Alumni | Comparative Thought and Literature

Name	Current Position	Grad Year	Dissertation
Christopher Taylor	Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature, JHU	2024	"Artificial Life in the Transwar Japanese Imagination"
Maddie Wells	Grant Writer, Office of Advancement and External Relations, University of Baltimore	2023	"Not Working: Transforming Labor in Feminist Art, Film, and Poetry, 1970s-80s"
Nathan McCabe	Adjunct Professor at Colorado School of Mines	2023	"Not Art Yet: American Modernists on Early Cinema"
Michael McCreary	Educational Developer at Goucher College	2023	"You Don't Want to Know: The Fear of Adventure in Reading and Writing, Teaching and Learning"
Hale Sirin Ryan	Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Digital Humanities, JHU	2022	"The Art of Scholarship: Auerbach, Tanpınar, and the Idea of Literary Knowledge"
Samantha Carmel	Graduate Coach, InGenius Prep	2022	"No Last Men: The Conservative Critique of Instrumental Reason in Nietzsche, Weber, and Schmitt"
Benjamin Stein	High School English Teacher, Georgetown Day School	2021	"A Community of Babblers: Failures of Communication in the Russian and English Novel, 1902-1925"
Alexander Host		2021	"The Ontological Argument’s Revival in German Idealism"
Misha Davidoff		2021	"Metaphysical themes in Kant’s theoretical philosophy"
Jacob Levi	Visiting Lecturer in French and Francophone Department, Connecticut College	2021	"The Adventure of the Book: Jabès, Derrida, Levinas”
Lucy Bergeret	Philosophy teacher for National Ministry of Education, France	2020	"Reading in Trance: Hypnosis and the Novelistic Imagination"
Paula Marchesini	Publishing Director at Narrative Strategies (Washington, DC)	2020	“Eternity as Inspiration: Teresa of Ávila, Clarice Lispector, and Lisa Randall”
Ben Gillespie	Supervisory Historian, Smithsonian's Archives of American Art	2019	“Mina Loy Against the Modernists”
Loumia Ferhat	ACSS Fellow, Farouk Jabre Center for Arabic and Islamic Science and Philosophy, American University of Beirut	2019	“The Dilation of the Heart: Rethinking Subjectivity with Ghazālī
Thomas (Scott) Gottbreht	Director of Strategic Partnerships, United Way of Central Maryland	2019	“Closer to Home: Newspaper Representations of Homelessness During the Housing Crisis”
Katherine Boyce-Jacino	Curator and Director of Collections, Adler Planetarium	2018	"Cosmology in the Cosmopolis: Planetaria in the Weimar Republic"
Omid Mehrgan	The James M. Motley Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature (JHU)	2018	"The Narrowest Path: Antinomic of Form in Adorno's Aesthetic Theory Analyzed through Kleist, Hegel, and Marx"
Sara ElAmin		2018	"Wittgenstein's Method: Working on Oneself, Opening the Way for Otherness"
Elena Fabietti	Assistant Professor, German, University of Regensburg	2017	"Bodies of Glass: A Cultural and Literary History of Transparent Humans"
Martijn Buijs	Postdoctoral Scholar in the Humanities & Social Change Center, UC Santa Barbara	2017	"Freedom & Revelation: A Systematic Reconstruction of Schelling's Late Philosophy"
Avraham Rot	Research Associate, University of Regensburg	2016	"From Anxiety to Boredom: Heidegger, Freud, and the Emotional History of Secularization"
Daniel Schwartz	Assistant Professor in German and Russian Cinema, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, McGill University	2015	"City Symphonies 1913-1931: Sound, Politics and the Avant-Garde"
Anh Nguyen	Lecturer in German, MIT	2014	"Contextualizing the 'Inner': Pretense and Aspect in Wittgenstein, Lohenstein, and Goethe"
Larry McGrath	Senior Researcher, META	2014	"The Bergsonian Moment: Science and Spirit in France, 1874-1907"
Nicole Jerr	Assistant Professor of English, Department of English, United States Air Force Academy	2014	"Pretenders to the Throne: Sovereignty and Modern Drama"
Thomas Dechand	Instructor, Loyola University of Maryland	2014	"Abducting the Imagination: The Methodological Foundation of Science and Criticism in Coleridge and Peirce"
Kate Khatib	Design Director, AK Press Publishing	2013	"Surrealism's America: Notes on a Vernacular Epistemology"
Rebecca Pekron		2013	"‘Que reste-t-il?’ Poetic approaches to immortality: Baudelaire and after"
Tarek Dika	Assistant Professor in History of Philosophy, Program of Liberal Studies, University of Notre Dame	2013	"Descartes and the Origin of the Modern Problem of Finitude"
