Linda Arellano
arellano@umail.ucsb.edu
Linda Arellano’s research interests include Latin-American literature, twentieth-century Mexican women’s writing, Chicano literature, and Third World Feminism. Her dissertation will examine oppositional consciousness in Chicano literature.

Emmanuelle Beaufort
ebeaufort@umail.ucsb.edu

Karen Bishop
kebishop@umail.ucsb.edu
Karen Bishop’s research interests include exile studies, torture, city studies, philosophies of history, forms of modern poetry, and translation theory. She is currently working on her dissertation, “Mapping the Disappearing World: A Poetics of Exile and Emplacement,” in which she brings together complementary twentieth-century philosophies of space and place in order to consider how writers in Spanish, French and English construct a poetics of place premised on exile and disappearance. Feel free to visit her academic website, with links to her course websites and research projects, at www.kebishop.wordpress.com.

Ken Brown
kbrown16@umail.ucsb.edu
Ken Brown’s research interests include modern and contemporary American and Chinese fiction, the quest in fiction, Modern poetry and Literary theory.

Anne-Claire Cain
anneclaire@umail.ucsb.edu
Anne-Claire’s research interests include Nineteenth-Century British and French literature. She is currently working on the historical evolution of the family, its role of integration into the wider social structure, the influence of Enlightenment values of liberty, equality, fraternity, and the role of normative images of the family in literature. Her project is to explore the representations of the Jewish family vs. isolated Jewish figures, in the Nineteenth-Century British and French Novel.

Christina Cheng
christina_cheng@umail.ucsb.edu
Christina Cheng’s research interests include 18th-century British literature, Chinese vernacular novels, and Asian American immigrant literature. For her first field exam, she would like to explore the theme of diseased bodies in 18th-century British literature, focusing on the plague, the deviant female body, and medical practices.

Anne Dubernet-Marcoline
a_marcoline@umail.ucsb.edu

Erik Eppel
eceppel@umail.ucsb.edu
Erik Eppel is currently working in the domain of modern Italian literature, from the Unification until present, as it pertains to “The Southern Question,” as well as to the issue of Italian national identity. He focuses also on Italian social movements of the ’60s and ’70s, and more specifically, at least for the moment, on the Italian free radio revolution. Erik’s other national literature is (Brazilian) Portuguese.

Mary Garcia
magarcia@umail.ucsb.edu

Adrienne Gats
adrienne_gats@umail.ucsb.edu
Adrienne Gats’ research interests include twentieth-century European and American drama, with an ephasis on Italian, English and Hungarian drama. Adrienne concentrates on the examination of female characters who are portrayed as deviant, marginal, or doomed, and on the expressions of how society affirms identity and value through drama.

Amber Godey
rosambra@umail.ucsb.edu
Amber Godey’s research interests include early twentieth-century Italian, English and French Literature, with a particular focus on autobiography and storytelling as it relates to fascist control and propoganda.

Alissa Gregory
alissabrett@umail.ucsb.edu

Rosie Kar
rkar@umail.ucsb.edu
Rosie Kar’s research interests include 20th century Franco-Caribbean literatures, South Asian/East Indian literatures, and North American literatute, intersections of popular culture with high theory, notions on madness, film, music and individuation associated with hybrid identities.

Linda L. Kick
lkick00@umail.ucsb.edu
Linda L. Kick explores the aesthetics-ethics rapport in French, German, and Anglo-American women’s novels. Analyzing texts from Romanticism through the twentieth century, she employs twentieth-century French and American feminist theory to rethink aesthetics in experimental authors such as Dorothea Schlegel, Mary Shelley, George Sand, Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Charlotte Delbo, and Helene Cixous.

Danielle La France
daniellelafrance@umail.ucsb.edu
Danielle is working on her dissertation, which compares feminist subtexts in ghost stories published by serious women authors in literary magazines in New York, Texas, and Mexico City in the first half of the twentieth century. Her fields are late 19th & early 20th century U.S, Mexican, and Argentine literatures, and Feminist/Gender Studies.

Elizabeth Lagresa
elagresa@umail.ucsb.edu
Elizabeth Lagresa’s research interests include Spanish, English and Italian early modern literature, with a particular focus on Spanish Baroque and colonial Latin American literature. Some of the topics she is interested in researching are the role of comedy and tragedy in the works of Lope de Vega, Machiavelli and Shakespeare, analyzing their diverse political and historical contexts; how gender roles developed from antiquity through the Renaissance, as exemplified through literature and the visual arts; translation studies focusing on the domain of cross-cultural communication; and how societies/natiions affirm and reshape their identity and values through literature.

