Joshua Adams
Track II: Literature and Philosophy
Research Interests: Lyric poetry, Philosophy of Language & Philosophy of Mind, Symbolism, Translation, History of Criticism
Dissertation Title: "Privacy & Paraphrase"
Teaching Experience; Humanities Core Instructor, Greek Thought & Literature (2009-2010)

Tristan Bates
Track I: 20th Century German and Turkish Literature Research Interests: Translation theory, representations of nationality, "body" theory, thing theory, memoirs, lyric poetry
Teaching Experience: Writing tutor at the Colorado College Writing Center 07-08

Greg Baum
Track I: Spanish and English
Research Interests: Translation theory, especially with regard to English translations of Spanish and Italian texts during the Baroque / Early Modern period(s). Translations and texts of early Spanish and English colonialism. The application of translation theory to adaptations across media, primarily from literature to film
Teaching Experience: Writing Intern in the Common Core, 2009-10, Oral English teacher at DaoXian No. 2 High School, Hunan Province, China

Brian John Dominguez Berry
Track II: Philosophy and Literature
Research Interests: Philosophy and theater, 17th and 20th centuries, Spanish and French

Chloe Blackshear
Track I: Biblical Hebrew, French/Spanish
Research Interests: Hebrew Bible, translation, literary afterlives, intertextuality, psychoanalysis

Megan Boatright
Track II: Literature and Critical Animal Studies
Research Interests: Postcolonial studies; animal
representation, particularly taxidermy; disability theory; Werther's syndrome and other excesses of sympathetic reading
Teaching experience: French tutor at Oxford College of Emory
University, Jan 06-May 07

Alia Breitwieser
Track II: Literature and Philosophy
Research Interests: Pre-modern Chinese narrative traditions; European metaphysics, aesthetics, and hermeneutics; visual culture; theories of globalization; modern and contemporary Chinese literature

Joel Calahan
Track I: English and Italian
Research Interests: 20th-century American and Italian poetry, history and theory of translation, philosophy of language

Ketlen Celestin
Track: I: English and French
Research Interests: 20th century French & Francophone literature; Créolité & Hybridity; Exoticism; Black Modernism; Postcolonial Studies; The Poetics of Metaphysics; Theories of Aesthetics, Phenomenology & Epistemology; The Sublime; Translation Theory; Social Thought
Teaching Experience: Visiting Lecturer, English I & II and African-American Literature (Suffolk University-Dakar); Lecturer, English I & II (Suffolk University-Boston); Teacher of English Literature & Rhetoric (The Governor's Academy); Graduate Assistant, Revisiting the Old World (Kokrobitey Institute)

Monica Felix
Track I: Russian and German
Research Interests: 18th/19th century Russian literature, German Romanticism, reception theory, censorship.
Teaching Experience: (2007-2008) Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship, Internatsschule Schloss Hansenberg - Hesse, Germany.

Susan L. Hohl
Track II: Music
Research Interests: Romanticism, Nineteenth Century English, French & German Literature and European Art Music
Dissertation Title: The Reading Liszt: The Alchemy of Word and Music in the Reading Life and Songs of Franz Liszt"
Teaching Experience: Graduate Affairs, English (ESL); International House, Writing (ESL)

Nana Holtsnider
Track I: Dutch and English
Research Interests: Colonial and travel literature in the Dutch, British, and French empires; children's literature; aesthetics, visual culture, and film studies
Teaching Experience: Writing Intern in the Humanities Core

Selena Monika Horn
Track II: Philosophy and Literature
Research Interests: American and German Modernism, History of Literary Theory and Criticism
Dissertation Title: The Presence of Metaphysics: Rainier Maria Rilke in the Poetry of Robert Duncan and Jorie Graham
Teaching Experience: Humanities Intern, and Global Fictions TA

Haitham Ibrahim
Track II: Philosophy and Literature
Research Interests: Literature, philosophy and systems thinking in the 20th century, especially in the comparative context of the US and Arab Mideast; aesthetics; media theory. American and Arabic literature (20th century)
Dissertation Title: “Emergence and Process: Systems Aesthetics between the US and the Arab world, 1900-1970.”
Teaching Experience: Instructor: University of Chicago: Reading Cultures (Fall 2010, Spring 2011, and Fall 2008, 2007, 2006); University of Jordan: -Literary Theory and Criticism, 19th Century American Literature (Summer 2008) -Historical Introduction to Literary Theory (summer 2007) -Introduction to English Lit (summer 2003); Arabic language instructor

Fumiko Kitamura
Track I: Japanese as the Major and the 20th C American Literature as the Minor, Spanish (Latin American Lit in the Viewpoint of Modernism Movements in the Future)
Research Interests: Modernism Movements in Early 20th C in Japan and America
Dissertation Title: "Aesthetics and Politics of Modernism in the Japanese Empire"

Megan Macklin
Track II: Literature and Human Development
Research Interests: Coming-of-age narratives; German literature, especially the Bildungsroman and Trümmerliteratur; modernism; issues in globalization; representations of adolescent development and of mental illness in literature; psychoanalysis