Cara Weber	Lecturer, Department of English, Pace University	2012	"Marriage and ethical agency in four Victorian novels"
Danielle Dubois	Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, University of Manitoba	2012	"Spiritual Practice and Learned Traditions in Marguerite Porete's Mirouer des simples ames"
John Duda	Director of Communications, The Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland, and Co-Founder, Red Emma's	2012	"The Idea of Self-organization Between Science and Politics"
Jeroen Gerrits	Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, Binghamton University (SUNY)	2011	"Lubricious Objects: Perception and Grammar in Cinema and Poetry"
Gülru Çakmak	Assistant Professor of Nineteenth-Century European Art, University of Massachusetts, Amherst	2010	"Jean-Léon Gérôme: The Innovative Years (1851-1859)"
Joyce Tsai	Assistant Professor, Modern and Contemporary Art, College of Fine Arts, University of Florida; Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Teaching and Learning, College of Education, University of Iowa, and Curator, University of Iowa Museum of Art	2010	"László Moholy-Nagy: Painting after Photography"
Martin Shuster	Assistant Professor and Director of Judaic Studies, Goucher College	2010	"I Against I: Transcendental Commitments and Social Deformities after Kant"
Nils F. Schott	Lecturer, Euro-American Program, Sciences Po Undergraduate College, Reims Lecturer, Department of Comparative Literature and English, The American University of Paris	2010	"The Conversion of Knowledge—Religion and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Catechisms"
Jie Guo	Associate Professor, of Comparative Literature, University of South Carolina	2008	"Confusing Desires: Representations of Male Same-Sex Relationships in Late Ming and Early Qing Literature"
Molly Warnock	Assistant Professor, Department of the History of Art, Johns Hopkins University	2008	"Thought by Painting: The Early Work of Simon Hantaï"
Stefanos Geroulanos	Associate Professor of European and Intellectual History, New York University, and Director, Center for International Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences	2008	"Man Under Erasure: The Emergence of Antihumanism in French Thought, Politics, and Literature, 1926-1954"
Alexandre Lefebvre	Senior Lecturer, Department of Government and International Relations and the Department of Philosophy, University of Sydney	2007	"The Image of Law: Deleuze, Bergson, Spinoza"
Danielle Follett	Département du monde anglophone, Université de Paris-III, Sorbonne Nouvelle	2007	"The Ghost of God: Studies in the Nineteenth-century Poetics and Aesthetics of Chance: Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Proust"
Oleg Gelikman	Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Soka University	2007	"The Idea of Prose as Modernist Poetics"
Samantha Fenno	Full-Time Lecturer in the College, University of Chicago	2007	"Specters of Skepticism: Henry Fielding and the Problematic of Recognition"
Liang Mao	Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, English Department, Peking University, Beijing, China	2006	"Henry James and the Claim of Sociality"
Anne Rose	History Lecturer, Mesa College, San Diego Community College District	2005	"Children’s moral culture and the experimental human sciences in Britain, France and Italy, 1748-1899"
Antonia Szabari	Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature, University of Southern California	2005	"Less Rightly Said: Inventing Scandalous Speech in Literature and Religion in the Reformation"
Zachary Sng	Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Brown University	2005	"Corrupting the fountains of knowledge: language and error from Locke to Schlegel"
Christopher Powers	Associate Professor, Comparative Literature, University of Puerto Rico	2004	"Ambivalent freedom: the politics of style in the writings of James Joyce and Ralph Ellison"
Ivan Grabovac	Associate Professor of English, Mount Royal University, Canada	2004	"Thoreau's passion"
Arnd Wedemeyer	Researcher, German Studies, Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICI) Berlin	2003	"Expanses of thought: interpretations of space from Kant to Heidegger"
Elizabeth Rottenberg	Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Director of Comparative Literature, DePaul University	2003	"Inheriting the Future: Legacies of Kant, Freud, and Flaubert"
