PhDs Awarded 2019-2020
Congratulations to the following Comparative Literary Studies graduate students who received their PhDs in 2019-2020!
- Jonas Rosenbrück (German) | “Senses of Smell: The Differentiation of Air in Hölderlin, Nietzsche, and Ponge” | Advisors: Peter Fenves (chair), Jörg Kreienbrock, and Samuel Weber
- Scott Newman (English) | “Sound Figures in Postcolonial African Literature, 1970s to Present” | Advisors: Evan Mwangi (chair), Doris Garraway, and Nasrin Qader
- Folahan Olowoyeye (Slavic) | "Sans-Frontieres: Destruction, Creation, and Experiment in the Russian Literary Avant-Garde, 1908-1912" | Advisors: Clare Cavanagh (Chair); Chris Bush; Nina Gurianova
- Maziyar Faridi (English) | "On an Aproretic Poetics of Relation: Translation, Difference and Identity in Modern Poetry and New Wave Cinema of Iran (1920s-1970s)" | Advisors: Nasrin Qader and Brian Edwards (co-directors); Nasrin Rahimieh (Comparative Literature- UC Irvine), Hamid Naficy, Samuel Weber
- Marjan Mohammadi (English; Dual PhD Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 | "Beyond Redemption: The Crisis of Sovereignty and The Return of Melancholy" | Advisors: Samuel Weber (Chair); Isabelle Alfandary (co-chair); Axel Nesme, Christine Froula, Farzaneh Milani, Julie Duvigneau
- Nadav Avruch (German) | "Occasions of Underground: German Miners and Moles on the Essence of Ground (ca. 1780–1920)" | Advisors: Peter Fenves (chair); Jorg Kreienbrock; Samuel Weber
- Matthew Gilmore (German) | "Symbolic Logic in the Galant Style: Reading Gjerdingen with Leibniz, Kant, Cassirer, and Baumgarten" | Peter Fenves (chair); Michael Gallope (Univ of Minnesota); Samuel Weber
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