Previous Graduates
Purdue's Comparative Literature Program is very proud of its graduate students. Below are several who have won prestigious awards and grants in previous academic years.
Zhang, Shiyu, Ph.D. Comparative Literature, 2023. “The Long Shadow: Literary and Cinematic Representations and Re-Imaginations of Chinese Female Trauma in the Second Sino-Japanese War.”
Fan, Jiacheng, Ph.D. Comparative Literature, 2022. “Tracking Sishi in Contemporary Chinese Historical Novels."
Rodriguez de Jesus, Alejandro, Ph.D. Comparative Literature, 2021. “Sharing Dylan's Euphantasiotos Role in Franςois Spain in the Context of Commodified Culture.”
Wang, Meng, Ph.D. Comparative Literature, 2021. “Xingshi yinyuan zhuan 醒世姻緣傳 and Its Conception of Utopia: A Comparative Study.”
Wang, Lang, Ph.D. Comparative Literature, 2021. “Aspirations and Ambivalences of the New Woman: French and Chinese Women’s Press and Fiction 1900-1930.”
Quintana-Vallejo, Ricardo, Ph.D. Comparative Literature, 2020. “Children of Globalization: Diasporic Coming-of-Age Novels in Germany, England, and the United States.” He now holds a tenure track position in Rhode Island.
Wang, Zihan, Ph.D. Comparative Literature, 2020. “Fiction Medicine and the Communist Revolution in the People's Republic of China.”
Alomaish, Ghaleb, Ph.D. Comparative Literature, 2020. ”Double Reflection: Image Projection and Perception in Saudi-American Contexts: A Comparative Study.”
Ismail, Riham, Ph.D. Comparative Literature, 2018. “The Construction and Negotiation of Identity and Place in Muslim Women's Fictional Narrative."
Coly, Malick, Ph.D. Comparative Literature, 2018. “Secular Discourse in Postcolonial West African Narratives: Problems and Perspectives, A Comparative Study.” Visiting Assistant Professor, Slippery Rock University, PA.
Huang, Yuhan, Ph.D. Comparative Literature, 2018. “Remembrance and Rumination: Negotiating Childhood Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.” Assistant Professor tenure track Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester N.Y.
Wang, Luyang, Ph.D. Comparative Literature, 2018. “A Comparative Study of Three Interfering Women in Western and Chinese Tales.”
Tosin, Tulin Ece, Ph.D. Comparative Literature, 2018. “Haremization of Desdemona: A Comparative Study of Shakespeare’s Othello in the Ottoman Context.”
Moreno, Laura Ramiro, Ph.D. Comparative Literature, 2018. “Calderón’s Musical Message: The Importance of the Auditory over the Visual.”
Lu, Wei, Ph.D. Comparative Literature, 2018. “Dissolution and Redemption of Self in Shakespeare’s Four Main Tragedies.”
Weiler, Christina M, Ph.D. Comparative Literature, 2017. “The Romantic Roots of Cognitive Poetics: A Comparative Study of Poetic Metaphor in Herder, Novalis, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Shelley.”
O’Neil, Monica, Ph.D. Comparative Literature, 2017. “Shades of the Classical Trickster in Shakespeare.”
Hancock, Adam, Ph.D. Comparative Literature, 2017. “American National Personifications.” Adjunct instructor Salt Lake Community College, Salt Lake City, Utah and a freelance writer and editor.
Beskin, Joanna, Ph.D. Comparative Literature, 2016. “Perceval’s Sister and Juliet Capulet as Disruptive Guides in Spiritual Quests.”
Alcantara, Christiane, Ph.D. Comparative Literature, 2015. “The Beauty of Impertinence in World Literature.”
Olivera, Natália Fontes de, Ph.D. Comparative Literature, 2015. “Three Traveling Women Writers: Cross-Cultural Perspectives of Brazil, Patagonia, and the US, 1859-79.”
Koppy, Kate, Ph.D. Comparative Literature, 2015. “Cinderella and Other Fairy Tales as Secular Scripture in Contemporary America and Russia.”