William Scott	Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Pittsburgh	2003	"Writing from the left: race, gender, and the critique of representation in the Great Depression"
Dana Hollander	Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, McMaster University	2002	"Exemplarity and chosenness: Rosenzweig and Derrida on the nation of philosophy"
Joanna Klink	Professor of Poetry, Creative Writing Program, University of Montana	2002	"Paul Celan: the second person, poetic realism, and ontological hope"
Patrick Greaney	Professor of German and Humanities, University of Colorado Boulder	2002	"The beggar's voice: impoverished writing in Nietzsche, Mallarme, Rilke, and Benjamin"
Patrick Provost-Smith	Independent Scholar	2002	"Macao, Manila, Mexico, and Madrid: Jesuit controversies over strategies for the Christianization of China (1580-1600)"
Daniel Heller Roazen	Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Comparative Literature and the Council of the Humanities, Princeton University	2000	"Fortune's faces: the Roman de la Rose and the poetics of contingency"
John D. Connor	Associate Professor, Bryan Singer Division of Cinema and Media Studies, School of Cinematic Arts, USC	2000	"The Language of Men: Identity and Existentialism in the American Postwar"
Michael Kohler	Attorney, Senior Manager at Deloitte Tax LLP	1999	"Governmental modernity and nineteenth-century narrative and dramatic verse: a study in the ideological inflection of form"
Sarah Roff	Staff Psychiatrist at Oregon State Hospital	1999	"Group mind: psychology and the construction of the public sphere from Romanticism to psychoanalysis"
Maria Farland	Associate Professor, Department of English, and Co-Director of the Program in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Fordham University	1998	"Sexual genesis: narrative form and gender in American literature, 1880-1918"
Mark McGurl	Professor, Department of English, Stanford University	1998	"The Novel Inside Out: Forms of Distinction in James, Crane, Faulkner and Hammett"
Philip Vogt	Associate Professor of History, Lawrence Technological University	1998	"Figures of Continuity and Modernity in Locke"
Susan Maslan	Associate Professor, French Department, University California, Berkeley	1998	"Representations and theatricality in French revolutionary theater and politics"
Katherine Rudolph	Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Rhode Island College, and Research Associate, Pembroke Center, Brown University	1997	"This body of my dreams: Descartes and Augustine on the body of language"
Robert Mankin	Professor, Études Anglophones, Institute Charles V, Université de Paris 7	1997	"A history of contempt: Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"
Catherine Kerr	Assistant Professor of Medicine and Family Medicine, Alpert Medical School, Brown University	1996	"Race in the making of American liberalism: 1912-1965"
Joanne Wood	Assistant Professor, Department of English, Indiana University at Bloomington	1996	"Artificial bodies: British modernism and the idea of form"
Natasha Korda	Professor of English and Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Wesleyan University	1996	"Household stuff: Shakespeare's domestic economies"
Alan Keenan	Social Sciences, Harvard University	1995	"The democratic question: on the rule of the people and the paradoxes of political freedom"
Bridget McDonald	Fellowship to France	1995	"Pensée, plagiary: Pascal and the moderns"
Brigitte Gerl	Towson State University	1995	"Modern bodies: D.H. Lawrence, H.D., and the psychoanalytic movement"
David Wittenberg	Associate Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Cinematic Arts, The University of Iowa	1995	"Philosophical Revision: A Reading of Heidegger's Nietzsche"
Elizabeth Pittenger	English, UC, Berkeley	1995	"The Traffic in Pages: Pedagogy, Pederasty, and Printing in the English Renaissance"
Paul Nelles	Associate Professor, Department of History, Carleton University	1995	"The Public Library and the Late Humanist Scholarship in Early Modern Europe: Antiquarianism and Encyclopaedism"
Sharon Marcus	Orlando Harriman Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature, and Dean of Humanities, Columbia University	1995	"Restless Houses: domesticity and Urban Culture in Paris and London, 1820–1888"
