lyaskovets
Tatyana received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in May 2009. Her dissertation was entitled "Temporal & Visual Narrative Structures in Bely, Nabokov, Robbe-Grillet and Resnais."
Binnie Martin
Binnie received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in May 2004. She is currently a lecturer in the Department of English at Purdue University.
Natasa Masanovic
Natasa earned her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in August 2002 with a dissertation entitled "Sophocles and Shakespeare (Re) Visited: Bertolt Brecht, Heiner Mueller and the Issue of Adaptation in the East German Drama".
Lindsay Milkert
Lindsay earned her M.A. in Comparative Literature in May 2008.
Michael Mitol
Michael earned his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in December 2002. His dissertation was titled "An Enlightened Sense of Virtue: Morals and Manners in Eighteenth Century American Periodical Literature".
Xianfeng Mou
Xianfeng received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in May 2009. The dissertation was entitled "One Hundred Years of Solitary Light: Rites of Passage for Modern American and Chinese Women Writers, 1899-1996."
Jose Newton
Jose received his M.A. in Comparative Literature in May 2004. He is continuing his studies at Purdue University in the Ph.D. Program in Comparative Literature.
Teresa Nunes
Teresa earned her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in December 2006. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures and Women's Studies at Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Laura Poggi
Laura received her M.A. in Comparative Literature in May 2006.
Kenneth Richard
Kenneth took his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in December 2006. "'O' ciclista': A Bicycle Perspective" was the title of his dissertation.
Siebel Sayili
Siebel earned the Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in December 2005. The dissertation is titled "Falling Out of Paradisse and Cascading into an Amorphous Space: Processual Self, Truth and Meaning."
Brady Spangenberg
Brady earned the M.A. in Comparative Literature in May 2006.
Mei Zhu
Mei received the Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in May 2006. The dissertation was titled "Our World, the Wasteland: American and Chinese Modernist Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century."