Chadwick Ross, Slaney, Ph.D. Comparative Literature, 2015. “The Secret History of the English Spy: 1674-1800.”
Zhai, Runlei, Ph.D. Comparative Literature. 2015. “Chinese Eco Films and their Pastoral Myth.”
Lotz, Jason, Ph.D. Comparative Literature, 2014. “Against Babel: A Comparative Model of Tragedy.”
Ferreira, Roberto, Ph.D. Comparative Literature, 2011. “Oppressed Voices: Fighting for Freedom in Slums in Contemporary Caribbean and Brazilian Fiction and Film.”
Seixas Pereira Filho, José Newton de, Ph.D. Comparative Literature, 2010. “The Non-Violent and Violent Mimetic desires of Street Orphan Characters in Anglo-American and Luso-Brasilian Literatures.”
Su, Peiru, PhD. Comparative Literature, 2010. “’And the Darkness Comprehended it Not’— Epiphany in Joyce and Fei Ming.”
Liao, Yilin, Ph.D. Comparative Literature, 2010. “Who is Digging the Well and What is in the Well: An Analysis of Well Images in Chinese Fiction and Cinema.”
Pierson, Stephen, Ph.D. Comparative Literature, 2010. “Monologism and Dialogism in Hölderlin and Whitman.”
Wu, Shaojing (Rita), Ph.D. Comparative Literature, 2010. “A Verbal Paradise Visualized: An Ekphrastic Study of the ‘Daguanyuan’ in Cao Xueqin's Hongloumen.”
Lyaskovets, Tetyana, Ph.D. Comparative Literature, .2010. “Temporal and Visual Structures in Bely, Nabokov, Robbe-Grillet, and Resnais.”
Ece Tosun, Tulin, Ph.D. Comparative Literature, 2018. “Haremization of Desdemona: A Comparative Study of Shakespeare's Othello in the Ottoman Context.”
Ramiro Moreno, Laura, Ph.D. Comparative Literature, 2018. “Calderón’s Musical Message: The Importance of the Auditory over the Visual.”
Benskin, Joanna, Ph.D. Comparative Literature, 2016. “Perceval’s Sister and Juliet Caulet as Disruptive Guides in spiritual Quests."
Fontes de Oliveira, Natalia, Ph.D. Comparative Literature), 2015. “Three Traveling Women Writers: Cross-Cultural Perspectives of Brazil, Patagonia, and the U.S., 1859-79.”
Zhai, Runlei, Ph.D. Comparative Literature, 2015. “Chinese Eco-Films and their Pastoral Myth.”
Yao, Sijian, Ph.D. Comparative Literature, 2014. “Twentieth-century Ideas of Love in D. H. Lawrence and Eileen Chang.”
Kate Christine, Ph.D. Comparative Literature, 2014. “Cinderella and other Fairy Tales as Secular Scripture in Contemporary America and Russia.”
Fontinha de Alcantara, Christiane, Ph.D. Comparative Literature, 2013. “The Beauty of Impertinence in World Literature from 1740-1977.”
Li, Jinhua, Ph.D. Comparative Literature, 2013. “Transnational Remakes: Gender and Politics in Chinese Cinemas and Hollywood: 1990-2009.”
Wu, Shaojing, Ph.D. Comparative Literature, 2013. “A Verbal Paradise Visualized: An Ekphrastic Study of the "Daguanyuan" in Cao Xueqin's Hongloumeng.”
Caroti, Simone, Ph.D. Comparative Literature, 2012. “The Generation Starship in Science Fiction, 1934-1977.”
Joyce Nunes, Teresa, Ph.D. Comparative Literature, 2012. “Zines in Three Contemporary Grassroots' Movements in Brazil and the United States.”
D. Kiley, Patrick, Ph.D. Comparative Literature, 2000. “Making Sense of Pain: Reading the Sensible Body of Late Eighteenth-Century and Early Nineteenth-Century France.”
Ögüt Yazicioglu, Özlem, Ph.D. Comparative Literature, 1999, “The Gesture in Narrative, Art, and Theory: Diderot, Jean Paul, and Sterne in the Context of the Debate between Verbalists and Visualists.”