Akira Lippit	Vice Dean of Faculty and Professor, The Bryan Singer Division of Cinema and Media Studies, USC School of Cinematic Arts; Professor of Comparative Literature and of East Asian Languages and Cultures, USC	1994	"Wildlife after Death: Zoomorphology and Modernism"
Kevin Pask	Professor of English, Concordia University	1994	"The Emergence of the English Author: Pre-scripting the Life of the Poet in Early Modern England"
Maureen Harkin	Professor of English and Humanities, English Department, Reed College	1994
Shaun Irlam	Comparative Literature, SUNY, Buffalo	1994	"Unworlding and Otherworldliness: Enthusiasm, Epiphany, and Typology in the Poetry of James Thomson and Edward Young"
Tim Walters	Co-founder and Principal Analyst, Digital Clarity Group	1994	"Hegel's Last words and the Critique of Speculative Ideas"
Beatrice Hanssen	Germanic Languages and Literature, Harvard University	1993	"Walter Benjamin's other history of stones, animals, human beings, and angels"
Gregory Sims	Bryn Mawr	1993	"Essaying prudence: Montaigne and the semiotics of diversion"
Saul Myers	Professor, Department of Humanistic Studies, Maryland Institute College of Art	1993	"Between gold and Oblivion: The Poetry of Paul Celan and the Persistence of Extinguished Memory"
Christy Burns	Associate Professor of English, College of William and Mary	1992	"The Mirror and the Razor Crossed: The Politics of Parody in James Joyce's Ulysses and Finnegans Wake"
Karin Cope	Associate Professor of Art History and Critical Studies, NSCAD University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada	1992	"Gertrude Stein, Pablo Picasso, and the Love of Error"
Jay Tribby	History, University of Florida	1991	"Eloquence and experiment: essays on the civil gestures of inquiry in seventeenth-century France and Italy"
Margaret Leahey	New Hampshire College & University Counsel	1991	"To hear with my eyes: the native language acquisition project in the Jesuit relations"
Robin Avner	SUNY Binghamton	1991	"Literature as leaven: George Eliot on fiction, figurative language, and culture"
Susan Bernstein	Professor of Comparative Literature and of German Studies, Brown University	1991	"Virtuosity of the nineteenth-century : music and language in Heine, Liszt and Baudelaire"
JoAnn Pilardi	Towson State University	1989	"Simone de Beauvoir’s notion of the self: philosophy becomes autobiographical"
Joseph Marino	History, Hood College	1989	"Renaissance ideas of ambience and the practice of letters: studies in continuity and change in the works and careers of Francesco Petrarca, Giovanni Gherardi da Prato, Baldassar Castiglione, and Sperone Speroni"
Peter Fenves	German, Northwestern University	1989	"A peculiar fate: Kant and the question of world-history"
Elizabeth Watson	Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas	1988	"Achille Bocchi and the emblem book as symbolic form"
Jay Gillen	Principal of Stadium School	1988	"Rhetorical invention in the poetry of Robert Browning"
Jeffrey Wallen	Professor of Comparative Literature, Hampshire College	1988	"Aesthetic Vision and Revision: Walter Pater’s Portraiture"
Neil Saccamano	Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Cornell University	1988	"Publication, Interpretation, and Neoclassicism: The Case of Swift"
Susan Derwin	Comparative Literature, UC, Santa Barbara	1988	The renunciation of mimesis: theory and practice of the novel"
Susan White	Professor, Department of English, University of Arizona	1988	"The Cinema of Max Ophuls: Marginality, Magisterial Vision and the Figure of Woman"
Beatrice Marie	English, George Mason University	1987	"Echoes of Revolution: Early Victorian Narrative and French Fictional models"
Peter Murphy	John Hawley Roberts Professor of English, Williams College	1987	"Popular Charms: Popularity and its Influence on Some Romantic Literary careers"
Marilyn Sides	Senior Lecturer in English, Wellesley College	1985
Mark Anderson	Professor, Germanic Languages, Columbia University	1985
Peter Starr	Professor of Literature and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, American University	1985
Catherine Ingraham	Professor of Graduate Architecture & Urban Design, Pratt Institute	1984
Paisley Livingston	Professor of Philosophy, Lingnan University, Hong Kong	1981
Timothy Conway Murray	Professor of Comparative Literature and English, Cornell University	1981