Chris K. Lee
chris_lee@umail.ucsb.edu
Chris K. Lee’s research interests include discourse analysis in the mode of Foucault, particularly on the convergences of the scientific/technological and literary historical discourses. Chris, however, takes a more overtly psychoanalytic approach.

Yan Liang
yliang@umail.ucsb.edu
Yan Liang’s research interests include Chinese vernacular novels; popular culture, including web literature and media study; and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English novel narratology.

Marzia Milazzo
marzia@umail.ucsb.edu
Marzia Milazzo earned her Master’s degree in English and Romance Philologies at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet in Freiburg, Germany, with a thesis titled “Indigenous Identity Constructions and Representations of the Indian in Chicano/a Literature.” Apart from Chicano/a Literature, her research interests include African American literature, Hispanic Latin American literature (especially Mexican, Peruvian, and Cuban), Spanish literature, and Brazilian literature. Marzia is also interested in music, film, theatre, popular culture and she enjoys writing multilingual poems.

Paulo Moriera
paulodaluzmoreira@yahoo.com
Paulo Moreira’s research interests include twentieth-century U.S., Brazilian, and Hispanic Latin American literature. He also has a marginal interest in nineteenth century literature and is currently working on his prospectus for a dissertation on the work of William Faulkner, Juan Rulfo, and João Guimarães Rosa.

Kieran Murphy
kieran@umail.ucsb.edu
Kieran Murphy’s research interests include French novel (nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries), Caribbean and African literature (with a focus on Haiti and the figure of the zombie), media theory, psychoanalysis, film studies, science, pseudo-science and the occult.

Emily Parsons
eparsons@umail.ucsb.edu
Emily Parson’s research interests include Latin American literatures particularly the Jewish literatures of Argentina and Chile, 19th and 20th century German literatures, as well as Holocaust Studies.
Nanette Pawelek
nanetteje@gmail.com

David Platzer
davidplatzer@umail.ucsb.edu
David Platzer’s research interests include colonial radio, Nigerian and Ghanaian video film, Onitsha Market literature, Francophone and Anglophone African novels, the history of melodrama, cognition, semiotics, and much else. While his interests can be disparate, they are ultimately untied by two overarching concerns: the division of cultural production into “high” and “low” fields, and the way in which narrative art structures and complicates global subjectivities.

Randall J. Pogorzelski
pogorzelski@umail.ucsb.edu
Randall Pogorzelski investigates connections between classical and modernist literature, not only studying the influence of the classics on modernist texts, but also finding ways in which modernist texts and theories of modernism and postmodernism guide readings of classical texts. He is currently writing a dissertation on nationalism in Virgil’s Aeneid and Joyce’s Ulysses.

Allison Schifani
aschifani@umail.ucsb.edu
Allison Schifani’s research interests include Twentieth Century Latin American and U.S. literature and culture, intersections of space and text, cultural geography and environmental theories and representations.

Mary Seliger
m-a-s@umail.ucsb.edu
Mary Seliger’s research interests include Latin American and Iberian Studies as well as twentieth century discourse which explores the dialogue between American literary and legal narratives on the issue of minority rights.

Meaghan Skahan
meaghan_skahan@umail.ucsb.edu
Meaghan Skahan’s interests include twentieth-century poetry and short story, specifically examining the construction of the city and intersections of gender, navigation, and displacement, the evolution of ” le flaneur ” and its gender implications, and the neo-fantastic.

Lisa Swanstrom
swanstro@umail.ucsb.edu
Lisa Swanstrom is a doctoral candidate whose research interests include twentieth-century Latin-American and American literatures, the literature of the fantastic, history of science, media theory, and science-fiction film and literature. Swanstrom is a member of the development and editorial team of The Agrippa Files: An Online Archive of Agrippa (a book of the dead). She is currently working on her dissertation, which examines the relation between network technologies and subjectivity in 20th and 21st century expression. A more comprehensive academic profile is accessible at www.swanstream.org.

Lily Wong
lilywong@umail.ucsb.edu
Lily Wong’s research interests include post-colonial theory and literatures, global political economy and media theories, language and translation theories, East-Asian oral/religious traditions, literatures, cinema, and music; focusing on issues of cross-cultural translations, paying close attention to translations of local narratives and micro-politics through notions of affect, the body, performativity, and historical writing.