Adhira Mangalagiri
Track I: Mandarin and Hindi
Research Interests: Early 20th century (North) Indian and Chinese literatures, vernacularization of fiction, post-colonial studies, May Fourth thought, subaltern studies, genre studies, communality and identity formation, non-Western literary theories

David Markus
Track II: Literature and Art
Research Interests: 20th Century French and American Literature and Art, Psychoanalysis, Postcolonialism, Visual Culture, Trauma and Testimony

William Martin
Track I: German/Polish Research Interests: Literature, Film, Translation Dissertation Title: The Better, More Cheerful Life: Socialist Comedy in the GDR, Poland, and Czechoslovakia Teaching Experience: (2007-present) Preceptor, MAPH Program, Univ. of Chicago; (2005-2006) Lecturer, Core Humanities Program, The College, Univ. of Chicago; (2000-2007) Lecturer, German Dept., Univ. of Chicago; (2000-2002) Adjunct Instructor, Writing Program, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Advanced Residence

Mollie McFee 
Track I: French, Haitian Creole, English
Research Interests: The Francophone Caribbean; Gender studies and queer theory; Postcolonial studies; Caribbean religions.

Scott Mehl
Track I: Japanese and Latin American
Dissertation title: "The Concept of Expression in Modern Japanese Poetic Theories: Affect, Reality, Language."
Research Interests: Japanese modernism; visual poetics; history of criticism
Teaching Experience: Various since 2001

Dan Olaru
Track II: American and German literature, and Philosophy
Research Interests: The American novel of the 20th century (Faulkner, Vonnegut) and the German novel of the 19th and 20th centuries (Goethe, Kafka, Mann), myth, memory and trauma, the rise of national identity and nationalism in Europe versus American patriotism, and Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Freud

Monica Olaru
Track I: French and English
Research Interests: The French and English novel of the 18th and 19th century; topics in moral philosophy
Teaching Experience: French lecturer (French 101,102 and 103),  French lector (French 101,102, 103, 201, 202, 203),  CA for History and Theory of Drama, ll and Writing Intern in the Writing Program (in the Human Being and Citizen core)

David A. Orsbon  
Track II: Literature and Philosophy
Research Interests: The intersection of philosophy and literary criticism from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance; the reception and influence of Classical and Late Antique philosophy and literary criticism from the early Middle Ages to the Renaissance; Neo-Platonism in the Middle Ages and Renaissance; the history of criticism, especially the history of allegorical criticism; medieval theology and biblical hermeneutics; vernacular poetry in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance; Medieval and Renaissance Humanism; Renaissance Epic.
Teaching Experience: Teaching Assistant for Renaissance Epic.

Stephen Parkin
Track II: Literature and Philosophy
Research Interests: Ethics, aesthetics, and rhetoric in ancient tragedy and the philosophical essay (e.g. Seneca,  Nietzsche, Emerson, Thoreau)
Teaching Experience: 12 classes as a Lecturer of English at Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xi'an, China

Chandani Patel
Track I: English and Portuguese
Research Interests: Postcolonial studies, migration and translation theory; Anglophone, Lusophone and Francophone literature; Indian Ocean and South Asian studies; British modernism and immigrant literature
Teaching Experience: Humanities Writing Intern; CA, Decolonizing Drama and Performance in Africa

John Stone-Mediatore
Track I: American Literature (Major) and 20th-Century French Literature (Minor)
Research Interests: Postmodernist Fiction, Psychoanalysis, Aesthetics, Interrelations of Music and Literature
Dissertation Title: "Postmodernist Literature and Schizophrenia"
Teaching Experience: taught courses in Comparative Literature, Indiana University; Intern and Lector in the WritingProgram and Humanities, University of Chicago; currently teaching courses in Philosophy and Humanities-Classics at Ohio Wesleyan University

Kathryn Swanton
Track I: English and Spanish
Research Interests: Early modern drama, particularly in England and Spain; Reformation theology; theater theory and history
Dissertation Title: “More Human than Divine: the Complexity of Forgiveness in Shakespeare and Golden Age Comedias”
Teaching Experience: Lecturer: Tragedy in early modern Spain and England; Course assistant: Don Quijote, History and Theory of Drama I & II; Writing intern; Writing tutor

Arthur T. Thornton
Track II: Literature and Geography
Research Interests: 20th century Japanese and Anglo-American urban literature and the city
Dissertation Title: "Representing the Modern City: Tokyo in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Visual and Verbal Arts"
Teaching Experience: Currently associate professor at Yokohama National University, Faculty of Business Administration

Shengyu Wang
Track I: Chinese, English
Research Interests: Chinese vernacular fiction, Renaissance epics, narrative theory, historical fiction and drama
Teaching Experience: Fall 2006-Spring 2008: Instructor of Freshman Composition at Iowa State University; Summer 2007: Language facilitator (Mandarin) in Upward Bound Program, Iowa; Summer 2009: TA, Summer School on Literary and Philosophical Theory (Academia Sinica), Taipei; Summer 2010: TA, Elementary Modern Chinese 101

Nicholas Wong
Track II: Literature and Philosophy
Research Interests: Lyric poetry; aesthetics and semiotics; literary theory and
translation; postcolonial studies; modern and contemporary Chinese literature